Words with style

April 8, 2008

When we’re blogging, it doesn’t mean we just have to simply express what we feel or what we need to let our readers perceive. Since our blog posts would sometimes need to contain a definite substance, then we may make use of words which are rather deep and sensible, and which are just about of the same definition as the simplest words you knew. emoticon

That’s right! The solution is working on with synonymous words. In short, we look for synonyms through a reference called Thesaurus. Like for instance, notice the following statements:

My dad just bought me a new pair of shoes. When I was about to try them on with my feet, it didn’t fit. And because of this, I really scolded my dad because the shoes were not able to satisfy me. Dad should have told me that he was buying me a new pair of shoes so that before he’d pay for those, at least I could try them on.

Noticeably, the words used were a bit redundant. In most usual cases, though the readers might be interested on how you started your statement, but they’d definitely end up unimpressedemoticon Now in order to improve this, you just have to eliminate redundancy, or the so-called unwanted repition of words. Use synonyms. You might re-write the paragraph above as:

My dad just bought me a new pair of shoes. When I was about to try them on with my feet, I noticed that they were just too tight. And because of this, I really scolded him because the sneakers were not able to satisfy me. My father should have told me that he was buying me a new pair of those fancy foot wears so that before he’d pay for those, at least I could have checked them out myself.

As part of the "redundancy prevention", you would also have to consider repeating sounds. Rhymes aren’t best for essays especially on posts for your blog. They are just effective on poems or other literary pieces aside from essays. Above I replaced the word "fit" to "tight". Since "fit" sounds alike with "feet". Therefore, the awkwardness of the statement may also be removed. emoticon

For your reference needs especially Thesaurus, I would recommend you this website right in this link » http://thesaurus.reference.com/. Happy posting!

Regards,
Ronald Borla 

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  1. Igo kaau ko duh.. .

    Comment by Patrick — April 8, 2008 @ 5:48 pm

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