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| Time for Easy Learning: Simple Tips to Improve Your Grammar It would be more effective to understand how to form sentences and their structure properly, so grab some tricks on how to make it efficiently. Start from the Basics & Review It From Time to… |
| Translucent vs. Opaque If you can see through something, is it opaque, translucent, or transparent? Two of these words might fit, depending on how clearly you can see through the object, but the other word is definitely no… |
| Interested vs. Interesting Now let’s try to understand when to use which one. Use interesting to talk about a ‘thing’. Something is interesting. But, you/I/we (people) are interested in something i.e. use interested to talk a… |
| Distrustful vs. Mistrustful Origin of the words Distrustful Distrustful is an adjective of the word distrust, which is the opposite of trust and simply means absence of trust. The word first originated in 1505-15 and is in the… |
| Effect vs. Affect The cause and effect story Well, the #metoo movement started with some genuinely affected ladies coming forward and sharing their horrifying experiences. However, the negative effect of the movement … |
| Vacate vs. Evacuate Evacuate Evacuate (verb) is a stronger term which means emptying a space because of some emergency for safety purpose. Commonly, this word is used when there is a problem and a large number of people… |
| Evoke vs. Invoke vs. Provoke Evoke Evoke means to recall a memory. It could be related to old incidents or emotions. Evoking ‘something’ is not a conscious decision and is a result of seeing or hearing something else. Example… |
| Run On Sentences Run on sentences are two sentences combined. They have a comma in between. Everyone has made a run on sentence. The way you can fix that is just put a period in between the two sentences. If you put … |
| Difference Between Proofreading and Copyediting No matter what type of writing you are working on, you will sooner or later face the need for proofreading and editing your piece since these are important stages of the entire writing process. There… |
| Relive vs. Relieve Relive Relive is to live an experience or memory again (re+live). Relive can be written with the ‘-‘ symbol as re-live as well. It is a verb that became more popular in its usage during 2000’s. When … |
| 5 Ways to Overcome Grammar Issues Why Literacy MattersThere are two basic reasons why you should work on your literacy and constantly improve it.1. The Increased Likelihood of Getting Low Marks for Written TasksProfessors do not like… |
| Phrasal verbs with ‘Get’ Get – as a separate word get means to acquire or have something. When combined with several prepositions, the meaning doesn’t remain the same. 1. Get up – to wake … |
| Override vs Overwrite Override Override means to add to or enhance something apart from its existing behaviour. It is used very commonly in programming languages. For example, you have generic procedures and rules that al… |
| Copyright vs Copywrite Copyright Copyright is a noun, which means exclusive legal rights of something – a work of art, music, document, poem, film name or any original work. This object or piece of work cannot be copied or… |
| Career vs. Carrier Carrier Carrier is pronounced as “kae-ri-year.” The ‘kae’ sound is same as ‘ca’ sound in cat or the ‘ca’ sound in carrot. It is a noun that can refer to something or someone that carries or conveys o… |
| Phrasal verbs with back 1. Back up Back up someone – to give support to someone. Examples – · We had to back her up till her room as she was very tired. · … |
| Fake News: How to Check Your Facts Fake news is essentially false information that is presented as true and appears at first glance to be from a trustworthy source. But don’t believe all that you read. In this article, we … |
| Suffix Learning a language is an art at its best form. If you are a native English speaker, then you would probably already know much about the language and its grammar. But if you are an English learner li… |
| Standard and Non-Standard English We all know that a language has different dialects and pronunciations in various areas where it is spoken depending on the culture and ways of people. But are you aware of the term standard and non-s… |
| What are Homographs We are all familiar with synonyms – they are words that mean the same thing. For rich writing, we use different words in different situations to convey the same thing – for example, I can say that ‘h… |
| Comparative Adjective The English we speak and write appears to be simple enough to be easily understandable by everyone. But when it comes to the grammar, the simplicity is somewhat lost. The grammar of any language is t… |
| How To Write An Amazing Blog Post Picture a cheese sandwich — a truly terrible one. What does it look like? If you’re anything like me, you’re thinking of something like a single square of processed cheese (I see it curling and brown… |
| Question Mark Punctuation is the basic element of English grammar and without it a sentence is not only incomplete but also insensible. There are various marks of punctuation that are used in sentences to give the… |
| Colon Punctuation is the basic element of English grammar and without it a sentence is not only incomplete but also insensible. There are various marks of punctuation that are used in sentences to give the… |
| Cataphoric Reference Cataphorism is a grammatical expression that refers to a word or a phrase that links to another word or phrase which was used after in the same textExample:If you call him, tell Sam to come as soon a… |
