English phrases

and write. It is often said that most of what is spoken today in English is completely incorrect, going by the standards that were used many years ago. English is constantly enriched with new words and expressions through various means, and it evolves differently in the many places that it is spoken. The…

Foreign You can’t call yourself truly fluent in English, just because you can speak one-line English here and there. You are truly fluent in English only when you can speak English continuously. (Nair, 2005) At length, by giving supporting details, reasons, justifications, and illustrative examples of situations and events easily, clearly, confidently, without unwanted hesitations and by effectively managing all naturally occurring hesitations. This was proved in the book of Professor Kev Nair…

Many popular words and phrases commonly used in the present can be traced back to one of William Shakespeare’s 191 works. One could come up with 100 commonly used phrases and find at least half of them in Shakespeare’s writing. Shakespeare invented over 1700 words; never used in the English language before his time. Shakespeare claimed the first use of a knock knock joke when he wrote it in one of his more popular plays, Macbeth. The poet spent half of his life writing thirty-seven plays and 154…

In George Orwell’s work, Politics and the English Language, Orwell makes many points as to why the English language is collapsing, especially in political writing. Impropriety in the English language has been passed about much like tradition and has not seemed to have stopped. Ambiguity in political writing has made it dry with no imagery in the words or metaphors used, which is often done incorrectly. Orwell uses several phrases from other professors and politicians as examples to explain why…

Ben Zimmer’s article entitled “Chunking” from the September 2010 issue of the New York Times, raises the question: should collocation education be used to teach English? The article focuses on the importance of chunking and how useful it is in teaching and developing others in the language of English. Zimmer uses his son as a prime example of how kids of his age unknowingly pick up myriads of chunks, “or idioms,” throughout the span of their childhood; he explains, “As Blake learned these…

‘A breath of fresh air’, ‘love is like a rose’, and ‘slept like a baby’, are all phrases that are immediately recognized as problematic clichés. Many words and phrases in the english language have either lost their original meaning, or have been replaced with something new and, at times, inappropriate. A classic example that will be looked at during the next four hundred and fifty words is one of Aristotle’s thirteen fallacies; “begging the question.” Begging the question is a fallacy in…

commonly used phrases. First, and probably most important, Shakespeare wrote many impactful plays. He wrote his plays over four hundred years ago, but they’re still widely…

There are many people who can’t speak proper English, maybe because English wasn’t their first language. Or simply because they didn’t grow up around it. In the passage Mother-Tongue by Amy Tan, Amy wants to let the audience know about another language. This is another language that she speaks people refer it to as “broken” english. In her passage she uses some rhetorical strategies such as pathos, logos, and ethos. Amy Tan only speaks from personal experience. Her mother is a Chinese, Native.…

of the words in English used today are shorter or simpler variations of original words derive from both Olde and Modern English. The change of language comes from the influence of popular sources such as book, newspapers, public figures and humans in general. Known people…

across the idea of language being "fractured and broken". In the essay, she provided examples of how her mother's limited English caused her to be given poor service at department stores, banks, and restaurants; stating how people would usually consider a lack of depth in their thinking due to their "broken" or "limited" use of language. Conversely, she thinks that her mother's English is "vivid, full of observation and imagery". Indeed, Chinglish is what creates meaning for the speaker and…