Mastering English With Ease

WHAT ARE AUXILIARY VERBS?           Auxiliary verbs are helping verbs.   They are used quite often, to help the main or action verbs in sentences, in both written and spoken English.     You, our reader, reading this article, have used several auxiliary verbs today.              Auxiliary Verbs (also called Helping Verbs) are used together with a main verb to show the verb’s tense or to make a positive, negative or question form of a sentence. The most common auxiliary verbs, according to experts, are have, be , and do .   But there are many others. Furthermore, an auxiliary verb adds functional or grammatical meaning to the clauses in which they appear. They perform their functions in several and different ways.   While a main verb indicates the kind of action or condition taking place, an auxiliary verb accompanies the main verb and conveys other nu...

HOW TO WRITE EFFECTIVELY           In our contemporary world which is very dynamic and globally-knitted, the need to write some information always arises. The composition could be an article for newspaper, an essay, a situation report, a letter or memo, a feedback, a clarification note, an answer to a test question or any other thing.           Whatever may be the form of write-up or composition, some guidelines need to be borne in mind and applied so that our work will always be appreciable. GUIDELINES ON HOW TO WRITE EFFECTIVELY: 1.            Plan Out Your Points: Before you start to write, you should list out the main points which you want to marshal out in your write-up, so that you do not forget or leave out any important one. Then develop the points logically one after the other. 2.       ...

USE OF THE TITLES: MS, MRS. & MISS    Ms. or Ms           The abbreviation Ms or Ms. (as a title) has evoked different opinions and arguments among people in different circles.   Some people say that Ms is a title for a divorced woman; some feel that it is a title for a woman who has children but not married; another group feel that it is used only with an ex husband’s name and others opine that it is a title used only with a woman’s maiden name.   Surprisingly, however, none of the above four opinions on the usage of Ms.is correct. Origin of Ms. or Ms: The idea of using Ms. or Ms as a stop-gap between Miss and Mrs. was conceived by some women back in 1901, but it was in 1961 that one Sheila Michaels, a civil rights worker in New York City, brought the title to the limelight (as a feminist who wanted women to be addressed with a title free of marital status, just as the title Mr. is to men).   Fo...