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March 27, 2010

Tips to strengthen your writing

Filed under: Writing Tips — Tags: , , , , — naping @ 8:45 am

Following I have listed a number of basic guidelines to help enhance your writing. It may be a limited, basic list but could be of use.

  • Don't utilize a lot of complicated sentences, keep these things straightforward and very simple.
  • Diverse sentences lengths are generally good, wherever you must provide more information you shouldn't be scared to incorporate a longer sentence.
  • Aim to stick to words that the intended viewer knows.
  • Unless you are sure that the reader will know your intended meaning, you should not abbreviate words.
  • Try to avoid capitalizing words in the center of your sentence To Supply Emphasis. In the event you really need to provide emphasis try applying bold or italic type.
  • The ellipsis is a combination of three (and only three) full stops employed to show an uncertain pause or omitted words. Avoid getting tempted to apply any more than three full stops, it's not at all right… OK.
  • In most situations just one question or exclamation mark needs to be applied at any given time. Take a look at the next items:

    Massive Bargains!!!!!
    Grab a Deal!!!

    Over usage of punctuation detracts from your credibleness and needs to be avoided.

  • If you are making a extended document, then you should produce a distinct hierarchy for your titles in order to separate the material.
  • Numbers of ten or under will typically end up being written as words. As an example three instead of 3.

Well, I told you would be brief. I am hoping it has helped you somewhat anyway.

March 14, 2010

Enhance your spelling today

Filed under: English — Tags: , , , — naping @ 10:53 am

Correctly spelling English words is usually extremely problematic for those who are still studying the language. Educational institutions as well as businesses expect proper spelling and the more advanced a person's spelling skills are the less complicated it can be for you to communicate ones concepts with the penned word, therefore learning to spell is surely an essential challenge for everyone. In this posting I've listed lots of principles together with ideas which should assist you on your way to becoming a spelling master.

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* Educate yourself on the basic spelling guidelines, just like “i before e except after c” and “the spelling of any word is never adjusted when introducing a prefix”. Considering that the English language is indeed complex and varied, none of the rules are 100% effective, nevertheless these will provide you with a good idea of a words spelling generally speaking.

* Aim to consistently pronounce words accurately. Most of us get laid back with our pronunciation when in informal discussion. Folks may understand you, but if you try to spell a word how you pronounce it, will probably be incorrect.

* Engage in word games often. Games for example hangman, Scrabble, crosswords and word puzzles are fun and additionally assist to boost ones spelling capabilities.

* Understand which word you are trying to spell. Plenty of spelling errors aren't spelling problems at all, they come from homonyms, words that have precisely the same pronunciation yet different spelling and meaning.

* Train your memory using the precise spelling. Sometimes spelling problems manifest again and again simply because our brains are imprinted using the wrong spelling of the word. To try and adjust this, whenever you find yourself wrongly spelling a word, write the correct spelling ten times upon some scrap paper. You'll be surprised how well this will work.

I really hope there is something in the post that has aided you somewhat. For those who have some other suggestions, why not let us know.

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March 8, 2010

Finest Online Dictionary Sites

Filed under: English Writing — Tags: , , , — naping @ 3:59 am

An important rule of writing that preferably should be absolute should be to not ever hand anything in with out initially proofreading it. No matter how well we know the language, you can easlily still allow a misspelled word or grammatical fault slip inside your copy. While you likely know, there are lots of totally free web-based dictionaries offered, this particular write-up reviews the features of a portion of the best for you. With luck , the following can save you some time.

Merriam Webster Dictionary

This web site is pretty thorough comprising not simply a web-based dictionary, but a web-based thesaurus, free toolbar which helps you query words while surfing, hyperlinks to word games and also a separate website focused on children.

Webster's Online Dictionary

This site doesn't offer virtually any games or sound, even so it is very user friendly and useful for quick queries. Click virtually any phrase in the website and it offers you the definition.

At the time of writing Webster's has a message on the website saying that many brand new features are coming in 2010 so it may well come to be more powerful.

Yourdictionary.com

This web site is quite thorough and has a detailed dictionary and thesaurus. It features audio pronunciations, games, along with individual word translation for several languages. The only bad thing is the amount of advertisements displayed on the site.

March 4, 2010

Rules of English Grammar

Filed under: English Grammar — Tags: , — naping @ 11:59 am

To improve on your English grammar it is important to go back to the beginning. Included below are some basic English grammar rules that will hopefully help you to minimize any errors in your grammar.

Agreement between subject and verb is possibly the most important grammatical rule that you need to follow, it really is quite simple. Basically, if the subject is singular, then the verb indicating the action must be singular also. If the subject is in plural form then your verb must be in plural form also.

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The basic rule is that if your subject is in the third person and singular, the letter “s” needs to be added to the verb. However, if the subject is plural, the verb need not have the letter “s” appended to it. Different rules apply to the first person and the second person.

Another basic rule of English grammar deals with tense; the time of an action. Tense can be past, present or future and is clearly seen in the form of the verb. If dealing with past tense, the rule you should to follow is to append “ed” after the verb. In cases where the verb already ends with the letter “e” only the letter “d” is appended. To make your verb future tense, you simply use the words “shall” or “will” before it.

The article is another important area of speech, articles can be either definite or indefinite. Articles serve as pointers for nouns and aid in making the sentence readable. For example, the definite article “the” will refer to a noun which was previously mentioned. “a” an indefinite article, is used for nouns beginning with an consonant, and the indefinite article “an” is used where a noun starts with a vowel.

March 2, 2010

Hello

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Hey everybody, welcome to my site! during the coming weeks I plan to create a significant amount of helpful info which will hopefully help people with the English Language. Any suggestion on what sort of info you would like me to post are very much welcome.

Please check back in the next couple of days to read my initial attempts. This site is my very first blog so expect some hiccups along the way.

February 28, 2010

Hello world!

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