English The Easy Way

What is writing with a positive tone?

It is important to write clearly and with a positive tone. It is generally easier to get your point across when using positive statements as opposed to negative statements. When ever you can try to avoid negative statements or negative connotations. If you need to use negative statements or negative connotations try to keep them down to minimum.

What are positive statement?

Positive statements don't have to have a positive meaning. It is possible to have a sentence that is positive grammatically with a negative connotation.

Example:

• I know you you will fail your test.
• We forgot to do our homework.

What are negative statements?

Negative states are statements that contain the word(s) not, don't, can't etc. Negative statements can be grammatically negative with a positive connotation.

• I know you didn't fail your test.
• We did not forget to do our homework

Quote:

"I never think of the future, it comes soon enough." --Albert Einstein

Writing Skills

• Writing Tips
• Common Writing Errors
• Writing with a Positive Tone
• Writing Clear Instructions
• Punctuation
• Writing Resumes and Cover Letters
• Proofreading and Editing
• Pre-Essay Writing Steps

Vocabulary Word:

Verb

to peregrinate (third-person singular simple present peregrinates, present participle peregrinating, simple past and past participle peregrinated)

1. (intransitive) To travel from place to place, or from one country to another, especially on foot; hence, to sojourn in foreign countries.
2. (transitive) To travel through a specific place.

Quotations

to travel from place to place

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• 1824, James Fenimore Cooper [1]

  You know the inveterate peregrinating habits of the club, and can judge, from your own besetting propensity to change your residence monthly, how difficult it might prove to resist the temptation of traversing a soil that is still virgin, so far as the perambulating feet of the members of our fraternity are concerned.

• 1935, G. de Purucker, The Esoteric Tradition, Part Two [2]

  He came first to recognise, then finally to know and to feel, that just as the atoms of his own physical body peregrinate by efflux and influx in and out of his body, so does he as a human ‘life-atom’ or human Monad peregrinate by unceasing influx and efflux in and out of the regular series of his earth-lives which succeed one another uninterruptedly during his sojourn in a Planetary Round on this globe Earth of the planetary chain, and much, very much, more.

• 2000, Brenda Maddox, Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom [3]

  As their brood grew, Annie and Thomas Barnacle peregrinated through a tight circle of tenements and small houses at shabby addresses in the heart of Galway: Abbeygate Street, Raleigh Row, Newtownsmyth.

to travel through a specific place

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• 1876, Edward S. Wheeler, Scheyichbi and the Strand [4]

  History records no popular tumult, except of tongues, about the matter, but Jesse Hand never fully regained the regard of some people, and jealousy and distrust, like a curse, followed his new-fangled equipage; and though he and his generation are long since dead, yet the writer hath knowledge of traditions that, still drawn by attenuated and discouraged equines, a very Wandering Jew of vehicles, Jesse Hand’s carriage still peregrinates, at a toilsome pace, the interminable, sandy, woodland roads of Jersey.

• 1913, Marguerite Pollard, “The Message of Edward Carpenter,” in Theosophist Magazine [5]

  It is no longer hindered by any pride of race and can truthfully declare its readiness to “peregrinate every condition of man—with equal joy the lowest.”

• 2005, Jan Morris, The World: Travels 1950–2000 [6]

  Anyway, as fledgling and as veteran, as man and as woman, as journalist and as aspirant littérateur, throught my half-century I peregrinated the world and wrote about it.