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| A General Summary of Nouns At this stage, we are still just exploring the eight parts of speech. The first is the noun. Above, we learned that nouns serve to name things, people, places, ideas, feelings, and other abstractions… |
| Grammatical Person Person is a very common word of English language and anyone with basic English understanding knows and understands what this means. But there are only a handful of people that know what a grammatical… |
| Participle We read about the term participle somewhere around in grade 2 or 3 when our English teacher was telling us something about the tenses. Participle is a common term in English grammar and one should kn… |
| prescience, prescient - vocabulary noun Prescience: knowledge of events before they take place. adjective Prescient: perceiving significance of events before they take place. Note:… |
| quiescent - vocabulary adjective Being quiet, at rest, still, motionless, as in quiescent thoughts. There is a brief time for sex, and a long time when sex is out of place. But when it is out of place as an activity the… |
| Backup and Back up? What’s the Difference? We all use the word Backup. Or is it Back Up? · Are they identical, both equally right and acceptable? · Is one spelled correctly and the other si… |
| Perfect vs. Prefect Perfect (adjective) means something that is flawless or complete. · No one is perfect in this world. · &nbs… |
| Cognate Object An object is a part of a sentence that represents the noun on which the action is taking place.Example:Sara don’t like Adam at all.In the above example, Adam is the object as the action is taking pla… |
| Auxiliary verbs BE ‘To be’ means to exist. ‘Be’ can be used in many ways. · To form continuous tenses – present, past, future – be takes the form of am, is, are, was, were, will be – o … |
| Colonize vs. Colonise The Greeks colonized Sicily and southern Italy. Our organization is seeking to protect the rights of the newly colonised people. Which of the above two sentences is correct? What are the right spelli… |
| Peddle vs. Pedal English spelling is full of apparent idiosyncrasies – native speakers and learners alike grapple with doubling consonants, how to form plurals, ‘i’ before ‘e’ except after ‘c’’, and have to dodge ump… |
| People Is” vs “People Are” Let’s begin with the most simplistic statement: “People are…” is correct. “People is…” is not correct. Well, wait a minute! • Does that mean that the word “people” is a singular noun or a … |
| Biannual vs. Biennial Biannual and biennial are treated as if they are interchangeable or they mean the same. Some people who know the difference but still get confuse about which is which. Consider the two sentences belo… |
| Split Infinitives Perhaps no “rule” of grammar sparks more controversy than the “rule” against splitting infinitives. Leading experts on the English language, however, point out that the split infinitive appeared in t… |
| 3 Basic Grammar Rules for Academic Writing Rule #1. Use Proper PunctuationWe assume that you already know the basic rule that you should write complete sentences that have subjects and verbs, and ensure that you start each new sentence with a… |
| Prepositions – At vs. In vs. On In, at and on are commonly used prepositions and are used in different situations – be it telling adate, or time, or about a place and so on. Let’s discuss these prepositions and their uses in detail… |
| Miss vs. Missing Miss vs. Missing An important misunderstanding, in regard to the word "missing", is the false impression that it functions as a noun. That happens because some people tend to associate it with wo… |
| Verb Conjugation Verb Conjugation in English Every verb in the English language has two states or dimensions—two realms, if you will. In the infinitive state, the verb reveals only the activity de… |
| Their vs. There Their vs. ThereThe quick answer is no! They don’t mean the same thing. They may sound similar and they may have similar spellings, yet “their” and “there” have nothing in common in regard to their de… |
| Cash vs. Cache English is a complicated language. There are some words in English that sound exactly the same but have different spellings and meanings. These words are called homophones and they are a cause of con… |
| Oldest vs. Eldest Eldest is used while referring to age with respect to seniority. It is used to refer to related members of family. The word has been derived from old English ieldest and can also be said as ‘most gro… |
| Altogether vs. All together It was an altogether decision to agree to all terms all together.If the above sentence has confused you to the core and you cannot decide if it’s right or wrong, worry not. We are here to help you wi… |
| File vs. Fill Fill Fill as we know is to occupy a space with something. For example, fill the bottle with water. Filling can be used in more than one way. For one, it is the continuous form of fill. For example, … |
| Infinitive - The "to" Verb Academic tomes might go on for pages defining the meaning of the infinitive form of a verb. I, on the other hand, have developed a definition requiring only a single sentence: The infiniti… |
| Verb "To Be" To Be or Not To Be The eBook Developing a Powerful Writing Style thoroughly discusses the problem of overusing the verb to be. We urge you to read it. When you do, notice that the… |
