How to speak fluent English? Everyone wants to know. The truth is that speaking fluent English depends so much on a familiarity with the oft-used phrases and collocations in English. The saddest thing is that such a familiarity can be achieved only through extensive reading. But what if you want to learn these phrases and
Latin phrases, proverbs, and quotations have had a great influence on English thought, speech and literature. Even though Latin words had already crept into the language of the Anglo-Saxons, it was the Christian missionaries who established Latin in Britain as a language of learning. At first these Latin phrases, proverbs, and quotations tended to be
Nissim Ezekiel’s Night of the Scorpion is a strong yet simple statement on the power of self-effacing love. Full to the brim with Indianness, it captures a well-detached black and white snapshot of Indian village life with all its superstitious simplicity. The poet dramatizes a battle of ideas fought at night in lamplight between good and
Here is a summary and review of The Reason by E.V Lucas, a magnificent essay on the lack of unity among human beings. E.V Lucas’s The Reason is an essay written in the lighter vein. It tells us humorously how the unity and cooperation of animals helped the rabbits to scoot away from the hunter. The
Most of the English plural nouns can be formed by adding –s to the singular as in boy – boys. But the moment we begin to think of irregular plurals of English nouns, we are stepping into troubled waters. The following questions often land even the most experienced of English teachers in trouble: Is chicken
Homophones are words that sound alike, but are different in spelling and meaning. English is a crazy language where one word can have different meanings and different words can be pronounced alike. This craziness is most evident in English Homophones. Examples of English homophones The following riddle offers an interesting example of the use of homophones: Anyone who
