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Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Sleepless Nights

Dialogue (conversation) between a doctor and a patient.

The patient has a problem of sleepless nights.

Patient: Good morning, Doctor!

Doctor: Good morning, what is your Problem?

Patient: Doctor, I have a problem of not getting proper sleep at night?

Doctor: I’ll give you a medicine. You’ll become alright.

Patient: Thank You Doctor. How often should I take the medicine?

Doctor: Just take a pill about 30 minutes before going to bed.

Patient: For how long?

Doctor: For thirty days. Come back if you do not get a proper sleep.

Patient: Is there anything else?

Doctor: Don't worry so much about things at work.

Patient: Thank you.

Doctor: You are always welcome.


Wednesday, February 18, 2015

An Ode to the Spell Checker

Eye have a spelling checker
It came with my pea sea
It clearly marks four my revue
Miss Steaks eye kin knot sea
Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong awe write
It shows me strait a way
As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
It’s rare lea ever wrong
Eye have run this poem threw it
Eye am shore your pleased two no
It’s letter perfect awl the weigh

My checker tolled me sew!

Sunday, March 10, 2013

Narrate a story


I saw this marvelous drawing in a marriage hall in Devakottai, a Chettinadu town in Sivaganga district of Tamilnadu, India.

Speaking in English is important as a workout (as an exercise). Look at this art and speak anything. Enter your comments here. You may comment anything. Guide others to have a practice so as to achieve speaking fluent English.

Thursday, March 7, 2013

Fault Finding


Find Fault to learn English 

Exercise yourself by correcting the “Bakery English” in the image.

 This is an edited image from a cake box of a bakery in Madurai, Tamilnadu, India.

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Remainder Vs Reminder


A learner usually gets confused between the two words, ‘remainder’ and ‘reminder’.

Remainder is related to remaining and reminder is related to mind.

Remainder:

Remainder is something leftover.

For example if number 43 is divided by 4 we get 10 as quotient and 3 as remainder.
      
                     4) 43 (10
                      ______
                          3
                      ______
“Stella drank the remainder of her tea and left the restaurant.”

  • The remainder means the things that are left when everything else has gone.

  • The remainder means the people who are left when everyone else has gone.

  • The remainder means the things that are left when everything else has been dealt with.

  • The remainder means the people who are left when everyone else has been dealt with.

Reminder:

  • Reminder is something that makes someone to remember something.

  • Reminder is a message sent to remind someone to complete a job assigned within stipulated time.

  • Also, reminder is something that makes someone to remember something else.

“This old bicycle is the reminder of my father, who maintained it properly for about seventy years and used to ride it everywhere for business.”


Reminder is a message sent to remind someone to do something.

“James sent a reminder to Joseph to complete his pending job.”

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Formal names and short forms

Some formal names and their diminutive or short forms (informal names)

Andrew        -    Andy
Alan             -    Al
Alexander     -    Al  
Alexander     -    Alec
Alexander     -    Alex
Alexander     -    Sandy
Alfred          -      Al 
Alfred         -      Fred
Benjamin     -     Ben  
Benjamin     -     Benny
Caroline     -      Carol
Catherine    -    Cath
Catherine    -    Cathy
Christopher -   Chris
David         -     Dave
David        -      Davy
Daniel       -      Dan
Daniel       -      Danny
Diana        -      Di
Edward     -      Ed
Edward     -      Eddy
Elizabeth    -     Eliza
Elizabeth    -     Liz
Elizabeth    -    Beth
Frederick    -    Fred
Frederick    -    Freddy
Geoffrey    -    Geoff
Harold      -     Harry
James      -      Jim
James       -     Jimmy
Jennifer     -    Jenny
Jennifer     -    Jennie
Kenneth     -    Ken
Kenneth     -    Kenny
Michael      -    Mike
Michael      -    Mick
Michael      -    Mickey
Nicholas     -    Nick
Nicholas     -    Nicky
Pamela       -    Pam
Patricia      -     Pat
Patrick      -     Pat
Peter        -     Pete
Richard    -     Dick
Richard    -    Ricky
Robert      -     Bob
Robert     -      Bert
Samantha    -   Sam
Samuel      -    Sam
Susan      -       Sue
Susan      -      Susie
Terrence    -    Terry
Timothy    -    Tim
Victoria     -    Vicky
Victor       -    Vic
William    -     Bill

Difference between protect and prevent


Protect means to keep someone or something safe from bad things.
It means to take care of.
It means to guard from harm.

Prevent means to stop something from happening.
It also means to keep from happening or continuing.

You should wear sunglasses to protect your eyes from sunlight. 
Wearing sunglasses can help prevent eye problems.

I want a sunscreen that protects me from getting darker.
I want to use sunscreen to prevent direct sunrays falling on me.  

It is very difficult to prevent earthquake from happening.
Take safety measures to protect you from earthquakes.

Literary Criticism

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