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‘A’ is used when referring to someone or something for the first time in a text or conversation. ‘An’ is the form of the indefinite article used before words beginning with a vowel sound. ‘The’ is used to refer to one or more people or things already mentioned or assumed to be common knowledge. 1 […]
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Empathy is the ability to mutually experience the thoughts, emotions, and direct experience of others. It goes beyond sympathy, which is a feeling of care and understanding for the suffering of others. Both words have similar usage but differ in their emotional meaning. Comparison chart Empathy Sympathy Definition Understanding what others are feeling because you
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Skill Focus: How to keep up with your English during the Holidays During the holidays, so many students play around and totally forget how to speak good English, they resume back to school and end up struggling with English language. The English language is permanently evolving and developing constantly as new words are created or adopted from other
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Active and Passive Verbs Verbs have two voices: an active voice and a passive voice. Voice as the form of a verb shows whether the subject of the verb does the action (the active voice) or whether the action is done to it (the passive voice). Active Verb In order to write sentences with active
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Advice and advise do not only have different meanings, but are also pronounced differently. Advise is a verb, and advice is a noun. So advice is what is given, while the act of giving advice is called advising (or to advise). Differences in usage and meaning Advice is a noun. It is a suggestion or
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These two words are pronounced the same, but they are spelled differently and have different meanings. COMPLIMENT (noun, verb) Compliment can be both a noun and a verb. A compliment is a positive comment about someone or something, for example: “You have beautiful eyes!” And the verb compliment (or the expression “pay someone a compliment”)
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MORAL (noun / adjective) As a noun, a moral is the lesson learned from a story – often used in the expression “the moral of the story.” The plural form, morals, has a different meaning. It refers to a person’s standards of determining right and wrong behaviour: The doctor refused to perform an abortion because
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Below are 18 common grammar mistakes I see routinely, not only in editorial queries and submissions, but in print: in blogs, magazines, newspapers, trade journals, and even best selling novels. If it makes you feel any better, I’ve made each of these mistakes a hundred times, and I know some of the best authors in
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If you use a noun as an adjective, it must be singular You can say, “She is ten years old.” But if you use that phrase as an adjective, it becomes, “She is a ten-year-old girl.” The ceiling is ten feet high. The room has a ten-foot ceiling. My 16-year-old sister is so brilliant. A
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The terms FEW and LITTLE can really be confusing. Few is used with countable nouns (nouns that can be counted), such as coin(s) and animal(s). Little is used with uncountable nouns (nouns that cannot be counted), such as milk, time, and money. FEW vs. A FEW “Few” means “virtually none” or “almost zero” There are
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