Communication in English

*Communication must be clear and crisp because your aim is to make the other person understand what you say.
*Communication must also be kind and courteous to be effective. Even a critical, corrective commentcan be made in a gentle way. That's the power of the spoken word.
*Do not make random remarks or cursory comments.
*Words you have spoken might come back to you, in a in a version you never created. With additions, subtractions, multiplications, you may never have stated. So, be careful when you speak..
*Words can harm, words can charm. Words can also deflate your spirit and make you depressed.
*The biggest problem in society today is depression. Much of it is caused by  verbal abuse, which is being rude, critical, caustic in your talk and behaviour to people.
*An important part of communication is the ability to listen. Listening attentively to someone is the biggest compliment you can pay that person.
*(courtesy : Times Wellness. com)

The Future Tense

There is no obvious future tense in English corresponding to the time/tense relation for present and past. Instead there are several possibilities for denoting future time.. Futurity, modality and aspect are closely related, and future time is rendered by means of modal auxiliaries or semi-auxiliaries, or by simple present forms or progressive forms.
The future and modal functions of the auxiliaries SHALL and WILL can hardly be separated, but SHALL and, particularly, WILL are the closest approximation to a colourless, neutral future. WILL for future can be used in all persons, whereas SHALL for first person is ;argely restricted.

Master English

You can speak and write English more fluently than your mothertongue. For suggestions to improve your vocabulary, pronunciation, spellings, grammar, reading skills, writing techniques, listening comprehension and mastery of spoken English read this blog regularly.   Prof. Bhagwat S. Goyal.

commonly mispronounced words

Here's a list of some commonly mispronounced words:

suggestion, congestion, digestion, combustion

adjective, adjoining, adjournment, adjust,

cleanliness, devotee, benevolence, demolition

I'll discuss these next time

Reading Skills

What is Reading?
*A broader view of the nature of reading  is that it involves the recognition of the important elements of meaning in their essential relations, including accuracy and thoroughness in comprehension.
*When reading is seen as a decoding process , syntactic, semantic and pragmatic knowledge are involved in it..
* Nuttal, after considering definitions of reading in terms of reading aloud or decoding, settles for  the extraction of meaning from written messages.
*Widdowson defines reading as the process of getting  linguistic information carried by linguistic messages via print.
* Perfeti suggests  that reading can be considered  as thinking guided by print, with reading ability as skill at comprehension of  Text.
*Reading is the process of receiving and interpreting  information encoded in language from via the medium of print.

Common Errors in English

One of the basic principles of English grammar is that there should be agreement between subject and verb.A singular subject should be followed by a singular verb, while a plural subject should be followed by a plural verb. For example, 'No news are good news' should be written as 'No news is good news.'.  Similarly,  'His hair are white' should be 'His hair is white.' Other examples will follow.

Non-Verbal Language

Verbal language deals with the spoken or written words, but in non-verbal language we use what is commonly understood as body language. Non-Verbal communication consists of several elements. Some of them are: Kinesics, Paralinguistics, Proxemics,  Chronemics, Haptics, Oculesics, Olfactics etc. The details of these will be given in my next blog. O.K.?