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If you want to write English in a perfect manner you have to master the grammar of English language. Unless you have no depth in the English grammar quite efficiently you are not to obtain the power of writing English in a lucid manner.
Whether you are a native or a foreigner the first thing you have to note is to go through the basics of English grammar. The natives have the facility to read the language in their own language but if you are an ESL you have to devote enough time to learn how to master the art of writing flair.
Again you try to express something through your writing you must note that the writing is perfect and without any error. Your sole aim is to reciprocate your ideas in an effective manner so that the others who go though the writing must face no problem to comprehend it.
If you are willing to write on the web you have to take it in mind that the global readers are there to connoisseur your writing. If they fail to dip delve into your writing you are sure to taste the bitterness of failure and can never be acclaimed in the long run. Some basic ideas of grammar is there to be assimilated ... Read more...
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Nowadays, many people wish to learn English due to the developing importance of the language all over the world. But, while learning English many people tend to make certain mistakes and top 5 mistakes done by most of the English learners are given below:
- Too much focus on grammar:
This is the main mistake done by most of the learners. According to researchers, grammar study tends to affect the English speaking ability of an individual. This is because the grammar of this language is too complex to remember and it is also difficult to use the grammar logically. When it comes to conversation, the learner cannot remember thousands of rules in grammar and choose the perfect one and use them. Researchers say that left brain cannot do that logically. So, if you focus more on grammar when you are learning to communicate in English, you will not be able to learn.
But, this mistake can be rectified by listening to a lot of correct grammar and by doing this; the brain will automatically and gradually learn the usage of grammar perfectly.
- Forcing speech:Read more...
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Have you any urge to assimilate English language quite effectively? If the answer is yes, you may follow some measures to learn English, the richest language in the world, quite well with a bit earnest zeal. If your learning zeal gets the better of you be sure to learn English within a short span. All that is needed is your earnest desire to learn the language and dip delve into the subject to connoisseur the essence of it.
The crucial thing to assimilate English language is to be sure if you actually desire to learn the language. If you never subject a language, you can never master it whether you go through any system that is regarded the best medium to offer the best coaching. Your mind has to accept the language first, other wise no power in the world can teach you any language. It is the earnest desire to lean a language that makes one a master of it.
The next step is to ask the mind what goads you to learn English that is nothing but a foreign language. Does your inner mind boost your earnestness? Do you ever brood over the matter that you are not the master of English language but you try your level best to tast... Read more...
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English grammar lessons play an important part in the study of English. He / She will be able to able to write and talk fluently in English language when a person acquires knowledge in grammar only. In this article, we will learn about the parts and types of sentences, which form the main part in the Basic English grammar.
A complete English Sentence:
A sentence is a group of words starting with a capital letter and ending with punctuations like exclamatory mark (!), question mark (?), full stop (.), etc… A sentence will be completed only when it has a subject, an object and a verb. Subject is nothing but the person or thing performing an action and the object is involved in an action and the object generally comes after the verb. For instance ‘the girl took the scale’, here the girl is the subject and scale is the object and took is the verb. If you wish to say more about the object or the subject you can add an adjective to the sentence. In the example given above you can say ‘the young girl took the long scale’. Here the words young and long are adjectives. You can use adverb in the senten... Read more...
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Nouns:
Noun is nothing but a word or a group of words used as the name of a class of people (E.g. Teacher, Englishman, Sarah), places (E.g. Park, library, India), things (E.g. Cup, book, milk) of a specific person, place or thing. A noun can either be singular (i.e.) a pen or plural (i.e.) two pens.
Classification of nouns:
Noun can be classified into common nouns and proper nouns, countable and uncountable nouns, collective nouns and concrete and abstract nouns.
Common and Proper nouns:
Common nouns are those which denote a class of entities like city, person and planet as against Proper nouns which denotes unique entities like India, John, and Jupiter. Common nouns are generic and proper nouns are more specific.
Countable and uncountable nouns:
Countable nouns are those which can take a plural word and can combine with quantifiers and numerals for example, one, four, every, most and several. A countable noun can take an indefinite article (a or an). Examples for countable nouns are nose, occasion and chair. Uncountable nouns are also called as mas... Read more...
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In English language, linking words are those which join clauses within the sentence. There are also linking words that join ideas across sentences and paragraphs. These are something called ‘text organizers’ because they make the organization of what we say or write. They are more common in writing or formal speech. Linking words are very much important for the writing to be clear and natural. Linking words are also called conjunctions. Generally, a sentence cannot begin with conjunction. The word ‘because’ is the well-known example for conjunction. From to a famous saying ‘A sentence cannot begin with the word because since it is a conjunction’. Only in rare cases a sentence will begin with these words. Linking words differ in three ways and they are as follows:
- Position in the sentence: Some linking words generally form a link between the clauses and it is not good to start a sentence with these types of words. Example: because, such as, and, until. As said earlier, another type of linking words form a link between sentences and these words ... Read more...
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Punctuation is important. It is an essential part of the signaling system of language and is central to effective communication – as well as to the passing of exams. A lot of people, however, make an awful mess of punctuation, which means that their performance in essays suffers and that they fail to do themselves justice.
The question mark, unlike the exclamation mark, is essential, and something you must take care to include when it is required:
Did Napoleon represent a real threat to Britain?
Whenever you ask a direct question in your writing, you need to include a question mark: Can I borrow your bike? Is your name Marco? Does metal expand when heated? How long is a piece of string? It is sometimes a little Wore difficult to remember that you are asking a question if you construct a complex sentence with subordinate clauses that delay the arrival of the Question:
The question is, given British naval superiority and the fact that Britain is an island; did Napoleon represent a real threat to Britain?
It is all too easy to forget about the question mark at the end of a long Sentence like th... Read more...
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1. As, like
He attended church on Sunday, like he always had. A sentence such as than in an essay might sound better if as were substituted for like: He attended church on Sunday, as he always had. Like is acceptable, but informal (if you knew Susie, like I know Susie), and is seen as more colloquial by association (like wot he ‘ad always done). It is, then, advisable to stick to as when writing. Like is reserved for resemblance: I had never met anyone like Susie.
2. Assure, ensure, insure
I can promise you, or assure you, that I have made certain, or ensured, that we are protected with a sound insurance policy. Ensure and insure are often used interchangeably to mean ‘make certain’, but insure is restricted to legal and financial protection. You therefore insure your property against burglary; you ensure that your house is locked up before you go out by checking all the doors and windows. Assure means ‘to promise or guarantee’: I assure you we will pay for the damage.
3. But, however, yet
Each of these words expresses contrast. But can be used to begin a sentence (but... Read more...
Tags: continuity, insurance policy, main clause, main clauses, sentences, sound insurance, stylistic variation
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We need to exercise the discipline as we advance into the rest of the paragraph. Our student, though, was not keeping to the rules, and so, as perhaps could be expected, the lack of control at the outset means that, by the third sentence, the writing begins more and more to fall apart as he wrestles with his ideas:
It was the first place of its kind, in America in this respect, also in the way he carefully detailed and drew up the system of government, to be implemented there, and proposal for future American colonies.
The student is trying to expand the reach of the essay, but stumbling in the attempt. The primary problem is again the fact that the student is thinking out loud, with the commas separating thought units rather than separating grammatical units; as such, the commas fail to contribute to the construction of meaning in the sentence, acting instead to make the writing jerky and less than clear.
We will try to sort out the problems step by step. The first main clause is:
It was the first place of its kind, in America in this respect…
This sounds awkward and is wrongly punctuated. T... Read more...
Tags: american colonies, commas, correct manner, inclusion, main clause, paragraph, parenthetical phrase, phrases, proposal, punctuation, punctuation rules, sentences, subject verb
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It’s/its
The most important thing to remember is that there is no such form as it’s’. Its is one of a few words that are already possessives, and do not, therefore, need an apostrophe adding to them. These words are
my/mine its
your/yours our/ours his their/theirs
her/hers whose
As we noted in the last passage, it’s is two words (‘it is’ or ‘it has’) contracted into one: it has nothing to do with the possessive. It’s is used in a large number of situations, but it is by far the best policy to avoid contractions (words such as can’t, don’t and won’t) in formal essays, as these are colloquial forms of the words and therefore not entirely appropriate. Some writers, it has to be said, disagree. There is, though, a further danger with contractions: if you forget to put the apostrophe in, for example, ‘can’t', you end up writing ‘cant’.
We hope by now, therefore, that you can see the sense of avoiding writing it’s and instead using it is whenever possible:
It is my dog and ... Read more...
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