Hello steemian,
Happy New Year to you all. I am really excited to be alive to see another decade and millennium called 2020. Indeed God has been faithful.
Today being the first day of the month in 2020, I would wish to bring to birth a dream long conceived for steem. Yeah, you heard me right, I wish to begin a series on and x-ray of some grammatical expressions which we use in our day to day communication which are incorrect.
Mind you, I'm not here to apportion blame on anyone that does not seem to have paid attention to the grammatical rules in his our her speech, perhaps he/she doesn't know the right expression.
Note also that my aim is neither to fault you or to gain cheap popularity as a good authority by digging up some wrong grammatical expression, but it is rather to provide a platform where we can learn from our mistakes and try our best to unlearn the wrong things we learnt in a particular language.
English however would be my point of focus because it not just a world language, it is the Lingual Franca of so many countries of the world including Nigeria. Thus, since it's not the L1 (first Language) of most of it's speaker, they tend to be at risk of being tossed while engaging in the use of the language.
I am taking time to do this preamble because in my next lesson, I may not have time for too much write ups, but would advance right into the crux of the lesson.
Having said that,
lets begin the lesson.
I will choice to call my class a Language clinic and I'm hopeful that when you undergo the surgery in the lab, something new would birth.
Focus for today is on wish and which
Do you know that these two words can be confusing both in pronunciation, usage and even in spelling? Now you know, take note of the following:
which /wɪtʃ/ which is a pronoun and a determiner and it is often used when asking for specific information about a someone or something. It is also used when referring to things already mentioned which is known to the reader or listener.
wish /wɪʃ/
verb
feel or express a strong desire or hope for something that cannot or probably will not happen.
"we wished for peace"
noun
want to do something.
"they wish to become involved"
Similar:
want
desire
have an inclination
feel/be inclined
feel like
care
choose
please
think fit
noun
a desire or hope for something to happen.
"the union has reiterated its wish for an agreement"
source
Now take note, when responding either verbally or in written form to the salutation or new year wish/greeting, the response should go thus:
I wish you the same
and not
I which you the same. ( I was a victim of this just yesterday) lol
Check out the video for more info.
