21st Century Grammar Handbook



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21st century grammar, transformation, transformation, - - - .pdf;filename*= UTF-8''অনুবাদ চর্চা (প্রথম আলো পত্রিকা থেকে-২৯-০৩-২০২০)-1, 21st century grammar
participle
forms.
Heard. See hear.
He’d. This contraction of he had and he would should not normally be used in
standard English writing.
Helping verb. See auxiliary.
Her. See she.


Her/him. See she/he.
Hers. See she.
Herself. See -self.
He’s. This contraction of he is and he has should rarely, if ever, be used in
standard English writing.
He/she, him/her. Rewrite this awkward concession to gender equality into more easily digested forms like he and she or they See sexist language.
Hid. See hide.
Hidden. See hide.
Hide, hid, hidden. An irregular verb in its main, past tense, and past participle forms.
Him. See he.
Him/her. See he/she.
Himself. See-self.
His. See he.
Hit, hit, hit. An irregular verb in its main, past tense, and past participle forms.
Homonym. Homonyms are words that soundalike and therefore are easily confused with each other and hard to spell Write the rite right The example is silly but makes the point that spelling mimics the sound patterns of English in di erent,
sometimes strange and unpredictable, ways. The writer can only try to remember all the words that exist in homonym pairs or sets and check whether the correct one

appears in any sentence. If you don’t know that there are several words that sound like rain you might well choose the wrong one when you are talking about royalty or carriages. The only thing to do is lookup rain in a dictionary and see if it is used fora monarch’s reign or the reins that control horses. Obviously it isn’t, and most dictionaries will list the homonyms.
The most commonly confused homonyms and similar words appear in entries throughout this book and are cross-referenced for all similar or homonymous forms.
You can thus find “their” there and “they’re.”
Hopefully. It seems the struggle to help people use this word correctly has all but ended in defeat. The word is improperly used at the beginning of a sentence (or anywhere else) to mean it is hoped WRONG Hopefully, I will win the lottery and get rich This sentence actually means, I, full of hope, will win the lottery and get rich. However, almost everyone makes the wrong sort of statement on the assumption that it means, I hope I will win. Hopefully is used properly as follows The student looked hopefully to the professor as a font of wisdom.”
Don’t use hopefully in the wrong way informal, school, or academic writing,
even though it is now appearing even there without comment or censure.
However. However is used in many ways as an interjection (The experts don’t,
however, agree with you as an indefinite adverb (However you do it is okay with me and as a conjunctive adverb (Jan wants to go however, Chris doesn’t.”). See also adverb.
Hr. Use the abbreviation for hour (hr) only in tables, scienti c writing, or other special circumstances. Inmost cases, hr. should be spelled out as hour See scientific
language.

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