PARTS OF SPEECH (PART XII)

 

                                    PARTS OF SPEECH

                               (PART XII)

Interjection:

Interjection is a word that shows spontaneous feeling or emotion of a person.

Examples:

Let’s suppose, there is a boy who has never seen the Taj Mahal. When he finally sees it, what would be his reaction? – Wow! What a beautiful place.

If the same person goes to the island and sees it to be dirty, then what would be his reaction? – Eww! What a dirty place.

Wow! and Eww! are expressing the spontaneous feeling of a person and are called  interjections.

Hurray! I won the race.

Argh! That car doesn’t work.

Aaw! That puppy is so cute.

Oops! I left the key in the parking.

Yipee! I bought a new house.

Important points related to interjections:

Interjections are not grammatically connected to the rest of the sentence.

Examples:

Yuck! That taste awful.

(Here, Yuck! is the expression while eating bad food but Yuck! is not connected to any other part of the sentence. So, even if the word Yuck! is removed, the sentence will be grammatically correct. Interjection just fills the sentence to make it more expressive.)

Interjections end with exclamatory mark or comma.

More interjection examples:

Cheers! (used while partying)

Well, Duh! (used when knowing that you are so dump about the thing or situation)

Eek! (used to express surprise or fear)

 

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

 

English Vocabulary

                                     English Vocabulary for the Bank         

     1. Cash – Physical money in general is referred to as cash.  

     2. Counterfeit – When money is not real it is called counterfeit. 

     3. Credit card – A card that allows you to buy things and pay for them later.

     4. Stocks – These are portions of a company that people can buy.         

     5. Teller – A teller is a person who works for a bank and is responsible for interacting with customers. 

     6. Bank Manager – The person in charge of a local office of the bank (called a branch)

    7. Receptionist – A receptionist may help you with simple tasks while you wait to speak to a teller.

     8. Investment Banker – An investment banker works at a large bank that lends money to other banks. 

     9 . Bank Account – The place in the bank where your money is saved.   

    10.   Loan – Money that you borrow from the bank.

    11.   Mortgage – Money that you borrow from the bank to buy a house. 

    12.   ATM -  A machine that lets you withdraw and deposit money.

Author: 

Dr.M. Selvam

Assistant Professor of English

Sri Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya College of Arts and Science

Coimbatore – 641 020

COMMON ERRORS IN EVERYDAY LIFE: TRAVEL AND PLACES

                     

                    COMMON ERRORS IN EVERYDAY LIFE: TRAVEL AND PLACES

Dear readers, in the previous post, we discussed the common errors in terms of “Talking about Work and Learning” that we commit in our daily conversations. In this post, let us explore more about communicative errors in terms of “Travel and Places”. Some of the important errors that tend to occur naturally in our conversation are briefed below:

Look at the following statements:

1.     I am coming from Madurai.

I come from Madurai or I am from Madurai.

Use Simple Present Tense while talking about our native place or country.

2.   I go to college with my motorbike.

I go to college on my motorbike.

Use ‘on’ to mention about motorbike.

3.   Teacher arrived late in school.

Teacher arrived late at school.

“Arrive in” should be used in a town or a country but ‘at’ is used in other places like office, school, theatre etc.   

 

4.   I go to office by foot.

I go to office on foot.

We go by car, bus, train, plane etc. but we must use ‘on’ before foot.

 

5.   The climate in Coimbatore is quite sultry this month.

The weather in Coimbatore is quite sultry this month.

‘Climate’ is used to refer to typical weather conditions over large regions, that is tropical climate. For local conditions ‘weather’ should be used.

 

Reference:

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

 

 Author:

K. Nandhakumar

Assistant Professor of English

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

Coimbatore-641 020

PARTS OF SPEECH (PART XI)

 

                                 PARTS OF SPEECH

                              (PART XI)

Preposition:

Preposition is a word that is used to link (provide relationship between) noun/pronoun with other words (noun, verb or adjective) in a sentence. It makes the sentence complete.

Example:

The cat is sitting under the table.

(Here, under is used to link table (which is a noun) and the sitting placement of cat.)

Types of prepositions:

These are divided into three types depending on types of situations – Prepositions of time (When an event occurred? – in, on, at, before, after), Prepositions of place (Where an event/thing is? – under, above, in, on and at) and Preposition of direction (in which direction an event/thing is? - to, into, of and from)

Prepositions of Time:

Examples:

My birthday falls in January.

My vacation ends on Monday.

It gets cold at night.

Prepositions of Place:

Examples:

The books are on the table.

The plane is just below the cloud.

Preposition of Direction:

Examples:

We went to London last week.

He went up the hill.

Prepositional Phrase:

It is a group of words containing prepositions.

Examples:

The rabbits hopped through the garden.

(Here, through is a preposition, and through the garden is a prepositional phrase)

The balloon drifted up the stairs.

The tiger crept slowly over the grass.

 

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

 

 

COMMON ERRORS IN EVERYDAY LIFE: TALKING ABOUT WORK AND LEARNING

 

COMMON ERRORS IN EVERYDAY LIFE: TALKING ABOUT WORK AND LEARNING

        Dear readers, in the previous post, we discussed the common errors in terms of 'Talking about Time' that we commit in our daily conversations. In this post, let us explore more about communicative errors in terms of 'Talking about Work and Learning'. Some of the important errors that tend to occur naturally in our conversation are briefed below:

Look at the following statements:

1.   Congratulations for your promotion.

Congratulations on your promotion.

Use congratulations with ‘on’ and not ‘for’.

 

2.   Please fill up the application form.

Please fill in the application form.

The phrase ‘fill up’ is used to fill up some glasses with drink and people with food. But, ‘fill in’ is always used with filling some information in a form.

 

3.   My sister has gone out of station.

My sister has gone out of town.

‘Out of station’ is an old-fashioned military expression to talk about soldiers leaving ‘station’ or their place of command. Instead, use ‘Out of town’.

4.   I passed out in 2020 from Bharathiar University.

I graduated in 2020 from Bharathiar University.

To ‘pass out’ means to ‘become unconscious, especially after heavy drinking’. Indians probably use this for graduation because ‘passing out’ also refers to (in British English) officers finishing off their course at a military college.

 

5.   He is not able to cope up with work pressure.

He is not able to cope with work pressure.

We should not use ‘up’ with cope.

 

6.   My friend always comes late to class.

My friend is always coming late to class.

While referring to anything unpleasant as a continuous state use the continuous form of the verb.

 

7.   We have to learn English to go ahead in our career.

We have to learn English to get ahead in our career.

If we want to progress with our job/studies we have to use ‘get ahead’ instead of ‘go ahead’.

 

8.   My father advised me to not worry so much about the test.

My father advised me not to worry so much about the test.

In Indirect Speech usually ‘to’ should follow ‘not’. Not is always followed by the ‘to infinitive’ in a sentence.

 

9.   Students should write their names on the top of the answer script.

Students should write their names at the top of the answer script.

Do not use ‘on’, instead ‘at’ should be used when we write something on paper.

 

10.      I will call you again in ten minutes.

    I will call you back in ten minutes.

 If we want to say that we will make a call later on, we should say ‘call back’ instead of ‘again’.

 

 

Reference:

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

 

 Author:

K. Nandhakumar

Assistant Professor of English

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

Coimbatore- 641 020