A good guide to grammar is here
A good place to learn grammar is Grammar Monster. They have simple and easy to follow videos on things like parts of speech and going further.
Category: english
Glib is a way of writing
Glib is fluent. Glib is hip. It is superficial. It is shallow. It is insincere. But it is fluent and hip. The words just roll off the tongue. They can roll off a writer’s manscript as well. The writer is not necessarily insincere as a person, but is writing about a subject in a glib… Read More Glib is a way of writing
Refraining from using words where it fits
There is another level in learning the meanings of words in that one decides if one will ever use the word at all and give a reason why. This can be so with descriptive words in that they describe people, characters, and things. Are there better or more meaningful ways to describe something or someone… Read More Refraining from using words where it fits
Looking up that difficult word is a pain to do but one just must
How was I going to remember this word I wondered. It had such a complex meaning with a another word I did not know and needed further definition. So, I perservered. Yes, I perservered. I looked that other difficult word up. To my amazement I found the meaning of that other difficult word expanded on… Read More Looking up that difficult word is a pain to do but one just must
Aiding memory through repetition
As I was reading, I came across some same words I had put on my list of words to get to know better. I found I was rejoging my memory on their meanings, definitions, etc. as their meanings had fallen from my memory. I hope by refreshing this way the words will stick more in… Read More Aiding memory through repetition
Just words?
As they talked, just words? Stranger, flesh, soule, betwixt, thy, borne, uncircumcised, hee, hath
Alias
I like the word alias, I don’t have a so strong impression of the word that I love it, although there is the saying, “I love it!”. Alias is an identity other than your own so you can feast your imaginations on what characters one can play or identity with. The real self remains.
Two similair sounding words, but is there a connection?
Why does the word enumeration sound like money? Probably because enumeration sounds like renumeration. Is there is a real connection?
The word with those connotations: ‘sly’
The Word for Today is ‘sly’.
Remaining: ‘extant’ is the word of the day
Remaining, still there, still present, surviving this is the meaning of “extant” an adjective describing that something still exists. The extant manuscript: it’s a favourite word in literary things.
Understanding the word ‘crimson’
Crimson is a rich sounding word. It means rich, as in a “rich, deep red” inclining to purple (but not exactly purple). I asked myself, how would you use this word? When would you use this word? Crimson is an adjective so describes something. The word sounds so rich it could be used to describe… Read More Understanding the word ‘crimson’
This one is spelt with a ‘h’
There are some words one knows but doesn’t really. I know what whisked means instinctively, but would I know how to articulate what it means? If this is a question I ask, I add the word to my notebook of words I got to learn.
Reviewing the list of words in the notebook
One of the things I have been recommended to do is to keep a notebook of words. So, I have, as this helps me learn novel words. I write down the word with a memory jogger as to its definition. But I got to review these words every so often as some will slip through… Read More Reviewing the list of words in the notebook
‘Erupted’; ‘break out’
John had been lazy for hours but was brisk on the exercycle. John broke out on the stationary bicycle. John went “crazy” on the pedals. John erupted. Today’s word is erupted. It can mean ‘break out’.
It stood proud: the obelisk
To not confuse “obelisk” with “Obelix”, the word “obelisk” is a stone pillar of some sort. Obelix is a character. This kind of stone pillar narrows towards the end or gets narrower towards the end. It is tapering towards the end. Tapering simply means to get narrower.
Storyteller's Eclectic Flying Machine 