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If you don't know which book to read to improve your list, then I have one list of books which has varied quality of written material. Management 1. Any Edition of Harvard Business Review 2. Case Studies of Businessworld Magazine 3. What They Don't Teach You At Harvard Business School - Mark H. McCormack Physics/Science 1. Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking 2. Any work of Isaac Asimov 3. The Tao of ... Full story

  These spellings will help you in not getting caught in the trap of sentence correction questions where examiner changes the spelling in order to confuse. Copyright doesn't rest with me. To see the html version of this pic go to Mappowerindia. Thanks Raj. Full story

Got one more interested couple. They look so similar that you need to concentrate on them for atleast 2 seconds to know where they differ. Yes, they differ at 'a' and 'e'. BTW, DUAL: connotated two, twice etc. whereas DUEL: is a formal battle intended to settle a dispute. Click them to see the dictionary meaning. Full story

First of all guess which is right? I too marked the first one as right but that is the wrong version. Did you know this? Me wasn't but as usual Mr. Paul helped me knowing it. I am again be giving you the verbatim of his version i.e "One unusual use of apostrophes is ... Full story

"The traditional distinction between enquire and inquire is that enquire is to be used for general senses of 'ask', while inquire is reserved for uses meaning 'make a formal investigation'. In practice, however, enquire (and enquiry) is more common in British English while inquire (and inquiry) is more common in US English, but otherwise there is little discernible distinction in the way the words are ... Full story