မွားေလ့ရွိေသာ အဂၤလိပ္စာ အမွားမ်ား - (၃)

        ဒီတစ္ပတ္မွာလည္း preposition နဲ႔ ပတ္သက္တဲ့ မွားေလ့မွတ္တတ္တဲ့ စာေၾကာင္းေတြကို ဆက္ေရးလိုက္ပါတယ္ … ။

Depend on or upon         – (မူတည္သည္) from နဲ႔ မွားယြင္းသံုးေလ့ရွိပါတယ္။

-       It depends from her. ×

-       It depends on (or upon) her. √

အဲဒါက သူ(မ)အေပၚမွာ မူတည္ပါတယ္ … ။

Deprive of – (တားဆီးသည္) from လိုက္လို႔ မရပါ

-       Nelson Mandela was deprived from his freedom.  ×

-       Nelson Mandela was deprived of his freedom. √

နယ္ဆင္ မင္ဒဲလားကို သူ႔ရဲ႕ လြတ္ေျမာက္ျခင္းမွ တားဆီးထားသည္။

Die of – (ေသဆံုးသည္)

-       Many people have died from malaria. ×

-       Many people have died of malaria. √

ငွက္ဖ်ားေရာဂါေၾကာင့္ လူေပါင္းမ်ားစြာ အသက္ဆံုး႐ႈံးၾကသည္။

Different from – (မတူညီေသာ/ ကြဲျပားျခားနားေသာ)

-       My book is different than yours. ×

-       My book is different from yours. √

ကၽြန္ေတာ့္စာအုပ္က ခင္ဗ်ားရဲ႕စာအုပ္နဲ႔ ကြဲျပားျခားနားတယ္။

Disappointed by, about or at – (စိတ္ပ်က္ေစသည္)

-       Mary was disappointed from the low mark she got in the test. ×

-       Mary was disappointed by/ about/ at the low mark she got in the test. √

ေမရီက စာေမးပြဲမွာ အမွတ္နည္းတဲ့အတြက္ စိတ္ပ်က္တယ္။

-       Jane was disappointed with/ in her son. √

ဂ်ိမ္းက သူ(မ)ရဲ႕ သားအတြက္ စိတ္ပ်က္တယ္။

Divide into – (ပိုင္းသည္၊ ခြဲသည္၊ စိတ္သည္)

-       I divided the cake in four parts. ×

-       I divided the cake into four parts. √

ကၽြန္ေတာ္က ကိတ္မုန္႔ကို ၄-ပိုင္း ပိုင္းလုိက္တယ္။

Dressed in – (ဝတ္ဆင္သည္)  with နဲ႔ အသံုးမွားတတ္ပါတယ္

-       The woman was dressed with black. ×

-       The woman was dressed in black. √

အမ်ိဳးသမီးႀကီးက အနက္ေရာင္ ဝတ္ဆင္ထားတယ္။

Exception to – (ျခြင္းခ်က္) of နဲ႔ လြဲမွား သံုးတတ္ပါတယ္

-       This is exception of the rule. ×

-       This is exception to the rule. √

ဒါကေတာ့ ဥပေဒသရဲ႕ ျခြင္းခ်က္ပါ။

Exchange for – (လွဲလွယ္သည္)

-       He exchanged his collection of matchboxes by some foreign stamps. ×

-       He exchanged his collection of matchboxes for some foreign stamps. √

သူက သူရဲ႕ မီးျခစ္ဘူးေတြ စုထားတာကို ႏုိင္ငံျခား တံဆိပ္ေခါင္းေတြနဲ႔ လွဲလယ္တယ္။

Fail in – (က်/႐ႈံးသည္)

-       Steven failed from maths last year. ×

-       Steven failed in maths last year. √

စတီဗင္က မႏွစ္က သခ်ၤာမွာ က်တယ္။

Full of – (ျပည့္ေသာ၊ အျပည့္) with နဲ႔ မွားသံုးမိတတ္ပါတယ္။

-       The jar was full with oil. ×

-       The jar was full of oil. √

ကရားက ဆီေတြနဲ႔ ျပည့္ေနတယ္။

အဂၤလိပ္ဘာသာစကား ေလ့လာသူေတြ မွန္မွန္ကန္ကန္ အသံုးျပဳႏိုင္ၾကပါေစ ……