một văn bằng có giá trị giúp các bạn tăng thế mạnh cạnh tranh trên thị truờng lao động. và cũng là một trong những điều kiện xét tốt nghiệp đối với sinh viên. Dùng trên lớp gồm các bài tập về kiến thức (ngữ pháp, cấu trúc, từ vựng) và các bài tập thực hành kỹ năng nghe, nói, đọc và viết. | LESSON SEVENTEEN 123 had gone through the speech and changed all the sentences that ended with a preposition. Sir Winston marked all these alterations in red ink and wrote underneath This is the sort of English up with which I will not put. MR. PRIESTLEY Very good Hob. But there is a story about the funny effect you get if you get too many end prepositions. HOB Oh sir tell US the story. MR. PRIESTLEY Well it s about a very small boy who couldn t read. He asked his mother to read to him so she went to get a book but it was not the one he wanted and as soon as he saw it he said Oh Mummy what did you bring me that book to be read to out of for PEDRO Are there any occasions when you mustn t have the end preposition MR. PRIESTLEY Yes there are. Here is one The unwillingness with which Hob comes to a grammar lesson and the speed with which he goes away from it have always amused me. You couldn t say The unwillingness he comes to a grammar lesson with and the speed he goes away from it with 1 And now to end this lesson I want to tell you about a conversation that I took part in or in which I took part . It was with Professor Grey. He s a Professor of Ancient Languages. He knows so much about ancient languages that I 1 But this could be expressed more neatly by saying Hob s unwillingness in coming . . . and his speed in going away . . . 124 ESSENTIAL ENGLISH think he always lives in the past. He also has some very fixed ideas about English. My new book on Colloquial English had just been published and I happened to meet him on the station when we were both going in to London. Oh Priestley he said you re the very man I wanted to see . About that book of yours . . . you know spoken English or something . . . I forget the exact name . did you er go over it carefully before it Went to the printers So of course I said Good heavens Grey yes. You don t suppose I d let them publish anything with my name to it without knowing whether they d done it properly So then he said Well .
