Let’s write good English
The Fun They Had Introduction to the lesson as given in the book .. The story we shall read is set in the future, when books and schools as we now know them will perhaps not exist. How will children study then? The diagram below …
Reciprocity… Model sentence… Sasmita presented a new flower painting to Monalisa. As a gesture of reciprocity, the latter (Monalisa) gave a big chocolate pack to the former (Sasmita) as a gesture of reciprocity. Or Israel exports a lot of its missiles and missile technology …
Restraint … While arguing a matter in a court, both the lawyers and the judges show maximum restraint in their choice of words, and body language in order not to spoil the dignity of the chamber. Or All salaried employees exercise restraint while buying any …
Flareup as noun .. The political leader’s fiery speech against a particular community led to a communal flareup in the town. Flare up as phrasal verb… Violence flared up in the village after a wicked Brahmin boy physically abused some Dalit women taking bath in …
Read the whole piece, and understand it. Paraphrase the first two paragraphs. Choose any one paragraph and identify the words as noun, pronoun, adjective, adverb etc. (This piece appeared in The Economist magazine. We gratefully acknowledge it.) ————————————————————————————————.————————- Last month I was part of a …
FIGURES OF SPEECH What are…. Simile Metaphor Hyperbole Oxymoron Metonymy …
The Cold Within by James Patrick Kinney Six humans trapped in happenstance In dark and bitter cold, Each one possessed a stick of wood, Or so the story’s told. Meaning .. By some coincidence, six humans find themselves trapped in an area that is …
If Thou Must Love Me by Elizabeth Barrett Browning If Thou Must Love Me: Line by Line Explanation Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) wrote ‘If Thou Must Love Me’. It is the sonnet no.14 of her collection named ‘Sonnets from the Portuguese’ that has 44 love …
A Wedding in Brownsville by Isaac Bashevis Singer A word about the author .. Polish by birth, Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902-1991) grew up in a family of rabbis (Orthodox Jews). After passing out from Warsaw Rabbinical Seminary, he left for the United States and made …
Eveline Introduction …. This story was written by James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (1882-1941). This short story centered around a 19-year-old Irish girl was later included in his book named Dubliners. James Joyce was a writer, a literary critic and a novelist. Through his unique style, …