Idiom of the day

buy that

believe that, eat that 
He says he went to see his friends at the park. I
can buy that.

Alliteration

Alliteration

Is the repetition of a speech sound in a sequence of nearby
words. The term is usually applied only to consonants, and only when the recurrent
sound begins a word or a stressed syllable within a word. In Old English
alliterative meter, alliteration is the principal organizing device of the
verse line: the verse is unrhymed; each line is divided into two half-lines of
two strong stresses by a decisive pause, or caesura; and at least one, and usually
both, of the two stressed syllables in the first half-line alliterate with the
first stressed syllable of the second half-line. (In this type of versification a
vowel was considered to alliterate with any other vowel.) A number of Middle
English poems, such as William Langland's Piers Plowman and the romance Sir
Gawain and the Green Knight, both written in the fourteenth century, continued
to use and play variations upon the old alliterative meter. (See strong-stress
meters.) In the opening line of Piers Plowman, for example, all four of the
stressed syllables alliterate: is the repetition of a speech sound in a sequence of nearby
words. The term is usually applied only to consonants, and only when the recurrent
sound begins a word or a stressed syllable within a word. In Old English
alliterative meter, alliteration is the principal organizing device of the
verse line: the verse is unrhymed; each line is divided into two half-lines of
two strong stresses by a decisive pause, or caesura; and at least one, and usually
both, of the two stressed syllables in the first half-line alliterate with the
first stressed syllable of the second half-line. (In this type of versification a
vowel was considered to alliterate with any other vowel.) A number of Middle
English poems, such as William Langland's Piers Plowman and the romance Sir
Gawain and the Green Knight, both written in the fourteenth century, continued
to use and play variations upon the old alliterative meter. (See strong-stress
meters.) In the opening line of Piers Plowman, for example, all four of the
stressed syllables alliterate:

Allegory

Allegory

An allegory is a narrative, whether in prose or verse, in which the
agents and actions, and sometimes the setting as well, are contrived by the
author to make coherent sense on the "literal," or primary, level of signification,
and at the same time to signify a second, correlated order of signification

Alexandrianism

Alexandrianism

The works and styles of the Alexandrian school of
Greek poets in the age (323 BCE-31 BCE), which included
Callimachus, Apollonius Rhodius, and Theocritus. The Alexandrian style
was marked by elaborate artificiality, obscure mythological
and eroticism. It influenced Catullus and other Roman poets.

Aesthetics

Aesthetics
philosophical investigation into the nature of
beauty and the perception of beauty, especially in the arts; the theory of
art or of artistic taste. Adjective: aesthetic or esthetic.

Use of is, am, are

            Use "is" when the subject is a singular noun or a third person singular pronoun. Use "are" when the subject is a plural noun or a plural pronoun (e.g. we, you, they). Use "am" when the subject is the first person pronoun I. 

Example:

1. He is my friend.
2. He is not my friend.
3. Is he my friend?
4. He is a good player.
5. He is not a good player.
6. Is he a good player?
7. We are students.
8. We are not students 
9. Are we students?
10. England is our country.
11. Pakistan is an Islamic country
12. The moon is beautiful.
13. The sky is clear.
14. My book is not beautiful.
15. They are children.
16. We are naughty children.
17. I am a good boy.
18. I am live in England.
19. I am not going to school.

Idiom of the day

buy a round
buy a drink for everyone at the table, 
this one is on me
When Gina was born, I bought a round for the
team. Every player had a drink to honor our
baby.

buy into
believe and support, agree to
support, come onside
He will buy into our plan if the money goes to
needy children.

buy out buy a business and all the
inventory
We knew his business was in debt, so we
offered to buy him out.

Affective Fallacy

Affective Fallacy.

Is a term from literary criticism used to refer to the supposed error of judging or evaluating a text on the basis of its emotional effects on a reader. ... Wimsatt and Monroe Beardsley as a principle of New Criticism which is often paired with their study of the The Intentional Fallacy.

In an essay published in 1946, W. K. Wimsatt and Monroe C. Beardsley defined the affective fallacy as the error of evaluating a poem by its effects—especially its emotional effects—upon the reader. As a result of this fallacy "the poem itself, as an object of specifically critical judgment,tends to disappear," so that criticism "ends in impressionism and relativism." The two critics wrote in direct reaction to the view of I. A. Richards, in his influential Principles of Literary Criticism (1923), that the value of a poem can be measured by the psychological responses it incites in its readers. Beardsley has since modified the earlier claim by the admission that "it does not appear that

critical evaluation can be done at all except in relation to certain types of effect that aesthetic objects have upon their perceivers." So modified, the doctrine becomes a claim for objective criticism, in which the critic, instead of describing the effects of a work, focuses on the features, devices, and form ofthe work by which such effects are achieved. An extreme reaction against the doctrine of the affective fallacy was manifested during the 1970s in the development f reader-response criticism.

Use of has, have, had

The words 'has' and 'have' are used as a main verb and auxiliary verb in the present tense. In either case, has is used for the third person singular: he, she, it. As for have, it's used for the third person plural and the first and second persons, singular and plural.

We use the verb had and the past participle for the past perfect: I had finished the work. The past perfect is used in the same way as the present perfect, but it refers to a time in the past, not the present

Examples:

I have a pen.
He has two books.
They have four copies.
Have we a car?
Zeus has one horse.
Millan has four horses.
Azmat has not a beautiful book.
Imran has two bats.
He has a motorcycle.
Have they time to go with us?
I have a pen to give you.
He had two books to give me.

Idiom of the Day

button hole you
stop you and talk to you, corner
you and bore you
At the meeting, A buttonholed me and asked
me to vote Reform.