February 18th, 2010 
admin In this article I shall give details about verbs and its kinds in terms of action. A verb is either an action or a word which tells the state of the subject. You might have learnt that naming words are Nouns and action words are Verbs in your high school. It is true partially as verbs also tell the state of the “subject”.
Transitive and Intransitive Verbs
January 27th, 2010 admin Here are some more words those confuses us in general usage:
August 22nd, 2009 admin Most of the people are confused with the usage of capital letters. We will use the capital letters where we should not use and don’t use when it is necessary. Incorrect usage of capital letters leads to the misunderstanding sometimes. These capital letters with in a sentence helps the reader as an indication to the starting of the new sentence. The rules are very different for using these capital letters bur very easy to learn. Let’s learn where to use the capital letters and where not to use them.
The first and foremost rule is that all the proper nouns which includes names, geographical places, specific historical events and documents, languages, nationalities, countries etc.
Capitalize the first word at the beginning of a sentence.
Capitalize Names and Titles:
• Capitalize each person’s name. E.g. S.Mahidhar
• If a name begins with d’, de, du, or von, capitalize the prefix unless it is preceded by the first name or a title.
• If a name starts with Mc, o, or St., then capitalize the next letter. E.g. Mc Donald, Mc Mohan, St. Marie.
• If the name begins with la or le then also capitalize the word that follows. E.g. Le Blanck.
• Capitalize some of the names of the animals like Lassie, Morris the cat.
• Capitalize all the religious names, military posts, government heads.
• Capitalize all the parts of a government officials post. E.g. Vice President.
• Capitalize all the book titles, play titles, movie titles, newspaper titles, magazines names, when writing the full forms of abbreviations.
Capitalize Names and Languages and Religions:
• Capitalize all the names of the religions, languages, countries and races.
• When referring to the gods, capitalize the pronouns also.
• Don’t capitalize the words god and goddess when referring to the ancient mythology. But in general use capital letters for God and Goddess.
Capitalize the proper adjectives and product nouns:
• Capitalize the adjectives that are formed from the nouns. E.g. Italy– Italian.
• Don’t capitalize the prefix that was attached to a proper adjective unless the prefix refers to a nationality. E.g. all Indians, Old English.
• Use capital letters for all the brand names.
Use capital letters for days, months and all holidays:
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Use capital letters for the names of days like Sunday, Monday etc.
• Use capital letters for the names of the months like December, July etc.
• Capitalize the names of the holidays like Republic day, New Year.
Capitalize the first letters of abbreviations, starting of a sentence, sentences after the colon, greeting words, names of the degrees, time (A.M, P.M), some shortcuts like Mount – Mt etc.
August 22nd, 2009 admin In the previous section we learned about the nominal suffixes and in this section let’s learn about verbal suffixes which are attached before the verbs and forms new words. In this article I want to explain about some of the important verb suffixes and how the new words from those suffixes are derived. Of all the verbal suffixes some of the important verbal suffixes are –ate, –en, –ify and –ize.
–ate: forms ending with this suffix represent a rather heterogeneous group. These represents so called ornative and resultative meanings like fluorinate, formate, regulate.
–en: The Germanic suffix –en attaches to monosyllables that end in a positive, fricative. Most of the mords are formed similar to ripen, blacken, broaden etc.
–ify: This suffix attaches with the base words that are monosyllabic. The general words that are formed with this suffix are solidify, humidify etc. This suffix represents the formation of something. The words that are formed with the suffix –ize also have the same meaning with the words formed by –ify suffix.
–ize: This suffix represents the words that are having the related concepts like ornative, locative, resultative, simulative, performative. The derivatives of the –ize suffix represents the complex patterns and difficult to derive sometimes.
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