Competative exams

Jul

2021

Sentence and types of sentences:

What is a sentence?

Agroup of words that are formed together to give a meaning is called a sentence.

Types of sentences:

Declarative sentence.
Imperative sentence.
Interrogative sentence.
Exclamatory sentence.

1. Declarative sentence:

A declarative sentence expresses an opinion or makes a statement.
Example:

“I want to be a good singer.”
This is a statement.
“My friend is a really good teacher.”
This is an opinion.

Imperative sentence:

An imperative sentence is a sentence that gives command or makes a request.
These kind of sentences sometimes end with an exclamation point.
Example:

“Please stand up.”
This is a request.
“I need you to sit down now!”
This is a command.

Interrogative sentence:

An interrogative sentence often begins with questions like who, what, where, when, why, how, or do, and it ends with a question mark.
Example:

“When are you going to complete your homework?”
This question starts with “When”.
“What is the capital of Russia?”
This question starts with “What”.

Exclamatory sentence:

An exclamatory sentence is a sentence expresses emotion like excitement, surprise, happiness and anger, and ends with an exclamation point.
Example:

“It is dangerous to climb mountains!
It was a fentastic trip!

Jul

2021

Use of “The”:

The is known as Definite Article.
It is used before singular and plural nouns.
It is used to refer to a particular member in the group.
Example:

The girl with the yellow shawl ran very fast.
There are many girls but we are talking about a particular girl with the yellow shawl.
The black cat came inside the kitchen.
There are many cats but we are talking about the black cat in particular.

Note:

“The” can be omitted when we are using uncountable nouns. “a”/”an” are used only in case of countable nouns.
Example:
I like to sail over water.

Do use the before:

Names of rivers, oceans and seas: the Pacific, Atlantic.
Points on the globe: the Equator.
Geographical areas: the West.
Deserts: the Sahara.

Do not use the before:

Names of countries: Mexico.
Names of lakes: Lake Superior .
Names of mountains: Mount Everest.

Jul

2021

Indefinite Articles:

“a” and “an” are called “indefinite articles”.

Uses of “A” and “AN”:

They are used to talk about things in general.
For example:

I saw “a dog” in the street.
“a” dog refers to any dog.
I saw “an” Elephant in the zoo”.
“an elephant” refers to any elephant in the zoo.

“a” is used:

Before singlular nouns if it is a “consonant”-a book, a car, a dog, a zoo, a rat.
Before singular nouns beginning with consonant sound-University, Uniform, User.
Note: Though “U” is a vowel, sometimes, it has a consonant sound.
Before nouns starting with a pronounced “h” sound-horse, high.

An is used: <./h2> Before singular noun starting with a “vowel”. Before singular nouns starting with silent “H”.-hour, honest.
Note: Though “h” is a consonant, “an” is used when “h” is silent. Note:
In some words where “H” is pronounced, such as “Historical”, “an” is used.

Membership of a group:

The indefinite articles are used to indicate membership of a group:
Example:
I am a teacher.
He is an Irish.

Jul

2021

Name of people always starts with capital letters:

The name of people always starts with a capital letter.
For example:
John, Priya, Igbal. ETC.

Name of place such as city, state, country always starts with a capital letter.

The name of places such as city, state and country always starts with a capital letter.
For example:
Chennai, India, Germany, Italy, America ETC.

Name of things don’t start with capital letter.
Name of things such as table, chair, television, computer, laptop etc do not start with capital letter but the name of the company which produces them always starts with a capital letter.
For example:
Samsung, Philips, Benz, ETC.

Pronouns do not start with capital letter:
Pronouns like I, we, he, she, it, they do not start with capital letter.

Sentence or paragraph always start with capital letter:

When you are starting a paragraph or sentence while writing, the above rules don’t apply.
They always start with capital letter.

For example:
Table is in the right corner of the room.
They moved to UK in 2015.
We went to the movie yesterday.

Jul

2021

Vowels and Consonants:

The letters in the English language are classified as Vowels and Consonants.
The letters “a”, “e”, “i”, “o” and “u” are called Vowels.

What is a Vowel?

“Vowel” is a speech sound produced by opening of the vocal tract, with vibration of the vocal cords without audible friction”.

Is Y a Vowel?

When “y” comes at the middle of the word like “symbol” or at the end of the word like “city”, it gives “i” sound”. So it is considered as a Vowel. Otherwise, When it comes at the starting of the word like “Yard”, “Yellow”, “yes”, it is a Consonant.

Long Vowel:

The long Vowel sounds like the letter itself. For example, the long “A” sounds like the letter “A”. The letter “E” sounds like “E”.

There are 2 ways to make a long vowel.

1. Placing “E” at the end of the word:

The first way is to place “e” at the end of the word.
For example:
Mike, make, bake.

2. placing 2 vowels next to each other:

When you place 2 vowels next to each other, it gives the sound of the first vowel:
For example:
Team, Please, meat.

What is a short Vowel:

When a vowel is not making the sound of the own letter, it is called a short vowel.
For example:
“A” as in “apple”,
“e” as in “egg”

using long and short vowels together:

there are certain words in which “long ” and “short” Vowels can be used together.
For example:
Beyond, behind.

Jul

2021

English for beginners lesson 3: Use of where:

Use of where:

“Where” is used to know about Places.
The name of places always starts with capital letter.

Example:

Kavitha lives in Chennai.
Chennai is a place. So it starts with capital letter.

Other examples:

Delhi, Russia, America, France, Japan.

எங்கே பயன்பாடு:
இடங்களைப் பற்றி அறிய “எங்கே” பயன்படுத்தப்படுகிறது.
இடங்களின் பெயர் எப்போதும் Capital எழுத்துடன் தொடங்குகிறது.

எடுத்துக்காட்டு:
கவிதா சென்னையில் வசிக்கிறார்.
சென்னை ஒரு இடம். எனவே இது Capital எழுத்துடன் தொடங்குகிறது.

பிற எடுத்துக்காட்டுகள்:
டெல்லி, ரஷ்யா, அமெரிக்கா, பிரான்ஸ், ஜப்பான்.

Jul

2021

Passion:

The word passion has the followung meanings:

1. a feeling of strong regard and dedication to someone:

married at the age of 25, they shared a passion which lasted for many years.

Synonyms for passion:

Affection, attachment, fondness, love, favour, like, desire, longing.

Antonyms for passion:

aversion, dislike, enmity, hatred.

2. A strong wish for something:

His passion is to become a doctor.

Synonyms:

desire, drive, hunger, thirst, urge, will, zeal, wish, need.

Antonyms:

Aversion, disgust, dislike, hatred.

Jul

2021

Ways to say very Good:

ways to say – Very Good!

Super!
That’s right!
That’s good.
You are very good at that.
Good work!
Much better!
Exactly right.
You’re doing a good job.
That’s it!
Great!
I knew you could do it.
Congratulations!
Not bad.
Keep working on it.
You’re improving.
Good for you!
That’s the right way to do it.
You’re getting better every day.
Nice going.
You haven’t missed a thing!
Wow!
That’s the way!

Tamil Translation:

அருமை!
அது சரி!
அது நன்று.
நீங்கள் மிகவும் நல்லவர்.
நல்ல வேலை!
மிகவும் சிறப்பாக!
மிகவும் சரியான.
நீங்கள் ஒரு நல்ல வேலை செய்கிறீர்கள்.
அவ்வளவுதான்!
நன்று!
நீங்கள் அதை செய்ய முடியும் என்று எனக்கு தெரியும்.
வாழ்த்துக்கள்!
மோசமாக இல்லை.
தொடர்ந்து வேலை செய்யுங்கள்.
நீங்கள் மேம்படுத்துகிறீர்கள்.
உனக்கு நல்லது!
அதைச் செய்வதற்கான சரியான வழி அது.
நீங்கள் ஒவ்வொரு நாளும் நன்றாக வருகிறீர்கள்.
நல்லது.
நீங்கள் ஒரு விஷயத்தையும் தவறவிடவில்லை!
ஆஹா!
அதுதான் வழி!

Jul

2021

English for beginners lesson 2. Use of what:

Use of What?

Use of What:

“What” is used to know about things.
Example:

What’s your name?
2. What’s the time?

Tamil Translation:

விஷயங்களைப் பற்றி அறிய “என்ன” பயன்படுத்தப்படுகிறது.
உதாரணமாக:

உங்கள் பெயர் என்ன?
நேரம் என்ன?

Jul

2021

Afford:

Synonym:

Afford means “to have enough money for”

Example:
I can’t afford for a mobile now.

Synonyms:

Expend, finance, pay for, acquire, purchase, offer.

Antonyms:

deny, conceal, fall, take away, give up, sink, refuse, surrender, hide, fail, reject, give out.

Example:
He denied of using Alcohol.

What is a sentence?

Types of sentences:

1. Declarative sentence:

Imperative sentence:

Interrogative sentence:

Exclamatory sentence:

Use of “The”:

Note:

Do use the before:

Do not use the before:

Uses of “A” and “AN”:

“a” is used:

Membership of a group:

Name of people always starts with capital letters:

Name of place such as city, state, country always starts with a capital letter.

Name of things don’t start with capital letter.Name of things such as table, chair, television, computer, laptop etc do not start with capital letter but the name of the company which produces them always starts with a capital letter.For example:Samsung, Philips, Benz, ETC.

Pronouns do not start with capital letter:Pronouns like I, we, he, she, it, they do not start with capital letter.

Sentence or paragraph always start with capital letter:

What is a Vowel?

Is Y a Vowel?

Long Vowel:

1. Placing “E” at the end of the word:

2. placing 2 vowels next to each other:

What is a short Vowel:

using long and short vowels together:

Use of where:

Example:

Other examples:

எடுத்துக்காட்டு:கவிதா சென்னையில் வசிக்கிறார்.சென்னை ஒரு இடம். எனவே இது Capital எழுத்துடன் தொடங்குகிறது.

பிற எடுத்துக்காட்டுகள்:டெல்லி, ரஷ்யா, அமெரிக்கா, பிரான்ஸ், ஜப்பான்.

1. a feeling of strong regard and dedication to someone:

Synonyms for passion:

Antonyms for passion:

2. A strong wish for something:

Synonyms:

Antonyms:

ways to say – Very Good!

Tamil Translation:

Use of What:

Tamil Translation:

Synonym:

Synonyms:

Antonyms:

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Name of things don’t start with capital letter.
Name of things such as table, chair, television, computer, laptop etc do not start with capital letter but the name of the company which produces them always starts with a capital letter.
For example:
Samsung, Philips, Benz, ETC.

Pronouns do not start with capital letter:
Pronouns like I, we, he, she, it, they do not start with capital letter.

எடுத்துக்காட்டு:
கவிதா சென்னையில் வசிக்கிறார்.
சென்னை ஒரு இடம். எனவே இது Capital எழுத்துடன் தொடங்குகிறது.

பிற எடுத்துக்காட்டுகள்:
டெல்லி, ரஷ்யா, அமெரிக்கா, பிரான்ஸ், ஜப்பான்.