How we can learn English for Competitive Exams? A Detail Stepwise course on English learning:
Language:
The simple means of language is,” The means of communication through sounds and encodings is called a language”.
Difference between primary and secondary language?
Primary Language:
The language which anybody learns by birth is called a primary language or mother language or also called the first language. That is called a primary language because it is the first important means of communication for anybody`s survival. The world has the largest number of speakers of Mandarin Chinese as a primary language.
Secondary Language:
The language which anybody learns by his introduction into a new environment called a secondary language or non-native language or also called a second language. That is called secondary language because it is the first important means of communication for anybody`s survival. The world has the largest number of speakers of English as a secondary language.
Misconception About writing:
Some friends are thought that writing is a language. But it is not the case. Writing is actually produced from a language; these may be Urdu writing or English writing.
Four parameters to check the grip of person over any language;
There are 4 parameters which are used to test whether a person is good or bad in language;
- Reading
- Writing
- Listening
- Speaking
What is a grammar?
In simple words,” Grammar is an actually a system of rules that gives symmetrical structure to a language”.
Is any language lack a grammar?
Some people think that some languages have no grammar but every language has some fundamentals on which the building of that language is constructed. So simple or complex but every language has some grammatical rules.
Are we learn a language without grammar?
It is impossible for a new person to learn a second language without grammatical rules for best communication. However, every person that has the ability to talk unknowingly and unconsciously has some grip on some rules.
Importance of Grammar:
Grammar is the main tool for the learning and communication of a language. Stronger will be your grip grammar, more satisfactory you communicate in that language.
Components of a Grammar;
Following are the 4 major components of a grammar;
- Phonology: Study of the sound systems of a language.
- Morphology: Study of making meaningful words.
- Syntax: Study of sentence structure within a language.
- Semantics: Study of meanings of words and sentences.
Parts of Speech:
These are the classification of words on the basis of primary grammatical features or grammatical relationships. These are;
- Noun
- Pronoun
- Adjective
- Verb
- Adverb
- Preposition
- Conjunction
- Interjections
Primary Assessment Test
- A word that gives a relationship between noun and pronoun with any word or element in the clause?
a. Chair
b. Mobile
c. I
d. Sea - Which one is a pronoun?
a. Dog
b. Bicycle
c. Home
d. Anybody - Which one is an adjective?
a. A
b. An
c. The
d. All - A verb gives all the qualities to the predicate except _.
a. Action
b. Place
c. Condition
d. State - Which one describes a verb and an adjective?
a. Preposition
b. Adverb
c. Common noun
d. Proper noun - Which one of the following is a material noun as well as mass known?
a. Sugar
b. Orange
c. Pencil
d. Ball - What, who, where, which, and how are the examples of ________noun?
a. Relative known
b. Interrogative known
c. Reflexive known
d. These are not known - “My” is a kind of adjective?
a. Proper
b. Possessive
c. Numeral
d. Distributive - Phrasal verbs are actually a verb with?
a. Adverb
b. Preposition
c. Maybe be both a & b
d. None of the above - Which one is not conjunction?
a. And
b. Or
c. An
d. But - Which one is correct in the case of a phrase?
a. Have subject
b. Have verb
c. Group of related to word
d. Express a complete idea - What is a type of clause?
a. Incomplete sentence
b. Express incomplete idea
c. Subject + Predicate
d. Does not affect sentence structure by removing from the sentence - A sentence that expresses feelings is named as _.
a. Declarative sentence
b. Assertive sentence
c. Interrogative sentence
d. Exclamatory sentence - A phrase?
a. Does not make sense
b. Incomplete sense
c. Not group words
d. All correct - Which one is not a part of speech?
a. Operations
b. Prepositions
c. Interjections
d. Conjunctions - Presence of _ give information that sentence is a compound sentence?
a. But
b. And
c. So
d. All - How many clauses are present in the sentence, “I am upset because I dislike rainy day.
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. None - Which one is an interjection?
a. Wow
b. Nor
c. Yet
d. So - Which one is a compound noun?
a. Police station
b. University & college
c. Shoes
d. Freedom - Which one is a demonstrative pronoun?
a. This
b. Is
c. Am
d. Are