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There are lots of subtle intricacies in English grammar and one of them is the problem that people are faced with when they use ‘there’, ‘their’, and ‘they’re’ in a sentence. Although the pronunciations of the three words are the same, it becomes a tad tough to distinguish their usage according to circumstances. Remember that there are different spellings for every word.
‘There’
‘There’ is used while referring to a place, irrespective of whether it is material or immaterial. In the case... Read more...
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Posted in English Tips, Grammar |
‘Site’, ‘sight’ and ‘cite’ are three words that are pronounced the same, but have different spellings. This is why a lot of writers fail to find the difference between them and make mistakes in usage. If your job is concerned with writing, you should be flawless in grammar to make sure that the words you choose in a sentence are appropriate. Take a look at some of the commonly confused words.
‘Site’
‘Site’ refers to ‘place’ or ‘location’. So this means that you can substitute the word in a sentence where you use the words ‘location’ or ‘place’. An example would be, “The site for the new school has been selected”. The place or location could be a physical site or a location online in cyberspace. If you are talking about an entity on the internet, you can come across the word ‘website’, or its likes such as ‘web site’ or plain ‘site’. Another application of the word would be in the sentence, “The town planners have decided to choose the site for erecting the building”.
The things that can be indicated by the word ‘site’ is extensive. It m... Read more...
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Posted in English Tips |
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 mastering a language and excel in your linguistic skills and abilities.
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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Posted in English Tips, Learn English |
If English is your second language, I hope, you are willing to learn it quite well so that amid the bright people who speak English quite well and take pride in writing good English with a easy scintillating flair you can prove your worth. You may be a little embarrassed as you are not quite efficient in the usage of the language. But I am here to assure you that if you try a little bit you can be easily be the master of the richest language of the world.
All that needs is your enthusiasm and dedication to learn the language. If you love the language from the core of your heart the language that is none other than English is ready to offer you a warm hug. The language has such flexibility that if someone spends a few hours to learn the language after his own style he is sure to hit the bull. This is the only language in the world that can easily be learnt, provided a little effort is spared.
Now if you want to develop you spelling and grammar skill you may take the help of a teacher who would lead you light in this regard. If you think you would cram the heavy English grammar books and then hone yourself you are totall... Read more...
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Nowadays we have two styles of English language in use; they are the British English and the American English. Many people think that there is no difference between the two styles of English, but there is a lot of difference in the use of these two styles of English language. As a beginner one cannot find the difference between the two styles. But a well-experienced person in any of these styles of language can easily identify the difference between them.
The differences between these two styles of English language are, the first thing is the vocabulary used in these styles of languages. The vocabulary used in the British language is different from the vocabulary used in the American English style. In the British English style they use the word petrol where as in the American style of English they use gasoline. The British people use to say that they drive lorry whereas the American people use to say that they drive truck. This makes the wide difference in the vocabulary used in the British and American style of English. The beginner who would like to learn English gets a lot of confusion with this vocabulary. He may misunder... Read more...
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Posted in American English |
English corrector software is one of the widely used software these days. You can get this software as a trail version for free and you can buy the whole software as well. You can upgrade your free version to the registered version. There are various companies offering this type of English corrector software. There are various features involved in this software according to the developer who is providing the software.
You can use this software to develop your interpersonal skills and writing skills. This software will show you the errors made by you in typing so that you can rectify your errors.
You can use this English correcting software for checking vocabulary used by you in the document. This English correcting software keeps check on the words that you are using in your document. If any error occurs in your document, then it immediately warns you to check the error.
The basic conventional English checker is used to check the spellings of the words that are typed. The advanced English corrector checks over the spellings as well as the lines in your document and it checks the punctuations in your document and... Read more...
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English is a fantastic language that many of us have a great desire to learn and to speak in English. But many of us find it hard to speak English correctly because of pronunciation of the words. Many words in English are pronounced alike with different spelling. This mispronunciation of words makes it hard to identify the words when someone speaks. This also makes us to misspell the words.
In English some sounds like “t” are silent which comes at the end of word. This makes the chance of misspell the word. For example, let us consider the word “start”, many of us does not spell the “t” sound, which is at the end of the word, this makes the listener hard to identify the spoken word, he might understand the word as “star” which is also a valid word. This affects the meaning of the sentence.
Let us see another example “read”, we can use this word in past tense, present tense as well as future tense. While we use this word in past tense we pronounce it as “red” and when we use the same word in present or future tense we pronounce it as “read”. Hence, based on the sentence we have to pronounce t... Read more...
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Posted in Spelling |
In English, one spelling can have different pronunciations and the words with same sound can have different spellings. If you check the pronunciation of the whole word by looking at the phonetic script in a dictionary, you will find that the sound is very common in English. It is always unstressed. In this article, we will look at some of the sounds in English.
- Words ending with ‘ough’ are spelled in different ways in English. Some examples are given below:
Now sound: plough, bough
Cuff sound: enough, tough, rough
Toe sound: though, dough
Off sound: cough.
- Words containing ‘st’ where ‘t’ is not pronounced. Some examples are listen, whistle, whistle, bristle.
- Words containing ‘bt’ and ‘mb’, where b is not heard. Some examples are given below:
‘bt’: debt, subtle, doubt
‘mb’: plumber, comb, dumb
Tips for Pronunciation and spelling English words:
The tips given below will help you to understand spelling and pronunciation of some words in English.
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Posted in English Pronunciation |
