The world puts same price on u, wat u put on urselves....

"Think big,work hard and never accept defeat because pain is temporary,glory is forever"

"Think big,work hard and never accept defeat because pain is temporary,glory is forever"

"Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success."

----Denis Waitley

"I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful." Warren Buffet

DUDE, THIS IS WHAT YOU WROTE:


Quote:
Originally Posted by mani0303
One from my side

If you satisfied with what you have,you'd do no good with them




if you satisfied with what you HAVE
HAVE is present tense.
so you would use
if you ARE satisfied with what you HAVE.

had you written
if you satisfied with what you HAD
then, since HAD is in past tense,
you would use WERE
if you WERE satisfied with what you HAD.

how ever, such use of past tense is for hypothetical situations.

Ex : if i were you .....

The best way to say that one line is

If you are satisfied with what you have, you'd do no good with them.

The meaning here is one should not remain satisfied with what he has.
if one remains satisfied with what he has, he won't do any good with them

when you construct the following sentence
if you were satisfied with what you have, you'd do no good with them.

the meaning is
one is NO LONGER satisfied with what he has already ! ( if you were satisfied ---- means you are no longer satisfied )

so you don't give him the advice not to remain satisfied. that is redundant and not what saying originally intends to convey. it really is Wrong usage of sentence construction using "were" !!!



I know not everybody can grasp this in one shot.
So here's one example :

when i say : "if you were satisfied with what you have, you wouldn't ask for more"
it means, you are not satisfied with what you have, and you are asking for more.
And even this is grammatically wrong.
the grammatically correct and logically correct sentence is
"if you were satisfied with what you HAD, you wouldn't be begging for more" .. etc...

i wouldn't tell this person something like "if you were satisfied with what you have, you should ask me more !"
similary i woudn't tell this person "if you were satisfied with what you have, you should ask for more. For unless you ask for more, you wouldn't do any good with what you already have". This is plain wrong !



I've done my best to explain usage of are/were in a sentence construction.
All those who benefit out of it, can thank me later.
Those who continue to get offended, can keep groaning.


And finally, i'd like to end this marathon post by quoting something i came across recently.

If you take offence personally, you would be offended for the rest of your life !

Cheers

PS : yours truly has been consistently 95+%iler in VA section of quant

By the way i think you mean to say "VA section of the mocks" not quants.

Chala gaya wo din april fool ka
Chala gaya wo din april fool ka
Aya mausam thande-thande dermi cool ka.

the best cure to hangover is to stay drunk

Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? --Will Rogers




much easier said than done!!!

bhai dekho bura na manna bs keh rha hu..
In this world nothing is easy if this had to be then there would have not been the need of motivation, courage to fight over.
hope it make sense.

Losers say these lines...winners say unsuccessful love is experience gain it and move forward..

:cheers:

kya bat kya bat...

Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? --Will Rogers

Losers say these lines...winners say unsuccessful love is experience gain it and move forward..

:cheers:

much easier said than done!!!

World is going to hell n it seems like i m driving the bus ....!!!!

Progress is impossible without change and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything- George Bernard Shaw.

Rssj Says

unsuccesful love is more dangerous than poison, it doesnt kill at once , it kills the desire to live .......

Losers say these lines...winners say unsuccessful love is experience gain it and move forward..

:cheers:

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. - Henry Ward Beecher.

May we live in interesting times!!

unsuccesful love is more dangerous than poison, it doesnt kill at once , it kills the desire to live .......

"When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading."

-------------- Henny Youngman

You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefullness .But like the air I will always rise...

The day u stop believing in urself, The world wil stop believing in you..:)

Nothing else is necessary for success but these hard work, sincerity, and patience.

Dolphins are the smartest creatures on the planet - within a few weeks of captivity, they can train people to stand on the very edge of the pool and throw them fish.

"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but i fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times" - Bruce Lee

This one I read on a poster of armed forces:

Tough moments dont last; tough men do!

ha ha..btw it's not 'are',it should be 'were' if you talk about subject-verb agreement...

How do you expect to clear CAT when u write stuff like this? - I ll think about it after u said this;)

DUDE, THIS IS WHAT YOU WROTE:


Quote:
Originally Posted by mani0303
One from my side

If you satisfied with what you have,you'd do no good with them




if you satisfied with what you HAVE
HAVE is present tense.
so you would use
if you ARE satisfied with what you HAVE.

had you written
if you satisfied with what you HAD
then, since HAD is in past tense,
you would use WERE
if you WERE satisfied with what you HAD.

how ever, such use of past tense is for hypothetical situations.

Ex : if i were you .....

The best way to say that one line is

If you are satisfied with what you have, you'd do no good with them.

The meaning here is one should not remain satisfied with what he has.
if one remains satisfied with what he has, he won't do any good with them

when you construct the following sentence
if you were satisfied with what you have, you'd do no good with them.

the meaning is
one is NO LONGER satisfied with what he has already ! ( if you were satisfied ---- means you are no longer satisfied )

so you don't give him the advice not to remain satisfied. that is redundant and not what saying originally intends to convey. it really is Wrong usage of sentence construction using "were" !!!



I know not everybody can grasp this in one shot.
So here's one example :

when i say : "if you were satisfied with what you have, you wouldn't ask for more"
it means, you are not satisfied with what you have, and you are asking for more.
And even this is grammatically wrong.
the grammatically correct and logically correct sentence is
"if you were satisfied with what you HAD, you wouldn't be begging for more" .. etc...

i wouldn't tell this person something like "if you were satisfied with what you have, you should ask me more !"
similary i woudn't tell this person "if you were satisfied with what you have, you should ask for more. For unless you ask for more, you wouldn't do any good with what you already have". This is plain wrong !



I've done my best to explain usage of are/were in a sentence construction.
All those who benefit out of it, can thank me later.
Those who continue to get offended, can keep groaning.


And finally, i'd like to end this marathon post by quoting something i came across recently.

If you take offence personally, you would be offended for the rest of your life !

Cheers

PS : yours truly has been consistently 95+%iler in VA section of quant

"The lord will provide the potatoes, but you have to dig them."

-------terry richardson

Keeping hopes may not improve your future but it will certainly reduce the pain of today!!!

When asked for a tip, always give advice

"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort."

Attitude is a 'little' thing that makes a 'BIG' difference.
-Winston Churchill.

Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed...Maybe they need to run free,until they find someone just as wild to run with them...!!

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Perfection of means and confusion of ends seems to characterize our age:biggrin::biggrin:Albert Einstein

Each drop of tear is Costly than anything in world.But, No one knows its value until they have it in their own eyes for someone...........

Yesterday is a history, Tomorrow is a mystery but Today is a gift, that's why it is called "Present"

"pain doesnt kill me, i kill the pain" - Svetlana Kuznetsova

Don't let yesterday take up too much of today. - Will Rogers

Best Way To Attract Someone's Attention is To Pay Him/Her No Attention...

If you don't build your dream someone will hire you to help build theirs

During normal days we feel like I'm Rancho of 3 idiots..B(
But
During xams we feel like Ishaan Avasthi of Taare zameen par..

"I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing" - Thomas Edison

Love is simply complicated.

Marriage is like a game of cards!! In the beginning all you need is two HEARTs and a DIAMOND.. Later, you wish you had a CLUB and a SPADE!!

Imagination is more important than knowledge - Einstein

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly:grin::grin:

I would rather die standing up than to live life on my knees!

My first quote on this new thread is the famous quote by my idol, Che Guevara.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

One thing that can never be recycled is wasted time

My first one liner at Season 2
Lemme Begin with this famous Irish proverb

"If you want to shine like the sun, first youll have to burn like it."

How do you expect to clear CAT when u write stuff like this?:

VERB is the most important part for a sentence to be grammatically correct !

if you A) Is
B) ARE
C) was
D) were
E) will be
F) shall be
G) should be
H) could be
I) can be
J) may be
K) might be
L) would be , etc ....
satisfied with what you have ........ rest of the sentence.

So, as far as I can see, there are atleast 12 verbs you could choose from.
I mean I don't mind if you use a wrong verb, if u mess up subject verb agreement, if u mess up the tense, singularity, plurality, etc ...

BUT I DO GROAN IF U MISS THE ENTIRE VERB COMPLETELY AND FORM SENTENCES !!!!!

ha ha..btw it's not 'are',it should be 'were' if you talk about subject-verb agreement...

How do you expect to clear CAT when u write stuff like this? - I ll think about it after u said this;)

Every night we go to bed, without any assurance of being alive the next morning but still we set the alarms in our watch to wake up. THATS HOPE.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right !!!!!

If u take things personally u will feel offended for the rest of ur life.

We are not responsible for what people think about us, but we certainly are responsible for what we give them to think about!

Smile alot as it doesn't Cost Much but is the solution of many problems:)

Sometimes some problems can be solved if you keep your mouth shut and learn to open your ears,heart and head!!!

By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and
trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new
light, as a discovered diamond?
--Harriet Beecher Stowe

I don't want to make right decisions, i want to take decisions and make them right.

One from my side;)

If you satisfied with what you have,you'd do no good with them

How do you expect to clear CAT when u write stuff like this?:

VERB is the most important part for a sentence to be grammatically correct !

if you A) Is
B) ARE
C) was
D) were
E) will be
F) shall be
G) should be
H) could be
I) can be
J) may be
K) might be
L) would be , etc ....
satisfied with what you have ........ rest of the sentence.

So, as far as I can see, there are atleast 12 verbs you could choose from.
I mean I don't mind if you use a wrong verb, if u mess up subject verb agreement, if u mess up the tense, singularity, plurality, etc ...

BUT I DO GROAN IF U MISS THE ENTIRE VERB COMPLETELY AND FORM SENTENCES !!!!!

these threads have always been very active.

just a point i want to remind you all here.
i want to request you to post only one entry per day.

that would make sense and help us cope with spam.