by Wordpandit | May 8, 2012 | Grammar Blog |
This is a small post, illustrating the difference between ‘beside’ and ‘besides’. Beside: The word beside is a preposition. It means ‘close to’ or ‘next to’. It also has a second meaning: ‘compared with’. Examples for beside: Can...
by Wordpandit | Apr 24, 2012 | Grammar Blog |
As they say, English is a funny language and we could not agree any less when it comes to confusions such as the one between ‘licence’ and ‘license’. You must be wondering what difference can a single ‘c’ and ‘s’ make? Well, if you are a grammar fanatic, the wrong...
by Wordpandit | Apr 17, 2012 | Grammar Blog |
One of our readers, Maninder, recently wrote to us and asked a simple question: ‘When to use a while and awhile? I seem to using one when the other is required and vice-versa.” Well, the difference is an easy one but we just seem to forget it every now and then. A...
by Wordpandit | Apr 10, 2012 | Grammar Blog |
The rule that defines it all: the verb must agree with its subject in number and in person. In other words, the verb must be of the same number and person as the subject. NOTE: Subject-Verb concord is one of the most tested grammar concepts in competitive...
by Wordpandit | Apr 4, 2012 | Grammar Blog |
Affect and effect are two words, which can be confusing if you were to find out how to and when to use them. The fact that a simple the usage of an a and an e can create such a fuss says something about the language we are dealing with. In simple grammatical terms,...
