Another exercise on Prepositions today. Correct the following statements for the prepositions used in them: * He ran till the end of the road. * The little mouse sprang on the table. * She slept upto six o’clock. * Don’t grieve at the loss of five hundred bucks. * The fan is right on my […]
Use of Past Tense-2
Let us today work on something we learnt a few days ago: the rule which says that you can’t have two past forms in a single statement; that is, if you have the helping verb ( do) before the main verb ( fly, eat, give…) then the helping verb takes the past form ( did […]
Word of the week-4
Happy, joyful, cheerful, blissful and glad are commonly used words to represent a carefree and joyous state of mind. Here are two more words you can add to this bouquet: Blithe (bli-th) and Mirth (m-rth) which mean the same. Everyone loves her for her blithe spirit. The whole staff is mirthful on getting early bonus.
‘o’ or ‘a’
Adapt and Adopt are two words which are usually used incorrectly because of spelling errors. But the two mean so different that they completely change the meaning of the statements they are used in, making them completely weird and absurd. Take for example: The couple recently adapted a girl from an orphanage. Here the use […]
Able vs Capable
Able and Capable are two words which are mostly used in the same capacity to mean exactly the same. However the two are different in terms of the context they are used in. One is Able when one has strength or power in general. One is Capable when one has strength or power to do […]