Study English Grammar » grammatical skills http://www.studyenglishgrammar.com Free English Grammar Tips & Blog Sun, 24 Apr 2011 16:34:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 When Should You Use ‘Allot’, ‘A Lot’ and ‘Alot’? http://www.studyenglishgrammar.com/grammar/when-should-you-use-%e2%80%98allot%e2%80%99-%e2%80%98a-lot%e2%80%99-and-%e2%80%98alot%e2%80%99.htm http://www.studyenglishgrammar.com/grammar/when-should-you-use-%e2%80%98allot%e2%80%99-%e2%80%98a-lot%e2%80%99-and-%e2%80%98alot%e2%80%99.htm#comments Fri, 17 Dec 2010 16:06:54 +0000 Study English Grammar http://www.studyenglishgrammar.com/?p=315 If you want to be a pro at English grammar, you need to have basic grammatical skills. Instead of just being important for the examinations that test the subject, grammatical skills are also relevant in the way you communicate to others. In fact, spellings are more important for written tests and evaluations. If you are into a job that requires business writing to be done, you should be specific about the cases that require using words like ‘allot’, ‘a lot’ and ‘a lot’.

For instance you are typing a paper, and you write the word ‘alot’. There is a little red line that appears, but you are clueless about whether you should choose ‘a lot’ or ‘allot’.

‘Allot’

This is a word that means ‘to divide’, ‘accord’, ‘administer’, ‘dispense’, ‘distribute’ or ‘give out’. Here’s an example of using the word in a sentence: “They allotted six square feet space per family”. You must have guessed by now that the word ‘allot’ is used to refer to divide, apportion or grant something. “The raffle tickets were allotted to the class”.

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Why Watch Films?

Are you a movie buff? Yes? Then get the movie theater rolling! Watching a movie in their original version, instead of going for the dubbed variety, is always a rewarding experience as everything there is for real – from the voice of the actors, to their acting styles and the background music too. You are watching everything in the real ambience, just as had been perceived by the director.

Learn through Input

Picking up your linguistic skills through watching the English movies is a procedure where you are gaining knowledge about the language through inputs. First of all, there are all those appropriate sentences that are going within your head. Other than that, your mind can impersonate them for preparing sentences of ... Read more...

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