Let’s write good English
WIND Written by the Tamil poet Subramania Bharati and translated by A. K. Ramanujan Summary .. Wind is a vital component of Mother Nature. It is very powerful and can be utterly destructive for human beings and their assets. It can cause mammoth devastation to …
The Sound of Music by Deborah Cowley Part 1 Introduction …The story is about a 17-year-old Scottish girl named Evelyne Glennie who, in order to pursue her passion for music, successfully battled with her creeping loss of hearing capacity. Eventually, she become a highly acclaimed …
The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost – Explanation with questions and answers CBSE/NCERT Class 9 syllabus About the poet Robert Lee Frost (1874-1963) was an American who scaled great heights of popularity among his native Americans, but among the vast number of English poetry …
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 …