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Speaking Better English - Simile
A simile is a figure of speech where one thing is compared with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more...
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Speaking Better English - Alliteration
Alliteration is when words start with the same sound: Sometimes these are in tongue twisters She sells sea shells on the sea shore...
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Speaking Better English - Antonomasia
An Antonomasia is a literary term in which a descriptive phrase is used to replace a person’s name. An Antonomasia can range from a...
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Speaking Better English - Anecdote
An anecdote is a very short story about some real person or a real event that happened to the speaker. The idea of this story to make the...
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Speaking better English - Adage
An Adage is a proverb or short statement expressing a general truth. Adages provide us with simple guidelines with which to live. In...
Philip M Russell
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Speaking better English - Merisms
Dictionaries define a merism as a reference to something by its polar extremes, as in "we searched high and low" For example I searched...
Philip M Russell
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Speaking better English - Clichés
A Cliché is what you write or say when you can't think of a new way to express an old idea. A Cliché is a tired phrase or an old way of...
Philip M Russell
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Speaking better English - how to cope with words you haven't met before
How to cope with words you haven't met before is a big problem in English because the ways that words are spoken do not always reflect...
Philip M Russell
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Speaking Better English - Paying Attention to the Stressed Sounds
When you listen to people speaking English , you start to notice that they stress certain sounds in words. Sometimes in different...
Philip M Russell
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Speaking better English - Synecdoches
What is a synecdoche? It is a figure of speech in which, most often, a part of something is used to refer to its whole. Let's have a look...
Philip M Russell
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Speaking better English - Idioms
What makes English different to many languages is in how thoughts and feelings are expressed. In English the use of idioms is widespread...
Philip M Russell
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Speaking better English - Tips on Speaking more fluently
The key to increasing fluency is speaking more often. Who would have guessed? But what do you do if you don't have a native speaker to...
Philip M Russell
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Speaking better English - alternatives to "and"
As mentioned in previous posts, when getting to grips with a new language, repetition is the key. Some words in English can get used a...
Philip M Russell
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Speaking better English - alternatives to "but"
When getting to grips with a new language, repetition is the key. Once you learn a new word or phrase, try to use it straight away. Then...
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