English Tips

Master the art of writing essays and reading poetry with knowledge of literary devices. These word tools are used to create imagery for readers and listeners. They make narrative and descriptive works more engaging and enjoyable rather than the use of plain adjectives. Literary devices can be literal or figurative …

We learn that a sentence begins with a capital letter and ends with a full stop or exclamation point. Many students do just that but with fragmented expressions that make no sense. This happens with students at all levels of education and may occur because they never really grasped the …

Consonants are the letters of the alphabet other than the vowels a e i o u. The ones in the English alphabet are b c d f g h j k l m n p q r s t v w x y z. In English, some consonants are very …

Vowels in the English alphabet are a e i o u and sometimes y. Each of these letters represents two sounds, long and short, and have been the basis for learning to read for a long time despite the complexities of the written English language. As reading methods evolve, phonics …

Spelling words in English is not as easy as ABC. It involves learning letter sounds and rules for blending them, forming words and changing their meaning to fit into sentences. A learner must read a lot of books, articles, newspapers and magazines written in English to get familiar with these …