The occurrence of lifting the outer border of the curved road over the inner border is to give necessary combining force to the vehicles to take a guarded turn and the curved road is termed as Banking of Roads. When a vehicle prevails around a curved road, it needs some combining force.While moving around the curve, the wheels of the vehicle have a propensity to leave the curved path and recover the straight line path. Force of friction between wheels and the roads goes against this propensity of the wheels. This force of friction accordingly acts towards the middle of ... Read More

Measuring things and distances is one of the important concepts to learn when we are studying maths. For maximum uses, measuring scales do the work quite well and everyone is aware of it how to use one. But the measuring scale only provides a specific level of correctness and once you need exact measurements which lie between two spots on the scale it becomes difficult to get a correct reading without a bit of counterpart.Also measuring scales are very vulnerable to parallax mistakes which can cause a huge portion of the difference in readings from person to person which is ... Read More

A small lyric poem of fourteen lines is a sonnet. There are two types of Sonnets: the Italian (Petrarchan) and the English (Shakespearean).In the Italian form, There are two intrinsic divisions: the first part consists of 8 lines and the second part is of 6 lines, in all making 14 lines.Shakespearian SonnetsBut the same does not happen in Shakesperian sonnets. William Shakespeare, the ‘Bard of Avon’, is noted to have mastered at least 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses. His popularity can be estimated by the following “He was naturally learned; he needed ... Read More

Clauses are defined as the words, consisting of a subject and a finite form of a verb. Every complete sentence is made up of at least one clause.There are Two Major Types of ClausesIndependent clausesDependent clausesLet us have a look at the sentences belowMia bought a new computer. (One sentence, one clause)Mia bought a new computer, but she still has the old one. (One sentence, two clauses)A Dependent Clause (or subordinate clause) does not make sense by itself because it does not express a complete thought.“But she still has his old one”. (a dependent clause is a sentence fragment.)An Independent Clause ... Read More

Punctuation marks date back to at least the 5th century BC when there were hardly any insights to writing and there were only capital letters. While the basic rules of communication are not difficult to understand, still a confusion always bothers us during our interaction using British English or American English.Uses of Punctuation MarksThey help us in depicting our emotions in a better manner.Quotation marks to emphasize words and phrases.Quotation marks are used for purposes of dialogue, quotes, and titles.Comma, semicolon are also used to denote minor pauses while sleeping.Ellipses indicate the omission of words within something that is being quoted.Punctuation ... Read More

MLA (Modern Language Association) is a body that assigns rules and regulations for research paper writing. MLA is popular worldwide and assigns various rules on Selecting a topic, compiling a working bibliography, outlining and writing drafts (to name a few).Selecting A TopicIn order to select a topic, different instructors and different courses offer widely varying degrees of freedom to students selecting topics for research papers. The instructor of a course in a specific discipline may supply a list of topics from which to choose or any, more generally, require that the paper relates to an important aspect of the course. MLA ... Read More

When a new product developed, the Research and Development department initiate and perform an intensive study and get the details to support the project. Research and Development departments help corporations stay ahead of the competition, utilize new technology, and produce goods more efficiently. This is just the purpose of any research.Research PhaseThe research phase includes determining product specifications, production costs, and a production timeline.It contributes to the development, as a scientist or inventor in the field of Science and Technology. The research plan is a map for one’s career as a research science professional.In the medical field, research enables us ... Read More

Personification is the attributing of human characteristics, thoughts, or emotions to something that is non-human. It is a rhetoric device that is used to convey something more than a literary meaning of a sentence.Example: The heavens wept at the incident.Now, in this sentence, heavens cannot weep but the idea of emotions and weeping is produced through “wept”. Heaven is non-living and it is weeping just like humans do. Hence, the sentence features personification.Example: The thunder clapped angrily from a distance.Definitely, the thunder cannot clap. It is a non-living thing but the writer wants to convey the intensity of clapping by ... Read More

“Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.” — Oscar Wilde.When I read such amazing quotations about simplicity, I feel like step out and explore the meaning and vastness of simplicity. In fact, William Hazlitt in his prose piece, On familiar style is scornful of the writers whose writing style is pedantic, with affectation and pretense, showy and gaudy, and thus it lacks a familiar style and even common sense too.How Can It Be Achieved?Simplicity can only be harvested from within, through hard work, engagement, and insight. This is even ... Read More

Ideally speaking, there is no major difference between the words "hastily " and "quickly". Both come from the verbs' Haste' and 'Quick' and are used here as adverbs to qualify the verbs.Hastily: It refers to a work done hurriedly.Quickly: It can refer to both, work is done hurriedly or something indicative of speed.Thus, when one needs to denote the meaning of being in a hurry, with no time even to sit, relax and breathe, one uses 'Hastily'. But when one uses the word in a sense to indicate speedily, say 'Wait, I will quickly prepare Maggi for you.' Here, 'hastily' ... Read More