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Check Your English Grammar With This Easy Technique
Author : Heris Yunora
As an International language, English has been used widely
in online world. Whether you use it to write a sales letter, a
follow up, ads headline, an article, and so on, you
need to use it correctly.
Now, by using search engine (Google, etc), you can check:
-typing error.
-grammatical structure.
This sort of tutorial is intended for you who have some
basics in English.
For the first example, if you want to check whether the
right word is "below" or "bellow", just type the word in the
search box.
Here are the steps:
1.Type the word "below" in the search box and click
"Search".
2.When the search result appears, click a website that uses
the word to make sure that the website use it correctly.
3.Notice the search result.
4.Now, type the word "bellow" in the search box and click
"Search".
5.Repeat step 2 and 3 for the word "bellow".
Here are the signals whether the word is right or wrong:
-The search result shows a list of websites that use the
word. In other word, if the word is wrong, the search result
will show nothing.
-If you find that both words have search results, notice the
number of websites that appear and compare both words.
Usually, the right word has more search results.
-Don't forget to notice what is the language of the website.
For example, the word "biz" and "bizz" both have many search
result. But only the word "biz" is used in the English
website.
Sometimes some websites have typing errors. Be cautious about
it!
The same technique can also be applied to check a grammatical
error.
For example, if you are in doubt which one is the right
sentence:
"The brave man swam over the river yesterday." or "The brave
man swam accross the river yesterday"?
Follow the steps above, but don't forget to put the (") symbol
in the beginning and in the end of the sentence, in order that
Google will not cut it.
If your sentence is too long, try to cut it.
For the above example, just type "swam over the river" and
then "swam accross the river".
However, you should take care in checking sentences,
because not every sentence can be checked with this
technique.
One more thing, it is very difficult if you want to check
emotions of a sentence. For example, you can not check
whether "Would you please...?" is more polite than
"Will you please...?" by using this technique.
That's why you should use English everyday on any
occassion, so that you will get used to it.
About the Author
Heris Yunora concentrates on providing tools for online promotion at http://www.soft-promotion.com">http://www.soft-promotion.com. Related articles
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