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The Common Misspelt Words-Underway and Under way

Study English Grammar — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 15:41:19 +0000

It must be remembered that if you want to write good English you must keep in mind that your English spelling must be correct so that no one stumbles all on a sudden while going through it. There are so many words that are misspelt very frequently. Unless they are taken proper care of the words remain misspelt all through the life and can not be corrected if regular practice and sincere concern is given the top priority.

Among the bunch of words that are generally misspelt the word ‘underway’ is one such confusing word. It may be used as adjective and adverb. In both cases the meaning of the words differs and we get different pictures from the two words. First of all it must be kept in mind that ‘underway’ is generally used as an adjective. We know it for certain that an adjective qualifies a noun. The example would show you how the example is used to denote the word as an adjective.

The bus was ready for underway servicing

In this sentence you look that the word ‘underway’ is a single word. you have to spell the word quite correctly. In this sentence the word ‘under... Read more...

How English is Important in Business to Avoid Misunderstandings

Study English Grammar — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:54:56 +0000

Communication is very much essential in any business and the importance of English can hardly be overemphasized. English plays an important role in the process of transmitting opinions, information, plans, thoughts and ideas. A businessman can get the required work completed from his subordinates only when he properly communicates his requirement. If his requirement is not properly communicated, there are chances of misunderstanding the result will not be fruitful for him. Otherwise, he will have to do rework on the already completed work, which will result in waste of time.

Many companies all over the world, has realized that they will be able to cut down the production cost by outsourcing the work to another country. Some others have found that they will be able to cut the cost by bringing immigrants from another country on work visas. In these cases English is used as means of communication in almost all the countries. So, only when a businessman is able to use proper English, he will be able to get the work done.

Not only getting the work done, but also getting the work from customers also require good English comm... Read more...

Types of Verbs

Study English Grammar — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:34:01 +0000

Verb denotes an occurrence, an action or a state of being. In this article, we will see about the types of verbs in English language.

Meaning of verb:

A verb is nothing but a word used to show that an action is taking place or to indicate the existence of a state or condition or the part of speech to which such a word belongs. Verb also denotes predicate of sentence (i.e.) the part of a clause or a sentence that includes the verb, but excludes the subject of the verb. On the basis of the language, a verb might vary in form based on several factors like voice, tense, mood and aspect.

Types of verb:

Verb can be classified on two different categories. The first category is that verb can be divided according to the job they do in a sentence this is also called as syntactically division of verbs and under this category the types include finite verbs, non-finite verbs and helping verbs or auxiliary verbs. The second category is that verb can be divided according to the basis of how they are formed. This is also termed as morphological division of verbs and this includes regular... Read more...

Grammar – Omission of Letters or Contraction

Study English Grammar — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 02:20:52 +0000

We use the apostrophe mark to indicate the omission in a standard contraction. We’d better explain the rule about this in some detail as this is where a good deal of the chaos over punctuation starts. If we had to identify one area that creates problems for students, it would be this idea of contractions – that is, where a word is shortened and an apostrophe is used to indicate this.

It’s
The first point to repeat is that the apostrophe has two different functions. One, as we have seen above at great length, is for the possessive case; It is Jane’s book. But then the apostrophe is also used in a different way with a different meaning when we use it to indicate a contraction. The most famous contraction, and the one that sinks a thousand exam scripts, is when, instead of writing it is, we write it’s. Here the apostrophe signals that the two words it and is have been contracted into one word and that a letter has been omitted: it’s, then, means it is, or, in some cases, it has, as in: It’s been raining here all day.

Its
Many students know this, but then, often without... Read more...