Learning english

I like writing about English and it is because we can always play with the language. But in order to do that we need to have good hold over the language and its grammatical bounds. Let us start with the parts of speech. We all are familiar with the parts of speech and so lets turn to the English connectors. Hey, do not get confused, English connectors are nothing but one of the parts of speech. Conjunctions are also called english connectors as it connects two or more words or sentences. Conjunctions like and, either, or etc are positive connectors. On the other hand conjunctions like but, neither, nor etc are negative connectors. Following are examples of using  positive and negative english connectors respectively.

John and Tom are cousins ( positive english connector )
He is rich but humble ( negative english connector )


This is about playing with the grammar. We can also have fun with rhetoric, i.e. figures of speech. Taking the simplest of the figures of speech, metaphor, lets start.


Metaphor is something which we use the most in our regular speech but the fact is that we are not conscious about it. Metaphors are  used to compare two unlike things instead of using "as" or "like". I have given few metaphor examples for kids, so that it becomes easier for you to understand the uses of metaphor.

Examples:
Her eyes are jewels sparkling in the sun.
The harvest moon is a great pumpkin in the sky.


So here i gave you ideas to use both parts of speech and figures of speech. As you know this bit, try and explore more and more about english language.