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We Write Wrong English…Easily April 30, 2009

Posted by Amal in English Usage, Technical Writing Basics, english.
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Consider that all these sentences are actually wrong or erratic


  1. There were above a dozen people in the meeting.
  2. We can’t accept a chemical factory to be built in this village.

  3. Internet give us an easier access to information.
  4. She refused to accept responsibility for her acts.
  5. I adore meeting new people.
  6. I adviced him to tell the police.
  7. I asked my doctor for her advise.
  8. Only the driver was wounded in the accident.
  9. His wife goes to work outside the house.
  10. Working outside my city has given me a wide view of life.

And here are the right ones -


  1. There were over a dozen people in the meeting.
  2. We can’t allow a chemical factory to be built in this village.

  3. Internet give us easier access to information.
  4. She refused to accept responsibility for her actions.
  5. I love meeting new people.
  6. I advised him to tell the police.
  7. I asked my doctor for her advice.
  8. Only the driver was injured in the accident.
  9. His wife goes to out to work.
  10. Working outside my city has given me a wide broad view of life.

The Story of “a” and “an” July 31, 2008

Posted by Amal in Did You Know, English Usage, english.
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When do you use “an”?

I know, silly question! Even my neighbor the little girl who hates school believes that her teacher already explained vowels. What the teacher failed to explain her is “it’s never about vowels, it’s all about phonetics”.

Let us see it this way – “an hour”, we put an before hour because it sounds like OUR.

So are there some exceptions to put “AN” before words starting with vowels? I bet there are…

A User – (Sounds Yu-zer, Y is not a vowel)
A Eulogy (Sounds Yu-Logy)
A Union (Sounds Yun-Nian)
A University (Sounds Yu-Niversity)

Let me know if you find more of these words, and you thought just Vowels are so important eh!