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The agreement of the verb with the subject happens to be one of the major ingredients in the understanding and learning of English grammar. It is nothing but the following of a few simple rules. The subject as well as verb of each clause should be in agreement with the number. However, despite the apparent simplicity of the rule, you will often come across people who get the subject and verb wrong in so many sentences. It is important to understand the basics of writing and reading English grammar.
If you are to write and speak the language properly, it is im... Read more...
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The three main components of your writing structure are grammar, usage of words and style of the writing. It is also important that as you are writing you should try to make it as reader friendly as possible. This is because unless the reader understands what you write there is no point of writing at all. You may have an idea that clear sentences and paragraphs are enough for a good piece of writing. But it has been seen that it is not. There are a lot of other things which you need to keep in mind. It is important that you give attention to the idea which you present and the structure of the document.
The way your present your ideas should be well structured. This means the main idea of the document should have a natural flow and information should not crop just like that. This creates a hitch in your writing and the writer is not able to sail through the piece smoothly. It is important that you break your writing into sections and subsections so that the focus of the reader does not get lost. This way they are able to get your idea in a better manner.
It is a good idea to use headers and sub-headers in the page. This... 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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Posted in English Basics, English Tips, Linking Words |
Writing an essay requires planning and organization. It is not enough to look at the question, and then start writing your answer. You need to think about the wording of the question: most questions pose a problem of some sort! Which you have to debate. The key words here are Discuss, Account for, How far, words that signal that you need to provide evidence and analyze the material. You also need to plan your answer so that you don’t simply put down some loose thoughts as a way of starting. It’s much better to spend some time generating your ideas and then organizing them into an essay 1 rather than pouring out everything you know. You need, then, to think about the shape, and even rhythm, of your answer.
This, however, is the kind of general, perhaps not always very helpful, advice that people will offer to you over and over again. So let’s be rather more specific. One of the most useful rules in writing an essay, indeed possibly the best tip of all, is the ‘rule of three’. It is a rule that can be made use of in constructing an essay as a whole, in constructing a paragraph, and even in relation... Read more...
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Posted in Essay Writing |
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...
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Posted in English Basics |
Most examiners make tremendous allowances for work done under pressure and don’t expect a perfect performance, but a student who can turn in a measured, controlled piece of writing always impresses in examinations. The same applies, curiously, to word-processed essays. These are usually very professional in appearance, but what matters is the weight of the argument and how that is executed from beginning to end.
But let’s look at how the advice applies in other areas. If you were studying politics, or taking a general studies paper, you might have to write an essay about the victory of the Labor Party in the 1997 General Election, and the humiliation of the Conservative Party in that election. In an unplanned essay, you might start by saying that Labor had been out of office for 18 years, then wander on to the part that Tony Blair played, perhaps touching on the divisions within the Conservative Party. But it would be a loose collection of Ideas in which you were looking for a shape and direction. It seems to make a lot more sense to establish some opening propositions, then to see what happened next, and finally ... Read more...
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Such a method seems to be readily applicable to a scientific experiment, where there is usually a set order for doing things, but is it going to have any relevance for an essay on, say, the life of Florence Nightingale? We think it is again a good idea to think in terms of ‘a rule of three’. The temptation in writing about someone’s life in a history essay might be just to produce an endless list on the lines of ‘she did this, then she did this, and then she did this’. But if we divide the core of the essay into three stages we start to impose a shape on the raw material; we begin to have an idea of the argument, of setting the issue up, pushing the issue along, and then seeing where we arrive. The essay immediately begins to acquire some shape and direction, and this is true even before we have considered what we are going to include in each section of the essay. In an essay on Florence Nightingale, we could follow the eight-paragraph format we described above. An introductory paragraph might give a very brief outline of her life. The first stage of the essay (paragraphs 2 and 3) could describe the con... Read more...
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We want to talk about various conventions that relate to the presentation of written work, particularly the kind of work produced by university students. Several of these points are bound to come up in any essay you write; it is, therefore, well worth checking through the list to see if you are presenting your work in an appropriate way. It is just this kind of attention to detail that surreptitiously picks up more marks for you in an essay but also helps you to develop a polished and professional approach to written work.
1. Spacing work
A word-processed essay should always be double-spaced (set your word-processor to print on every other line). Generous spacing makes your essay easier to read, and leaves room for the marker to write in comments. The main secret of typing essays is always to allow plenty of space on the page: sensible margins, double-spacing, a reasonably large font or type-face (we suggest not smaller than 11 point text). Think of the needs of your reader; your reader wants to be presented with something that is easy on the eye, and as such easy to read.
Your aim in word-processing (or, more r... Read more...
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What we are trying to demonstrate is how to join sentences together for an interesting piece of work. Readers can absorb more than one idea at a time and can feel frustrated by endless stops and starts; they are looking for information, stimulation, thoughts and points as well as an argument that involves them and takes them along. We should, however, make it clear that we are not contradicting here something we said earlier. We appear to be recommending the fusing of sentences. What we have in Blind, of course, is not fusing but instead joining sentences in a manner that Complies with all the basic rules about sentence structure and punctuation. We will, in addition, be showing how little phrases, such as in addition, can establish continuity and flow in a paragraph. Really, what we want to achieve is a paragraph where every sentence is as impressive as the student’s first sentence here:
At the turn of the century, Russia, both economically and politically, lagged behind the advanced industrial nations of Europe.
That is a confident sentence. It consists of a subject-verb-complement sequence (Russia-, lagged beh... Read more...
Tags: adverbial phrase, introductory element, paragraph, phrases, punctuation, sentence structure, sentences, subject verb
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There are only a few questions that you need to ask yourself. Have I written a sentence? Do I need a compound sentence? Do I need subordinate clauses? Have I produced all these elements in accordance with the rules? Does my sentence make sense and read well? Beyond the individual sentence, however, is the logic of a paragraph, where we need to be more Ware of how each sentence as a unit combines in a larger pattern. The ore we are in control of building an argument, the more we are going to be control of the argument in an essay. This might be more apparent if we look again at the paragraph we have been discussing as the student initially wrote it and then at the revised version:
The creation of the city of Philadelphia, and the colony of Pennsylvania at the same time, by William Penn, is often referred to as his ‘Holy Experiment’. He wanted to create a place where anyone could live, I without fear. It was the first place of its... Read more...
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