Every language has a basic kind of word order for sentences. In English, the subject of a sentence usually comes at the beginning, followed by the verb and the predicate. The key word there is “usually”! If you’re relieved that you’ve finally got English word order down, brace yourself: Sometimes, it can be changed! There …
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We seek to know what a particular word means to make sense of a phrase, and we also try to make sense of a phrase to be able to understand the holistic meaning of a clause. Once we understand what the clause means, we can then go back to the specific linguistic elements that govern …
These days, many employers do not have the time to read through every resume that they are given. Some positions receive hundreds of resumes from applicants, thus many companies are turning toward automated resume-checking. This type of resume review checks for certain keywords to determine who passes, so it’s important to get it right! The …
The saying “if wishes were fishes we’d all swim in riches” features the literary device known as assonance. Assonance is also called “vowel rhyme,” and is a resemblance of sounds caused by the repetition of the same vowel sounds in multiple words. In this sentence, the assonance is the repetition of the “I” sound. This …
Are you in a situation where you want to delay accepting or rejecting a job offer after all the tedious recruitment-related processes you had to endure? For a lot of people, it is a lot tougher to talk someone out in spoken conversations than in written ones. But, is it really that much of an …
Our ability to be in constant communication with one another via text messaging apps has changed the way we use language. The reality is that many of us now spend more time texting our friends than actually speaking to them. There are considerable changes in the way we use language that have occurred as a …
It seems that everything from the early 2000s is making a comeback. From the fashion atelier to the recording studio, the looks and sounds of two decades ago are returning in a major way. Something else is having a comeback too: The aesthetic of the moody, angsty young man. This was exemplified in the early …
On the face of it, this seems like a straightforward question. In many ways, it is. However, there still seems to be much discussion about what is and isn’t, technically speaking a two-lane road. In that, let’s get right into things. What is a two-lane road? A two-lane road is a road with two …
For those among us who are not particularly mathematically inclined, it can be difficult to remember the meanings of mathematical symbols. This can be the case regardless of whether we learned them twenty years ago or yesterday. The symbols for addition, subtraction, division, and multiplication are pretty straightforward. Things become more complicated, however, when we …