By Phonetics, Nouns

From Cambridge: diehard, die-hard Show phonetics noun DISAPPROVING someone who is unwilling to change or give up their ideas or ways of behaving, even when there are good reasons to do so: a diehard conservative/fan A die-hard fan of a Philadelphia Eagles football team (for...

From Cambridge...hope it helps. syntax Show phonetics noun the grammatical arrangement of words in a sentence syntactic Show phonetics adjective SPECIALIZED syntactically Show phonetics adverb...

Hi, rishonly. I don't think there will be a master stroke for this. 'Just pay close attention to individual nouns' is the trick. I don't know how your English-Indian dictionary is printed. My dictionary shows in parentheses the prepositions that go with the nouns. For example, if I look up...

hey i'm a Ist year FE student . i'm also new to this subject but i have got fair enough idea about it . it's all about improving our spoken english . right now we're learning phonetic transcription . interesting new way of writing . the grammar part is not too hard either...

Hi MTL, Yes, you're right, a set is always a group of things, items, ... Here is the definition and examples from the Cambridge online. set (GROUP) group noun a group of people who have similar interests and ways of living: the London set She's got in with a very arty set. The smart set...

Has the word 'thee' become archaic? I'm afraid I'm not using the correct from of 'archaic'. How to call a word that has lost its true meaning or that has not been used now-a-days? Has the word become ARCHAIC noun SPECIALIZED a word or expression that is not generally used any more

Ofcourse, I do know that "chit" refers to a child other than refering to a bill. But, how are you saying that it is an acronym. acronym noun an abbreviation consisting of the first letters of each word in the name of something, pronounced as a word: AIDS is an acronym for 'Acquired Immune...

Praveen, don't you look up your words in the Cambridge Online Dictionaries first? The examples there are really helpful. Here is the defintion and examples from that link: Definition stereotype adverb DISAPPROVING And here is the link itself, if you liked the definition and...

A couple of points. 1) I have a suggestion as to the reason why people from the u.s. think they have an enormous variety of accents, but no-one else does. This could be due to the typical u.s. insular, isolationist attitude which means they are often ignorant of the outside world in a number...

I got the meaning from Cambridge dictionary: Definition late (DEAD) describes someone who has died, especially recently: She gave her late husband's clothes to charity. Praveen.