During Vs While Vs For

During is followed by a noun

It tells us that some parallel action is happening with an 

activity.It does not tell us how long it happened.

• We felt a lot of trouble during 

last summer.

• He fell asleep during the movie.

• During the summer I go into 

valleys of Himalaya.


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While is used to refer to a period of  time in which an 

activity happens.

 The biggest difference between "During" and "While" is that 

"While" is followed by a subject+a verb while "During" is 

followed by a noun.

• Someone stole my money while I was sleeping 

       (Subject=I,Verb=was).

•  I made the notes while teacher was teaching.

."For" refers to a period of time ,it shows how long 

something goes on.

For is followed by a length of time.

• I have been sleeping for 10 hours.

• I lived in India for 10 years.

So the summary is 

                         During+noun 

                     While+subject+verb

                      For+length of time

                       

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During vs Throughout, what's the difference?

Throughout means something happens through every part of the time while During means something happens at some parts of the time.
Also
During would indicate when/under what circumstance something occurred, whereas throughout would mean that it is continuous or reoccurring.

For example 

• He was sleeping during the movie. 

This tells us he was sleeping while the movie was running, and it doesn't necessarily imply that he was sleeping continuously.

• He was sleeping throughout the movie"

It means he was sleeping from beginning to the end of movie.

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Collective Nouns:Rules that you didn't know

Collective Noun:A collective noun is the name of a group of persons or things.
Example:Army,Committee,crowd,feet,team,jury,cattle.

When a group is considered as a single unit ,the collective noun  takes a singular verb and is substituted by singular pronoun.

Look at these sentences carefully:

• The jury have given their decision(Incorrect).
• The jury has given its decision(Correct).

(Jury=singular,has=singular helping verb,its=singular pronoun).

(It's a single unit because all the members are doing same thing at the same time).

When the members are acting as individuals, the collective noun is plural and requires plural verbs and pronouns.

• The jury was divided in its opinions.(Incorrect)
• The jury were divided in their opinions.(Correct)

(Jury=plural;were=plural helping verb;their=plural pronoun)

(Here every member of jury has different opinion so it's not a single unit.)


Got confused?

Whenever you cannot decide if a collective noun is singular or plural, try to make collective noun as plural noun.How?
Example.

Use jury members in place of jury,players instead of team etc.

• >>The jury members have given their decision.

Got it?

Note:Some words like Police are always plural.

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Say vs Tell

You say something.
You tell someone something.

This one is incorrect

• She said me that she loved me(WRONG)

• She told me that she loved me (Correct)

• He said he had not been driving fast when accident happened.(Correct)

• He told police he had not been driving fast when accident happened.(Correct)

Now look at some common uses.

• Tell(someone) a story(Not say a story)
• Tell(Someone) the time
• Tell(Someone) a lie

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Homesick and Homeless

Homesick

Unhappy because of being away from home for a long period .

• She said that she was missing her home and family so much. She sounded really homesick.

• As I read my mother's letter, I began to feel more and more homesick. 

Homeless

People who do not have a home, usually because they are poor

• Accommodation needs to be found for thousands of homeless families.

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"ill with" or "ill in","Shoe store" or "Shoes store"?

Ill with=You are not feeling well because of some disease.

• I was ill with flue last week.

You can use "ill in" when you describe the place where you are feeling ill.

• Children are critically ill in homeless shelters.

Use of  "Shoe store" is  Correct English.

You  may be find it confusing since you go to the shoe shop to buy shoes, and you generally don't go in to buy a single shoe.But that's the correct use.

• I am going to go to the shoe shop.

You can say it in a different way

• I am going to go shopping for shoes.

Note:"Shoe's store" is also not correct.

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