COMPREHENSION PASSAGE EXERCISES PASSAGE 1 Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer of the four alternatives and mark your answer. Good writing should be governed by the rule that a man can think only one thing clearly at a time; and therefore, that he should not be expected to think two or even…
CONJUNCTIONS Conjunctions are words used as joiners. Different kinds of conjunctions join different kinds of grammatical structures. A conjunction is a word which connects two words or clauses or sentences and shows the relation between them. They are used to avoid making the text seem like bullet points and to make the text flow. E.g.:…
PREPOSITION A preposition is a word usually placed before a noun, pronoun to show its connection with another word. It shows the relation between a noun or pronoun and the other part of the sentence. Pre + position = placement / position before i.e. it is placed before the noun or pronoun. Types of prepositions:…
ADJECTIVE An ‘adjective’ is a word which qualifies a noun or a pronoun. Ex: She is a ‘good’ woman. An adjective can be used in two ways, attributively and predicatively. It is attributive when it is placed immediately before the noun it qualifies. Ex: She is a ‘beautiful’ woman. It is predicative when it is…
RULES OF SUBJECT VERB What are the rules? Subjects and verbs must agree in number. This is the cornerstone rule that forms the background of the concept. The dog growls when it is angry. The dogs growl when they are angry. Don’t get confused by the words that come between the subject and verb, they…
LIST OF VERBS A Accept Adopt Amuse Appreciate Assure Ache Afford Analyze Approve Attach Acknowledge Affirm Annoy Assert Attack Act Ail Announce Argue Attempt Add Agree Answer Arrange Attend Admit Alert Apologize Arrive Attract Admire Allege Appeal Arrest Auction Admonish Allow Appear Articulate Avoid Advise Allude Applaud Ask Awake Avow B Babble Back Bake…
TENSES 16 kinds of tenses and the examples:A. Present tenseSimple present tensePresent continuous tensePresent perfect tensePresent perfect continuous tense B. Past tense:Simple past tensePast continuous tensePast perfect tensePast perfect continuous C. Future tense:Simple future tenseFuture continuous tenseFuture perfect tenseFuture perfect continuous tense Simple present Usage:Stating a habit (a habitual action) or activates that occur over…
VERB Verbs are the most important component of any sentence. These words talk about the action or state of any noun or subject. This means that the verbs show what the subject is doing or what is the state or situation of subject. For example: He ran to the store. Here the verb ran describes…
PRONOUNS A pronoun is a word used in the place of a noun. TYPES OF PRONOUNS: Personal pronouns Possessive pronouns Reflexive pronouns Emphatic pronouns Demonstrative pronouns Indefinite pronouns Distributive pronouns Reciprocal pronouns Interrogative pronouns Relative pronouns PERSONAL PRONOUNS: Personal pronouns are the words which stand for names of people or things. A pronoun referring…
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