The following list of English Enigma - or things frequently confused and possibly hard to understand is submitted to help all English speakers, native and non native, do a better job of properly using the English language. If you ever have had problems with your Engish this group of Hub Pages will help you a lot.
The following list of English Enigma - or things frequently confused and possibly hard to understand is submitted to help all English speakers, native and non native, do a better job of properly using the English language. If you find English confusing this group of Hubpages will help you a lot with your English.
A Bird In The Hand Is Worth Two In The Bush:
Having something that is certain is much better than taking a risk for more, because chances are you might lose everything.
A Blessing In Disguise:
Something good that isn't recognized at first.
A Chip On Your Shoulder:
Being upset for something that happened in the past.
A Dime A Dozen:
Anything that is common and easy to get.
A Doubting Thomas:
A skeptic who needs physical or personal evidence in order to believe something.
A Drop in the Bucket:
A very small part of something big or whole.
Apparently the washingtonpost held a contest in which high school teachers sent in the “worst” analogies they’d encountered in grading their students’ papers over the years. (I place “worst” in quotes because many of these actually strike me as quite witty). The top 25 of these have been circulating around the “Sandra Bullock” (”net”, get it?) recently, but I decided to post all 56 that I was able to find. Here they are, in their order of objective funniness (in my opinion):
It won't be an exaggeration if I say that English is the language of this world. Although Mandarin (Chinese) tops the list of most widely spoken languages in the world, we know that it's English which connects people around the world. Hence it won't harm to get a deeper understanding of this ubiquitous language and work towards improving your grammar and vocabulary.
A Triumph TR3 Birthday Gift
.On my 16th birthday my father surprised me with the best gift a young teenage boy could ever have. My own car! To use just the word car is probably an insult. My birthday gift was no more "just a car" than an Arabian would rightly be called "just a horse"..
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Writing Web Articles In The English 84% Of The World Speaks – Not American!
If you had to do an extremely important presentation which could have an impact on much of your future earnings, in front of a fully-bilingual audience whose native language was 84% French and 16% English, which language would you do the presentation in? Assuming you were bilingual as well, it is a given that you would do it in French.
Then, why do you insist on writing in American English which is the language of less than 16% of the world's and the web's English speakers?
