An Invitation

These were taken from my invitation of the PPC's Annual Christmas Party that was held last year.

"Last and Final Draw."
One can use either the word "last" or "final" because these words denote a same meaning; furthermore, this sentence shows redundancy. This must be rephrased to: Third and Final Draw.

"Special appreciation & recognition to Parish Apostoles who have served the longest."
The word "apostoles" is not an English word; hence, it should be italicized. These awardees are still serving as apostoles in our parish up to present, so present perfect progressive must be used. The adjective "longest" refers only to single entity, but there are more than one awardees. Therefore, the sentence should be rephrased this way: Special appreciation & recognition to the Parish Apostoles who have been serving for a long time.

Different Uses of Could

• Could is the past tense of can.   

                When I was young, I could lift heavy objects.

• To make polite request and to answer this request(Can is more certain than could).

               Could you please help me.(I could , if I finish this earlier.)

• To express possibility

               It could rain today.

Common Errors in English Usage

Hey guys i found a site that i want to share with you. It contains a list of common errors in English usage. I recommend that you visit the site. The difference between cleanup and clean up is an example of a common error that I saw in the site “Cleanup” is usually a noun: “the cleanup of the toxic waste site will cost billions of dollars.” “Clean” is a verb in the phrase “clean up”: “You can go to the mall after you clean up your room.”

http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html#errors

Homographs

Homographs are words that have the same spelling but differ in meaning, origin and sometimes pronunciation. These are confusing especially when one is not familiar with the word.

Example:

• A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.

Bass- a kind of fish

Bass- a deep voice or tone/ lower in musical pitch.

Reference: http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-homographs.html

NAUGHTY PREPOSITIONS

Prepositions are like little devils that ruin our sentence compositions if used improperly. They are very sneaky and can bring us into trouble when not use properly. The only thing that can save a person from  such misfortune is by practicing REALLY REALLY hard! I found a link that corrected some of my common mistakes in using prepositions. I hope this will help you a lot too! :)

http://158.132.164.193/FYP/html/preposEx.htm


STEPHANIE BERNARDO

Phrasal Verb

Phrasal verb is a combination of a verb and a preposition, a verb or an adverb, or a verb with both and adverb and a preposition. There are so many examples of phrasal verbs, and there are also some rules to be followed. I browsed into this site and I thought it would be helpful for students like me in learning.

http://www.englishpage.com/prepositions/phrasaldictionary.html

Yo, Banana Boy

We Filipinos love to twist words and read them backwards. In the English language, some words don’t need twisting you just have to read them backwards. An example is, gag. Such words are called palindromes however palindromes are not only limited to words but also to sentences, and phrases.