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If you are bored learning English through grammar, writing and reading, try music. Yes, music and songs are what we are talking about. One of the best ways to learn the basics of English grammar and its appropriate usage is through English songs. You will come across websites that help you learn the language with the help of aids like CDs where the lyrics have been subtitled.
Students who have English as their second language learn the language through reading stories and working on grammar exercises. However, as an alternative, you’d be delig... Read more...
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Posted in Grammar, Learn English |
It is frequently seen that when you try to discuss on the art of spelling you are very often confused as you watch there is the deep confusion with the letters along with sounds. Actually if we dip delve in to the mystery of such confusion we are sure to notice that the identity of English letters fall in the group of orthography, where as the sounds are nothing but a part of he system of phonetics. When there is a clash between the two groups there emerges confusion of them.
Now we are going to discuss with the misuse of two general words that ‘Lie’ and ‘Lay’. We know it for certain that ‘lie’ means to have rest having been inclined. It is an intransitive verb. On the other hand ‘lay’ is a transitive verb, meaning to keep something to somewhere. It seems at the first glance that the two words are extremely similar partially in sound but there is a gulf of difference between the two.
You can use the word ‘lie’ in the following manner. Use ‘ lie’ to denote that you have something in a horizontal manner for rest.’ For example it can be written that “The bouquet lies on ... Read more...
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Posted in English Basics |
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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Posted in English Basics, English Tips |
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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Posted in English Tips |
English is the part and parcel of the modern life. It can be told with full throated ease that if you don’t have any knowledge of writing and oral English you are sure to suffer in all sectors particularly in the business sector so to say. Now the question that may haunt you- how can you grab English in a perfect way, especially when you are interested to expand your business globally in this vibrant period of globalization? I may offer you some basic tips that would help you to be honed in the perfect manner.
Where ever you step foot in you have no other way than to speak English. The only other way left is to learn the language of the country with which you try to tie your bond .But it is not very easy to learn a foreign language very quickly. Hence there is no option than to learn English quite well in its all forms, grammatical and literary so that you express your ideas quite well and make the people understand what they want. You can not but dodge the matter that the language of the Globalization is nothing but the great English language.
You may raise the question- why should you learn English not French o... Read more...
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Posted in English History |
English movies are the most common resource being used by many English learners. Movies either in selected clips, or entirely are the highly practical way of learning English. No English learner will complain about the usage of a video clip or a movie as a part of an English course. Let us see how to learn English with the help of popular movies:
- The first step is to select a film, which will be easy to understand. For instance, you can choose children films, where the level of English used will be easy to understand. Select a movie in such a way that you should be able to understand 80% and the remaining 20% can be guessed by you initially.
- The movie selected should have soundtrack and try to watch the movie with the help of subtitle. At this stage, both your eyes and ears should work equally. You should try to understand the main idea and the theme of the movie. If you do not understand any particular part of the movie, stop it and rewind it and again listen.
- The third step is to watch the movie again with subtitles, but here try to reduce the usage of eye... Read more...
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Posted in Learn English, Study Tips |
