When you celebrate your birthday, are you the celebrant or the celebrator? For some people, the words may seem synonymous and interchangeable, while some may not have even heard the word celebrator. Most people use the phrase “birthday celebrant” to refer to people who celebrate their birthday. Now, is this correct or is this only... Continue Reading →
In the business world, sending letters (either in the form of a traditional mail or e-mail) is one of the many ways of communicating professionally. Either from one company to another or within the company itself, there are hundreds of e-mails being sent daily. However, unlike the messages you send to your friends and families... Continue Reading →
The worst time when you are working on any project, essay or writing is when you face writer’s block. Such condition is caused due to decrease in concentration or vice versa. Usually the concentration is lost due the anxiety or diversion of thoughts to any other important work. Lack of knowledge is also one of... Continue Reading →
It's been a long time since I posted an informative article on my blog, so I decided to come up with one. Just recently, I was asked to write about e-mail writing rules that are usually taken for granted, and I realized that those were, indeed, great pieces of information I ought to share with... Continue Reading →
Leaning vocabulary can be very tricky, especially for words that have related meaning, the same or almost the same pronunciation, or the same roots. Based from my experience from teaching vocabulary as an ESL instructor, it is almost always difficult for a student to remember the differences of related words. They often interchange them (he... Continue Reading →
The words I read froze my heart, the roof caved in, the walls got closer, I was shrinking, yet getting older the way I feel, I wish you knew, but the words wont leave so now I'm screwed. I swear I try, I try so hard, pieces don't fit, I cry so hard I need... Continue Reading →
Back when I was in the ESL career, I taught technical and creative writing to some of the advance students we had. One of the basic topics I covered is the sentence structure (or types of sentences). I usually give at least a week to discuss all the elements of a sentence with my students—that... Continue Reading →
Summary Robert Frost’s essay “The Figure a Poem Makes” talks about his own perception of how poem should be and how people should view poem. He mentions that all poems should be distinct from one another and should have wisdom that the readers can benefit from, not only to entertain them. The poem should also... Continue Reading →
Composing a sentence does not seem to be a hard task. Well, that may be in spoken language. Errors in sentence construction are hardly noticeable in a spoken conversation since we do not see the punctuation, capitalization, pattern, spelling, etc. But in writing, it is a totally different story. In writing, we see more than... Continue Reading →
Q. When referring to a zombie, should I use the relative pronoun who (which would refer to a person) or that (since, technically, the zombie is no longer living)? Essentially, does a zombie cease to become a “person” in the grammatical sense? A. Let’s assume this is a serious question, in which case you, as the writer,... Continue Reading →
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