Figures of Speech

If you can differentiate the emotional intensity associated with the following expressions – “I can only imagine how hard this is for you” and “I completely understand what you’re going through”, then you may not find it hard to distinguish between sympathy and empathy. Sympathy is just a sorry feeling …

The English language can often be pretty confusing even for the most accomplished of its exponents. This is because English is perhaps the only language, that has been in constant evolution with constantly added new words, phrases and their usage, that have been added through centuries not only enriching it …

Are you trying to rewind the grammar lessons on Adverbs? Well, we will help you out in that. By definition, adverb is a part of speech that modifies a verb, another adverb, an adjective, a phrase or a clause. When you say, “He drove the car slowly”, you are actually …

Beautiful, pretty, bold, fierce, majestic, many, few, small, blue, much, green, tall, cute, red, smart, two, any-and the list just goes on. These words might look random but they are all describing words, aka adjectives. Adjectives cannot stand on their own as they are supposed to describe nouns or pronoun …

“Whom” or “who”, which is to be used? Isn’t it ironical these interrogative pronouns, used to ask questions, raise questions by themselves? You might have come across several such situations wherein selecting the proper pronoun had caused utter confusion. “Who do you love” or “Whom do you love” – which …

The first concept of English grammar that you learn in school is the four letter word, “noun”. Anything that’s a name of a person, place, thing or animal falls under the category of nouns. Well, as you grow up, the concepts remain the same but you encounter them with much …

‘Catherine ran the street the road’. Yes, that is a sentence of course, but rather a meaningless one. In order to make it sound clear, you need to identify the missing elements. It’s the prepositions that are missing from the sentence. You might have come across them frequently for sure. …

When you build a house, you should ensure that the base is firm and the foundation is properly cemented. Similar is the case while dealing with the parts of speech. You have to get the concepts of grammar right in order to build your sentences without errors. The words have …

Consider these sentences for instance. ‘He went into the stable to feed the horses.’ ‘The incident happened few months ago, he got over it now.’ You would wonder why the words ‘into’ and ‘over’ are underlined. Well, they are referred to as prepositions, which are important parts of speech, without …

Helping verbs, otherwise known as auxiliary verbs, are those whose importance can be underestimated easily. As the word itself signifies, they provide help to the sentence by appearing before the action verbs and linking verbs. You need not get all worked-up with the thought that you won’t be able to …