College friends are like high school friends. Both will let us borrow their pens if he or she doesn’t have one. They will let us copy their assignments if we were too lazy to do ours. They will invite fellow friends to the mall after class. They will always serve as a bad influence and a good one at the same time. College friends, like high school friends, will always be there for us as our second family.
Jerrico Tapang
Gerard Clata
Letters form words, and words form phrases/clauses/sentences. Sentences form paragraphs, and paragraphs result to any kind of writing. First, it’s just a misused letter that could result to a misspelled word, later, your whole writing is already stained, then your grade would rely on what you did. Now, you’re bothered if you’ll fail or not. Imagine, it was just a letter.
College relationship is defined as the kind of interaction a person has in his or her college life. It is often developed by certain school activities, group works, researches wherein a person gets to mingle with his or her colleagues. It builds a set of beliefs and perspectives that one can use in his or her life. This kind of relationship exhibits the start of having s deep and serious interaction between the people involved. Indeed, it is not merely knowledge that we gain from college: college relationship proves it.
Angelique Magdalene Bautista
Nikki Rose Sampang
In this course, we are required to write an effective paragraph. For a paragraph to be effective, we must know the characteristics of a well-organized paragraph. Our professor in English taught us things we should remember in writing an effective paragraph. Unity, coherence, order and emphasis are needed to formulate a well-organized paragraph. I hope we can write a good paragraph in this course.
A friend in Facebook posted the word malaise in her wall post. She mentioned that it is often sensed as “just not right”. I looked up its meaning, and I found out that malaise is an indefinite feeling of debility or lack of health often accompanying the onset of an illness. A medical term is now added to my vocabulary.
As I read “Chapter IV: Misused Words and Expressions” of The Elements of Style, I encountered the word folk, which I always hear on the radio. According to the book, folk is a collective noun that is equivalent to people. Folks, in the sense of “parents”, “family”,”those present”, is colloquial and too folksy for formal writing.
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends with "mt". Reading trivial posts about English can give you more knowledge about English. You can discover many things that you don’t know. Try browsing the internet and look for some trivias. I assure you that it’s fun.
In listening to a song, one must observe the English usage of the piece to know if it’s grammatical. For example, I never felt nothing in the world like this before--a line from the song "Wait for you" by Elliot Yamin--uses double negative. See? Listen carefully to other songs and think if you'll still listen to errorific songs.
Did you know that salvage means “rescue”? Yes, it is. According to Wikipedia, salvage means rescue ,but it is referred as the slang word for summary execution in Philippine English. Salvage is also related to the Spanish-derived Tagalog slang “sinalbahe” that literally means “turned bad”. Isn’t it amazing? You can click this hyperlink http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_English to know more about Philippine English.
1) I can recommend any one of the books on this site.
2) Did anyone see that UFO?
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Moral lesson, repeat once again, free gifts, foreign imports, advance warning, ATM machine, etc. These words contain redundancy errors. Redundancies are errors that express repetitious meanings. These redundant expressions make writing longer, not better. Moreover, the phrases just weigh down our writing with unnecessary words. Other examples are brief summary, absolutely essential and actual facts.
The use of “I” and “me” is one of the common errors in pronoun usage. “I” is use as the subject of the sentence while “me” is use as the object of the sentence. When these pronouns are used with a noun, the noun should go first followed by the correct form of the pronoun, as if it stands alone.
Because of my confusion, I looked up the proper usage of”may” and "can". Both have different meanings. "Can" refers to ability when used as a verb while "may” has to do with permission and possibility. Now, when someone asks if he can talk to you and you don’t want to you can say he can but he may not.
While I was reading Al Neuharth’s book, Confession of an S.O.B., an unfamiliar word caught my attention. It was troika. I looked up its meaning at the dictionary and found out that it means a group of three people working together. Reading books really adds up to our vocabulary. Try it too. I don’t read books before, but now I do.
Etymology(the study of words),along with English, makes language fascinating.
Take the words "left " and "right”. People can conclude that one is derogatory than the other. The word 'left' in many languages is associated with evil or the devil. However, the Greek "dexter" gives us the word "dextrous" (skilful) means "on the right". ‘Left' (from Old English lyft) means 'weak, worthless’. Among the Nyoro in Africa, for example, 'left' means 'hated', and in Japan it means 'crazy'.
Common words which we people speak nowadays also regard left a defamatory concept than its counterpart. Did you ever hear the words lefteous, or even upleft in conversations, perhaps?
