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ACTIVE VOICE & PASSIVE VOICE MADE EASY

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ACTIVE VOICE & PASSIVE VOICE RULES MADE EASY A verb is said to be in the "Active Voice" when its form shows that the person or thing denoted by the "Subject" does something. A verb is said to be in the "Passive Voice" when its form shows that something is done to the person or thing denoted by the"Subject". RULES The ‘Passive voice’ of a verb is formed by using the "Past Participle" form of the verb after using suitable " Be" form verbs like "is written", "was written", "will be written" or "is being written", "was being written"," have been written ", "had been written", "will have been written", or " are sent", "were sent","will be sent","are being sent","were being sent", " have been sent", " had been sent" etc The "Object" of the verb in the ‘Active Voice’ take...

Top Ten Longest Words in English

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Top Ten Longest Words in the Oxford English Dictionary 1. pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis 45 2. supercalifragilisticexpialidocious 34 3. pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism 30 4. floccinaucinihilipilification 29 4. triethylsulphonemethylmethane 29 5. antidisestablishmentarianism 28 5. octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane 28 5. tetrachlorodibenzoparadioxin 28 6. hepaticocholangiogastronomy 27 7. radioimmunoelectrophoresis 26 7. radiommunoelectrophoretic 26 Words that are hyphenatned, including such compound words as "transformational-generative" and " tristhio-dimethyl-benzaldehyde", have not been included. Only one unhyphenated word did not make it into the Top 10, the 25-letter "psychophysicotherapeutics". After this, there is a surprisingly large number of words containing 20-24 letters (radioimmunoprecipitation, spectrophotofluorometric, thyroparathyroidectomize, hypergammaglobulinaemia, roentgenkymographically and immunosympathectomized, for example) ...

Homophone - Homonym - Homograph

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Homonym /noun [C] a word that sounds the same or is spelled the same as another word but has a different meaning: e.g., ‘Bow’ (= bend at the waist) and ‘bow’ (= weapon) are also homonyms. RIGHT- RIGHT LEFT - LEFT NAIL - NAIL BOARD - BOARD WELL - WELL BEAR - BEAR LIGHT - LIGHT MIND - MIND BAT - BAT SEAL - SEAL BOOK - BOOK BALL - BALL LETTER - LETTER WORD - WORD SENTENCE - SENTENCE 1. The BAT cannot use the BAT and ball. 2. We can use our NAILS to pick the NAILS. 3. That was a RIGHT dicision to turn the knob to the RIGHT. 4. She turned LEFT and then LEFT her bag there in the corner. 5. No one feels WELL when one falls into a WELL. 6. I cannot BEAR the weight of that huge BEAR. Homograph / noun [C] a word which is spelled the same as another word and might be pronounced the same or differently, but which has a different meaning: e.g., ‘Bow’ meaning the front of a ship, ‘bow’ meaning a loop made in a string or ribbon and ‘bow’ meaning a device used to shoot arrows are all homographs. PROD...