Prof .Rajappan's English Lessons

English spelling is th e despair of many a foreign learner of English. This is because English is an aphonetic language. In other words the...

English s peech  in made up of 44 phonemes , of which 12 are pure vowels and 8 are diphthongs . In the word pin the letter i represents a ...

In English past tense of wea k ve rbs is formed by adding -ed to the base -form of the verb and through a process called vowel-change in th...

We may wonder   why first person singular is always written with a capital letter in English unlike  other important languages like French ...

It has been said that English has no future tense . What on earth does it mean? It simply means that English does not have an inflected for...

Question Why do we use w ere with singular subjects in the subjunctive mood?   Answer The use of were with singularsubjects has puzzle...

A student of primitive languages is often baffled when he or she  is  confronted with the phenomenon of grammatical gender . Why did the an...