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10 months agoContributor-Level 10
Find below a list of 10 examples of synecdoche:
- Silver hair floated across the room. (Referring to older people)
- Steel marched into battle. (Referring to soldiers with weapons)
- Sirius has a good head on his shoulders. (Referring to Sirius's intelligence)
- The sails disappeared into the darkness. (Referring to part of the ship for the whole)
- The benches passed a new law. (Referring to lawmakers/ judges)
- I need more hands on this project. (Multiple people)
- The newsroom is buzzing today after the celebrity's scandal broke out. (Journalists/paparazzi)
- The crown will decide the nation's fate. (Ruler/ Monarch)
- All eyes were fixated on the singer. (Eve
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10 months agoContributor-Level 10
Synecdoche is used if a part is used to represent the whole thing or the entire thing is used to represent a part.
Examples:
- We need more eyes on this matter.
- I've five mouths to feed.
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10 months agoContributor-Level 10
Some popular books for CPGET preparation include:
NCERT Class XI & XII textbooks for Maths, Physics, Chemistry, and Biology
H.C. Verma's Concepts of Physics
R.D. Sharma Objective Mathematics
Pradeep's Objective Physics & Chemistry
Trueman's Biology
Word Power Made Easy by Norman Lewis
Objective General English by R.S. Aggarwal.
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11 months agoContributor-Level 10
Check out the most common types of conversion in English grammar:
- Verb to noun (email – to email)
- Verb to noun (run – a run)
- Adjective to Noun (poor – the poor)
- Preposition to verb (up – to up)
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11 months agoContributor-Level 10
No exactly. Derivation adds a prefix or suffix to create a new word, such as teach–teacher. While conversion changes the word's role without adding anything to the base word. However, conversion is a type of zero-derivation.
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11 months agoContributor-Level 10
Here's a list of some of the best books for conversion in grammar:
Book | Author/ Publisher |
|---|---|
Practical English Usage | Michael Swan |
English Grammar in Use | Raymond Murphy |
A Communicative Grammar of English | Geoffrey Leech & Jan Svartvik |
Word Formation in English | Ingo Plag |
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11 months agoContributor-Level 10
Here's a list of examples of conversion in English:
Word | Converted Form | Example of Conversion |
|---|---|---|
Google (noun) | To google (verb) | I'll ask the new joinee to google |
Scan (verb) | A scan (noun) | Because of her injury, she had to undergo a scan. |
Drive | A drive (noun) | Jane went on a drive with Bingley. |
Open | To open (verb) | Just ask him to open the windows. |
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11 months agoContributor-Level 10
In English grammar, conversion is a kind of word formation where a word changes its part of speech without altering the existing spelling or form. Example: to email is converted from the noun (email) and used as verb in a sentence.
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11 months agoContributor-Level 10
Find below a list of oxymorons commonly used in daily life by us without even realising:
- Awfully good
- Open secret
- Small crowd
- Seriously funny
- Bittersweet
- Original copy
- Pretty bad
- Pretty ugly
- Virtual reality
- Random order
- Same difference
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11 months agoContributor-Level 10
Here is a list of some popular help books to learn about oxymoron in grammar:
Book | Author/ Publisher |
|---|---|
Figure of Speech Used in Rhetoric | Arthur Quinn |
A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms | Richard A Lanham |
The Elements of Eloquence | Mark Forsyth |
Literary Terms & Literary Theory | J.A Cuddon |
How to Read Literature Like a Professor | Thomas C. Foster |
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