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Academic- Academic-Clinic.com Clinic.com Clinic.com The achiever’s guide to academic life and beyond... Website: http://academic-clinic.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/academic.clinic Twitter: http://twitter.com/acadclinic College entrance exam and science high school entrance test tips. Conquer UPCAT, ACET, USTET, DLSUCET, PSHS-NCE, and other entrance tests. English III - 1 - Note: This is compilation of materials gathered from different print and electronic sources. We don’t claim copyright on materials and examples taken from references but we do reserve the rights to our own materials and examples. Feel free to pass this on to your friends, but please don’t post it online. Discuss UPCAT and other college entrance exam questions and answers at Academic-Clinic’s Facebook Page. We encourage you to answer the questions we post there and actively participate in the discussions on our wall. For UPCAT, ACET, DLSUCET and USTET tips, tricks, news and other college entrance exam information, visit the Academic-Clinic website. Tell your friends and classmates to come find and join us. The more, the merrier. Good luck! DICTION AND VOCABULARY POINTERS I. Diction LEVELS OF USAGE 1. Standard English: Formal Formal English is usually written and is used in scholarly articles, official documents, formal letters, and any situation calling for scrupulous propriety. Informal (General) Informal or General English is the language, both written and spoken, used by the educated classes in carrying on in their everyday businesses. It is the level used in most books, magazines, newspapers, and ordinary business communications. Colloquial Colloquial English is the language of familiar conversation among educated people. It occurs frequently in informal writing. Formal Informal Colloquial comprehend understand catch on altercation quarrel row wrathful, irate angry mad goad, taunt tease needle predicament problem jam, fix exorbitant high steep 2. Substandard English Dialectical
Academic- Academic-Clinic.com Clinic.com Clinic.com The achiever’s guide to academic life and beyond... Website: http://academic-clinic.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/academic.clinic Twitter: http://twitter.com/acadclinic College entrance exam and science high school entrance test tips. Conquer UPCAT, ACET, USTET, DLSUCET, PSHS-NCE, and other entrance tests. English III - 2 - Note: This is compilation of materials gathered from different print and electronic sources. We don’t claim copyright on materials and examples taken from references but we do reserve the rights to our own materials and examples. Feel free to pass this on to your friends, but please don’t post it online. Discuss UPCAT and other college entrance exam questions and answers at Academic-Clinic’s Facebook Page. We encourage you to answer the questions we post there and actively participate in the discussions on our wall. For UPCAT, ACET, DLSUCET and USTET tips, tricks, news and other college entrance exam information, visit the Academic-Clinic website. Tell your friends and classmates to come find and join us. The more, the merrier. Good luck! Words common to a particular region and not used throughout the country are part of the dialectical body of words. Slang These words are unconventional. They are vivid ways of expressing an idea which has no standard equivalent. Those that are widely used have a good chance of being accepted as Standard English. After all, some words that are considered as Standard now, like mob, banter, sham and lynch belonged to the slang words before. Ex: stooge, lame duck, shot of whisky, a bridge shark. Most slang words however are too violent to get accepted, and some are just a reflection of some people’s wish to be different. They quickly lose any precise meaning. These slang words have a poor chance of getting accepted in Standard English. Illiterate (or Vulgate) or Errors in Idiom Idioms are peculiarities of language. Idioms require that some words be followed by arbitrarily fixed prepositions. take in agree on angry about argue for take up agree with angry with argue against agree to angry at argue with argue about Some idioms demand that certain words be followed by infinitives, others by gerunds. Infinitive Gerunds able to go capable of going like to go enjoy going eager to go cannot help going hesitate to go privilege of going Error in use of Idioms is unacceptable in Standard English. EXACT DICTION Choose words which say precisely what you mean. It is not enough to make sure that you can be understood; you ought to make sure that you cannot be misunderstood.
Academic- Academic-Clinic.com Clinic.com Clinic.com The achiever’s guide to academic life and beyond... Website: http://academic-clinic.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/academic.clinic Twitter: http://twitter.com/acadclinic College entrance exam and science high school entrance test tips. Conquer UPCAT, ACET, USTET, DLSUCET, PSHS-NCE, and other entrance tests. English III - 3 - Note: This is compilation of materials gathered from different print and electronic sources. We don’t claim copyright on materials and examples taken from references but we do reserve the rights to our own materials and examples. Feel free to pass this on to your friends, but please don’t post it online. Discuss UPCAT and other college entrance exam questions and answers at Academic-Clinic’s Facebook Page. We encourage you to answer the questions we post there and actively participate in the discussions on our wall. For UPCAT, ACET, DLSUCET and USTET tips, tricks, news and other college entrance exam information, visit the Academic-Clinic website. Tell your friends and classmates to come find and join us. The more, the merrier. Good luck! 1. Choose specific words rather than general terms unless there’s a good reason for being general. General: For dinner we had some really good food. Specific: For dinner we had steamed lobsters and grilled tilapia. 2. Make your verbs work. Choose specific verbs or verbs that signify the specific action, rather than colorless or abstract verbs (e.g. occur, took place, prevail, exist). Colorless verb: He beat a hasty exit. Specific verb: He rushed from the room. 3. Do not use too explosive verbs or verbs that are too explosive for their context. Exaggerated: Her angry words pounced out upon him. Specific verb: She scolded him. 4. Do not use the passive voice when unnecessary because this leads to weak constructions. The passive voice is appropriate when the doer of the action is irrelevant or unknown. 5. Avoid jargon. People who are fond of jargon use them to dress up words; they hope to sound more “authoritative”. Certain key words betray the user fo jargon. He has an unhealthy fondness for factor, case, basis, in terms of, in the nature of, with reference to, elements, objective, personnel. Jargon: adverse climatic condition Improved: bad weather Jargon: Plant personnel are required to extinguish all illuminating devices before vacating the premises. Improved: Employees are asked to turn out all lights before leaving the plant. 6. Choose words with the exact connotation required by the context. In addition to their denotation or exact meaning, words have a connotation or a fringe of associations and overtones which make them appropriate in some situations but not in others. Denotation Connotation
Academic- Academic-Clinic.com Clinic.com Clinic.com The achiever’s guide to academic life and beyond... Website: http://academic-clinic.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/academic.clinic Twitter: http://twitter.com/acadclinic College entrance exam and science high school entrance test tips. Conquer UPCAT, ACET, USTET, DLSUCET, PSHS-NCE, and other entrance tests. English III - 4 - Note: This is compilation of materials gathered from different print and electronic sources. We don’t claim copyright on materials and examples taken from references but we do reserve the rights to our own materials and examples. Feel free to pass this on to your friends, but please don’t post it online. Discuss UPCAT and other college entrance exam questions and answers at Academic-Clinic’s Facebook Page. We encourage you to answer the questions we post there and actively participate in the discussions on our wall. For UPCAT, ACET, DLSUCET and USTET tips, tricks, news and other college entrance exam information, visit the Academic-Clinic website. Tell your friends and classmates to come find and join us. The more, the merrier. Good luck! home a place of residence suggests family life, warmth, comfort, affection house a place of residence emphasizes physical structure domicile a place of residence has strictly legal overtones Inappropriate: “House, Sweet House” “A hat to fit every skull” EFFECTIVE DICTION In addition to being exact, your diction must also be effective; that is, you must make it easy and pleasant for a reader to grasp what you are saying. Keep your diction natural and sincere, be direct and concise, use fresh, unhackneyed phrases, and avoid needless technical language. Pretentious Language Do not decorate your sentences with pretentious language; doing so would make you seem insincere to your reader. Do not think that originality is achieved by avoiding ordinary words. Ordinary Word Strained Circumlocution spade implement for agricultural excavation dog faithful canine friends codfish denizen of the deep basketball player casaba-heaver hit the ball smacked the horsehide Do not also attempt to show your superiority by peppering your constructions with needless foreign words. Needless Foreign Phrase English Equivalent entre nous between us joie de vivre enjoyment of life faux pas social blunder sub rosa secret or secretly Sturm und Drang storm and stress