Wednesday, April 21, 2010

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)

Monday, April 5, 2010

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.