Can Anyone Give Tips To Develop Good Vocabulary In English?
Posted on December 3rd, 2009
Can anyone guide me to develop English vocabulary towards attempting GRE?Is there any online facility by which I can post my essays/drafts for checking proper usage of words, grammatical errors and to advise on proper format of drafting sentences, for free? Kindly help.
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4 Responses to “Can Anyone Give Tips To Develop Good Vocabulary In English?”
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Poornima N Says:
December 3rd, 2009 at 11:17 amI agree with the first answerer with respect to improving your English. Read books, especially, and remember to pay attention to the words you don’t know. You can look them up and then also remember them in context. Another generally helpful thing to do is to find a list of latin root words (and prefixes and suffixes) and study those. Knowing certain basic latin (and Greek) words can help you figure out a lot of words with which you may be unfamiliar. I did a very quick google search and found the following site that sounds really helpful: https://www.msu.edu/~defores1/gre/roots/…
If you have trouble getting onthat site then just do a google search for something like “Latin root words” or “Latin prefixes and suffixes”– there are plenty of sites listing good words to learn.
Once you have learned that list, you’ll find that a lot of words you’re not sure about are guessable.
For free editing of your work, I kind of think that this site is among your best bets. I’ve seen a lot of people post paragraphs on this site (Yahoo! Answers) and ask for help, and sometimes they get good responses. IT’s not very systematic, and you have to be careful with people’s advice because it’s not always right, but, if you keep the excerpts you’re sending reasonably short then you might get some good tips. -
timewast Says:
December 3rd, 2009 at 11:22 amRead anything and everything in English. Hear the news in English, Watch English television programmes, insist on speaking in English with every one. Ask people with better English diction to correct you when you make mistakes.
For competitive examination purposes, it would be better that you take professional help. I can direct you to a very good teacher if you email me. -
rummyraj Says:
December 3rd, 2009 at 11:46 amCheck out the link below for an article on developing vocabulary skills for a GRE exam…good luck!
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writeawa Says:
December 3rd, 2009 at 12:37 pmJoin as member at these sites:http://www.wordsmyth.net/http://dictionary.reference.comhttp://www.search.com/search?q=free+Voca…