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Ones excited by first Asia tour. By Phil Jones

Ones excited by first Asia tour.

“From what Rio was saying, the fan base is absolutely huge out there, and that makes it exciting for us to go over there and experience it, and for the fans to see us as well. It’s important to give something back to those fans and show our support to them.

“When I met up with the squad for the first time [in 2011] it was definitely an eye-opener for me to see how big United is as a club. I already knew it was a massive club, but I didn’t realise just how big the fanbase was. There were people queuing up outside our hotel just to catch glimpses of us which was kind of surreal, but it was a great experience.” - Phil Jones
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evra

“Win your games and show that Manchester United is the number 1 team” Evra. Patrice told us it’s time to deliver now, can we keep up our good run of form?

cr7 vs man utd

Cr7 say that he is not afraid about his match with man utd on champions league but man utd say that they are happy if they take a draw.

English Vocabulary: Beginnings

There Just Seems to Be No End to It - Part 1

The English language has become the international language of the world. In addition to the 400 million people speaking English as a first language, about 800 million use or study Englishas a second/ foreign language. As English grammar is relatively simple compared to other languages, it is the vast English vocabulary, which poses a real challenge in the quest to master the language.

Almost every word in English seems to have many synonym sets with rough to subtle differences in meaning between members of each set. For example, to name the place where one lives, you can use home, house, quarters, or lodging (standard); residence, domicile, orhabituation (formal); and shack, digs, spot, or pad (informal, slang). A set of words can also be found to describe a person who talks a lot: articulate, eloquent, fluent (positive connotation); vocal, talkative, verbose (neutral connotation); chattering, gossipy, and gabby(negative connotation). There just seems to be no end to English words...

The most complete dictionary of English, the Oxford English Dictionary, or OED (second edition, 20 volumes, 1989) has more than 600,000 word entries (including archaic forms and variant spellings). Nevertheless, English is estimated to have more than a 1,000,000 words, as the second half of the 20th century enriched the language with an abundance of specialist, technical and scientific terms, not to mention slang and contributions from local English varieties (American, British, Australian & New-Zealander English, Indian English, and more). Just for comparison, Arabic has "only" 200,000 words, German 160,000, French 140,000, Japanese 116,000, and Hebrew 100,000 (rough estimates).

How is it that English has such a huge vocabulary, larger than any other language on earth? In addition to various word formation mechanisms existing in other languages, such as onomatopoeia, derivation, affixation, compounding and functional extension, the major source for the large variety of English words is its dramatic history. The 1,600 years of English existence have been witness to massive revolutionary changes in the language as it mixed with and continuously borrowed from other languages, with which it came into contact.

Early English roots trace back to the invasion of the Anglo-Saxons to Britain in the 5th and 6th centuries resulting in Old English being mainly Germanic. 83% of the most common 1000 words in today's English are of Anglo-Saxon origin.

Old English words

nouns: house, mother, father ,cow, God, gold, work, land, winter verbs: be, have, do, say, come, make adjectives: good, new, and long function words: he, of, him, for, and, under, on

Already in this period of Old English, the language began applying its inclination to ravenously borrow words from other languages. From the native Celts, it took clan, bin, gull, and crag, as well as names for places and rivers ( Dover, Kent, Severn, Thames). Latin words arrived even earlier with the Roman conquest of 43 B.C. ( cheese, cup, kitchen, plant, street, wine). A later wave of Latin words was brought with Christian monks and missionaries seeking to convert the Anglo-Saxons, enriching the language with both religious and secular words, such asabbot, altar, acolyte, candle, martyr, Mass, and lily.

The next addition to the vocabulary to close the Old English period resulted from the Viking invasions to Britain during the 8th and 9th centuries. These newcomers, who had settled alongside the Anglo-Saxons, contributed Old Norse vocabulary such as the following:

from Old Norse

flat, cake, take, get, call, husband, want, cut, both, ugly, fellow, hit, odd, egg, sister, law, leg, rag, window, die, are (form of the verb be) words beginning with sk: scorch, scrape, scrub, skill, and sky The personal pronouns: they, their, them

Synonymous word sets such as those presented above already show up in this period: sick vs.ill, shirt vs. skirt, wrath vs. anger, rear vs. raise, hide vs. skin, the first Anglo-Saxon, the second Old Norse, respectively. The all-in-all contribution of words from Germanic origins (Anglo-Saxon, Old Norse etc.) amounts to about 23% of the current English vocabulary.

The year 1066 marked the dramatic transition to Middle English, with William the Conqueror, king of Normandy in Western France, drawing his army into Britain. Old French thus became the spoken language of the ruling classes: the nobles, bankers, lawmakers, and scholars; the peasants and lower classes spoke Anglo-Saxon and some surviving Celtic dialects; the clergy used Latin. In the coming 400 years, Middle English gradually overthrew French and became the language of all classes, but words for government, religion, food, law, art, literature, and medicine are originally French.

from Norman French

parliament, justice, crime, marriage, money, ornament, art, pleasure, joy, rent

The parallel usage of several languages has resulted in some famous duplicate and triplicate synonym sets. For instance, kingly (from Old English), royal (from French), and regal (from Latin). As well as house-mansion, wood-forest, answer-reply, yearly-annual, room-chamber, wish-desire, might-power, worthy-honorable, and bold-courageous (the former from Old-English, the latter from French, respectively).

Another fascinating example of the social divide between language users of Middle English is shown in nouns denoting different kinds of meats. The English speaking peasants who raised the animals used the Anglo-Saxon words ( swine/pig, sheep, ox, cow, calf, deer), whereas the French speaking elite, who could afford eating these meats regularly, used the French equivalents ( pork, bacon, mutton, beef, veal, venison, respectively). Today, these duplicates remain in common use in modern English, using different words for the animals and the meats produced from them. The contribution of both Norman and Modern French to English is estimated in about 29% of the current vocabulary.

English Vocabulary Guide - Vocabulary Check / Vocabulary Checker

English Vocabulary Guide - Vocabulary Check / Vocabulary Checker

Welcome to the English Vocabulary Guide. The English Vocabulary Guide has articles about key topics on English vocabulary and semantics (the meaning of words) that will teach you about writing more correctly. Remember that even experienced writers always have their writing edited for vocabulary (word replacement with synonyms, enrichment, register, collocations or word appropriateness).

As English has the largest vocabulary compared to other languages, with estimates running between 500,000 and one million word items, it is important to know how to enrich your vocabulary. Words together form phrases, figures of speech and idioms which enrich one's language figuratively and symbolically. In addition to tips on memorizing words, our vocabulary guide allows you to access information on word formation and derivation (roots, prefixes and suffixes), phrasal verbs, synonyms, antonyms, word origins in English, dictionary use, cliches, jargon, and words commonly confused.

Grammar Rules

Grammar rules – although the term may evoke memories of endless memorization of dry rules with no apparent use, grammar can actually be a fascinating subject. Englishgrammar rules are actually very useful if not vital for English usage and English writing, if one wants to get messages across confidently and effectively. The rules of grammar tell us how we should form words and sentences in a way that is accepted as "grammatical" or correct, as the rules reflect the inherent structure of a language. Some linguists also include orthography (spelling, capitalization, and punctuation), semantics (word meaning) and pragmatics (language use in context) under a wider definition of grammar.

Grammar rules help us for many communicative purposes. For example, to talk about our past job experience at a job interview, we apply the rules for the present perfect tense. The rules for forming conditional sentences help us to express contrary to fact wishes, assumptions or regrets about missed opportunities, whereas the present simple tense is used to talk about hard facts and regular habits. In English writing, adjective clauses and verbal clauses help us add more information and enrich our sentences, while the rules governing conjunctions and transitional adverbs are vital when we want our text to appear coherent with logically related parts.

Knowing basic grammar terms such as verb, noun, adjective, adverb, phrase and clause is important in order to be able to analyze and improve your language performance, whether in your native language or even more so in a new language you are learning. Even though English grammar rules are considered simpler than those of French, German, Russian, Hindi or Arabic, many questions about the correctness and clarity of your sentences should arise while writing. In addition, as writing is a process demanding a considerable mental effort, most writers tend to inadvertently misuse the grammar rules and make mistakes, some of which have been found to be of common practice.

The attentive writer, however experienced, should always look for potential problem areas when applying the grammar rules of verb tenses (e.g. did Vs. have done), subject-verb agreement (e.g. The results show Vs. The result show), pronoun usage (e.g. he, his, him, himself), word order (e.g. subject-verb-object), sentence fragments and run-ons, sentence variety and the use of determiners (e.g. a, the, this, my), prepositions (e.g. in, on, at, during), gerunds and many more. Should isn't or doesn't be used? When is an s with apostrophe really necessary? All these are issues which good writing has to address in order to appear professional, confident and persuasive.

TV Doesn’t Help Your Spelling!

All those TV commercials aren’t helping Billy with his spelling!

Some of the alternative spellings (“creme” for “cream” when a company isn’t using the real thing) are necessary. Others are attempts to be cute or different.

Luckily Billy (and the rest of us) can use spellcheck for most writing projects. And we can remember that spelling doesn’t correlate with writing ability (FDR couldn’t spell many simple words).

Ladies and gentlemen, an example of the seniors that attend my high school.

Ladies and gentlemen,
an example of the seniors that attend my high school.

11 Rules of Writing, Grammar, and Punctuation

1. To join two independent clauses, use a comma followed by a conjunction, a semicolon alone, or a semicolon followed by a sentence modifier.

2. Use commas to bracket nonrestrictive phrases, which are not essential to the sentence's meaning.

3. Do not use commas to bracket phrases that are essential to a sentence's meaning.

4. When beginning a sentence with an introductory phrase or an introductory (dependent) clause, include a comma.

5. To indicate possession, end a singular noun with an apostrophe followed by an "s". Otherwise, the noun's form seems plural.

6. Use proper punctuation to integrate a quotation into a sentence. If the introductory material is an independent clause, add the quotation after a colon. If the introductory material ends in "thinks," "saying," or some other verb indicating expression, use a comma.

7. Make the subject and verb agree with each other, not with a word that comes between them.

8. Be sure that a pronoun, a participial phrase, or an appositive refers clearly to the proper subject.

9. Use parallel construction to make a strong point and create a smooth flow.

10. Use the active voice unless you specifically need to use the passive.

11. Omit unnecessary words.

Commonly Misspelled Words

Week #1
1. innocuous 2. shriek 3. yield 4. disappear 5. seizure 6. conceited 7. revise 8. accidental	9. caffeine 10. exercise 11. reign 12. weird 13. equipped 14. suddenness 15. misstate 16. worshiper	17. referred 18. advertise 19. quizzed 20. retained 21. annulled 22. misspelling 23. coolly 24. receive 25. shield
Week #2
1. deficient 2. prohibited 3. criticize 4. acquitted 5. referred 6. sincerely 7. bookkeeper 8. newsstand	9. vacillate 10. villain 11. unskillful 12. parallel 13. all right 14. leisure 15. forfeit 16. sieve	17. collaborate 18. mischievous 19. omniscient 20. hierarchy 2l. mischief 22. surprise 23. sovereign 24. perceive 25. feign
Week #3
1. inflexible 2. satellite 3. appearance 4. parallel 5. accelerate 6. occurrence 7. supersede 8. manageable	9. dissimilar 10. relevance 11. traceable 12. antecedent 13. enforceable 14. judgment 15. preference 16. abundance	17. rarefy 18. anoint 19. battalion 20. assess 21. grievous 22. innuendo 23. valuable 24. specify 25. eligible
Week #4
1. passable 2. admirable 3. forfeit 4. decisively 5. arguable 6. commitment 7. preferred 8. argument	9. consensus 10. sustenance 11. occasional 12. energy 13. quotient 14. gullible 15. discernible 16. desirable	17. sufficient 18. movable 19. irresistible 20. livable 2l. embarrassed 22. demagogue 33. deterrence 24. sheriff 25. miscellaneous
Week #5
1. privilege 2. exhilarate 3. colossal 4. numskull 5. superintendent 6. merchandise 7. khaki 8. sacrilegious	9. trespass 10. resuscitate 11. absence 12. allege 13. supersede 14. concede 15. conscience 16. disagree	17. insistence 18. rhythm 19. minimize 20. occurrence 2l. adolescent 22. abscess 23. pastime 24. analyze 25. precede
Week #6
1. synagogue 2. repetition 3. hypocrisy 4. sensitive. 5. obsession 6. arrival 7. harass 8. proceed	9. ecstasy 10. relief 11. compelled 12. forty 13. tobacco 14. threshold 15. ancient 16. separate	17. committee 18. presumptuous 19. agreeable 20. exceed 2l. disheveled 22. heresy 23. concurred 24. tariff 25. accommodate
Week #7
1. complement 2. counterfeit 3. dilemma 4. broccoli 5. corroborate 6. negligible 7. financier 8. conscientious	9. contemptible 10. bachelor 11. appalling 12. necessary 13. obscene 14. excise 15. loneliness 16. usable	17. governor 18. foreign 19. susceptible 20. fierce 21. indispensable 22. vacancy 31. succumb 24. copyright 25. secession
Week #8
1. suppress 2. irascible 3. wield 4. stationery 5. believe6. besiege 7. orator 8. anonymous	9. adamant 10. wholly 11. hemorrhage 12. withhold 13. profited 14. oppressive 15. plausible 16. thoroughly	17. facetious 18. repressible 19. maneuver 20. brief 21. skepticism 22. dumbfound 23. sergeant 24. omitted 25. occurred

ADVERBS: How adverbs are formed

Rules

1. In most cases, an adverb is formed by adding '-ly' to an adjective:

Adjective	Adverb
cheap quick slow	cheaply quickly slowly

Examples:

• Time goes quickly.


• He walked slowly to the door.


• She certainly had an interesting life.


• He carefully picked up the sleeping child.

Rules

If the adjective ends in '-y', replace the 'y' with 'i' and add '-ly':

Adjective	Adverb
easy angry happy lucky	easily angrily happily luckily

If the adjective ends in -'able', '-ible', or '-le', replace the '-e' with '-y':

Adjective	Adverb
probable terrible gentle	probably terribly gently

If the adjective ends in '-ic', add '-ally':

Adjective	Adverb
basic economic tragic	basically economically tragically

Note: Exception: public - publicly

2. Some adverbs have the same form as the adjective:

Adjective and Adverb
early fast hard high	late near straight wrong

Compare:

• It is a fast car.


• He drives very fast.


• This is a hard exercise.


• He works hard.


• We saw many high buildings.


• The bird flew high in the sky.

3. 'Well' and 'good'

'Well' is the adverb that corresponds to the adjective 'good'.

Examples:

• He is a good student.


• He studies well.


• She is a good pianist.


• She plays the piano well.
  


• They are good swimmers.


• They swim well.