Praveen Madhukar Naik, Gurmeet Singh Mehtab

Stories by Praveen Madhukar Naik, Gurmeet Singh Mehtab

Tips to ace those tricky adjectives!

Tips to ace those tricky adjectives!

Rediff.com   27 Jun 2007

Five tips designed to make you comfortable with adjectives in English. They're tricky, but once you have them down, your speaking and writing will improve.

English bloopers: Those pesky prepositions

English bloopers: Those pesky prepositions

Rediff.com   15 Jun 2007

Having trouble dealing with those pesky prepositions? GA reader Praveen Madhukar Naik lends a hand.

English errors: 'We are like this only'

English errors: 'We are like this only'

Rediff.com   13 Jun 2007

Your mother tongue can affect your English. Here's how.

English bloopers: 'Is this your's?'

English bloopers: 'Is this your's?'

Rediff.com   4 Jun 2007

Here's more English bloopers! This installment examines the correct usage of the apostrophe.

English bloopers: 'He said me to go'

English bloopers: 'He said me to go'

Rediff.com   7 May 2007

Many of the mistakes we make in written and spoken English stem from the fact that we tend to directly translate what we are saying from our mother tongue.