Work on improving your language skills with these simple tips
Mastering English is a lonely with no finishing line. You just keep improving your language – sometimes the vocabulary, playing with grammar but ensuring it is correct, giving attention to punctuation, and editing your work. Editing means deleting all extraneous words and sentences. Based on my experience as a teacher and author, here are three major tips to improve your English.
For instance, word formation and usage, helping verbs (it is also called: liking verbs, model verbs, auxiliary verbs), all tenses (active and passive) use of infinitive and gerund, order sentences, use of there and it, some structure and finally parts of speech.
2) Practice writing simple sentences
The basic structure of any sentence in English is subject – verb – predicate. For example, ” Hamid is a boy.” The language is built by adding adjectives /adverbs or adjectival/adverbial or nominal phrases or clauses to the basic sentence. So, ” Hamid is the boy who lives a few houses away” comprises two sentences: 1) Hamid is a child and 2) Hamid lives a few houses away. If you can understand that the entire language is built on the basis of simple sentences, you will see how easy it is to correct your English language. Using relative clauses as in the above sentence – who /which /that – makes a simple sentence complex. Using conjunctions (but, however, hence) in clauses turns a simple sentence into a compound one. If not used carefully, they make sentences incorrect. Hence, if you are not confident in English should use only simple sentences because everybody can construct them correctly. Do that until you feel you have gained command over the language.
3)Read daily
Read, read and read anything you like – a classic or a comic, it makes no difference – but read. It will increase your speed of reading with understanding, and subconsciously enable you to pick up vocabulary and correct sentence structure. This is because you are exposing yourself to English is use. Listening is also important if we listen all day. Simply by listening to correct English or reading it, we internalize and use it when required. Likewise, listening to videos and podcasts will also help.
4)Use AI tools
There are multiple free AI-driven software that automatically suggest ways of correcting sentences, vocabulary, spelling or punctuation. Use these tools you develop a feel for correctness.
With steady and continuous practice, you will win the battle. Don’t be discouraged by failure; point to be remembered that it will take time even the best user of English language has had to struggle with the language. Always keep in mind that there are no shortcuts or miracles, only effort and patience that will help you reach your aim.
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