I have created this blog to share interesting uses of the English language and to provide good explanations of why English is used in ways not immediatly understandable to a non-native speaker.
Recent PostsA cover letter helps a company decide to read your resume and should state: Why you are writing. Why the reader should be interested in you. What action is being requested or will be taken (e.g. follow up and call within 10 days, instead of waiting...
What else is a resume used for? Well, it is used as a roadmap for the interviewer to follow to ask you questions reference by the interviewer after the interview in thinking and describing a candidate’s skills, attributes, and achievements Rememb...
Your resume is most likely the tool that gets you to the interview and in today’s electronic world, each job requires a different resume in order to show up in a hiring company’s search results. That is why it is still important to get someon...
Finding a job becomes more complicated when the economy is bad, but that does not mean they are out there. The biggest challenge is to find the real opportunities. It is time consuming to prepare resumes and cover letters only to realize a company is...
Over the next month, eHomework is going to give you the information you need to perform your best to get a job in a non-Japanese company. If you are a senior in college getting ready to graduate, then you will find this series of articles extremely u...
You may hear “What other elements do we need?” in a business conversation and wonder what that might mean. Just like the periodic table of elements which in Japanese is 周期表(しゅうきひょう) shuukihyou, the word element(s) can ...
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Candadai TirumalaiYour discussion of "blitz" is interesting. Originally a German word, it is now at home in English, which is hitorically a Germanic language. In England the Blitz refers to the heavy aerial bombing of London by the Germans during the Second World War.
As your examples show, it can be used both as a noun and as a verb.
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Hi friend,
I am from India. I like your posts. Maybe we are on the same platform...
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