Principles of the Blog-Writing
You are the frequent visitor on the blogging platform. You read all the top-bloggers or some selected ones; you comment profoundly or just make succinct statements regarding the topics of interest. You brood over the idea of starting your own writing account for which you already have suggestions regarding the theme, design and probable auditory. However, it is already a long time elapsed and you still haven’t written a line. What to do? Let’s find out the reasons first.Meanwhile ...Continue reading
How to Avoid Plagiarism in Your Text
Here you are, typing excitedly the last words of your paper in your text editor. You put a full stop, check the text for typos and mistakes, correct them if there are any, and, finally, run your text through the plagiarism checker. You relax, being fully confident in your paper. Last checking is a pure formality, you know well that you have put all your soul into this text, having searched for evidence, working out the information, categorizing, classifying… You have assiduously placed ...Continue reading
How to Implement Polite Constructions in Your Speech
Politeness and the ways of its expressionPoliteness can be described in general as the way of pleasing someone without imposing any obligation to either party. It is the means of the social communication. “Would you…”, “Please…”, “Thank you!”, holding the door in order to let the lady with two kids behind you to walk in, stopping to let a car with the inexperienced driver to drive out the parkway, and so on. All these phrases and actions aim to ...Continue reading
How to Carry On Business Correspondence
The main principles of the Business CorrespondenceWhen we write something, we usually think of the person we address this writing to. Depending on the receiver, we use certain patterns and words, reveal or conceal some information. We also use a different style. There are four accustomed styles of writing in English, each serving the certain needs of the information sharing. Basis these four “ground” styles the other sub-styles are formed in reply to the demand of certain groups ...Continue reading
Do We Need A Passive Voice?
Passive Voice in briefs“It was three o’clock in the morning. I was exhausted and my mind hadn’t been visited by a single bright idea by that time. I was obsessed with the intention of shaking off that horrid Passive Voice. But whatever had been done by me, my paper inexorably has been marked by its sinister omen. A decision was taken, finally: the Passive Voice was let in. I was crushed under its force. To be continued…” If a smile touched your face while ...Continue reading
How To Master Complex Tenses In English
Complex, not complicated. The characteristic of the Complex tensesA Tense is a tricky yet simple grammar category that, though used regularly, doesn’t have a common fixed definition up to now. The existing approaches to grammar show different understanding of a Tense notion and thus, provide different Tense classifications. What they agree on, is that Tense is connected with the category of time and that it is presented by Verbs.The traditional grammar implies there are only two ...Continue reading
How to Use the Adverbs in Your Speech
How, when and in what manner. The Adverb’s definition and problems of classificationBefore writing the first essay for your college course, you most probably have thrown a glance over different manuals on the way to write the academic paper. Many of those guidelines advise to address the general questions of “What?”, “How?” and “Why?”. This is where the almighty Adverb claims its right for the top place in your paper among other Parts of Speech. ...Continue reading
Where To Use Participles In Your Speech
The Participle Crowd. Description And ClassificationThe language reflects the state of mind of the people who use it – that’s a common knowledge. As for English it constantly relays the idea of the active approach to life. It possesses a multi branch classification of the verbs and their forms, that express different sides of the Action; the Active mood and Indicative and Imperative inclinations are always in the preferable position in the oral and even written speech.The ...Continue reading
How to Apply Gerund in Your Speech
What’s a Gerund?The English language, as many other languages in the world, possesses the diversified classification of the parts of speech. Some of them are simple and common for the majority of the languages on the Earth, some are quite specific and more difficult to master. Gerund most certainly belongs to the latter’s.Gerund represents a verbal form which is non-finite, or impersonal. It means that formally Gerund isn’t related to a noun or a pronoun, it doesn’t ...Continue reading
Where Appropriate To Use Past Indefinite Tense
What Tense is the most popular in the English language?When thinking we operate the variety of senses and their connections in our mind. To translate some sense of ours we use the means that must be understood and common in the human society – that of the language spoken. This latter making a constantly developing and flexible system gives us a vast choice of the tools to express our sense correctly. One of such powerful tools is the grammar and its categories. The sense of ...Continue reading