a lot of และ lots of แปลว่า มากมาย

- ทั้งสองคำเป็นคำที่ไม่ทางการ ปกติใช้กับนามพหูพจน์ หรือ นามนับไม่ได้ จะใช้ตัวไหนก็ได้

e.g.    A lot of books are on the table.
Lots of books are on the table.
A lot of my friends want to go to your party.

A lot of money was left on the table.
A lot of time is needed to learn English.

** Verb จะตามคำนาม ตรงนี้ต้องระวังนะครับ

* จริงๆ แล้ว ควรจะใช้ a great deal of หรือ much (ใช้กับนามนับไม่ได้) หรือ
a large number of หรือ many (ใช้กับนามพหูพจน์) แทนซึ่งเป็นคำที่ทางการกว่า เช่น

A great deal of books are on the table.
A great deal of milk is left in your glass.

 ลองอ่านดู ประโยคขำๆ โดยเฉพาะคนที่กำลังจะแต่งงาน ไม่รู้ว่าจะโดนใจใครบ้างนะ

#CASE 1

Getting married is like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want, then when you see what the other fellow has, you wish you had ordered that.

#CASE 2

At the cocktail party, one woman said to another, “Aren’t you wearing your wedding ring on the wrong finger??” The other replied, “Yes, I am. I married the wrong man.”

#CASE 3

Before a man is married, he is incomplete. Then when he is married, he is finished.

#CASE 4

Marriage is an institution in which a man losses his bachelor’s degree and the woman gets her master’s status.

#CASE 5

A little boy asked his father, “Daddy, how much does it cost to get married??” And the father replied, “I don’t know son, I’m still paying for it.”

#CASE 6

Young son : “Is it true, Dad, I heard that in some parts of Africa, a man doesn’t know his wife until he marries her?”

Dad : “That happens in most countries son.”

#CASE 7

Then there was a man who said, “I never knew what real happiness was until I got married, and then it was too late.”

#CASE 8

A happy marriage is a matter of give and take; the husband gives and the wife takes

#CASE 9

When a newly married man looks happy, we know why. But when a ten-year married man looks happy, we wonder why. Affair ?

#CASE 10

In the first year of marriage, the man speaks and the woman listens. In the second year, the woman speaks and the man listens. In the third year, they both speak and the neighbors listen.

#CASE 11

After a quarrel, a wife said to her husband, “You know, I was a fool when I married you.” And the Husband replied, “Yes, dear, but I was in love and didn’t notice it.”

#CASE 12

A man inserted an ‘ad’ in the classified : “Wife wanted”. The next day, he received hundreds letters. They all said the same thing “You can have mine.”

#CASE 13

When a man opens the door of his car for his wife, you can be sure of one thing : either the car is new or his wife is new.

#CASE 14

A woman was telling her friend : “It is I who made my husband a millionaire.”

“And what was he before you married him?” the friend asked. The woman replied, “A Billionaire.”

(source:  fun_and_fun_only@yahoogroups.com)

ลองอ่านประโยคเหล่านี้ดูครับ ว่าลิ้นจะพันกันหรือเปล่า ขอแนะนำว่าประโยคเหล่านี้มีไว้เพื่อหัดออกเสียงให้ชัดเจนเท่านั้น ไม่แนะนำให้ท่องจำ Have Fun!

1. I wish to wish the wish you wish to wish, but if you wish the wish the witch wishes, I won’t wish the wish you wish to wish.

2. Sounding by sound is a sound method of sounding sounds.

3. Purple Paper People, Purple Paper People, Purple Paper People

4. If two witches were watching two watches, which witch would watch which watch?

5. I thought a thought. But the thought I thought wasn’t the thought   I thought I thought. If the thought I thought I thought had been the thought I thought, I wouldn’t have thought so much.

6. SHE SELLS SEA SHELLS ON THE SEA SHORE, BUT THE SEA SHELLS THAT SHE SELLS, ON THE SEA SHORE ARE NOT THE REAL ONES

7. We surely shall see the sun shine shortly. Whether the weather be fine, Or whether the weather be not, Whether the weather be cold Or whether the weather be hot, We’ll weather the weather Whatever the weather, Whether we like it or not. watch? Whether the weather is hot. Whether the weather is cold. Whether the weather is either or not. It is whether we like it or not.

8. A flea and a fly in a flue Said the fly “Oh what should we do” Said the flea” Let us fly Said the fly”Let us flee” So they flew through a flaw in the flue

9. If you tell Tom to tell a tongue-twister his tongue will be twisted as tongue-twister twists tongues.

10. A big bug bit the little beetle but the little beetle bit the big bug back. 

11. I thought of thinking of thanking you. 

12. RED BULB BLUE BULB RED BULB BLUE BULB RED BLOOD BLUE BLOOD. 

13. These thousand tricky tongue twisters trip thrillingly off the tongue. 

14. Double bubble gum, bubbles double. 

15. Betty bought butter but the butter was btter, so Betty bought better butter to make the bitter butter better. 

16. A sailor went to sea to see what he could see and all he could see was sea, sea, sea. 

17. Upper roller lower roller upper roller lower roller. 

18. Purple Paper People, Purple Paper People, Purple Paper People. 

19. How much wood could a wood chuck; chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood. 

20. I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream! 

21. An Ape hates grape cakes. 

22. She sells sea shells on the sea shore she sells sea shells no more. 

23. I slit a sheet, a sheet I slit. And on a slitted sheet I sit. I slit a sheet, a sheet I slit. The sheet I slit, that sheet was it. 

24. Any noise annoys an oyster but a noisy noise annoys an oyster more. 

25. Do tongue twisters twist your tongue? 

26. How much wood could a wood chopper chop, if a wood chopper could chop wood? 

27. If a black bug bleeds black blood, what color blood does a blue bug bleed? 

(Source partly from: http://www.english-for-students.com/tongue-twisters.html)