When one is hungry, one indulges oneself in eating a lot and eating quickly. This is a situation where one cloys, gluts, gobbles and gorges. Cloy means to glut. Glut means to gorge. Gorge means to gobble. Gobble means to eat quickly and greedily. So, all the words fall into same category to refer to […]
Few vs a few
Few, a few, little and a little are used as adjectives to quantify a noun. It seems and most people use few/a few as same words with no difference in meaning; the same goes for little/a little too. However addition of ‘a’ makes a difference. Few and a few are used before countable plural nouns. […]
Verbs and more-2
Another set of phrases today having combination of single verb with different prepositions. Call at means to call at some place I called at my friend’s place to confirm the news of board result. Call for means require or demand The labour is calling for a strike tomorrow. The situation calls for an emergency action. […]
Common errors
Let us today work on those statements which are very commonly used and one hardly feels there is anything wrong in them. * He did all the sums wrongly. * I speak truth always. * Firstly one needs to be sincere if one wishes to achieve success. * I have been going to school daily […]
Using The- 3
Today we will take a look at the last set of rules explaining use of ‘the’. ‘The’ is used before: * certain proper names of seas, rivers, mountain ranges, island groups, deserts and countries. the Himalayas, the Yamuna, the Sahara desert, the Netherlands * names consisting of noun + of + noun the Bay of […]