Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Improving English Etc.

Improving English Etc.

Bear with me as I know that I am taking long silences. But a new feature called FeedBurner has been added to this blog using which you can subscribe to my posts.

For those who are using screen readers: I am afraid - in the process of getting subscription captcha will intimidate you. Just let me know if you face difficulty passing it and I will try to get you through the thing.

Captcha is to confirm whether the user is a human or robot. In the technical language, “robot” is referred as “bot” - meaning that it is controlled by anyone else.

A “bot” is a part of a huge number of hijacked computers that are controlled by a single person. And a group of hijacked computers is called “botnet”.

Can I tee off the English stuff? Here is the meaning of “tee off”! This phrasal verb means “to begin something” or “to make angry or disgusted.”

I have taken the meaning of the aforementioned phrasal verb from (thefreedictionary.com). I mentioned the source otherwise Google would have teed me off by banning my blog!

A very positive English proverb is: “The darkest hour is always before dawn.” This proverb says just before sunrise the sky is at its blackest - implying that when good time is in the offing the problems too are at their extreme.

“In the offing” is an idiom which means “anything likely to happen soon.”

My holidays are in the offing - so hopefully I will visit home!

How many of you are living away from home? How lovely the embrace of the family is, one learns after living away from it. I won’t add anything to it otherwise pearly tears might stream down from the beautiful eyes of anyone! I have a very nice nephew, who misses me a lot.

Why do you people always misunderstand me!

Difference between ‘elder’ and ‘older’. ‘Elder’ is used when a person refers to the members of his own family. An example: My elder brother has a nice voice.

Importantly, when ‘than’ is used with ‘elder’, the sentence will read: “My sister is ten years elder than I.” It is wrong to say “My sister is ten years elder than me.”

‘Older’ can be used with both people and things. But, when it is used with people, a person cannot refer to the members of his own family.

You can say “The boy sitting in the first row appears older to me.” But it would be wrong if you say “The boy sitting in the first row appears elder to me,” because that boy isn’t your family member.

Using ‘older’ with things is very simple: “This building is older than that one.”

I hope that I will not tee you off by talking a bit about business!

Assets: Things of possessions that can be converted into cash are called assets. Cash is also assets.

Assets are of two types: fixed assets and current assets. Fixed assets or long-term assets have a life of more than a year. Land, Building, machinery etc., are fixed assets. Additionally, there are intangible fixed assets like the goodwill or brand of a company.

Things that can be easily and quickly converted into cash are current assets. These include money at the bank, bills receivable, debts (the money which someone has to pay you back) etc.

A customer gives bills receivable to the businessman in the place of cash. Thereafter, these bills receivable are quickly converted into cash.

That was all I brought for you. If you have any suggestions for me or if you find me erring anywhere, just let me know. I will really love to read anything written by you.

1 comment:

vocabularybuilder said...

Thanks for sharing this piece of information. It is really useful.

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