Words should be avoided

We are living in a modern culture. You've probably known that English language has been changing significantly. Now I am going to give you some of the describing words that should be avoided in communication. Using these words now-a-days is an offensive or it may not be a polite.

Words should be avoided:

• Handicapped,Cripple,Special

Instead of these words,one should use Person with disability,disabled.

• The blind

Instead,use words like Blind,Visually-impaired,People who are blind.

• The deaf

Instead,use words like deaf,hearing-impaired,people who are deaf.

• Deformed,lame,maimed

Instead,use words like Mobility disability.

• Retarded,mentally challenged 

Instead,use words like Developmentally disabled,intellectual disability.

• Mute,dumb

Instead,use words like Non-vocal,person with non-verbal

• Slow,special

Instead,use words like Learning disability.

• Mental,crazy,lunatic,insane

Instead,use words like Mental illness,Psychiatric disability.

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What is a Phrasal Verb?

Phrasal verbs are different than common verbs.Phrasal verbs can be made by a combination of Verb+Preposition or Verb+Adverb or Verb+Adverb+Preposition. Phrasal verbs meanings are quite different from its original verbs.Phrasal verbs make us to learn English difficult.

Let me give some examples.

Look After

Look after means take care of something.

We need to look after our parents when they getting older.

Answer for

Means be responsible for

Do you think parents are answer for their children's behavior.

Cut down
To reduce something in amount

I need to cut down amount of Sugar I eat

Come across
To meet some one or something unexpectedly

I came across my school friend at Dilsukhnagar

Act upon/on
To do something definite about; Act according to

Acting on information from a member of the public.the police raided the club

Why don't you act on her suggestion
Ask for
Ask to see or Speak to someone or To behave in a that is likely to bring something unpleasant

Letting the children play with street dogs way just asking for the trouble.

Ask after
Seek information about,in a sympathetic way(Especially about health).

Honey always asks after you in her mails.

Become of
To happen

What will become of him,if he is sent to the prison?

Blast off
To take off with the power of jets or rockets
The satellite was ready for blast off at 6.P.M. yesterday

Break out
Appear or happen suddenly
The 2nd world war broke out in 1939
Fire will be break out.

Break up

End,come to an end
Now-a-days many relation-ships break up without any reasons.

Bring about
Cause

Science has brought about fundamental thinking.

Bring out
Publish,produce

He brings out 2 new books every month

Call for
Require,demand,to need something
The situation calls for prompt action

Call on/upon
Make a short visit to;Invite to do something
You can call on the dean tomorrow

Call off
Cancel
The Principal decided to call off the meeting.

Call up
To telephone

Why don't to call me up at home.

Bail out
Pay money as a surety.
Jagan was bailed out

We have many number of phrasal verbs in English I have explained some of them.
Although some people hesitate to learn phrasal verbs, I like to learn them.

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English Parts of speech

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Verb Forms-6

V1	V2	V3	Meaning
Spit	Spat	Spat	To force out the contents of the mouths especially saliva
Spoil	Spoiled Spoilt	Spoiled Spoilt	To destroy or reduce pleasure or beauty of something
Stand	Stood	Stood	To be in a vertical state
Steal	Stole	Stolen	To take something without permission or knowledge of the owner and keep it
Swear	Swore	Sworn	To promise
Sweep	Swept	Swept	To clean especially a floor using a brush
Swell	Swelled	Swelled Swollen	To become larger and rounder  than usual
Swim	Swam	Swam	To move throw water by moving the body or parts of the body
Take	Took	Taken	To move in order to hold something  in the hands
Teach	Taught	Taught	To give somebody knowledge, To train or instruct somebody
Tear	Tore	Torn	To pull pieces off
Tell	Told	Told	To say something  to somebody, To have the opinion
Think	Thought	Thought	To use your brain to plan something
Understand	Understood	Understood	To know or become aware of something
Wear	Wore	Worn	To have clothing, jewellery  on your body
Weep	Wept	Wept	To cry
Withdraw	Withdrew	With drown	To take back
Write	Wrote	Written	To make marks which represent letters, Words, Numbers etc  on a surface like a paper

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Verb Forms-5

V1	V2	V3	Meaning
Rise	Rose	Risen	To increase, To move up
Run	Ran	Run	To move along faster than walking, To operate
Say	Said	Said	To pronounce words or sound to express a thought,   an opinion etc.
See	Saw	Seen	To be aware of what is around you using your eyes
Sell	Sold	Sold	To give something to somebody in return for money
Send	Sent	Sent	To cause something to go from one place to another place
Set	Set	Set	To fix, To put something into the  stated place or position
Shake	Shook	Shaken	To move backwards and forwards or up and down
Shoot	Shot	Shot	To use a camera to record a film, To fire a bullet or an arrow
Show	Showed	Showed Shown	To explain something to somebody by doing it or by giving instructions
Sing	Sang	Sung	To make music of sounds with the voice
Sit	Sat	Sat	To be seated, To take an exam
Sleep	Slept	Slept	To be in the state of rest when your eyes are closed
Smell	Smelt	Smelt	To notice or discover something using the nose
Speak	Spoke	Spoken	To be able to talk in a language
Spend	Spent	Spent	To give money as a payment for something, To use time doing something

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Verb Forms -4

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V1	V2	V3	Meaning
Have	Had	Had	To perform the action mentioned, To possess, To eat, To drink
Hear	Heard	Heard	To receive a sound using your ears
Hide	Hid	Hide	To put somebody or something in a place where they cannot be seen or found
Hit	Hit	Hit	To beat repeatedly
Hold	Held	Held	To take and keep something in your hand or hands
Hurt	Hurt	Hurt	To injure somebody, To cause somebody emotional pain
Keep	Kept	Kept	To stay in a particular place or condition
Know	Knew	known	To be familiar with something  or to somebody
Lead	Led	Led	To control a group of people or a country, To go in a particular direction, To live a particular type of life
Lean	Leant Leaned	Leant Leaned	To move the top part of body in a particular direction
Learn	Learnt Learned	Learnt Learned	To get knowledge or skill in a new subject or activity
Leave	Left	Left	To go away from somebody or something
Lend	Lent	Lent	To give something to somebody for a short period of time
Let	Let	Let	To allow somebody to do something by giving permission
Lie Lie	Lay Lied	Lain Lied	To be in a horizontal position on a surface, To say something which is not true
Light	Lit	lit	To produce light which makes an area or object bright
Lose	Lost	Lost	Not to possess something or to be missing
Make	Made	Made	To produce something using a particular substance
Mean	Meant	Meant	To express something like an idea, thought, fact
Meet	Met	Met	To see or speak to somebody for the first time, To come together wontedly
Misunderstand	Misunderstood	Misunderstood	To think that you have understood somebody or something when you haven’t
Overcome	Overcame	Overcome	To defeat or succeed in dealing with something
Overtake	Overtook	Overtaken	To go past something
Pay	Paid	Paid	To give money to somebody for something you want to buy or for serious
Put	Put	Put	To move somebody or something into the stated place or position
Quit	Quit	Quit	To stop doing something or To leave a Job or place
Read	Read	Read	To obtain meaning by looking  at words or symbols
Ride	Rode	Ridden	To sit on a horse, bicycle, Bike and travel on them
Ring	Rang	Rung	To make the sound of a bell, to make a telephone call to somebody

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