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James could you come here. -- 'Hither' is no longer used in modern English except for a few set phrases: 'hither and yon', 'a come-hither look'.
This Friday night I'm meeting my school friends.-- 'Rendezvous' is also seldom used, and when it is (and often jocularly), it is used to suggest a romantic or emotional meeting.
John muddled the documents due to work pressure.-- Not common, but possible, I suppose. 'Muddled up' would sound more natural to me.
Clara, it looks like you've made great strides in getting your projects completed.
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| #18 (permalink) Sun Sep 20, 2009 12:05 pm How can I improve my vocabulary? |
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| If u wanna improve your vocabulary, i think u should learn all word that u have learned and reading the newspaper more, newspaper includes 2 languages (English and your native language). Ok? |
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| #19 (permalink) Sun Sep 20, 2009 12:18 pm How can I improve my vocabulary? |
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| [Mas] wrote: |
| If u wanna improve your vocabulary, i think u should learn all word that u have learned and reading the newspaper more, newspaper includes 2 languages (English and your native language). Ok? |
Is it possible to go through with? In case we have too much time on our hands, it could be, though.
On second thoughts, let me rephrase it. Wouldn't it be impossible for all ESL learners to be able to maintain all the words, whose they learn, as positive words, even if we gave it our best shot? That's the bottom line.
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| #20 (permalink) Sun Sep 20, 2009 12:27 pm How can I improve my vocabulary? |
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Find the word family works well.
You can konw 10 more words by the roots and their derivatives sometimes.
It is also very interesting to konw the connection among words.
When comes to the words having various meanings, the different meanings can explain each other in some extent ,just like two or people who have something familiar in mind living in a house .
Expanding vocabularies is a happy way if you want to explore. |
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| #21 (permalink) Tue Sep 22, 2009 17:29 pm How can I improve my vocabulary? |
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Yes as they said read.You will find ample new words in a book with many pages.Write them on sheet, translate them and read the regularly for remembering.
It is better to explain the word meaning in English to practice the other words you know |
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| #22 (permalink) Thu Nov 19, 2009 14:39 pm help |
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| actually i want to improve my vocabulary.... i want to be fluent in my speech... i want to learn new words to enhance my vocabulary... please can u help...???? |
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| #23 (permalink) Thu Nov 19, 2009 16:37 pm help |
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you should learn atleast 20 words in a day and try to use them in different type of sentence so that you can remmember them with ease. one thing more dont learn only words practice those in sentences this will be the easy way to learn.
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