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                       Use of Conventional Formula             Hello viewers, it’s nice to be connected with you once again through this blog. I hope you read and like my articles. Don’t forget to mail us. Today am back with one more interesting subject and that’s the Conversational Formula.                                   Conventional formula are words, phrases or sentences that are used to express certain concepts. Conventional formulas are habitual and are followed conventionally. In order to greet, apologize, invite, refuse, accept and thank someone we use such formula. Some formula are: 1. Greeting:                            Best wishes, Happy Birthday, Good morning, Good day, Good afternoon, Good night, Have...
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                                             Sentence Pattern Hello Dear viewers, am glad to meet you through this blog. Hope you are safe and sound. Today we shall discuss the sentence pattern in English language. The basic sentence pattern has the following five components.  They are 1.       Subject 2.       Verb 3.       Object 4.       Complement 5.       Adjunct           1.       Subject:                                 In a sentence the word or phr...
                                     Punctuation Dear readers, Its wonderful to be connected with you through this blog. Thank you for all your valuable comments and some have called me over the phone and asked me about the Punctuation marks. So today I thought of sharing Punctuation marks. Punctuation marks are essential while writing the sentence as it gives meaning to the sentences. When you don't use punctuation marks or misplaced the punctuation marks, the meaning and the sense differs which leads to confusion and clarity. Now look at the following sentences.                          1. My wife, who is in Mysore is coming today.                         2. My wife who is in Mysore, is coming today.               ...
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                           The Characteristics of a Good English Text Book Hello Readers, Its been exciting to connect with you through this blog. Thank you so much for your responses and your valuable suggestions. I request you to continue to do so. In my last blog, we saw the characteristics of a good English teacher. In this blog my mind went towards the characteristics of a good English text book. According to F.L.Billow, “To make the best use of time in the classroom and to avoid unintended repetition or the neglect of essential language patterns, the teacher is, wise to have a text book, at least in the background of his mind.”          Thus, text books are very useful for systematic and regular teaching. There are certain characteristics of a good textbooks in English, they are:         1.       Language an...
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                        Characteristics of a Good English Teacher Dear Viewers, it’s always a good experience for me to keep in touch with you through this blog.  Thank you for contacting us and for your valuable feedback and comments. As we have celebrated Teacher’s Day I felt like sharing the essential qualities a English teacher have to possess. Let’s see them and inculcate these in our life. I wish to quote Sir Henry Vandyke who said “An average teacher explains, a poor teacher complains, a good teacher teaches, an excellent teacher inspires.” A language teacher is decidedly a different type of teacher as compared to the teacher of other subjects.  Only a person with distinctive tastes and abilities can become a good teacher of English. There are certain qualities essential for a good English teacher and we shall see them one by one.            1.    ...
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                     Characteristics of a Good Handwriting                                              Hello Readers, hope you are safe and sound. I am happy about your lovely responses that you made to connect with me and I encourage you to continue. Today we shall discuss the characteristics of a good handwriting.  Some have a bad handwriting which they feel awkward to write and they hesitate to write. But I have good news for them. They can practice daily so that their handwriting would be more beautiful as their faces. The following are assumed to be as the characteristics of a good handwriting. 1.        Legibility:             The five aspects of cursive writing-letter formation, spacing , alignment, re...