Sentence: A group of words which makes complete sense Kinds of sentences • Affirmative Sentence( ‘Yes’ sentence) Ex: He is writing a letter subject + verb • Negative Sentence(‘No’ sentence) Ex: He is not writing a letter • Interrogative Sentence (‘question’) ex: is he writing? Verb + subject • Imperative Sentence(‘order’) Ex: Let me go • Exclamatory Sentence (No verb) Ex: Oh! What a building • Optative Sentence Ex : May god help you Conversion affirmative to negative sentences Examples: My friend comes to my house every day My friend does not comes to my house every day My father is working in a factory My father is not working in a factory Sachin played well Sachin did not play well He had given many books He had not given many books Children are playing in the garden Children are not playing in the garden We work in the laboratory We do not work in the laboratory The minister spoke well The minister did not speak well Interrogative sentences There are only seven tenses which can be converted into interrogative sentences • • • • • •
Future Present imperfect Past imperfect Future imperfect Present perfect Past perfect
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Future perfect
Parts of speech Words are classified into 8 groups and they are called parts of speech • • • • • • • •
Noun ex ; table,man,hall Pronoun ex ; he,she,it Verb ex ; play,eat,write Adverb ex ; he spoke well Adjectives ex ; rich man,old person Conjunction ex ; he is rich and intelligent Preposition ex ; books are on the table Interjection ex ; oh
Use of capital letters • •
We must begin every new sentence with capital letter Begin every proper noun with capital letter
a,an,the indefinite articles we should not use a,an,the before proper noun and abstract noun
use of “ The ” The president of India The principal The east The sun The hindu Before all the numeric objects The first
Before the superlative degree The biggest Complex sentence I know that he is a rich man MC Noun clause He went to the college MC
before the examination started adverb clause of time
Transformation Changing the pattern of the sentence without changing its meaning is called transformation of sentence A word has 4 characteristics • Meaning • Spelling • It has got place in sentence • Effect
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Active and passive voice Direct and indirect speech Interchange of degrees Remove too No sooner than ___________as soon as Unless