We often receive mails that say “Please revert soon.”This is inaccurate. You can say: “Please reply soon.” Revert means reversing to a previous state, condition, practice etc. Example for revert: After the discipline master left the class, the girls reverted to their squabbling.
This is a common spelling mistake that can result in horrendous misunderstandings. Remember: Desert means arid land or to abandon. Dessert is the sweet course at the end of a meal.
English tip: Sometimes, when we have a piece of good news to share, we get excited and we may start by saying “Guess what”. Now- the question is– do we add a question mark or a period after “guess what”? In this scenario, “guess what” is an imperative (a command/request) so it is conventionally punctuated[…]
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English tip: When you use “For example”, you already refer to a partial list. There’s no need to put “etc” at the end of the sentence if you have used “for example”; it’s redundant. For instance: Bring fruits to the party; for example, grapes and bananas. (correct) Bring fruits to the party; for example, grapes,[…]
English tip: When to use past perfect tense: 1. Something occurred before another action in the past/Something happened before a specific time in the past. For example: I had never known what love is until I met my beautiful wife. 2. Something started in the past and continued up until another action in the past.[…]
English tip: When do we use the present perfect tense? 1) When the accompanying adverb refers to a period gone by, we would use the simple past. For example: I partied all night last Saturday. 2) With the time period starts from the past and continues to the present, we would use the present perfect.[…]
English tip: Regardless of what you have heard, "irregardless" is not a word. Please note dictionaries list it as INACCURATE or NONSTANDARD. Regardless means without regard/despite the prevailing circumstance. The prefix "ir" is negative. So if you add "ir" to a word like "without regard", it means "without without regard". That doesn’t make sense, right?[…]
English composition tips: To ace at PSLE, one must be tactical in his approach. Today, we will teach you how to be exam-smart and how to behave on the actual day of the examinations. Time Allocation You are given 70 minutes to finish two essays: 1) Situational composition (15 marks) 2) Continuous composition (40 marks) I would advise you[…]
It’s the PSLE English paper tomorrow. To help you with the paper, here are some quick tips for Paper 2. It’s difficult to do last minute revisions for languages as you need constant exposure to the language. I will focus on the few segments that we can be exam-smart on. Synthesis & Transformation tips: What[…]