My friends! Reading your great stories on our writing challenges I have always thought about arranging such a contest/discussion of your literary works meaning your skills in composing the stories and expressing yourselves in a written form. So, I have an idea to post a series of blogs where we all will be able to estimate writing abilities of the authors. I am going to post the corrected stories so that you will estimate only literary skills of the authors. Besides, the idea is to discuss those

What is your first name? My first name is Yuuichi and it is written 友一 in kanji. 友 means "friend" and it is used in words like 友情(friendship). 一 means "one ". So my parents put their hope that I can make many friends into the name. And 一 is used because I am their first child.

Most parents usually select a name with a positive meaning. However some parents give bad names to their child. One parent was going to name their child as 悪魔(which means devil) in past times, but the Japanese government d

Yes, I mean you should use 'or' (not 'and') after a negative verb, for example, you say "I don't like football or basketball.", not "I don't like football and basketbll." - that is, 'or' means 'and not' here. 

It's not uncommon for a learner to use 'and' in place of 'or' in a situation like that - I know they are trying to say they don't like both of them: both football and basketball. 

It may have something to do with the so-called 'first language interference'. 

However, you could use 'not A, nor

So here you can find my 10 tips that allow you write amazing papers:

1) Choose Your Subject

A crucial moment before you begin your paper is when you select your subject.  You want writing your paper to go as smoothly as possible and factoring in how many pages your paper needs to be, your resources,  the allotted time frame, and the amount of information you’ll have access to are all key factors to the process.   In addition, going with a subject that actually interests you will do a lot in terms

Lately I think about you

The one who has inspired

I can't find you here anymore

where are you now

a friend of mine oh...

The main development method of our national mining machinery is to imitate the products that appearing in our market, crushing chamber of crusher and of course this products cannot have the strong competition in the mining market, and the only result is to be dumped at last. The situation above on not only can influence its development, which also can lead to the worst development recycle of the whole mining machinery.
Mining machinery should abandon those outdated traditional mechanical equipme

Fancy costumes to join yearly cultural carnival in Karangmojo District, Gunungkidul Regency, Yogyakarta

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Dear friends! I will tell you about these problematic adjectives and how to use them correctly. We use them differently with/as singular and plural nouns. Besides, these adjectives can be used as nouns, both singular and plural.

1. Singular: another and the other.

Another means any other. We use it if there are more than two similar objects.

He is from another city. (There are more than two cities in the world)

My pen is out of ink. Will you give me another, please? (There are a few other pens on th

My friends! Today I will tell you how to use too/either/also correctly.

TOO has three different uses. We use TOO only in affirmative sentences and questions without negation and separate it with coma(s).

1. Before an adjective or an adverb it means excessively, to a higher degree than is desirable, permissible, or possible.

You are driving too fast for me to enjoy the ride.

He is too lazy to become a good musician.

2. If we speak about one person, at the end of an affirmative sentence it means in add

I believe that you are familiar with Pinochio right? Well what you probably didn't know was actually before his father died,the fairy God Mother granted his last wish.What is it? Let's find out,shall we?
Once upon a time in a deep dark dark wood lived a 10 year old boy named Pinochio.He didn't live by himself because sometimes when his Fairy God Mother went to buy some shopping errands he played with his new friend a fairy as well but had a wing called Tinker Bell.Sound familliar?
Since Peter Pa

Although it will take time and commitment, there are many benefits of learning a second language. It can open up new opportunities and you're never too old or too young to begin your education. 

Of all the languages you can learn, the advantages of learning English seem to outweigh other languages because of how useful it can be in everyday life. Just by learning English you could land yourself a whole new career in a country you've always dreamed of living in.

Job prospects

If you're tired of

Students have busy lives. It’s not just academics that keep students so busy, but it is travel, hobbies, social meetings or a part-time job is time-consuming. Students have to do it all and do it in limited time. Thankfully, this is now a digital era. Technology is here to your advantage. Whether it is proofreading or organizing, there is an app for every task. With these apps that save time for busy students, it is possible to do it all now.

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For your writing needs, here is the Hemin

This is on the encouragement of Tanya's Writing Challenge: So and Such

She is so beautiful, and when she dances so beautifully, the time seems to stop.  It was such a nice day, when she came to the city with such a nice show of hers.  When I came to the show, there were so many people at the theater.  But everyone was so peacefully waiting in the queue to get a ticket.  The people were so much interested to see her dance that they didn’t mind standing in the rain.  I assumed everyone had got a ti

I have posted three farewell letters with the aim to give language knowledge in a particular perspective.  I found that some of my friends have mixed the letter of farewell with the resignation letter.  I am, therefore, posting here under a formal letter of resignation just to abreast the learners of the language with ‘how a normal letter of resignation is written’.  After having read this, the readers will be able to differentiate the two letters, “letter of resignation’ and the “farewell lette

Ten years later, Mr. Fox increased his wealth four times as he had before. The sixty-year- old rich man married a beautiful girl of 23. They lived in the villa with the best furniture and facilities.

His driver was Daisy’s cousin. He said that Mr. Fox was alcoholic and very bad tempered and his children didn’t like him at all.

One night, Mr. Fox’s son phoned his father’s driver and asked him to take his father to a hospital because he was in critical condition. Daisy’s cousin went to the villa i

This is on the inspiration of Expector's Tips on English Usage (1): replace or substitute

The typical beloved prevailing in the literature always replaces the lover with the rival, or some other guy has been substituted for lover.  There is always the lover who suffers. Or again if beloved takes someone in place of lover to the party, again lover is the one who suffers.  

Why on earth the lover is always suffers and the rival is always the one who enjoys the nearness of the beloved.  This is becau

Finally, i and my wife has been defeated by our both children that to fulfilled one of them wish. is buy three goldfishes for them.

i wouldn't like to buy a goldfish for children just because of it's hard to keeping these delicately small species alive more than a while when kids got them.

when we got home, children more than delight and changing the fresh water for these little honey in glass pot and around it to talking with goldfish, by then, fishes and human beings get on well with each others

This  duaa is by Prophet Yunus (peace be upon him), whenever you are in distress or difficulty, and you call on God sincerely and repentantly, your call will be answered. The story of prophet Yunus was taken from Qurran. He was sent with the message of God to the village of Nineveh, present of mowsil in Iraq.  The  prophet called on his people to the message of Allah and to follow the truth and the right path. His people rejected the message and persisted on their delusion and wrongdoings. He wa

Again Another Letter of Farewell:

Last Friday another employee of the organization where I work left the company.  His tenure was very short, around a year, but being a Chartered Accountant (Fresh) he has his dreams to progress according to his Professional Qualifications.  Following is his letter of farewell which he posted to all of us on company server. 

In the previous letter of farewell which I posed Eva raised this question: 

“I have a question...is it only allowed to write positive things in