English Common Errors: accept – English Editing
You accept someone’s advice, opinion, or suggestion BUT you agree (= say you are willing) to do something. Compare: ‘I…
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English Common Errors : abroad – English editing
go/live/be abroad (WITHOUT to, at, in etc) The only preposition that is used before abroad is from: ‘She came back…
Open vs. close –class words – English editing.
Open class words, commonly referred as content words, are those belonging to the major part of speech like noun, verbs,…
Morphemes – English editing.
In linguistics, a morpheme is the smallest unit of word having a semantic meaning. They can’t be broken down any…
Deictic – English editing.
Deictic is a word specifying identity or temporal location from the perspective of a speaker or listener in the context…
Diphthongs – English editing.
Diphthongs are single vowel sounds that begin in one vowel position and end in another vowel or glide positions. •…
Consonant – English editing.
A consonant is a sound of speech produced when the speaker either stops or severely constricts the airflow in the…
Deictic – English editing.
Deictic is a word specifying identity or temporal location from the perspective of a speaker or listener in the context…