Comparative and Superlative

1. If the adjective has one-syllable, we can add -er for Comparative and -est for Superlative
fast → faster → the fastest
2. If the adjective has one-syllable and ending in -e, we just add -r for comparative and -st for superlative
late → later → the latest
3. If the adjective is consonant+vowel+consonant, add double last consonant + -er or -est
big → bigger → the biggest
4. But some adjective are irregular
a. good → better → the best
b. bad → worse → the worst
c. far → farther or further → the farthest or the furthest

Past Simple

1. Formula : (if in positive sentence) Subject + V2
Example : "I went to Jakarta last month."

2. Formula : (if in negative sentence) Subject + Didn't + V1
Example : "I didn't do anything yesterday."

3. Formula : (if in question sentence) Did + Subject + V1
Example : "Did you find him?"

Countable and Uncountable

1. We use 'a lot of' in positive and negative or question sentence and we can use countable or
uncountable nouns.
Example : i. "I have a lot of sugar."
ii. "I have a lot of car in my garage."
2. We use 'many' and 'a lot of' in positive sentences
Example : "I have many friends."
"I have a lot of friends."
NB: "Many is more formal than a lot of"
3. We use many with plural countable nouns in negative and question sentence.
Example : "Do you have many chairs in your office?"
"You don't have many friends in Surabaya."
4. We use much with uncountable nouns in negative and question sentence.
Example : "I don't have much sugar in my kitchen"
"Did you have much time yesterday?"
5. We don't normally use much in positive sentence.

SOME & ANY

When do we use some or any or a lot of

1. We use 'some' if we make an offer when we think the answer is "Yes".
Example : "Would you like some milk?" The answer is : "Yes, I would."
2. We use 'any' if we make an offer when we don't know the answer.
Example : "Do you want any sugar?" The answer is : "No, Thank you."

Agatha Christie

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie (September 15Th, 1890-January 12Th, 1976), was a novelist of England fiction crime. She’s also wrote roman stories with Mary Westmacott.
Agatha Christie was the most famous mystery writer in the world and the writer who her creation was the best seller during the time by excepting William Shakespeare. Her books have sold more than one billion exemplar, in English and one billion more in 45 foreign language (until 2003). As example her broad popularity, she’s the best seller writer in France, by more than 40 million exemplar of her novel sold in French (until 2003) compared to 22 million for Emile Zola, her closest competitor.
Christie published more than 80 novel and drama theater, which most of them was a detective story and a close room mystery, many of them was have a story about one serial character, Hercule Poirot or Miss Marple. She was a famous person in fiction detective for her success and innovation on that genre. Although she liked to complicate her story with the other puzzle like in a general way, she also very thorough in "fair play" to the readers by ensured that all needed information to finish her puzzle was given. One of her beginning story "A Killed Of Roger Ackroyd", was famous for the surprise ending story.
Most of her opus had been filmed some of them was shown over and over again ("A Killed Over the Orient Express", "A Killed On Nil River","04.50 AM Train From Paddington"). BBC has produced television and radio version and almost of them are tale of Poirot And Marple.
Born with Agatha Miller, her first wedding which wasn’t happy was at 1914 with Colonel Archibald Christie, an aviator on Royal Flying Corps. They had one daughter, named Rosalind Hicks and they divorced at 1928
During World War II she worked as a pharmacist, a job which had a side-effect to her opuses, almost a killing manner of her opuses was done with a poison.
On December 1926 she had lost for eleven days and made a disturbance on press. Her car was found and was let empty in a camphor hole. She was finally found living in a hotel in Harrogate, and she said that she got amnesia whom causing nerve annoyance after her mother’s death and a problem in her first wedding. There were have an opinion that it was just a publicity action.
At 1930, she married with Sir Max Mallowan, a Master of Archaeologist from England, and their her journey with him to the Middle East gave her an idea for some backdrop of her novels. The other novels was taking a location on Torquay, Devon, where she was born.
Her theatrical "The Mousetrap" held a record as a theatrical with the longest duration in London, - since started on November 25Th, 1952 until now it has played more than 20.000 times. At 1971 she was gotten a gift as "Dame Commander of the British Empire".

Hercules

Hercules, or Heracles, was a shape of Greece's and Romany's mythology. There are so many story and version about a man who identical with his power and his godhead. The legend said that Hercules was a son of God Zeus, the lord of all God with Alcmena whom a normal girl. This made Hera, his wife got jealous and spilled her anger to Hercules by tried to kill him. A famous story was Hera's effort made Hercules suffered and he should carry out 12 types of hard duties, and all of them was cleared by him. Even Hercules was ever made insane until he killed his first wife "Meagre" and his two sons.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Ignatius Doyle (May 22^nd 1859 – July 7^th 1930) is a famous fiction story author from England. The most famous of his opus is Sherlock Holmes the series. An eccentric fiction detective;

Sir Arthur born at 1859, he gets a doctor title from Edinburgh University and he starts to open a practice on South Sea, England at 1882. He composes many story, two of them are never publicizing.

At 1886, he creates Sherlock Holmes, whom is inspired by Dr. Joseph Bell, one of his lecturers. His first story is titled “A Study Scarlet” gets any acceptance from publics. But, a popularity of Sherlock Holmes is started at 1891 when he writes the series oh Sherlock Holmes with his best friend, Dr. Watson, in short story type. He died at 1930.