#alwaysinawe

Last Monday(July 3,2017), was a day of astonishment. We had our diagnostic test in vocabulary, and I thought that it would be easy, because of the reason that we just have to spot the incorrect structure of sentences then replace it with the right one, but it was more than what we thought. I actually used to believe that I’m good at speaking/writing with the use of the English language, then the unexpected happened. I only got 2 right answers out of 25 items in the test. We were all appalled by the idea that there are still a lot of things we should learn about our vocabularies and about the English language itself.

There are plenty of things to remember, like:

There is no such word/term as “Handcarry”.

We should be using “Prefer–to”, instead of “Prefer–than”.

Don’t forget to use hyphen if you’re going to use compound terms.

We can never park on “both sides” of a road, but instead, we park on “either side”.

Biennial - takes place every other year or happens every two years. Biannual - happens twice a year.

(When talking about date&time) Use the words: At - for exact time On - for exact date In - if you’re talking about a non-specific date, like: inside a month, a year, a decade etc.

Words: “jewelry” and “luggage” are already in their plural form or are collective nouns (Yeah, I know, common sense) 

Incorrect terms: “in as much” and “in so far”

Correct terms: “inasmuch” and “insofar”

“Appraise” - assessing the value of “Apprise” - telling someone something

“Full-Fledged” instead of “Full-Pledged”

“with regard to” and “as regards the”