tailieunhanh - Forming comparisions 8

Tham khảo tài liệu 'forming comparisions 8', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | In this part. 7he renowned Dummies Part of Tens gives you a list of overcorrections mistakes people make when they re trying to speak or write with extreme formality and not quite managing to follow the rules of grammar. This part also shows you the worst avoid-at-all-cost common errors that can sink your writing faster than a torpedo from a nuclear sub. No exercises here just the best tips for improving your English. Read on. Chapter 21 Ten Overcorrections Jn This Chapter Avoiding overly formal or incorrect English Putting a stop to unnecessary changes nglish teachers recognize a certain tone of voice that comes into play the minute Aw people learn that they re talking to a grammarian. All of a sudden the eyes glaze over the chin lifts and the grammar style portion of the brain goes into overdrive. Who becomes whom for no reason at all. Verb tenses tangle up and had is suddenly as common as shoulder pads at an 80s party. Sadly what I call overcorrection is as bad an error as whatever mistake it s designed to avoid. If you want to identify these grammar and style potholes so that you can steer around them read on. Substituting Whom for Who True some uneducated people never utter the word whom even when it s needed in a sentence. But throwing whom into every situation isn t a good idea either. Sentences requiring whom are actually quite rare. In fact you need whom only when the sentence calls for an object of some sort. Check out Chapter 10 for more information on who and whom. Objects receive the action of the verb as in Whom did you call In this sentence whom receives the action of the verb did call. You in case you were wondering is the subject. The problem with whom is that when it does show up it s often in a sentence containing other thoughts so you have to sort out the various threads. One common error Whom shall I say is calling Sounds nice right But it s wrong. Untangling shows you why I shall say whom is calling. Whom is calling Nope. Who is calling. .