November 28, 2007 at 6:18 am
karthikeyan (11/28/2007)
Beef up your resume.(or)
solidify your resume.
Which one will suite ?
Neither. Use strengthen, improve or enhance your resume.
Suite means a group. Suit means fits or goes with.
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Madame Artois
November 28, 2007 at 6:33 am
karthikeyan (11/28/2007)
And can anybody tell me the difference between 'said' and 'told',Please don't say do a search in google,Because i already did it.But i am unable to take conclusion. Those articles are confusing me.I do read grammer in sites. But for some cases i am unable to understand the exact usage. above one is an example for it.
English experts inputs are really appreciable.
Said is the past tense of say - to speak This is used when you personally were speaking.
Told is the past tense of tell - to inform or convey. This is used when someone else was telling you.
'i am unable to take conclusion' - this should be 'I am unable to reach a conclusion'
' I do read grammer in sites' - this should be ' I do study grammar on sites'
I suspect the reason you are unable to understand the exact usage is that you are translating English into your native language or constructing your question/answer in your native language then translating it into English. I can re-interate that you need an English language course or apply yourself to studying 'Fowler's English Usage'
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Madame Artois
November 28, 2007 at 8:29 am
It's said English is the most difficult language to learn as a second (or third...), and I believe it! I agree with several of the other respondents; read more of it (you'll learn a lot from the context used), and write more with the specific purpose of having it reviewed. I've always been a pretty good writer (probably because I enjoy it), but I got a lot better after "editting" a monthly newsletter for three years. (Which meant writing about half of it! 😀 )
If you're going to write articles for general consumption (like Loner), you have to be ready for the comments on your errors. I learned this with the newsletter - the better a writer you are, the harder they search for the one error they can tweak you on! I'll never forget the time WORD did an auto-correction on me that I failed to catch, and changed a name to "Alien Geezer" (I guess that's a really old extra-terrestrial). :hehe: Fortunately, Allen G. thought it was as funny as everyone else did!
Most people enjoy finding the errors of others; I suspect it has more to do with feeling better about themselves (i.e. "whew! I'm glad I'm not the only one who makes that mistake") than it does with putting someone else down. If you take that view, you're actually helping other people by making an occasional mistake! 😉 So go out there and brighten up someone's day while you improve your writing skills!
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