Hello friend, glad to know you are here again to read this informative post tagged: Top GRE Words with Meanings and Examples. It is good to know that proper planning prevents poor performance. If you wish to take the GRE examination or you have a friend who wants to, it is good you are all … Read more
Hello friend! I have something interesting to share with you. Have you ever come across certain witty expressions or hyphenated words like Crinkum-crankum, bric-a-brac, namby-pamby, nitty-gritty, higgledy-piggledy, etc. and you wondered what English terminology we use in describing them? Well, they are known as Freezes or Reduplications. This post, Crinkum-crankum and Ablaut Reduplications With Examples, … Read more
The post, Signal Words: Types, Functions and Examples, introduces and explains with illustrative examples what signal words or sentence connectors are. In the course of your reading any printed text: novels, textbook, newspapers, articles, online posts, etc., have you noted certain words the writers have used to steer your thoughts in some particular directions? Have … Read more
Preamble Hello dear reader! You must have heard the expression, Clichés and may not have really taken time to ask yourself what they really mean. Clichés are an established feature of the English language, being particularly common in spoken English language and in informal written contexts. This post, What is a Cliché? List, Meanings and … Read more
The quest to write this post, Collection of famous English Proverbs You Should Know, came out of the need to intimate our teeming global readers with the numerous proverbs in English. A literary scholar describes proverbs as horses which can carry one to the discovery of ideas sought. He added that ‘a relevant proverb throws … Read more
Have you tried to compare two things before and you find yourself at a loss for what to say? Then this post, Similes: Common Comparisons in English, will certainly be of help of help to you. A simile is one of the numerous figures of speech in English. Let us define what a figure of … Read more
Welcome to Akademia, where you learn all you need to know when it comes to the English Language! Do you know Winnie the Pooh? It is one of the whimsical plays popular in the 1920s created by the British writer A. A. Milne and a delight of children. Pooh, the bear character, said something whimsical: … Read more
Hello there! I am glad you are reading this post. There are certainly many things we need to know and I am sure you must have heard the word “Palindrome.” What sense did you make of it? Do you know what it means? Do you know the different types that exist? Well, I have carefully … Read more
The English Language is one of the most popular languages of the world, no doubt. The English Language is the first of the three most widely spoken West Germanic languages with around 360 to 400 million native speakers; the two others are German and Dutch. It has more words than most comparable world languages. The … Read more
Hello reader, permit me to show you that there are many words in English that appear to confuse the users of the language, especially for English as a Second Language Learners. These words have their distinct meanings, etymology (sources/origins) and orthography (spellings). Some of them look alike in terms of spelling, but they have different … Read more