English Vocabulary from
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- I spoke to him with a lower tone. (wrong)
- I spoke to him in a lower town. (correct)
- Explanation : In a lower tone means in a tone containing a lower pitch.
- This custom has come down since times immemorial. (wrong)
- This custom has come down since time immemorial. (correct)
- Explanation : We use since when we have one stretch of time.
- To laugh or weep is entirely our own choice. (wrong)
- To laugh or to weep is entirely our own choice. (correct)
- Explanation : When 'and' or 'or' link two dissimilar notions, 'to' must be inserted.
- I don't remember him ever helping me. (wrong)
- I don't remember his ever helping me. (correct)
- Explanation : When the verb is the participate form, the subject assumes a possessive form.
- I can't allow you to cut jokes in the class. (wrong)
- I cant' allow you to make jokes in the class. (correct)
- Explanation : We 'make' jokes, not 'cut' them. 'To make means to cause something to come about' the idiom crack a joke refers to a critical joke.
- He never has, and never will permit such practices in his office. (wrong)
- He never has permitted nor ever will permit such practices in his office. (correct)
- Explanation : Both verbs 'has permitted' and 'will permit' must be used in their complete forms.
- He has no issues. (wrong)
- He has no issue. (correct)
- Explanation : In the sense of 'offspring' the word 'issue' should not be used in the plural form.
- His both hands have been injured. (wrong)
- Both of his hands have been injured. (correct)
- Explanation : In both of his hands both is like a pronoun. In both his parents both is a predetermined which precedes that determines his.
- Why not we send words to him immediately ? (wrong)
- Why don't we send word to him immediately ? (correct)
- Explanation : We cannot use not without its being preceded by an auxiliary verb. If no such verb exists, an appropriate form of do is used.
- There are many worth seeing places in Agra. (wrong)
- There are many places worth seeing in Agra. (correct)
- Explanation : In English the relative clause e.g. which is worth-seeing or its reduced form is put after that noun to which it is attached.
- He said to me if you like you may go. (wrong)
- He told me that if I liked I might go. (correct)
- Explanation : In a hypothetical situation in the past, both the conditional clause and the consequent clause will have the past tense form.
Shared by Bhargav Gupta Yechuri
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