What is Good English?
Good English is an essential part of your essays. Good English is an asset if you are to make anything clear. If you cannot write good English you are always at a disadvantage.
Language is the vehicle of thoughts. Without the power of ready expression you cannot make real progress, since a poor vocabulary prevents you from giving a true impression of your personality to people whose opinion is of great importance to you.
The secret of writing good English does not lie in memorizing the rules of grammar, but in developing the habit of clear thinking. "Probably the greatest social value of good English training is the feeling of self confidence which follows it".
Good English enables you to make the most of your abilities. The man who can speak and write fluently and expressively, who can give a proper impression of his personality and is not held back by the fear that his good English will let him down, has a very clear advantage in business, professional and social life.
Most people heaven involved style because they either have nothing to say what say it as vaguely as they can. Lucidity is the first requisite of a good style. The writer's chief aim should be to convey his ideas to others as clearly and lucidly as possible. In order to attain to lucidity, he should avoid confusion of ideas, vagueness of expression, repeatition of argument and use of slangs and a verbose style.
The Power and Choice of words:
Words govern our lives to an extent that a few realise it. They advertise our mentality, our character, and above all, our education. They have the power to turn success into failure and failure into success. The ability to say right thing and to say it in the right way has a value and importance that no one can afford to ignore. Words are tools, the most amazing and important yet invented by the human brain. Lack of them may be as fatal to your progress in certain attempts as obsolete. Lack of knowledge of how to use words is as great a handicap as to a writer or speaker as is ignorance of how to combine bricks and mortar to a mason.
The writers should keep in mind that a bombastic style is a thing of the past. It provokes ridicule rather than admiration now-a-days. They should therefore, make it a point to use simple, familiar and monosyllabic words and avoid difficult expressions like the devil. Good English is, therefore, free from involved or tortuous style, bombastic and high sounding words, rant, and declamation, long purple passages of eloquence and oratory, far-stretched similes and metaphors, recondite words and phrases, out of the way references and obscure allusions, turgid and stiff expressions, jarring and harsh sounds, obsolete and hackneyed literary phrases. In order to write good English one should have a style of one's simple and spontaneous, natural and native, artless and unaffected, singularly direct and straight forward and lucid. The style must be characterised by simplicity of language, clarity of thought and vigour of expression.
The Power and Choice of words:
Words govern our lives to an extent that a few realise it. They advertise our mentality, our character, and above all, our education. They have the power to turn success into failure and failure into success. The ability to say right thing and to say it in the right way has a value and importance that no one can afford to ignore. Words are tools, the most amazing and important yet invented by the human brain. Lack of them may be as fatal to your progress in certain attempts as obsolete. Lack of knowledge of how to use words is as great a handicap as to a writer or speaker as is ignorance of how to combine bricks and mortar to a mason.
The writers should keep in mind that a bombastic style is a thing of the past. It provokes ridicule rather than admiration now-a-days. They should therefore, make it a point to use simple, familiar and monosyllabic words and avoid difficult expressions like the devil. Good English is, therefore, free from involved or tortuous style, bombastic and high sounding words, rant, and declamation, long purple passages of eloquence and oratory, far-stretched similes and metaphors, recondite words and phrases, out of the way references and obscure allusions, turgid and stiff expressions, jarring and harsh sounds, obsolete and hackneyed literary phrases. In order to write good English one should have a style of one's simple and spontaneous, natural and native, artless and unaffected, singularly direct and straight forward and lucid. The style must be characterised by simplicity of language, clarity of thought and vigour of expression.
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