Table of Contents
ESSAYS
1 Indian Crowds , Nirad C Chaudhuri
2 On Saying Please , AG Gardiner
3 The Great Exhibition , MK Gandhi
4 On the Edge of Oblivion , Ian Wood
5 Athletes of the Beijing Olympics and Wishes from Pope, Arghya Ganguly (A report in the Times of India)
6 Golden Eye , Arghya Ganguly (Times of India)
7 Less Pain, More Gain: Bangalore , Arghya Ganguly (Times of India)
POETRY
1 On His Blindness , John Milton
2 Daffodils , William Wordsworth
3 She Walks in Beauty , Lord George Gordon Byron
4 Ozymandias , Percy Bysshe Shelly
5 Ode to a Nightingale , John Keats
6 Maud , Alfred Lord Tennyson
7. The Lunatic, the Lover, and the Poet, William Shakespeare
8 The Death of Sohrab , Mathew Arnold
9 Ode to Solitude , Alexander Pope
10 The Tyger , William Blake
11 Nursing Song , Anonymous
12 Soon , Vikram Seth
SHORT STORIES
1 Shri Sai Satcharitra (The Miracles of Shirdi Sai Baba), Govind Raghunath Dabholkar (Alias Hemadpant)
2 The Dollfs House , Katherine Mansfield
3. The Three Dancing Goats (A folk tale), Anonymous
4 Fortune Teller , Karel Capek
5 The Preaching, George Eliot
GRAMMAR
1 Parts of Speech
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Noun: Kinds, Numbers, Gender, Case
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Verb: Kinds of Verbs, Transitive and Intransitive: Usage of will and shall, would and should, can and could
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Forms of Verbs: Gerund, Verbal Noun, the Participle, the Voice, the Mood
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Adverb: Different kinds and their order, Degrees of Comparison.
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Pronoun: Kinds and usage
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Adjective: Kinds, Degrees of Comparison, and its uses
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Preposition: Kinds of Preposition
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Conjunction: Kinds and importance in usage
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Interjection and their relevance in a sentence
2 Grammar Application
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The article: Kinds, the Infinitive forms and their uses
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Structure of sentences: Parts, their kinds Classification of Simple, Complex and Compound forms and their usage
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Reported speech: Direct and Indirect and their transformation from one to other
3 Punctuations and Pronunciations
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Figures of Speech
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Punctuation
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Phonetic Symbols and Pronunciation
4 Vocabulary
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Synonyms and Antonyms
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Idioms and Phrases
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Proverbial Sentences and Some Important Proverbs
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Single Word Substitution
5 Writing
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Letter Writing
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Note Taking
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Precis Writing
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Nurses Notes
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Anecdotal Records
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Diary Writing
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Reports on Health Problems
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Resume/Curriculum Vitae
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Expansion
6 Dialogue Writing
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Imaginary dialogue between two just born children in a maternity home
7 Spoken English
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Giving Oral Report
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Discussion Between Student Groups
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Debate on Subjects of National Importance and International Importance
8 Important Topics
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Some Important Specialists in the Medical Field
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Fast Word Writing from A to Z
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Dissertation, Compilations, Research Methodology
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Bibliography
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Index
