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When constructing a sentence for the listener to understand, it has to be proper and also grammatically correct. Grammar is very important for a profound reflection of any thought which is better for a reader or a listener.
In English grammar, you have to know about how you want to put the word into the sentence for a correct construction. In order to construct a sentence correctly you have to know how to use the word and when to use the word. ‘Some’ and ‘Any’ are quantifiers.
When do we use ‘Some’ and ‘Any’?
We use ‘Some’ and ‘Any’ when we do not know the amount or the quantity of something.
Example of Use of ‘Some’ and ‘Any’
- I saw 7 deer when I moved deep into the jungle with my fellow travelers.
Here we know the number of deer that we saw when we were moving into the jungle. So we do not use ‘Some’ or ‘Any’.
- I saw some deer when I moved into the jungle with my fellow travelers.
Here we do not know the number of deer that we saw when we moved... Read more...
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If you fail to assimilate good English grammar you are sure to grope in the dark when you try to write English passages or try to open your heart to some one in different moods and manners. It is vital to know English grammar quite efficiently without which you are no where. Now English grammar is a vast thing. It is very hard to assimilate it within a short life span. Still you are to learn at least the basics of it so that you can have a bit mastery over the language.
In the school a little grammar is taught. But that little learning reinforces the base of the future learning. The rules that are taught at the very initial period are all elementary rules and offer you the grip of the language in a solid way as a result of which you can easily adopt the fundamental skills of reading and writing. If the elementary grammar is not taught in the schools you may not be able to lean the ABC of English grammar. As an obvious result you have no other way than to stumble at every step.
In the very beginning you have to learn the parts of speech that are called the foundation stones of English grammar. Elementary English start... Read more...
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If you want to learn English perfectly well you have stumble in the very beginning for there are some words which you can not use after your choice. You have follow some basic rules of grammar to have an idea how o use these words correctly. All these are basic rules, still without bothering these mean to show lethargy to learn grammar in the true sense of the term. Now I would try to discuss with the two simple words ‘ which’ and ‘ that’. From the outward view they seem of less importance but when you are going to use them you have to be a bit cautioned.
You perhaps have an idea that ‘which’ and ‘ that’ are regarded as relative pronouns. Relative pronoun means the word that helps to relate it to a noun that proceeds in a particular sentence. Now let us elaborate. In the following sentence “The pen that I bought yesterday is stolen” In this particular sentence, the relative pronoun ‘that’ hints at the ‘noun’, the ‘pen’.
Now comes the question of restrictive clause’. What is it? Actually if we follow the first sentence “The pen t... Read more...
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It is very easy to teach a kid. For it is unaware of the complicacies of learning and just try to cram or follow what he listens or notices. It may be inattentive but he can be handled quite easily due to the softness of its mind and quick adaptability. It is like soft clay. You can mould it the manner you like. In a word it can be easily molded. It learns English through different manners. It is never an easy task but after all if the teacher has prefect zest for teaching he/she can do the uphill task.
Now when you target an adult to teach English you may have to follow a different method. You have to follow the method of preparation and repetition. The adults may fail again and again but you have to keep your calm. You may find some adults who though speak other language can pick up English quite efficiently. Others can not. They stumble while learning perfect English.
If it is your motto to feed the essential grammar to an adult learner you are living in the fool’s paradise. Actually grammar can never be a funny thing to an adult. You have to take other methods so that grammar, a bit by bit can be taught. Try ... Read more...
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- 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 these types clearly show your writing skill. But you may opt for another type where you can use commas in a rampant way to make the bunch of sentences meaningful.
- Now as you are an ESL you are in search of new patterns of writing and hence you have to learn some fundamental things of writing English in an efficient manner. You may try to join three sentences with a comma. This comma is to sit between the first and the second sentence and an ‘and’ stands in front of the third sentence consecutively. You may now note the example quite minutely to grasp the idea. Mr. Smith lives near the market. Mr. Strong lives by him. Mr. Freddy is their close neighbor.
- Now if we join the three sentences in the proper manner with the perfect use of commas the sentenc... Read more...
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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 perfect speaker of the English language?
Well if you want to know how to speak English in an elegant manner you have to learn to pronounce every word accordingly. It is the IPA or the International Phonetic Alphabet that may guide you step by step to learn how to pronounce English quite correctly. With the help of IPA you can master the art but what you need to do in the very beginning is to follow some steps so that you can be sure that you are pronouncing accurately.
The first thing you have to do is to collect a copy of the sounds represented by symbols. You are sure to be confused in the very beginning. Next try to copy the symbols on a sheet of paper. You would find in the chart about 44 sounds among which there are 20 vowels along with 24 consonants. There is controversy regarding the number of the sounds but anyway try to learn them by heart.
Now it i... Read more...
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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 between the mastery of oral English and written English. Oral English can be adopted in any way but it is very hard to master the art of writing English with a lucid flair.
Actually you watch regularly millions of words in some form. It may be e-mails, it may be messages sent from the cell phone, it may be greetings, it may be ‘Twittering’. Whatever it may be if you have no syntactical sense of using the language specially English you can not be regarded as the prolific writer. All that you must know in the very basic period is to learn the syntax of English grammar.
Actually the word ‘syntax’ has come from Greek that means perfect order. In English grammar you have to go through the chapter of syntax to know how there is a certain relation betw... Read more...
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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 word by word. We use the marks so that the words uttered by the man are kept intact. There is no change in the saying. There is no way to extort the saying of the speaker.
We can use the direct quotation marks when a sentence is already going on. Or the marks may be used from the very beginning when the speaker is saying something.
- While discussing on the Romantic poets our teacher suddenly expressed,” Above all the Romantic period is the best period in the history of English Literature, I think.”
- Our English teacher all on a sudden declared,” Romantic period is the best period in the history of English literature, I think.”
We can use the quotation... Read more...
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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 do it for your own sake or to edit some writing of someone you have to be too cautious to use the marks in a very standard fashion.
It seems that if someone reads and you proofread it is beer for you. You may locate the mistakes when someone reads it aloud. Your eyes may miss the mistakes but your ears can never prove wrong. Generally the proofreader’s marks are used in publishing houses and the world of business.
When you proofread you must take care of some things that are available at hand:
*a pencil or a red pen
*the matter that you have to proofread
*the list where the marks are inscribed
Actually a pen with red ink or a pencil is necessary to highlight the wrongs on the white sheet of paper. In his way you can highlight the wrongs to the writer or the man who i... Read more...
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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 mind that if you bring an interruption while using quotation you have to place either a comma or nothing but a colon to specify the interruption.
My teacher says: “Try to be great.”
In this group of words you find the quotation at the very interrupting point. Hence it is up to you to use the colon. Remember in this particular case the use of colon is nothing but the end mark of the punctuation.
If such a case comes that you have to use the quotation marks as the quotation transition shows no interruption. In this particular case always avoid the quotation marks. When the interrupted quotation transition follows and you have to use the firs letter of the quoted text in the capital letter you have the sole right to make the firs letter a smaller one.
Now you have to maintain a f... Read more...
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