This Funny English (Heteronym)

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This Funny English (Heteronym)-Lesson 57

A heteronym is a word that is written identically but has a different pronunciation and meaning.

Here are examples of some heteronyms.

§  We must polish the Polish furniture.

§  He could lead if he would get the lead out.

§  The farm was used to produce produce.

§  The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.

§  The soldier decided to desert in the desert.

§  This was a good time to present the present.

§  A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.

§  When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.

§  I did not object to the object.

§  The insurance was invalid for the invalid.

§  The bandage was wound around the wound.

§  There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.

§  They were too close to the door to close it.

§  The buck does funny things when the does are present.

§  They sent a sewer down to stitch the tear in the sewer line.

§  To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.

§  The wind was too strong to wind the sail.

§  After a number of injections my jaw got number.

§  Upon seeing the tear in my clothes I shed a tear.

§  I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.

§  How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?

§  She could not live with a live mouse in the house.

§  It was just a minute prick and over in a minute.

§  His mistake was putting his left foot forward while putting.

§  We would probably read more Shakespeare if we understood what we read.

§  There was a bow tied in the ropes on the bow of the ship.

§  You should spring that on us next spring!

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Common Mistakes in use of English-Lesson 56

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Common Mistakes in use of English-Lesson 56

20 Troublesome Irregular Verbs

In English, many verbs adapt simply to the past tense with the attachment of either -d or -ed, as in walk/walked or brake/braked. These are called regular verbs.

Many other verbs, however, do not follow this formula & undergo more changes to transform from present-tense to the past tenses. Such words are called irregular verbs. Examples: go, went, gone or come, came. come

The simple past, the tense form that describes what has previously occurred, is fairly straightforward once one assimilates the forms for each irregular verb. But complications set in when the past participle — a verb assisted by an auxiliary verb, or a past-tense form of the verb to be — is employed.

Some past-participle forms are easily distinguished from their simple-past counterparts, as in the case of ate/eaten, for example, or saw/seen (“I ate already”/“I had eaten already”; “We saw the movie”/“We had seen the movie”). Others, however, often literally give writers pause. Many of them are presented below in sample sentences with simple-past usage for comparison:

1. “A problem arose.”
“A problem had arisen.”

2. “They beat the odds.”
“They had beaten the odds.”

3. “She bore it well.”
“She had borne it well.”

4. “He broke the record.”
“He had broken the record.”

5. “My friend drank three beers already.”
“My friend had drunk three beers already.”

6. “You forsook us.”
“You had forsaken us.”

7. “The boy hid the ball.”
“The boy had hidden the ball.”

8. “I lay on the floor for a moment.”
“I had lain on the floor for a moment.”

9. “We rode far.”
“We had ridden far.”

10. “The phone rang.”
“The phone had rung.”

11. “She rose to the occasion.”
“She had risen to the occasion.”

12. “She sang.”
“She had sung.”

13. “He shook it loose.”
“He had shaken it loose.”

14. “The shirt shrank when I dried it.”
“The shirt had shrunk when I dried it.”

15. “We strode along merrily the entire way.”
“We had stridden along merrily the entire way.”

16. “The team strove to come back from behind.”
“The team had striven to come back from behind.”

17. “I swore that I had not taken it.”
“I had sworn that I had not taken it.”

18. “They swam to the other end and back.”
“They had swum to the other end and back.”

19. “He took her back home.”
“He had taken her back home.”

20. “My sister tore the paper up.”
“My sister had torn the paper up.”

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10 reasons why you should become more positive

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10 reasons

why you should become more positive

1.    You will create a better world around you. 

Your surroundings will become affected and change due to your positive thoughts and actions.

2.    You will make better first impressions. 

Everyone stereotypes, whether they want or not. A positive first impression can mean a lot in many situations and have a lasting effect throughout your relationship with that person.

3.    You will focus on the good things in people. 

Not their faults. This will make things much better overall and improve all kinds of relationships.

4.    Its easier to become more productive 

You stop laying obstacles in the road in the form of negative thoughts.

5.    Work becomes more fun. Everything becomes more fun.

6.    You become more attractive. 

People like positive people. Positive people make other people feel good about themselves and they don’t drag the mood down. Also, a positive attitude is an indicator – and source – of high self-confidence, a quality that just about everyone is attracted to.

7.    Being negative has very little concrete advantages 

It is not a very empowering way to look at life.

8.    It opens up your mind.

You can focus on other ways of looking at things. Sometimes wonderful new ways you might not ever have thought about or experienced before.

9.    It puts the Law of Attraction to better use. 

The Law of Attraction basically says: whatever you think about you attract into your life. As you replace the negative thoughts with positive thoughts you will start to attract more positive opportunities and people into your life.

10. You’ll waste less time. 

Negativity can be like a self-feeding loop. First you think one negative thought. It leads you to three more. And then you start examining your life in deeper detail through a depressing lens. When you get into a vicious cycles like this it can eat up hours, weeks and years of your life. It can drain a lot of your energy whilst trapping you in paralysis by analysis. And you probably won’t become that much wiser in the process.

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Today’s Lesson: Common Mistakes in use of English-Lesson 54

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Common Mistakes in use of English-Lesson 54

I or Me  

"I" is a subjective pronoun and "me" is an objective pronoun:

§  "I am a teacher."

§  "She gave me the book."

But what about when you want to use two pronouns, one is the first person, either as the subject or the object in the same sentence? People often get confused between whether to use "he and I," "I and he," "he and me"... Let's say I want to communicate two ideas:

1.   "I went to the theater."
2.   "Prem went to the theatre."

1.   "She called me on Sunday."
2.   "She called Rajesh on Sunday."

But I don’t want to say these with two sentences, rather, one only:

§  "Prem and I went to the theatre."

§  "She called Rajesh and me on Sunday." (Or me and Rajesh)

So how to know whether to use "I" or "me" in these sentences? "I" is the subject and in the second sentence, "me" is used because it is the object. If not sure, you can always do a simple test. Break the sentence back down into two sentences, and if it makes sense, then that's the pronoun to use

§  Prem went to the theatre. Ok          "Me" went to the theatre. NO!

§  I went to the theater. Ok!

Or

§  She called Rajesh on Sunday. Ok      She called "I" on Sunday. NO!

§  She called me on Sunday. Ok!

This works with all pronouns.

	Subject pronouns	I	you	he	she	It	you	we	they
	Object pronouns	me	you	him	her	It	you	us	them

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