Weekly English Gyan

Vocabulary
Parts of Speech
News of the week Accent & Pronunciation

Tenses Common Grammar Errors

Phrasal Verbs

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Table of Contents
1. Vocabulary word of the week. 2. Phrasal Verbs 3. Common Speaking Mistake. 4. Idiom/ Saying of the week. 5. News of the week. 6. Weekly Quiz Contest

Word of the Week

Inevitable
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. inevitable is a adjective, which means it is a describing word. Meaning: when we say that something is inevitable, it means that is will definitely happen and can t be avoided. The Hindi meaning is apariharya Ex: It is inevitable that one day everyone will die. (means it is a
sure thing that one day everyone will die)

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Inevitably is the adverb form, and it is used to show that the action is sure to happen and is unavoidable. Ex: If you expect a lot from your children, you will inevitably be disappointed. (surely) Ex: All peace efforts with Pakistan inevitably end badly for India. (unavoidably)

Phrasal Verb
Drift away
Drift alone means when something moves slowly as a result of outside forces. 2. Ex: The piece of wood was drifting towards the shore.
(means there was a piece of wood in water and was moving towards shore due to the action of water.)

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Drift Away means to gradually be separated/become distant due to events and situations of life over which you have no control. 4. Ex: After completing college, she and her boyfriend drifted away. (got separated, not due to their own faults, but due to
circumstances)

5. Ex: The congress party drifted away from the ideals of Mahatma Gandhi after his death.

Common Speaking Mistake

1. Can I take your five minutes? 2. In Hindi, we normally say kya mai aapke paanch minute le sakta hu? , but this is wrong in English. 3. Why is it wrong? Your is used to show ownership, but you do not own the five minutes, and so a person can t take your five minutes. 4. Correct Sentence: Can I take five minutes of your time?

Idioms & Sayings

1. 2. 3. cut somebody down to size Hindi Meaning: kisi ko aukad dikhana. Meaning: Put someone in their place; criticize someone and make them realize that they are not as important as they think. Show someone that they are not as clever or important as they think they are. Ex: He is over-smart. He has an answer for everything. We need to cut him down to size.
Means: we need to make him realise that he is not as smart as he thinks.

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Ex: If you open your mouth in front of the CEO, he will cut you down to size (means he will criticise you to make you realise your
place and that you aren t as smart as you think.)

News of the Week:

Speak Asias Ponzi Scheme!

Speakasia.com is a site which pays customers for filling surveys. What is a survey? a set of questions that a company would like to ask a customer so that it can do better marketing. Why would anyone pay you to do a survey? Suppose a company wanted to launch a new cinema hall, then before launching, it would like to decide about its food menu, the ticket prices, the show timings etc. by asking customers about their preferences. And the company would be willing to pay for that. Speak Asia provides that service to companies and it pays customers directly for filling surveys. What is the controversy? Speak Asia charges you Rs.11,000 per year to become a member, and then pays you Rs.500 per week for filling a survey. This money which is paid to you is supposed to be earned from companies wanting to conduct surveys. But apparently speak asia earns no income from surveys & it using subscription money of new members to pay the old members. This is also called a Ponzi Scheme

Best Online Articles on this news:

1. Simple Explanation of Ponzi Scheme, and another simple explanation. 2. Hindustan Times story on Speak Asia. 3. An investigation on Speak Asia by a blogger.

Weekly Quiz Contest

Correct the mistakes in the following sentences:
1. 2. 3. My one friend lives in the USA I have never read in a co-ed school. First the metro was only in Delhi, but now it has extend upto Noida.

Email the correct sentences to: gyan@myunnati.com before 10 PM, Thursday, 26th May. One lucky correct entry will win a Vocabulary Builder booklet.
Answers to last week s quiz: 1. Sachin will not be able to play without his favourite bat. 2. Rural areas are more peaceful as compared to urban areas. 3. Pollution is increasing too much day by day.

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