English - Language of Communication PET 2011

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‘English’Language of Communication

PET - 20111st October, 2011

Saturday

Dr. Dilip [email protected]

Saturday, October 01, 2011


• A guide to Slide Show: • This presentation is only for those who are going to

appear in PET-2011 and have not appeared in any examination of English Grammar at School or College level.

• Click to view directly the specific slide• Click here to view presentation from the beginning

• Click here to view the List of Books

• Click here to view List of Website for Online Grammar Quiz



(B) COURSE CONTENT OF LANGUAGE OF COMMUNICATION

• • Parts of Speech and their Usages• i. Nouns• ii. Verbs• iii. Adjectives• iv. Adverbs• V. Pronouns• vi. Prepositions• vii. Conjunctions• viii. Interjections Saturday, October 01, 2011

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Examples: Parts of Speech• Identify ‘parts of speech’ of the underlined

words:• John is appearing in PET-2011. (N-V-V-Pre-N)• Either Rama or Laxman will be selected in DRC

(Departmental Research Committee). (Conjunction – Verb)

• He successfully passed the test. (Pro- Adverb)


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Examples – Parts of Speech• Hurrah! I have cleared DRC. (Interjection)• He is cycling – Cycling is good for exercise. (Cycling –

Verb / Noun-gerund)• This is very interesting. (Adverb – Adjective).

• Choose the right option: “You have done it successfully”.a) Noun-Verb-Adverbb) Verb-Pronoun-Adverbc) Pronoun-Noun-adjective


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• • Articles• ‘A’, ‘An’ and ‘The’


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Examples: Articles• My friend sent _____ SMS regarding this message. (A, An, The)• ___ UGC has announced …… (A, An, The)

• Is the use of ‘article’ appropriate in the below given sentence?1. The Earth revolves round the Sun.2. Do you believe that the above given sentence is

wrong?3. Have you seen the earth revolving round the sun?All three sentences are ‘TRUE’.


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• • Types of Sentence and its Structure• i. Declarative sentences• ii. Interrogative sentences• iii. Imperative sentences• iv. Exclamatory sentences; also,• v. Simple sentence• vi. Compound sentence• vii. Complex sentence• viii. Remove “too”• ix. Superlative Sentences• x. Comparative Sentences


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Examples: Types of Sentences• Have you passed the PET? (Identify the type of

this sentence)a) Interrogativeb) Exclamatoryc) Imperatived) Assertive


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Example: Remove ‘too’• After removing ‘too’, is it correct to write this

sentence (‘The teacher is too lenient to be strict’.) as – ‘The teacher is so lenient that she cannot be strict’.a) Falseb) Truec) ‘So’ cannot be used to replace ‘too’d) None of the above is true


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Example: DegreesPositive Comparative Superlative

Strong Stronger Strongest

Great Greater Greater

Fast Faster Fastest

Big Bigger Biggest

Much/Many Mucher/Manyer Muchest/Manyest

Beautiful Beautifler Beautifulest

Good Gooder Goodest

Bad Badder Baddest

Popular Popularer Popularest

Sincere Sincerer SincererestSaturday, October 01, 2011

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Example: DegreesPositive Comparative Superlative

Strong Stronger Strongest

Great Greater Greater

Fast Faster Fastest

Big Bigger Biggest

Much/Many More Most

Beautiful More Beautiful Most Beautiful

Good Better Best

Bad Worse Worst

Popular More Popular Most Popular

Sincere More sincere Most sincereSaturday, October 01, 2011

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• • Usages of Tense in English

• • Active and Passive Voice

• Please see the attached PDF file for examples.


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Example: Tense and VoiceRules of Voice and example are in scanned PDF copy attached

with the email

Simple Present Tense

I love research activity. Research activity is loved by me.

Present Continuous Tense

I am loving research activity Research activity is being loved by me.


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(B) COURSE CONTENT OF LANGUAGE OF COMMUNICATION• • Direct and Indirect Speech

Rules:

• Tense of ‘Reporting Verb’ does not change.• In reported speech (indirect speech), Tense,

Pronoun and words denoting nearness of time & position undergo certain changes.


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Example: Speech• He said: “I am very busy now”.• He said that he was very busy then.


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Tense in indirect speechDifferent forms of verb ‘Do’

Direct Speech Indirect Speech

Do / does Did

Did Had done

Had done

Am/is/are doing Was/were doing

Was/were doing Had been doing

Had been doing

Will/shall do Would/should do

Will/shall be doing Would/should be doing

Will/shall have done Would / should have

May Might

Can Could

Has/have to Had toSaturday, October 01, 2011

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Pronoun – Indirect speech• He said to me, “I don’t believe you”.• He said he didn’t believe me.• She said to him, “I don’t believe you”.• She said she didn’t believe him.


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Words denoting nearness and remotenessDirect speech Indirect speech

This / these That / those

Here There

Now Then (often omitted)

Ago Before

Last The previous / the ----- before -----

Next The following / the ----- after -----

Today That day

Tonight That night

Hence Thence

Hither Thither

Yesterday The previous day / the day before

Tomorrow The next day / the following day / the day after


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Example• Angelo said, “I'll meet you at that place some

hour hence.” (The Comedy of Errors. W. Shakespeare)

• Angelo said that he would meet him/her at that place some hour thence.

• Charles said, “I am heartily glad I came hither to you.” (As You Like It. W. Shakespeare)

• Charles said that he was heartily glad he had come thither to him/her.


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Example:• Possible types of MCQ (multiple choice questions):– Identify the speech in following sentences:– select the right indirect speech: – true – false

• He said, “We opened a branch of our firm here two years ago but we haven’t been able to make any progress”.

• He said that they opened a branch of their firm there two years before but they hadn’t been able to make any progress.


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Internet sources for MCQ type quiz - English Grammar

• Online quiz: (Pleases click on the logo to open the website or check the list of web links in the attached word file)


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http://esl.about.com/od/intermediatelevelquizzes/a/comparative_superlative_quiz.htm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/webwise/course/email/menu.shtml

http://www.funnelbrain.com/quizzes/?gclid=CKP9gq6ux6sCFUl76wodNBdg1g

http://www.quizmoz.com/quizzes/English-Language-Quizzes/e/English-Grammar-Quiz.asp

http://www.kinglishschool.com/quiz.htm


List of books:

• David Greed – ‘Contemporary English Grammar Structures and Composition’. Pub: Macmillan

• R.P. Sinh – ‘Oxford English Grammar and Usage with Composition’. Pub: Oxford Press.

• Wren & Martin – ‘High School English Grammar & Composition’. Pub: S. Chand


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Why is English given so much importance in Research?

• It is believed that – the knowledge accepted at international level is available in English.

• To make our research known to the world – English is the only express way!

• We want to know ‘what the world is doing’ and we want the world to know what we are doing’.


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Let us end our discussion on humorous note:

• Watch these videos:• English academy – watch this video on www.youtube.com >

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qCQQB4nElA

• School teacher – watch this video on www.youtube.com > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUo7BL6NFus&feature=related


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http://www.youtube.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qCQQB4nElA

http://www.youtube.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUo7BL6NFus&feature=related


An Idea is more important than language – language is nothing but a tool / vehicle to convey ideas. Research activities are based on ideas – innovative, critical and creative ideas.


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Thank you!• UGC has made it mandatory to submit one

copy of synopsis/dissertation in English.

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