BY NO MEANS -- Meaning: Not At All -- Based on a rough count, by no means definitive, they had about 625 tents set up last year. By no means am I saying this is a bad thing, but it is not a choice that I made. By no means did we settle on anything. By no means does he think children need to go through terrible times to be better people. By no means is he guaranteed to win. By no means is this fight over or even anywhere near under control. By no means let him dominate the conversation. By no means should individuals or groups be allowed to go that building. By no means should we be complacent...

1. What is an -Exclamation-? 2. Exclamatory Sentences 3. Exclamatory Sentences with 'What' 4. Exclamatory Sentences with 'How' 5. Exclamatory Sentences with So and Such 6. Exclamations in Declarative Sentences 7. Exclamations in Interrogative Sentences 8. Exclamations in Imperative Sentences 9. Detailed List of Interjections 10. Using 'Common Words' as Exclamations 11. Useful Exclamatory Phrases/Sentences 12. Other Patterns 13. List of Emotions Shown by Exclamations Exercises Sample This: 1. What is an -Exclamation-? DEFINITION: An exclamation (or interjection) is a short sound, word or...

What are "Causative Sentences"? -- In a causative, a person or thing does not perform an action directly. The subject (person or thing) causes it to happen by forcing, persuading, assisting, etc. an agent (another person or thing) to perform it. The subject (person or thing) does not carry out an action oneself but rather has the action done by an agent (another person or thing). Examples: Faulty design caused a bridge to collapse. Modern lifestyles cause children and adults to spend most of their time indoors. Rain caused water to collect on the road. She caused needle to run. Causative...

Creating long sentences in English is an art. You need practicing for writing and speaking long sentences Here you will learn some most popular patterns to form long sentences in English. 01 -- Using '-ING Form of Verbs' (I) 02 -- Using '-ING Form of Verbs' (II) 03 -- Using '-ING Form of Verbs' (III) 04 -- Using 'With + -ING Form of Verbs' 05 -- Using 'Series' 06 -- Using 'From - To' 07 -- Using 'Connecting Words or Phrases' 08 - Using 'Parenthesis' 09 - Miscellaneous Patterns Sample This: 01 -- Using '-ING Form of Verbs' (I) Example 01: The ongoing drought in the state is being described as...

Structure (1a)- Comparison of Actions - I Structure (1b)- Comparison of Actions - II Structure (2a)- Comparison of Qualities - I Structure (2b)- Comparison of Qualities - II Structure (3a)- Specific Similarity - Quality Adjectives Structure (3b)- Specific Similarity - Quality Nouns Structure (4)- Comparison of Number/Quantity Structure (5a)- As + Much/Many, etc. + Word/Words + As Structure (5b)- Comparative Estimates - Multiple Numbers Structure (6)- Parallel Increase or Decrease / Gradual Increase Structure (7)- Illogical Comparatives Structure (8)- General Similarity and Difference...

Correlatives in English conversation - Correlative Words connect words, phrases, and clauses. They are generally used in the form of pair of words.- Examples- as early as, as far as, as long as, as many as, as much as, as soon as, as well as, either---or, neither---nor, whether---or, barely/hardly/scarcely---when, no sooner---than, rather---than, not only---but also, although---yet, too---to, between---and, both---and, so that, unless, until - Hundreds of sentences with correlative words have been given in this book. - Sample This: 1. As - As -- This Pattern Is Used When You Are Comparing or...

What is "Repetition of Words"? -- Repetition in English Language is the repeating of a word, within a sentence in order to PROVIDE EMPHASIS. 'Repetition of words' could be classified into many groups based on the placement of the words in a sentence. Different terms have been devised to denote different kinds of repetitions. Some of these terms are as follows: Adnominatio, Conduplicatio, Diacope, Epistrophe, Mesodiplosis, Palilogia, Polyptoton, Symploce, etc. Not going into the details of these 'hard-to-pronounce' terms, I have covered only most popular patterns of 'Repetition of words' in...

This book covers the following topics: a big myth list of prepositions when to end a sentence with a preposition situation - 01 - interrogative sentences situation - 02 - passive voice sentences situation - 03 - infinitive structures situation - 04 - relative clauses situation - 05 - phrasal verbs how to avoid ending a sentence with a preposition option - 01 - restructuring the sentence option - 02 - using a different word avoid unnecessary use of prepositions additional examples exercises: 1(a) and 1(b) exercises: 2(a) and 2(b) SAMPLE THIS: A Big Myth -- It is said we should avoid ending a...

Une hallucination m'a pris au c ur, elle m'a pris a la tete. Je sens la couleur des mots sur la toile de mon corps. Le monde parle en moi comme dans un objet. Le cheval de Psyche, je l'ai bien enfourche. Il mene dans les cavernes du sentiment, et pas de la raison. C'est une architecture fatale, resonante et bruissant. Mes veines candelabres illuminent mes craintes. De mystiques eclairs parcourent mon corps. Mes membres eblouis par tant de lumiere redonnent un peu de gout a ma triste carcasse. Je reconquiers mon corps par la force des nerfs."