English Usage for Preaching

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Here is a partial table of contents:

• Introduction 2
• Abbreviations 2
• ACTIONS 2
• in the past 3
• with 3
• ADJECTIVE ORDER 3
• ADJECTIVES IN -ING AND -ED 3
• BODILY FUNCTIONS 3
• COMPARATIVE & SUPERLATIVE 4
• CONFUSING WORDS 5
• assurance or insurance? 5
• perfectly or fully enlightened? 5
• FAITH 5
• confidence 5
• believe 5
• MEDITATION 5
• erect 5
• focus 6
• Physical objects used for meditation 6
• breath or breathing? 6
• MERIT 7
• merit 7
• collect/earn/make merit 7
• do/perform acts of merit 7
• rejoicing in 7
• sharing merit 7
• power of merit 7
• meritorious 7
• Passed away 8
• NEGATION 8
• NOBLE DISCIPLES 8
• NON-COUNT 9
• NOUN/ADJ/ADV 9
• NUMBER 10
• x-fold 10
• double, triple etc. 10
• kinds of, types of 10
• POSESSIVE 10
• PRECEPTS 10
• take precepts 11
• commit or engages? 11
• Important words 12
• QUESTIONS 12
• Formation 12
• Tag Questions 13
• REBIRTH 13
• rebirth 13
• reborn 13
• born 13
• reappear 13
• conceived 13
• death and dying 13
• saṁsara 14
• REFUGE 14
• go for refuge to 14
• take refuge in 14
• take/give the refuges 14
• RELATIVE CLAUSES 15
• SENSE BASES 15
• SUBJECT VERB AGREEMENT 16
• Singular pronouns 16
• TEACHING 16
• explained 16
• taught 16
• preached 16
• exhorted and expounded 17
• TENSES 17
• TIME 17
• TRANSITION PHRASES 17
• WORLDS 17
• asuras 18
• beings 18
• hell or the hell? 18
• realms 18
• Miscellaneous Phrases 18
• Miscellaneous verb-preposition matches 18
• Miscellaneous Pronunciation 19
• bath or bathe? 19
• blessed, learned etc. 19
• renounce or renunciation and pronounce or pronunciation? 19
• difficult sounds 19
• ST, SCH words 19
• Silent W 19
• S and SH 19
• General 20
• Miscellaneous Words 20
• abandon or abstain? 20
• arise, arose, arisen 20
• ask 20
• attention 20
• benefit 20
• call 21
• catch up with 21
• compassion 21
• cut off his head 21
• discuss 21
• even though 21
• example 21
• hit 21
• hunger and thirst 22
• jealous 22
• kind 22
• lifespan 22
• mindful 22
• name something after 22
• ordain 22
• person and people 22
• period 23
• prince and princess 23
• qualities 23
• remind or remember? 23
• respect 23
• say or tell? 23
• scold and blame 24
• shave and shave off 24
• sleep 24
• suffering 24
• treat 25
• vanish 25
• Appendix A: Quick Tips 25
• Appendix B: Difficult Areas 25
• Grammar 25
• Pronunciation 26
• Appendix C: Encouragement 26
• Appendix D: Language Resources 26
• Grammar Books 26
• Dictionaries 27