Tongue Twister of the Week-Big

Listen to the audio example of the tongue twister as you read the words on the video. Then, start saying this tongue twister slowly, then say it faster and faster as you repeat it. Practicing tongue twisters is a good way of enhancing your English pronunciation. This particular tongue twister is a good practice for pronouncing the sound B.


Tongue Twister of the Week-Aluminum

Listen to the audio example of the tongue twister as you read the words on the video. Then, start saying this tongue twister slowly, then say it faster and faster as you repeat it. Practicing tongue twisters is a good way of enhancing your English pronunciation. This particular tongue twister is a good practice for pronouncing the sound um/am.


FREE Online English Language Guide Google Gadget

Hi everyone! To express my gratitude for all your continuous support to my blog 'English Trainer', I am presenting a Google Gadget about the English language. You can place this online English language guide on your webpage or blog by CLICKING HERE. :) This gadget can serve as your online guide to grammar, vocabulary, IELTS and more.



If you are using Blogger, then, you can also add this to your blog by going to Layout--Add a Gadget--type Online English Language Guide inside the searchbox and click the search button. When you find it, click the add button and save.

Tongue Twister of the Week-Thousand

Listen to the audio example of the tongue twister as you read the words on the video. Then, start saying this tongue twister slowly, then say it faster and faster as you repeat it. Practicing tongue twisters is a good way of enhancing your English pronunciation. This particular tongue twister is a good practice for pronouncing the sound Th.


The House of a Thousand Candles by Meredith Nicholson



Below is an excerpt from the book The House of a Thousand Candles by Meredith Nicholson:

For the life of me I could not help laughing again.
There was, in the first place, a delicious irony in the
fact that I should learn through him of my grandfather’s
wishes with respect to myself. Pickering and
I had grown up in the same town in Vermont; we had
attended the same preparatory school, but there had
been from boyhood a certain antagonism between us.
He had always succeeded where I had failed, which is to
say, I must admit, that he had succeeded pretty frequently.

Tongue Twister of the Week-Red Roses

Listen to the audio example of the tongue twister as you read the words on the video. Then, start saying this tongue twister slowly, then say it faster and faster as you repeat it. Practicing tongue twisters is a good way of enhancing your English pronunciation. This particular tongue twister is a good practice for pronouncing the sound R.


The Rules of Grammar

The Rules of Grammar
By Gary Becks


Let's say that you happen to be one of those people that has a very limited vocabulary, understanding how to combine the same words into different sequences to impart different meanings can be very affective, here is a great example: "Sheila heard him screaming at her" or "Sheila heard her screaming at him" both of these sentences employ the exact same words, but by rearranging the order of the words "her" and "him" we were able to give the words different meanings. Grammar is the only thing that makes this possible. Grammar by definition is a languages set of rules that dictate the ordering and combining of words to make them into understandable sentences.

When children first begin to speak it is usually in short 2 or 3 word sentences, this is would be described as telegraphic, or short, simple sequences of words without tenses, plurals, or function. In order to develop the capability of making whole sentences children must first acquire the knowledge to to utilize other forms of speech. In the English language this means understanding how to use the correct subject verb order, as in " Corey chased the dog."

Grammatical skill in using morphemes is also necessary as they are the meaningful units that make up words. Morphemes have the responsibility of of marking nouns so they show possession and plurality, and verbs so that they will show tense. It should be noted the often times morphemes do make mistakes because they cannot decipher how to apply the appropriate rules at times. One example of this is that after understanding how to create the past tense verb tense using -ed or -d the rule may not be applied which can create nonwords like "beated."

These are just a few of the fundamental elements that are necessary to understand grammar. I recommend that anyone who is truly interested in truly understanding grammar at it's full length do a more in depth research on the topic.


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