Accent With Kommi

1. Gigantic

ja.jan.tic ❌️
jai.gan.tic✅️

2. Omnipotent

o.mi.ni.po.tent❌️
om.ni.po.tent✅️


3. Vegetable

ve.ge.ta.bul ❌️
verge.tuh.bul ✅️

4. Chocolate

cho.ko.let ❌️
chok.lit ✅️

5. Library

lai.bri ❌️
lai.bruh.ree ✅️

Guilty or not?

Workplace & Daily Life

❌ equipments → ✅ equipment
❌ informations → ✅ information
❌ advices → ✅ advice
❌ evidences → ✅ evidence
❌ researches → ✅ research
❌ knowledges → ✅ knowledge

Travel & Home

❌ furnitures → ✅ furniture
❌ luggages → ✅ luggage
❌ baggages → ✅ baggage
❌ homeworks → ✅ homework

Environment & Abstract Concepts

❌ traffics → ✅ traffic
❌ weathers → ✅ weather
❌ chaoses → ✅ chaos
❌ violences → ✅ violence
❌ lucks → ✅ luck
❌ musics → ✅ music

Food & Drink

❌ breads → ✅ bread
❌ milks → ✅ milk

In English, certain words are uncountable nouns. This means they represent a whole mass and do not usually have plural forms.

How to Count the Uncountable

👉 a piece of advice / two pieces of advice
👉 a piece of information / some information
👉 an item of equipment / multiple items of equipment
👉 a loaf of bread / three loaves of bread
👉 a bit of luck / a lot of luck
👉 a piece of furniture / several pieces of furniture

Save this for your next writing or speaking task!

I hope this helps. 😊

Something happened yesterday. 😅

A young man went for a job interview at a poultry farm.

After answering several questions confidently, he was feeling quite impressed with himself.

Then the interviewer smiled and said calmly:

"One last important question: Can you tell me the difference between a hen and a chicken?"

The young man blinked repeatedly.

He chuckled. Then laughed.

Then scratched his head.
"Chicken is... ermm..."

A long pause followed.
"Okay... hen... hen is..."

Finally, he smiled awkwardly and said:

"Sir, I've never actually thought about that before." 😂

If you are the young man at the interview, would you have differentiated them correctly?

📌 Chicken vs Hen

Many people use "hen" and "chicken" as if they mean the same thing, but they don't.

✅️ Chicken

The general name for the bird.

Just as "human" refers to both men and women, "chicken" refers to all domestic chickens, regardless of age or s*x.

✅️ Hen

An adult female chicken.

So every hen is a chicken, but not every chicken is a hen.

For example:
Rooster/Cock = Adult male chicken

Hen = Adult female chicken

Chick = Baby chicken

Examples:
✅ I bought two hens and one rooster.

❌ That chicken is laying eggs.

✅ That hen is laying eggs.

Remember:

"Chicken" is the family name. "Hen" is a specific member of the family.

Classwork:

Fill in the blanks:

1. A ______ is an adult female chicken.
2. A baby chicken is called a ______.
3. Every hen is a ______.
4. An adult male chicken is called a ______.
5. Not every chicken is a ______.

I have plenty money. ❌

I have plenty options. ❌️

These expressions sound natural to many people, but in standard English, they are not correct.

Here's why:

MUCH vs PLENTY


1. MUCH

Much is used before uncountable nouns —things you cannot count.

✅ I don't have much money.
✅ There isn't much time left.
✅ How much water do you drink daily?

​❌ Much friends
❌️ Much students


2. PLENTY

First of all:

PLENTY is USUALLY FOLLOWED BY "OF" when it sits before a NOUN.

It works for BOTH countable and uncountable nouns.

❌ plenty money
✅ plenty of money (Uncountable)

❌ plenty reasons
✅️ plenty of reasons (Countable)

❌ plenty space
✅ plenty of space (Uncountable)


In positive sentences, native speakers often prefer a lot of or plenty of over much.

✅ I have a lot of money.
✅ I have plenty of money.
⚠️ I have much money. (Grammatically correct but less natural in everyday conversation.)

Did you learn?

Classwork

Complete this sentence correctly:

"I don't have ______ time to waste."

A. plenty
B. much
C. many

Drop your answer in the comments.

"Sorry, I'd like to say something..." ❌️

"Sorry, but I think..." ❌️

"Sorry, can I just add..." ❌️

Stop discounting your value before you even open your mouth to speak.

​Apologizing when you haven’t done anything wrong doesn't make you polite. It makes you sound uncertain.

Every time you begin with "Sorry...",

• ​You diminish your authority.

• Your opinion sounds weak

• You subtly tell your listeners that your contribution may not be worth their attention.

• You give people permission to take your ideas less seriously.

Instead of:

❌ "Sorry, I'd like to say this."

Say:

✅ I'd like to add something.
✅ Here's my perspective.
✅ I believe...
✅ I'd like to share a thought.
✅️ I’d like to add a perspective here.
✅️ Here is how I see us approaching this.
✅️ Let's look at it from this angle.

Your ideas deserve space.

Save your apologies for when you have actually made a mistake or interrupted someone. For everything else, replace the apology with presence.

Speak boldly.

Speak respectfully.

But stop apologising before you share your thoughts.

Confidence is expressing your thoughts without apologising for them.

Is this relatable?

Have you been guilty of this?