Articles tagged with: usage of words
“What shall we discuss about today?”
“Let’s discuss about politics. We need a fault-ridden topic to mirror our bad grammar.”
You don’t “discuss about” something; you just discuss things.
The word “discuss” means to “talk about”. …
Indianisms are certain grammatical errors in English language that are very common in India. We will be covering some of these in the following issues of Tip of the Month.
One of the most common one …
Everyday and Every day are commonly confused in English. There’s no difference in pronunciation, but using the wrong one when writing is a mistake in the everyday English you use every day.
Everyday
Everyday is an adjective …
Lay vs Lie
The English verbs lay and lie are commonly confused by even native English speakers. I’m not lying when I say that you can now lay your fears of not knowing the difference …
What’s the difference between Ours and Our’s?
Ours
Ours is the first person plural possessive pronoun – it replaces “our” + noun.
Is this yours or ours?
He found a book – is it ours?
He can’t find his keys, …
Many English speakers do not know the difference between who and whom. In some places, it hardly matters, because using who when you should use whom is so common that it’s not even considered much …
Its”, is the possessive adjective and possessive pronoun form of the personal pronoun “it”. “Its” means “belonging to it.” For example, The cat licked its paw.
On the other hand, “it’s” is a contraction of “it …
“Learnt” and “learned” are two acceptable forms of the past simple/past participle of the verb learn, which means exactly the same thing.
Learnt is an irregular verb in the British English where the past tense is …
Some nouns have the same form in the singular and the plural and the word “Fish” is such an example. As such, fish is the usual plural word for fish whereby the plural form is …

