The English Tips Category
How to Use a Comma to Combine Sentences
Perhaps it is your keen interest on writing sentences with flair though you are an ESL. You may have the idea of writing lengthy sentences. These sentences can be complex sentences preceded by a principal clause or a number of compound sentences which are connected quite aptly by conjunctions. All ... Continue reading
Phonetic Transcription and Learning English
Do you want to pronounce well? Of course you do, who doesn't? When you hear someone speaking English in perfect manner you may have been scourged with envy and dream to be one such a good speaker of English. You are not wrong. Who does not want to be a ... Continue reading
How to Improve Writing Syntax
It is the best way to express the mastery of a language efficiently comes when you can grip the art of communicating in good English. Your mastery of the language is reflected through the style of your writing. How perfectly you are manifesting your thoughts. There is a slight difference ... Continue reading
How to Use the Quotation Marks Perfectly
If you want to write English you must have to learn the perfect use of the quotation marks. The sign goes thus---"---------". These marks are always used to enclose a saying of someone or something that is borrowed from somewhere else. Generally quotation marks can be used when we quote someone ... Continue reading
How to Use Proofreaders Marks
Suppose you have been burdened with the work of marking up a document. What would you do then? I think you have no other way than to use the proofreader’s specific marks. Nowadays the use of proofreading on the hard copy is a rare mater, still if you have to ... Continue reading
How to Use Quotation and Correct Punctuation
You must take into account that use of quotation mark is obviously vital in English language. In English grammar, it is one of the vital punctuation marks that are used to highlight whether the words can lead without being interrupted or with some interruption. You have to keep it in ... Continue reading
How to Use but in Various Ways
If you want to write English quite perfectly, you have to know some usages that are mandatory to be learnt and if misused can make your writing nothing ‘but’ a mess. One of the words that often causes headache to the ESL writers is ‘But’. But may be used as ... Continue reading
The Homonym Riddle
It is known to all that the English language has many words that may seem to you confusing enough. You may wonder to find that some words have the same sound and same spelling but the amusing thing is that they offer you different meaning that may stun you every ... Continue reading
How to Teach English through Songs
Who can not be swayed with the power of music? It has such a charm that everyone is sure to benumbed under its spell. We generally use music as a balm for our bruised heart, but music can be used in other ways too. Music can be a process of ... Continue reading
The Use of Movies to Learn English
One of the major advantages for learners to master the art of the English language is to watch movies as much as possible. This is extremely engaging as a learning procedure as it is fun, thrilling and exciting, and at the same time it teaches you the basic aspects of ... Continue reading