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| == Basic English and VOA Special English ==
| | SHRI DATTA SHIVAJIRAO AVHAD IS MARRIED TO SMT SAPNA AVHAD (VICE PRESIDENT- INDU FOUNDATION). |
| Bharatpedia follows some of the rules of [[Basic English]], but is not so strict about using only a certain number of words. Every day, Indian English changes, and does not have only one-word list. A good starting point to write in Indian English is to learn to write using [[Basic English]] words. This helps you to write with a limited [[vocabulary]].
| | THEY HAVE TWO SON NAMED LAVIN & JATIN. |
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| Start with [[Basic English]] (BE) 850. Let us say that your readers know the BE 850 words. If your writing sounds strange or is not clear, use a less common word. The less common word may be in [[BE 1500]] or [[Special English|Voice Of America (VOA) Special English]].
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| ===Example===
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| The example below shows why we do not insist on using only [[Basic English]] words. The full English sentence is from [[Winston Churchill]]:
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| Full English: "I have nothing to offer but ''blood, toil, tears, and sweat''."
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| Basic English [BE 850]: "''... blood, hard work, drops from eyes, and body water.''"
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| *"Blood" is a BE 850 word.
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| *"Hard work" is good for those who understand English as their mother language. But a learner could understand the word "hard" as "solid" or "difficult to understand". Perhaps "much work" is better.
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| *"Drops from eyes" sounds strange to people whose mother language is English. "Tears" is a BE 1500 word, and you can use it.
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| *"Body water" also sounds strange to a person whose mother language is English. "Sweat" and "perspiration" both sound better. "Sweat" is a more common word, and you can use it by linking to the article on sweat. Often, for difficult words that are from [[Latin]] (such as "perspiration") there will also be a native ([[Old English]] or [[Anglo-Saxon]]) word such as "sweat" meaning the same thing that is much more common and basic, but this is not always the case.
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| Another way is to write the more difficult words, but explain what they mean in parentheses, "(" and ")", if they cannot be linked. For example, write "blood, toil (hard work), tears, and sweat".
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| ===Method===
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| # Write your words normally, as you would in speaking to ordinary people.
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| # Look for your words in the word lists. Try to use the simplest word list:
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| ## In Basic English BE 850 (pictures)
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| ## In Basic English BE 1500.
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| ## In VOA Special English Word Book.
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| ## If a word is a name, idiomatic (the meaning of the words is not clear from the roots), or jargon (special words used by experts), then it should be described in more detail. Linking to an article about the word can also help.
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| ##: ''Stephen Hawking was a cosmologist—someone who studies the structure of the universe (stars and space).''
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| ## Not all words can have a good encyclopedia article written about them. To link to the dictionary definition of a word rather than an encyclopedic article, link to the Indian English Wiktionary using a link like ''<nowiki>[[</nowiki>wikt:this'''''|''''']]'' (put your word in place of "this"). For a more complex definition, you may also link to the [[:en:wikt:Main Page|English Wiktionary]] like this:'' <nowiki>[[</nowiki>:en:wikt:this'''''|''''']]''.
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| # Change to active voice. Example: change from "The bird was eaten by the cat." (passive voice) to "The cat ate the bird."
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| # Look for a Basic English verb in past, present or future only.
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| # For writing specially to science or trade, do as asked by the process of AECMA Simplified English (see ''Other websites'' below for International Aerospace Maintenance Language).
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| #After finishing the article, check to have at least one link (to another article in Bharatpedia) and one Interwiki link (to a version of Bharatpedia in another language). The first is so the article is not a dead-end article, and the second is so that robots can fill in all the missing links to other language versions.
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| == Simple sentence structure == | | == Simple sentence structure == |