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31/12/2025

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05/01/2025

Each and Every: the difference
1-Each and Every are both normally used with singular nouns. Each can be used to talk about two or more people or things ; every is normally used to talk about three or more.
Examples: The business makes less money each/ every year.
She had a child holding on to each hand.
2-Meaning
Each and every can be used without much difference of meaning.
Example: You look more beautiful each/ every time I see you.
But we prefer each when we are thinking of people or things separately, one at a time. And every is more common when we are thinking a people or things together, in a group.
Examples: Each person in turn went to see the doctor.
Every patient came from the same small village.
3-Structures
We do not use each with words and expressions like almost ,practically, nearly or without exceptions ,which stress the idea of a whole group.
Example:
She has lost nearly every friend she had.

Correct Use of 'in case'and ' if'1-precautions'In case' is mostly used to talk about precautions things which we do in o...
04/01/2025

Correct Use of 'in case'and ' if'
1-precautions
'In case' is mostly used to talk about precautions things which we do in order to be ready for possible situations.
Examples: I always take an umbrella in case it rains
I have bought a chicken in case your mother is taste to lunch. (To talk about the future, we use a present tense after' in case'.
2-'in case---happen to'
We use the expression 'happened to' after in case to emphasize the meaning of ' by chance'.
Examples: I have bought a chicken in case your mother happens to still to lunch.
We took our swimming things in case we happened to find a pool.
3-'in case'and 'if'
In British English 'in case' and ' if' are normally used in quite different ways.
Do 'A' in case 'B'happens means do 'A'first because 'B' might happen later.
Do 'A' if 'B' happens means do 'A' if 'B' has already happened.
Examples: Let us buy a bottle of wine in case friends come.(Let us buy some wine now because friends might come later.)
Let us buy a bottle of wine ,if friends come.(We'll way and see. If friends come , then we shall by the wine. If they don't we won't.)
4- 'in caes of '
The propositional phrase 'in case of' has a wider meaning tha n the conjunction 'in case' and can be used in similar situations to 'if '
in both American English and British English.
Examples: In case of fire, break glass.(If there is a fire ,break glass.)

03/01/2025

Correct Use of 'Begin' and 'Start'
1-begin and start can both be used with the same meaning.
Examples: I began /started teaching when I was 21.
If Mohan doesn't come in time ,let us begin start without him.
2-Begin is preferred in a more formal style.
Examples: We will begin the meeting with a message from the President.
Damn! It is starting to rain.
3-Cases where begin is not possible.
Start (but not begin)is used to mean:
A-start journey
Example: I think we ought to start at 6, while the roads are empty.
B-start working (for a machine)
Example: The car won't to start.
C-make something start
Example: How do you start a washing? machine.

27/12/2024

Use of 'IN THE END', and 'AT THE END'.
In the End:
1-In the End suggests that something happens after changes or uncertainty
Example: We made a different plans for the weekend, but in the end we went to Delhi.
2-Another use of 'In the End' is to mean after we have considered everything.
Example: In the end you can't get fit without exercise.
At the End:
It simply refers to the position of something. There is no sense of waiting or delay.
Example: A declarative sentence has a full stop at the end.
I wish I was paid at the beginning of the week and not at the end.

Use of 'last ', and 'the last' 'Last weak' is a point of time, while 'the last' weak' is a period of time.'Last weak /mo...
25/12/2024

Use of 'last ', and 'the last'
'Last weak' is a point of time, while 'the last' weak' is a period of time.
'Last weak /month etc.(without the) means the previous weak/month etc. just before the one we are talking about.
'The last weak/month etc.means a period of seven/thirty days upto the moment we are speaking.
Examples: 1: I have not seen him since last month.
2: I have not seen him for the last month.

20/11/2024

Use of : Had Better
1-to give strong advice
2-to refer to the immediate future, more urgent than should or ought to.
It is not used in polite requests.

That the gentlemen,who never took care to open their mouths against the injustice done to the interests of the common ma...
06/07/2022

That the gentlemen,who never took care to open their mouths against the injustice done to the interests of the common man by the policies,laws of the goverment,or by a few verdicts of the judiciary, suddenly have come out with scathing attacks on the Apex Court of the country reminding it its constitutional boundaries, smells a well planned design to contain the judiciary for the endorsement of each and every activity of those who,any how, belong to the ruling dispensation,or who echo the intention of the party in power.This is an endorsement of what the CJI lamented a few days ago regarding the pressure tactics of the ruling party and the independence of Indian Judiciary.
Nothing is hidden about the anti-public mentality of Indian bureaucracy and their too servile tendency with those who are in power.They are the worst in the rot ,hence have no moral right to raise their fingers against any other government institution.
As far as the superannuated judges are concerned,they have to take care of their post--retirement interests,and there no way other than toeing the line of the ruling party.
The Apex Court, too,have failed to meet its constitutional duties as well as the prescribed expectations of the public in the case we are talking about.Our courts are not meant for moral preaching to those whom they deem perpetrators of the acts against national interests; they are to pass judgements and to see to whether its judgements are implemented or not.It would have been good ,if the Apex court had passed an order in the form a verdict against the person who had pushed the country into the fire of communal riots.Now-a days the Apex Court has remained the only hope of justice for the layman.

24/06/2022

Voice
Active Voice and Passive Voice are not substitutes of each other; they are the different ways of expressing different ideas.
When the main interest of the speaker/writer is on the predicate, i.e.on the verb activity, Passive Voice must be preferred.If the case is otherwise , i.e. the main interest is on the active subject ,the use of Active Voice must be given preference.

11/04/2022

Good English is sometimes equated with correct English,but the two concepts should be differentiated.Correct English is conformity to the norms of the standard language.Good English is good use of the resources available in the language.Good English means the language that is used effectively or aesthetically,and that conveys clearly and appropriately what is intended and language that is pleasing to the listener or reader.

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