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Then, what's an idiom? An idiom is a group of words whose meaning is different from the meaning of the individual words. 

There are a large number of idioms in English. Some of them are used more often than others. It can be a good idea to use some idioms in your writing. Sometimes only an idiom can convey what you really want to say, especially when you're desperate to hit the nail on the head

Idioms with 'wall' are just such useful idioms, such as 'drive/send somebody up the wall', 'climb the

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Yes, It may sound as if we were cramming for an English test. We're trying to cram all of that in such a short peroid of time. 

We've been so busy reading, writing like there's no tomorrow.  Never before has a month seen so many blogs published for a writing challenge. No wonder you may ask 'What are you doing here, guys?'

It may not just sound like an intensive training - it's actually one. We've learned a lot and improved so much both in writing and in reading, which proves that there's no such

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A story from the memory of school days:

Haste Makes Waste:

A hunter had a faithful hound.  The hound always went with his master when he set out hunting.  The hunter had only one son, two whom the hound was also closed.

One day the hunter went to a nearby village for some running errands.  He left the hound at home to guard his son.  When he came back he found his hound standing at the gate.  His mouth was stained with blood.  The hunter got conscious, he thought that the hound had killed his only

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I must be a little crazy

I've just kept blogging, reading, and commenting for the past tens of days. Yes, I must have bitten off more than I can chew:))

I must be a bit crazy - it seems whenever I have time, I come here to read, to blog, or to comment. I've never been so busy typing on the computer. Even my wife has noticed the change. She had no idea what really happened, but was so sure there must be something very unusual which made me do that like a nut, until I told her we were trying to break a record. 

Maybe not ju

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I think blogging is useful for everyone; reader  and writer both.. for writer it is big challenge to write something new in his/her own words. Blogging have many advantages toward both writer and reader.

writer:

= Writer's knowledge will be improve.

= writing scale will be improve of a writer

= Writer will be improve in writing consistence sentence, consistence  paragraph.

= Writer will be able to know about how to develop reader interest in reading.

= Writer's gray-matter will start working properly

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I do not consider myself a writer:

I do not consider myself a writer, but nor a beginner in English. Of course, I am a LEARNER. Learning has no age limit. It continues from cradle to grave. I am a READER. I read, I read everything and try to keep good points in my memory and utilize them whenever I need. We learn from our observations. By the way have you read my blog Weather” In this blog I used a touch of "Sufism". Please read it. If need any explanation let me know I will do my best to explain

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A Popular Restaurant of my City:

There are several restaurants in our city. They all are neat and clean, but the one I like is (Gloria). It is beautifully designed and its foods are very delicious.  We all like to eat in this restaurant. It is not very large restaurant, but everything is nicely arranged to attract the customers. Its setting has native as well modern touch. The owner of the restaurant is very rich, but he looks after the restaurant very attentively at the same time also works with

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Running Errands

There was a marriage ceremony of one of our dealer's sons, which was held in Hyderabad. The dealer is one of our top dealers, for his turnover of our product is the highest. Therefore, representation of our company was a must, so I had been instructed to attend the ceremony. The ceremony was to start in the evening, but I had to reach the city in the morning because my boss also assigned some other work to take care of in the city at the same time. With the other work required to

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True Friendship

For various moral, psychological and social reasons, people need good company and close friendship. The type of friends you have often indicates the type of person you are. 'Show me your friends and I will tell you what you are,' says the well-known proverb.

The friendship is always made on the basis of similar frequencies. It usually based on giving and taking. equally, but when it become for a person just to give and does not expect, then it become close friendship and when compl

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I've published 23 blogs this month. I promised to publish at least two blogs when I first left a comment on Tara's June blogging challenge - I never thought I could publish so many blogs in a month. 

Yes, it's the challenge that has inspired me to write so many blogs. Maybe everyone needs to be inspired or encouraged to make a difference. I still remember it was Josef, the founder, who invited me to join MyEC, and it's Tara, our admin, who has motivated me to try my best to help make MyEC a pleas

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There are only a few days to go until the deadline. While we're sprinting to the finish line, some of our active members are still absent from this month's writing challenge, which is also dubbed as 'June Blogathon'.

We're bound to break the record (be it 460 or 580 blogs a month), statistically or actually. It is, however, a pity that some of our active members have failed to publish a blog for this month's blogging challenge. They may regret it when it's too late for them to post a blog for the

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Writing Challenge: Bloggers Unite

Some Questions about Blogging

I like to ask my EC members some questions about blogging, there is no need to reply to all the questions, just one answer or your comment on the blog is sufficient. Your answers are appreciated.


1. How many blogs did you post during June?


2. Can you guess that who will win Blogathon?


3. What do you think about this: A person who is not interested in

blogging in her/his mother tongue, she/he can’t blog in English?


4. What is your recommendation for an untalented blogg

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Chatting with God

God, just you and me in the middle of the night,

I want to see you tonight just the two of us, talking....

I want to have a chat with You, many things I wanna share .....

God : how are you Ratu?

Me : not bad

God : oh many things on your mind Ratu,

Me : I bet you've already known

God : yeah I know everything even though you hide it in the deepest place of your heart.

Me : yes you always know, so you know what will we talking about tonight?

God : sure, but you have to tell me with your own version

Me : ok,

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Use of Passive Voice in describing US History:

1. Jamestown was settled by the British in 1607.

2. Thanksgiving was celebrated by the Pilgrims and Wampanoag Indians in 1621.

3. The French and Indian War was fought by the Colonists and British in 1754.

4. The Colonists were taxed by British Parliament to pay for the French and Indian War.

5. Tea was thrown into the Boston Harbor by the Colonists to protest high taxes in 1773.

6. The towns of Lexington and Concord were attacked by the British in

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It is said to imply with paucity in knowledge is dangerous.

Once there was a doctor.  He had an assistant.  Whenever a patient came to the doctor the assistant used to observe him carefully.    One day the doctor was visiting an ailing friend to check him at his house.  He took the assistant with him.  When he was leaving his friend after checking, the friend asked him whether he can do anything with his camel, which has swallowed a whole melon which stuck in its throat.  “Ok, let me see, what I

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Late Introducing

Hellooo,.

How are you everyone? First let me apologize for not doing this when I started to blog here. Many of you may have no idea who I am. Second, I am so grateful for admins and members here for welcoming me, make some correction about my blog, leave a sweet comment and click like on it. So, let me introduce myself.

My user name is Peppo, given by my brother. This is a character from “Gankutsuou”, an anime based on classic France’s novel, his favorite one, “La Conte De Monte Cristo” by Alexand

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Eid al Fitr

Since that we are getting close to one of our Islamic annual holiday, I take the opportunity to give a brief description about it.  Eid ul-Fittr is a Muslim holiday that signifies the end of Ramadan_, the Islamic holy month of fasting. Eid is an Arabic word meaning ‘festival’, whereas Fitr_ stands for charity. The holiday symbolizes the breaking of the fasting period. It is celebrated starting from the first day of the Islamic month of Shawal. The celebration lasts three days. On the

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Some basic rules in writing:

In writing,  there are some rules to follow:

1) ‘Proper Punctuation’ 

2) A sentence always begins with a capital lettered word, and ends with a period (.)

3) There should always be proper spacing in between the words, sentences and signs.

4) ‘I’ always written in capital (uppercase) when comes alone.

5) All Proper nouns are written with capital letter/ Ex: Pakistan, Shaikh, Shella etc.

 

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Yes, it's more likely Expector won't try to correct every mistake in your blog, even though the 'correction' is included in the tags. 

Usually, when Expector sees the correction tag, he'll try to make some corrections for the blogger. It's impossible for him to correct all the mistakes in a blog, though. Moreover, some of the mistakes are just miscues or typos. Bloggers, however, could correct those minor mistakes themselves if they try to re-read or re-edit their blog. 

In fact, it's inevitable f

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