Writing Holidays Greeting Cards

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Holidays are drawing nearer and most of us must be busying ourselves with writing greeting cards or greeting emails to clients, family members, far relatives, acquaintances, old pals, etc.But if you have no idea what and how to write good lines on your greeting card, this might be of help.

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On TOEFL: How to Ace your Listening Section

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So far what I have kept hearing since my college days is the complaint about how fast people on the TOEFL tape speak. For some native ears, the way the people speaking on TOEFL tape might be at normal pace or somewhat slower pace. Unfortunately, for foreign ears who are not really  accustomed to listening to English utterances spoken that rapidly, TOEFL listening section turns  into an earthly hell. I once heard that a number of high school students failed their listening test, which was part of the National Final Exam. That, nevertheless, should never happen to you or me.

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Conditonal Sentences (Not for a Grammar-Savvy Person)

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| Posted in , | Posted on 11:13 PM




Previously on my post on subjunctive, I already touched on some conditional sentence discussion. In this post, however, I would love to focus solely on this topic.


As you can see on the chart above, there are six types of tenses that are used in conditional sentences. Like the timeline diagram I gave you before, I am using this to give an overall description of it. By knowing the general description, I hope you'll get a brighter view of the topic.

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On Subjunctive (Only for Grammar Lesson Haters!)

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To nearly all English department students and English learners, grammar class has been the phantom haunting them throughout the course of learning process. Nevertheless, one essential point we should keep in mind while learning is that even simple things can look far too complicated for us to understand if we don't hold the key principles tightly. Once we know and have a full grasp of the basics, even the seemingly most complex sentences could be simplified and understood quite easily without causing your head to spin around.

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My Blogging Self-Evaluation: Why This Blog Should Only Focus on One Niche

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| Posted in , , | Posted on 11:13 AM


This thought came up right after I read Darren Rowse's post about the benefits of building a more focused blog. By 'a more focused blog', I mean a blog that has more a specific niche (a position particularly well suited to the person who occupies it- Wordweb dictionary). Darren wrote that he at the first time and a lot of other newbies wrote their first blog with topics ranging from topic A to topic Z. This would be very easy to start with because we simply have endless supply of topics to talk about. We can write a post almost every day,  even  several posts a day, hoping to attract more readers, search engines and bucks!

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You're VS Your

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Some words may cause us lots of troubles. This tricky kind of words possess almost the same pronunciation or spelling, which confuses English learners like us or even people being born and living in English-speaking countries. 


This post will especially highlight the proper use of you're and your. These two words sound almost the same for our ears but never confuse both. We have often heard people saying or writing 'your welcome' when replying thanks or 'this is you're bag'. So here is an explanation to tackle the confusion once and for all.

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American, British, Australian English: the Differences

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Are you now learning English as a second or foreign language? Along the course of learning process, we might find English relatively tricky especially after we find out there are more than one variety to distinguish and learn. For the record, there are so many English variants spoken in different parts of the globe. There are American English, British English, Australian English, Singaporean English, Indian English, etc. Some English learners regard this as their  learning hindrance. This diversity obviously leads to a number of arising questions that actually reflect how confused English learners. Students often ask, "Which variety to learn best of all?" or "Which English is better?" or "Which one is more internationally acceptable?". I'll leave the questions unanswered because each of the answers depends on varied factors.

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