COMMON ERRORS IN EVERYDAY LIFE: KEY EXPRESSIONS - IV

 

COMMON ERRORS IN EVERYDAY LIFE: KEY EXPRESSIONS - IV

Dear readers, in the previous post, we discussed the usages of common errors in terms of key expressions- Across, Over, Through that we encounter in our daily conversations. In this post, let us explore more about some key expressions, In Front Of, Opposite, Face i.e., used in daily conversation. Some of the important errors that tend to occur naturally in our conversation are briefed below:

Look at the following statements:

In Front of

1.   In front of is used to talk about something that is just ahead of something else.

i.             The Hotel Amudhas is located just in front of our college.

ii.          The State Bank of India is situated in front of LMW bus stop.

2.   In front of also means in the presence of someone.

i.            Our friends celebrated Pongal in front of the monks of our college.

ii.           Children are dancing in front of their teachers.

Opposite

1.   The word ‘opposite’ not only means something that is contrary, but it also denotes physical spacing of objects when one faces the other.

Note: Don’t use ‘to’ or ‘of’ with opposite.

i.            My thoughts are opposite my team. (Don’t say … opposite to my team)

ii.           Someone has parked the bike opposite my gate.  (Don’t say … opposite to my gate.)

2.   Opposite can be used to denote the physical arrangement of structures or objects before or in front of things.

i.            The boys living in the opposite house watch IPL cricket matches at night.

ii.           The church is opposite the government hospital.

3.   The word face is used to say that a building has something in front of it.

i.            The school facing the market is very old.

ii.           The garden facing our building is pleasant.

 

With this understanding, hereafter let us follow the key expressions, in front of, opposite, and facing appropriately in our daily conversations to sound fluent in English. In the next post, let’s discuss some important key expressions.

 

Author:

Dr. K. Nandhakumar

Assistant Professor of English

Sri Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya College of Arts and Science (Autonomous)

Coimbatore- 641 020

 

Reference:

Saumya Sharma. (2017). Common Errors in Everyday English

 

 

ENGLISH PRONOUNS

 

ENGLISH PRONOUNS

 

Pronoun is one of the nine parts of speech in the English Language. Pronoun is a word that substitutes for a noun or noun phrase. A pronoun is used instead of a noun or noun phrase in a sentence. A pronoun may take place of the name of a person, place or thing.

 

 

	Subject Pronouns	Object Pronouns	Possessive Adjectives	Possessive Pronouns	Reflective Pronouns
1st Person	I	Me	My	Mine	Myself
2nd Person	You	You	Your	Yours	Yourself
3rd Person (Male)	He	Him	His	His	Himself
3rd Person (Female)	She	Her	Her	Hers	Herself
3rd thing	It	It	Its	Not used	Itself
1st Person (Plural)	We	Us	Our	Ours	Ourselves
2nd Person (Plural)	You	You	Your	Yours	Yourselves
3rd Person and thing (Plural)	They	Them	Their	Theirs	Themselves

 

 

AUTHOR

 

Dr L Suresh

Assistant Professor of English

Sri Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya College of Arts and Science

Coimbatore - 641020

Contact: 9944138137

e-mail ID: sureshenglit@rmv.ac.in

Slang of the Week

 

     Slang of the Week

1. 📒 If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys

📖Meaning

An employer who pays low wages will have bad staff.

2. 📒 Neither a borrower nor a lender be. 

📖Meaning

Do not borrow things. Do not lend things.

3. 📒 Brevity is the soul of wit

📖Meaning

The real art of speaking (especially when speaking humorously) is to use as few words as possible.

4. 📒 He who hesitates is lost

📖Meaning

The person who waits too long loses the opportunity; or, more seriously, delay or indecision may have disastrous results.

5. 📒 If a job's worth doing it's worth doing well

📖Meaning

Don't start some work and then do it badly.

Blogger:

N.Shanmugan
Assistant Professor of English
Sri Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya College of Arts and Science
Coimbatore - 641 020. 

English Phrases

  

English Phrases with Meanings

          1.     Barking up the wrong tree

-         Means pursuing the wrong course of action or making the wrong assumptions about something     

         2.   Being caught between a rock and a hard place

-         Means being in a difficult or impossible situation with no easy solution

        3.  In hot water

-         Means to be in trouble or facing a difficult situation

        4.   Throw in the towel

-         Means to give up or surrender

        5.   A dime a dozen

-         Means something is very common or easy to find

        6.  Beat around the bush

-         Means to avoid addressing a topic directly or speaking indirectly

        7.  By the skin of your teeth

-         Means to barely succeed or narrowly avoid failure

        8.  Kill two birds with one stone

-         Means to accomplish two things at once   

        9.   Under the weather

-         Means to be ill or feeling unwell

         10.  You can’t have your cake and eat it too

-         Which means you can’t have everything you want, especially if it contradicts itself

Author: 

Dr M. Selvam

Assistant Professor of English

Sri Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya College of Arts and Science

Coimbatore – 641 020