SOBRIQUETS

What are Sobriquets?  Well,nick names given to places or persons are sobriquets.some interesting sobriquets for places are

Roof of the world - pamirs

Spice garden of India - kerala

World,s lonliest island - Tristan da cunha

White city - Belgrade

Sugar bowl of the world - cuba

Land of the rising sun - Japan

Land of the midnight sun - Norway

City of the golden gate - San Francisco

Land of white elephants - Thailand

Pink city - Jaipur

City of Skyscrapers -  New York

Land of Maple leaves -  Canada

Some sobriquets for people are

 Mahatma - Mohan das karam chand Gandhi

Saint of gutters   -Mother Teresa

Panditji   - Jawaharlal Nehru

Kaviguri - Rabindranath Tagore

Bard of Avon - Shakespeare

Lady of the lamp - Florence Nightangle

ALL ABOUT NOUNS

Nouns are the first thing we learn in grammar. The grade 2 child also knows that NOUNS are naming words. They are the names of person places, animals and thing.

Let us find out some more of the nouns in detail.
Firstly nouns can be classified into two categories

Some examples - London, Sunday, Eiffel Tower, George,
Mount Everest etc.

Some examples of Common nouns are book, table, bird, river, city etc.

Some Collective Nouns are

ABSTRACT  NOUNS

These are the names of ideas,qualities and feeling
eg.happiness, truth,honest etc

MATERIAL NOUN

These are  the names of materials that make things. eg. Brick,cement,cloth etc.

 Nouns have four genders
Masculine gender shows a male eg. boy,man
Feminine gender shows a female eg. girl,woman.
Common gender shows both a male and female eg.baby
Neuter gender shows non-living things like a chair,table, pen etc.

Find out the meaning of this trending word _ FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION

FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION

Recently when I came across this word it was very difficult for me to pronounce this word. I looked up the Oxford dictionary and found that this word really exists  - and it meant  " the action or habit of estimating something as useless "

This 29-letter tongue-twisting  word is trending in India. This word was used by a politician in his tweet to announce his book "  The paradoxical Prime Minister. "

LEARNING ADJECTIVES

Adjectives

Let's refresh a bit of grammar . Today  I chose a very simple topic - and that is adjectives .

We all know that describing  words are called  Adjectives. 

They tell us the qualities of nouns and pronouns. 

We compare qualities  of people  and things using adjectives. 

Adjectives  have three degrees,  Positive,  Comparitive and Superlative  degrees. 

How do we use these degrees let me tell you-

* When we  state  the  qualities  of a person or a thing,  we use the positive  degree. 

*When we make comparison between  two persons or things we use the Comparative  degree. 

*When we make comparison  among more than two persons or things,  we use the Superlative   degree.

Let's see these words

  

Hot is  in the positive degree  ,while hotter is comparative degree  and  hottest  is in the superlative  degree.  So is with the other adjectives .

Some  words have irregular  comparative  and Superlative  degrees,  let look at these words too -

 Late   later  latest(shows time)

             latter  last(shows position)

Old      older      Oldest

             elder      eldest

 far      farther    farthest

(shows distance)

              further  furthest. 

Sometimes we use adjectives  wrongly.  We do not  need two comparatives or two  superlatives.

For eg.

Incorrect           correct

more better       better

more brighter    brighter

most deepest.     deepest

more greener     greener





   

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TECHNO -PREFIXES

 

New affixes  appear in English all the time, largely  due to rapidly changing technology. 

For example,  the prefix  e - (meaning electronic ")  was created to form words such as

e - mail,
e-book
e-commerce
e-paper
e-newsletter
e-text
e -chat
e-file e-statement
e-zone,
e-learning
e-reader
e-waste
e-business
e-procurement   and so on. 

Similarly the prefix  cyber ,which refers to information  technology, is used  in the words, cyber -space
 cyber-cafe
 cyber-care
 cyber-card,
 cybernetic
 cybernated
 cyberpunk
 cybercast and so on.  

GLOSSARY FOR REFERENCE

Glossary

abbreviation 

A shortened form of a word, often with one or more full stops to represent missing letters.

abstract noun

The name was given to something that cannot be touched, such as a concept or a sensation. eg truthful.

acronym

An abbreviation made up of the initial letters of the main words in a phrase. These letters are pronounced as a word.(rather than as separate letters), which represents the meaning of the original phrase.

Clause

A grammatically unit that contains a subject and a verb.Sentences are made up of one or more clauses.

Colloquialism 

A word or phrase used only in informal speech

dialect 

The vocabulary (informal) used by a particular  geographical group.

Gerund

The name given to the present  participle when it is used as a noun.

hyperbole

An extreme form of exaggeration that may not be taken seriously, but grabs the readers attention.

Jargon

A type of slang that includes  specialist terms that are used and understood  by a select, often professional , group of people.

Morpheme

The smallest meaningful  part of a word.

Onomatopoeia

The use of word that mimic the sounds  they represent.

Pun

The use of  a word or phrase  that has two or more meanings for a comic effect.

rhetorical question

A question that does not require an answer but is used for effect.

Simile

A phrase that compares one thing to another using as using as or like.

EIGHT HOMONYMS YOU SHOULD KNOW