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Wednesday, November 10, 2010
- The slides from today’s presentation “Hard Skills, Soft Skills: Two Sides of the Same Coin” are available to download here.
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- I hope I was able to get my main message across - soft skills are just as important as hard skills and shouldn't be undermined.
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- Highlight both sets of skills on your resume and prepare a plenty examples from your professional life to support your soft skills while getting ready for a job interview.
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- Many potential employees have the same hard skills (e.g.: a university degree), but it is the soft skills that make us stand out from the rest of the job applicants.
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- Thank you for your participation!
POSTED BY Olga Galperin AT 7:43 PM
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Wednesday, November 03, 2010
- The -en suffix can be used to make verbs from adjectives. The verbs in bold below are followed by a direct object and have the meaning of ‘make + their corresponding adjective’:
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- sharpen a pencil/scissors/a knife (make sharp)
soften skin/fabric/water (make soft)
flatten a box/cars or trees (as by the storm) (make flat)
sweeten tea/coffee/a deal (make sweet)
brighten someone’s day/life/spirits (make bright=happy/hopeful)
tighten bolts/security/a tie (make tight)
Sometimes the -en verbs can be used with no object at all. The verbs in bold have the meaning of ‘become + the related adjective, showing that something has reached the necessary or higher degree’:
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- The tomatoes ripened. (became ripe)
The soup thickened. (became thick)
The screws loosened. (became loose)
His eyes widened. (became wider)
Her vision worsened. (became worse)
Their pace quickened. (became quicker)
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- Some -en verbs have pairs of antonyms:
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- weaken/strengthen
darken/lighten (whiten)
soften/harden
shorten/lengthen
tighten/loosen
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- The suffix -en can also be used to form adjectives from nouns (this list is quite limited):
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- wood-wooden
wool-woolen
gold-golden
molt-molten
maid-maiden
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- Another common adjective with the suffix -en is brazen (openly done, not hidden), such as in ‘a brazen daytime attack’. The adjective brazen may also mean ‘made of brass’.
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- Lastly, there are a lot past participle forms with the suffix -en associated with irregular verbs:
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- proven/driven/broken/given/mistaken/
- stolen/spoken/woven/written/chosen/
- forsaken/frozen/fallen/beaten/shaven
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- The past participle forms can also be used to create compound adjectives/common word combinations (adjective + adjective or adjective + adverb):
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- a clean-shaven man
a softly-spoken woman
a well-written essay
a recently stolen car
a carefully chosen location
POSTED BY Olga Galperin AT 11:51 PM
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