I came across this printed announcement pinned to a notice board in a college: This is to inform you that the meeting of all student representatives will start at 11 a.m. in the morning and end by 1 p ...

Have you heard people use the expressions ‘free gift’, ‘advance planning’, ‘blend together’, ‘eradicate completely’, ‘final conclusion’, etc? These are examples of redundant expressions. Redundancy, ...

AS children we were taught to use longer words in progressively more complex sentences; this shouldn’t be so for a report writer. Short words in short sentences work greatly in a report. Today’s ...