INSTINCTIVE GRAMMAR
A WRITER'S PIECE OF CAKE
{"\ufeff\ufeff\"Could you please\u2026?\u201d(\u2018please\u2019 can also be \u2018for my sake\u2019). This can also be \u201cCould you have\u2026if I requested?\u201d 'Criticise' is different from 'critique', though the origin of the words is one, 'criticise' is a longer formation. \nTo criticise a thing is to have it black-marked, the \u2018have\u2019 becomes a modal verb which acts as the \u2018ise\u2019 in criticise. The modal is not really required, but is used to give weightage to your speech. \nIn Maths, we've the concept of a perfect square which distances from a square. That said, a creature, which is fit-bodied is squarer than an obese. So a proper documentation in books is called squaring, for though the book is rectangular, it seems a near square, being almost equi-angular. \n\"Cut open\" is \"cut to open\"/\"cut and open\". Similarly \"chase away\", \"shy away\", \"manage success\"(manage to succeed), etc.\n\"Anything better\" is the same as \"any better\", but any better can also mean a quantitative count of the degree of the better. Similarly, \"no better(nothing better), \"no different\"(nothing different).\n'Luck' is on getting something, because the thing is the fortuner and not the fortune itself, \"at home\" is also \"at the comfort of home\", which means \"in a way\" is also \"in the comfort of a way\". So if you've to tell someone not to block your way, you must say \"Don't come in my way\", i. e., \"Don't come and be in the shelter and comfort of my way\". The usages \"keep an eye on\", \u201ckeep a close eye on\u201d, \u201clooking in the eyes\u201d, etc. are because when your eye perceives light from things, it travels throughout the eyes until images are formed inverted on the retina.\nMeeting again is also called crossing paths because even if the way you will be walking in and your meeting person will be, will be the same, one happens to block another's way while you both happen to cross one another\u2019s way from either side of the way, which, in your minds, are your separate ways and on meeting, realize you both are in, or rather, on the same way! \nA High Court judge pronounced, \u201cThis is not done!\u201d. It means something has not worked out. \u2018Go\u2019 and \u2018do\u2019 are the most basic verbs. \nAs there must be a way to \u2018do\u2019 anything, \u2018go\u2019 becomes such a way. Similarly, \u2018do\u2019 is more basic than \u2018work\u2019 or \u2018make\u2019. So we tell \u201cIt would do\u201d for \u201cIt would work out\u201d/ \u201cIt would work\u201d. \u201cI\u2019m done with it\u201d for \u201cI\u2019ve finished it\u201d. \u201cI assume the responsibility\u201d instead of \"I take on\" or \"I shoulder it\". Here, the power or importance of responsibility is so high that just by assuming I have it, it will sit on me and be on my mind. Similarly, \u201cPlease find the formality\u201d instead of \"please see/go through it\". \u201cCan I leave?\u201d instead of \"May/Shall I...\" Here I assume that the authority has tied me up and He/She granting permission for me to exit is like untying me to leave. \u201cYou could complain\u201d. In this context, I reply to my friend upon his sharing of his problem with me \nhe knows I'm not referring my reply to some past action of his complaining, though it seems to. From the above knowledge, we have, \"Could you please?\" is similar to \"Might you please?\" as both are requests. It\u2019s just as 'ought to', a median between 'may' and 'can', a median between 'should'/'have to'/'has to' and 'must'. \nHope that you all enjoyed this piece! Thank you!": null}


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