Sadruddin Ahmed More about words often confused to cry to sob to wail to whimper to weep To cry is the most general word for producing tears when you are unhappy or hurt. The baby is crying because it is hungry. We cry when we are in pain.[...]
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June 6th, 2011 - 11:21 pm § in Vocabulary
Building Vocabulary: 25
More about Words Confused look glance gaze stare glimpse glare These are all words used as nouns for an act of looking when you turn your eyes in a particular direction look: an act of looking at somebody or something: Have a look at the flowers[...]
May 1st, 2011 - 12:01 am § in Vocabulary
Vocabulary: 24
Sadruddin Ahmed Lesson 24 More about Words Confused job/post/position/ vacancy/placement/appointment/opening These are all words for a particular position doing work for which you receive regular payment.[...]
February 1st, 2011 - 12:01 am § in Vocabulary
Building Vocabulary – 21
Lesson 21 Words often Confused Travel, journey, trip and voyage: These words are often confused. They do not mean the same. Students should understand that the noun travel is uncountable and means the activity of traveling:[...]
December 1st, 2010 - 12:01 am § in Vocabulary
Building Vocabulary – 19
Sadruddin Ahmed Lesson 19 Transitive Phrasal Verbs We explained and illustrated the use of some intransitive phrasal verbs in the last lesson. In this lesson we deal with some important transitive phrasal verbs: beat up (hurt someone badly): The public caught a mugger and beat him up. blot out (prev[...]
November 1st, 2010 - 12:01 am § in Vocabulary
Building Vocabulary – 18
Sadruddin Ahmed Lesson 18 Phrasal Verbs Phrasal verbs consist of two or three words. They consist of • a verb followed by an adverb: The car broke down. The rainy season has set in.[...]
May 1st, 2010 - 12:01 am § in Vocabulary
Dare to Make Mistakes and Fight the Flaws
Kazi Shahid Shawkat It is really hope-inspiring that with the increased demand of English as a language of communication both in academic and employment environment in our country, the percentage of people using this language efficiently is also rising dramatically. It is no more surprising as well [...]
April 1st, 2010 - 12:00 am § in Vocabulary
Building Vocabulary
Sadruddin Ahmed Lesson 14 More about Transitive Verbs In lesson 13 we explained and illustrated the use of transitive verbs. Since most verbs in English are transitive, we have classified these verbs into a number of groups. In this lesson we illustrate transitive verbs which require adjuncts after [...]
January 1st, 2010 - 12:01 am § in Vocabulary
Building Vocabulary: 11
Sadruddin Ahmed Lesson 11 Still More about Adjectives Here is a list of adjectives which are usually or always used predicatively and which can be followed by the prepositions indicated: answerable to dependant on incumbent on parallel to[...]
December 5th, 2009 - 5:45 am § in Vocabulary
Building Vocabulary – 10
Sadruddin Ahmed More about Adjectives Here is a list of adjectives which are usually or always used predicatively (after the linking verbs) and are followed by the preposition ‘to’: Accustomed close prone resistant adjacent conducive proportional similar[...]