English Word&Grammar(croon/ favourite/ stay the course)
Daily Word and Grammar
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"English Word and Grammar" is an initiative taken by me to enrich our
English in the word and in the grammar front.
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WORD OF THE DAY:
croon : sing softly
All these days if you have kept crooning inside your bathroom, it's
time you opened those doors and let the world hear you.
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WRONG TO CORRECT:
WRONG: My most favourite subject is Mathematics.
CORRECT: My favourite subject is Mathematics.
GRAMMAR: Some adjectives (here: favourite) are not used normally used
either with er/ est or more/ most because they have a comparative/
superlative meaning already.
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IDIOM/ Phrases
stay the course - the sentence President Bush often repeats about the
situation in Iraq
Giving up smoking is not going to be easy. I must stay the course.
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PROFILE:
Rishikesh Sinha
Journalist
New Delhi
present mail id : rishida...@gmail.com
author's blog : pxylem.blogspot.com
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