Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Singular Vs Pronoun

1.' of ' is one of the middleman. Remove the word and check it
2. " and" give plural verb .

3. additive words like in addition to, as well as, along with, a , accompanied by, together with, including are all singular

4. or , " either ... or " , neither .. nor follow the subject after or

5. collective nouns are singular : army , audience, administration, class, crowd,faculty , ochestra,team

6. Indefinite pronouns : Anyone, whatever, Someone,everyone,Whoever. someone, something
are all singular except SANAM

Some, Any,None, All,Most depends on the situation

7.. Each and every are always singular , but when followed by subject they follow the
degree of the subject

8. "The number of X " is plural . A number of X is singular
The majority of students are ; the student majority is

9. Subject phrase like " having" , whatever are all singular

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Words to look out far in grammer

1. such as ( to give examples)vs like ( to compare two objects...)
2. word placements of words like all, only, daily,following,free
3. if : it should refer to hypothetical situation
4. Words with multiple meanings such as "light"
5. Avoid redundancy . redundant words are as follows
  • past experience
  • % increase or decrease
  • sum total
  • being exited. being is almost wrong
  • before , when shd not be used together
  • when had had are used next to each other , check if it is really necessary
  • possible and may is considered redundant
6. known vs unknown : a sentence that expresses certainty over action shd not be changed into one that expresses uncertainity ( shd, might,can would.. etc should not be interchanged)
7. the present participle should not be followed by verb in present tense
8. The prepositional modifier should be present next to the phrase it modifies
9. it, they theirs,its, : all this means proper refering of these words must be checked
10. concise shd be always checked for . its subjective.
  • over the way : how
  • made an attempt : tried
  • have differences : differ
11. The use of article "the"
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Saturday, March 8, 2008

Maths Mistakes

1. When symbolic questions like a # b are used, a and b could be interchanged
2. 3 feet is one yard..
3. In case of mixture problems , subtract the solute from solvent
4. In case of avg questions , questions made on each side need not be same



1. have trained is not past tense :-(
2. attempt ... to is the correct idiom , not attempt .... at
3. atleast or more ... is considered reundant...
4. In case of arguements , ' positions ' and conclusions denotes the same...
5. use ' and ' to combine non - parallel phrases in sentences
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