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56 [Năm mươi sáu] Cảm giác

to feel like / want to	Có hứng thú
We feel like. / We want to.	Chúng tôi có hứng thú.
We don’t feel like. / We do’t want to.	Chúng tôi không có hứng thú.
to be afraid	Bị hoảng sợ
I’m afraid.	Tôi bị hoảng sợ.
I am not afraid.	Tôi không sợ.
to have time	Có thời gian
He has time.	Anh ấy có thời gian.
He has no time.	Anh ấy không có thời gian.
to be bored	Buồn chán
She is bored.	Chị ấy buồn chán.
She is not bored.	Chị ấy không buồn chán.
to be hungry	Bị đói.
Are you hungry?	Các bạn có đói không?
Aren’t you hungry?	Các bạn không đói hả?
to be thirsty	Bị khát.
They are thirsty.	Các bạn khát.
They are not thirsty.	Các bạn không khát.

The language of our ancestors

Modern languages can be analyzed by linguists. Various methods are used to do so. But how did people speak thousands of years ago? It is much more difficult to answer this question. Despite this, scientists have been busy researching for years. They would like to explore how people spoke earlier. In order to do this, they attempt to reconstruct ancient speech forms. American scientists have now made an exciting discovery. They analyzed more than 2,000 languages. In particular they analyzed the sentence structure of the languages. The results of their study were very interesting. About half of the languages had the S-O-V sentence structure. That is to say, the sentences are ordered by subject, object and verb. More than 700 languages follow the pattern S-V-O. And about 160 languages operate according to the V-S-O system. Only about 40 languages use the V-O-S pattern. 120 languages display a hybrid. On the other hand, O-V-S and O-S-V are distinctly rarer systems. The majority of the analyzed languages use the S-O-V principle. Persian, Japanese and Turkish are some examples. Most living languages follow the S-V-O pattern, however. This sentence structure dominates the Indo-European language family today. Researchers believe that the S-O-V model was used earlier. All languages are based on this system. But then the languages diverged. We don't yet know how that happened. However, the variation of sentence structures must have had a reason. Because in evolution, only that which has an advantage prevails…