GRAMMAR INCORRECT TO CORRECT:
Incorrect: A new restaurant is in Cannaught Place, Delhi.
Correct: There's a new restaurant in Cannaught Place, Delhi.
GRAMMAR: We use there ...when we talk about something for the first time, to say that exists.
WORD OF THE DAY:
polemic
noun
1) a work that intends to stir up controversy.
2) a controversy (especially over a belief or dogma)
3) of or involving dispute or controversy
Ex: The worst offense that can be committed by a polemic is to stigmatize those who hold a contrary opinion as bad and immoral men.
polemical [adjective], polemically [adverb]
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Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Monday, November 19, 2007
connoisseur, relative clause, your, possessive determiner, determiner
WORD OF THE DAY:
connoisseur - con·nois·seur
–noun
a person who is especially competent to pass critical judgments in an art, particularly one of the fine arts, or in matters of taste: a connoisseur of modern art.
a discerning judge of the best in any field: a connoisseur of horses.
He admires as a lover, not as a connoisseur.
GRAMMAR INCORRECT TO CORRECT:
Incorrect: Thank you for all your help that you have given me with my studies.
Correct: Thank you for all the help that you have given me with my studies.
GRAMMAR: We often use a relative clause to define a previous noun: Have you seen the car (that)she drives.
In such cases, the previous noun cannot be used with a possessive determiner (e.g your). A possessive determiner defines a noun and we cannot define a noun which has already been defined.
Their house that they live in has five bedrooms. [incorrect]
The house that they live in has five bedrooms. [correct]
Determiner: A word that is frequently used at the beginning of a noun phrase.
Demonstrative [this, that, these, those]
Adjective [some,any, each, every]
Possessive [my, your, our, his, her, its, their]
Article [a, an, the]
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connoisseur - con·nois·seur
–noun
a person who is especially competent to pass critical judgments in an art, particularly one of the fine arts, or in matters of taste: a connoisseur of modern art.
a discerning judge of the best in any field: a connoisseur of horses.
He admires as a lover, not as a connoisseur.
GRAMMAR INCORRECT TO CORRECT:
Incorrect: Thank you for all your help that you have given me with my studies.
Correct: Thank you for all the help that you have given me with my studies.
GRAMMAR: We often use a relative clause to define a previous noun: Have you seen the car (that)she drives.
In such cases, the previous noun cannot be used with a possessive determiner (e.g your). A possessive determiner defines a noun and we cannot define a noun which has already been defined.
Their house that they live in has five bedrooms. [incorrect]
The house that they live in has five bedrooms. [correct]
Determiner: A word that is frequently used at the beginning of a noun phrase.
Demonstrative [this, that, these, those]
Adjective [some,any, each, every]
Possessive [my, your, our, his, her, its, their]
Article [a, an, the]
"English Word & Grammar" is an initiative taken by me to enrich our English in the word and in the grammar front.
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