A diphthong is a complex vowel sound that begins with one vowel sound and glides into another within the same syllable.
In tear, the vowel sound is a combination of two sounds, "ea," which forms a diphthong (pronounced as /ɪə/ or /ɛə/ in some accents)
The words like team, forest, police, staff, people, audience, class etc. are called: Collective Noun.
Staff refers to a group of people working together, which makes it a collective noun.
It names a collection treated as a single unit.
Neuter gender refers to non-living things; knife is an object, so it is neuter.
Mother and wife are feminine (living beings).
"Neater" is the correct comparative form of the adjective "neat" to compare two things.
The comparative adjective "neater" is used to show the difference between two items (his handwriting vs. hers).
The connotative meaning of "fox" refers to traits such as cleverness or slyness.
This meaning is often used metaphorically to describe someone's smart or deceptive nature.
Write and right sound the same but have different meanings and spellings, making them homophones.
Homophones are words that are pronounced alike but differ in meaning or spelling.
The silent letter in the word "receipt" is P.
It is not pronounced, making the word sound like "re-seat."
Words like May, Might, Shall, Should, Can, Could etc. are called Modal Verbs.
Might is a modal verb used to express possibility or uncertainty about an action.
In this sentence, it indicates a possibility of seeing the person tomorrow.
Personification is giving human qualities to non-human things — here, "stairs groaned" gives human action to stairs.
It creates imagery by making the object (stairs) seem alive.
The original sentence is in simple past tense: "He published..."
The passive voice of a simple past sentence follows the structure: Object + was/were + past participle + by + subject
Therefore, "His second book was published by him..." is correct.
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