Social networking sites are incredibly useful – they make it possible to get in touch with and stay in touch with friends and family, whether they’re close by, or far away. MySpace is just one of the popular sites that gives us the ability to get in touch with someone we love, no matter what [...]
What a Noun means? Every word in English belongs to a family. The name of that family is called “parts of speech”. There are 10 such families or groups or categories, and every word in English will fall under any of such of these 10 categories. We will see each family one by one now. [...]
The Best Man’s speech should always be last. This may sound peculiar, but chances are that you might only know half of the people in the room. It’s important to make some reference to who you are. You could make this humorous: “For those of you who don’t know me, my name is Mark and [...]
The English language classifies words based on parts of speech. Parts of speech explain not the definition of the word, but how the word is used. Words can be classified as different parts of speech in different sentences. The most common parts of speech that people think of first are the noun, the verb, the [...]
In today’s politically correct society, it seems that anything Christian should not be discussed, seen, or mentioned in public. It is almost like trying to shun almost 3/4th of the population into a closet under the guise of tolerance. It is our duty as Christians to spread the word to others. But how do we [...]
1. A common noun is a person, place, idea, or thing. It is capitalized only at the start of a sentence. It can be a single word, a group of words, or a hyphenated word. Examples: The girl was learning to driveperson (girl)next to the ocean;place (ocean)it takes self-controlidea (self-control)to earn a driver’s license.thing (license) [...]
You are interested in writing English so you have to know how the English language works. To know how a machine works you have to know how the parts of the machine work. You have to know the functions of the parts. It is the same with language. You have to know the job that [...]
Don’t know your adjectives from your conjunctions? Got only a vague idea that a verb might possibly be an action word? Fret no more. Here is the Janet and John training course for the parts-of-speech-challenged writer. Read on and you’ll be conjuncting and interjecting before you know where you are. Really? Really! OK then, in [...]
