Inappropriate Words / Misspelt English Words

Friends, today we shall discuss about one more important topic of English Section for Competitive Exams Misspelt / Inappropriate words. In this type of questions they will give you a sentence highlighting four words. Of those four words one may be either wrongly spelt or inappropriate in the context of the sentence.You just have to find out the words which is wrongly spelt / misspelt or inappropriate if any.

One Word Substitution in English - Excercise 1

Friends, One Word Substitute / Substitution is another important area in English Section. Now a days in almost all competitive exams they are asking questions from this area. In these type questions they will give you a sentence with four / five options below it. You just have to pick a suitable word which gives the exact meaning / idea as the given sentence (Ex : An account of somebody's life written by another person - Biography). Here are some practice exercises of One word substitutions. Hope these will help you in your preparation. Happy reading :)

Practical Techniques you should follow to Improve your Reading Speed

This article is posted as the LESSON 3 under the lecture series of Reading Comprehension Exercises of Competitive Exams. If you are new to this series please go through our Lecture Series I and II to get  complete knowledge on the topic.

Read Lesson I here

Read Lesson II here

Friends,  first let us try answer one question, Why does the reading speed differ from person to person? Let us take a statement...

IBPS Clerks Practice Papers for Online Exam - English

Friends, Here is a practice paper for the upcoming IBPS Clerks Online Exam 2012. All The Best. Directions—(Q. 1 to 10) Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it. Certain words are printed in bold to help you to locate them while answering some of the questions.

Once upon a time there lived a queen in the city of Benaras. Her name was Khema and she was the wife of King Bahuputtaka. One night, the Queen had a dream of a beautiful golden goose that spoke with great wisdom, almost as if he was a sage. She told her husband that she desperately wanted to see a bird just like the one in her dream. So the King asked his ministers to find out all that they could about a bird such as this. He was told that such a bird did exist but was extremely rare and difficult to find. They advised him to build a beautiful lake on the outskirts of Benaras so that he may attract such rare and lovely creatures to reside there. In this way the queen might have her wish.

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English Practice Questions for Bank Exams

Directions :Of the four alternatives given under each sentence, find the one that best fits into the blank space.

 1.  A …..thief was caught by the police last night.

            (a)    Famous

            (b)   Popular

            (c)    Renowned

            (d)   Notorious

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R. S. Aggrawal's Objective English - Pdf

Friends, Today we are giving you the pdf file of R. S. Aggrawal's Objective General English. This book will be helpful for you in the English section of all the competitive Exams. As friends, as we already said, NOTHING will happen with just downloading and saving this file into your systems. Read....... and Practice daily. Here is the Download Link. All The Best. You can get more downloads Here. Like our Facebook Page for more updates. Happy Reading :)

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Tenses - Shortnotes with Examples for Bank Exams

Friends, we've already posted a pdf version of the English Tenses' basics. You can get that post Here. As tenses are the heart of the English grammar and these play an important role in getting good marks in Competitive Exams people are asking us to put a little stress in the Grammar Exercises of Tenses. So here we are giving a pdf file which gives you a clear understanding about the usage of tenses with examples. Just have a glance and we assure you that this will be really helpful in improving your rank in the English section of all the Competitive Exams. You can more posts about English Here. Please Like our Facebook page for daily updates. Happy Reading :)


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Some more Irregular Verbs

<< Contd to the Irregular Verbs
In the previous post we've discussed about some irregular verbs. Here

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Irregular Verbs

Friends, in today's post we shall discuss about Irregular Verbs.

What are these Irregular Verbs ?

Before going into the details, first lets discuss What are the Regular Verbs ? 

Well, we can call the verbs which contain the ed at the end of the Simple Past and Past Participle forms as the Regular Verbs. So the format of the regular verbs is Base Verb + ed

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IBPS Clerks Online Exam Practice Papers - English Section

Directions—(Q. 1-15) Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it. Certain words/phrases have been printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of the questions.

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A sobbing little girl stood near a small school from which she had been turned away because it ‘was too crowded’. “I can’t go to School,” she sobbed to a priest as he walked by Seeing her shabby,unkempt appearance, the priest guessed the reason and taking her by the hand, took her inside and found a place for her in the school class. The child was so touched that she went to bed that night thinking of the children who have no place to study.

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Some Common Errors in English

All of us know English. We can chat with our friends in English, read English books and ofcourse watch English movies and understands them. But we cant get more marks in English paper of bank exams. Some times we feel disappointed by seeing our English marks lesser than our expectations. Whats the problem ? Well the problem is "we Neglect some basic things!!! we know everything, but we don't mind forgetting them. Lets have a look at some common errors in English. Just read these point twice or thrice so that you can get 5 marks at least for sure :)

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Parts of Speech - Identification

The words in English can be classified (according to their functions in a sentence) into Parts of Speech as follows.

• Noun
• Pronoun
• Adjective
• Verb
• Adverb
• Preposition
• Conjunction
• Interjection

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Verbs - Shortcut Rules - Part 2

<< Previous 

Shortcut Rule 11 : When the subordinate clause expresses a universal truth the past tense in the main clause may be followed by a Present Tense.

• He said that the sun rose in the East. ☓
• He said that the sun rises in the East. ✔

Shortcut Rule 12 : The Past Tense in the main clause may be followed by any tense after the conjunction "Than" in the subordinate clause. 

• He worked faster than we do / did. ✔

Shortcut Rule 13 : In Conditional Sentences, to express improbability in the Present, the Simple Past Tense in the if clause and the Present

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Verbs - Shortcut Rules - Part 1

In this post we shall discuss some important shortcuts Rules about Nouns which comes in handy while solving Banking and Other Competitive Exams papers. 

Shortcut Rule 1 : If the subject is of the third person, singular number (He, She, It) add 'S' or 'es / ies' to the first form of the verb to make it singular number.

• She plays the violin every day.
• He loves his parents
• The dog barks at the people.
• The bird flies in the Sky.
• He does his duty. 

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Pronouns - Shortcut Rules

In this post we shall discuss some important shortcut rules about Pronouns which comes in handy while solving Banking and other Competitive exam papers.

Shortcut Rule 1 :  We should use the personal pronouns in the order of 231 for good results ( I mean, Second Person, Third Person, First Person). Have a look at the following Examples.

• I, He and You are to finish it. ☓
• You, He and I are to finish it.✔
• The order 123 (First Person, Second Person and Third Person) is also possible when we admit guilt. 
• I, You and He have committed the Sin.✔

Shortcut Rule 2 : A Pronoun in the nominative form should be compared with the same form of the pronoun. 

• He is better than I (am)  (Two Nominatives are compared)✔
• I respect you more than him (Two objectives are compared)✔

Shortcut Rule 3 : A Pronoun in the objective case is used after "Let / Between / Any Preposition"

• Let you and me play (You and me are objects)✔
• There is no dispute between you and me.✔

Shortcut Rule 4 : When a pronoun stands

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Noun and Verb / Pronoun Agreement

Noun and Verb Agreement :

In this Post we shall discuss about the Noun and Verb agreement of the sentences. Have a look at the following points. These points will help you to use correct verbs while writing sentences.

• In the sentences, with " One of The" and a relative clause, the verb should be Plural. Confused??? see the example.
• Aamir is one of the students who has paid the fee   ☓ 
• Aamir is one of the students who have paid the fee ✔ 

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Articles

Articles are of TWO types. They are

1. Indefinite article  ----      A / An
2. Definite article   ----      The

What's the difference?

If you want to say about ANY item, you should use the articles A / An. If you want to say about a SPECIFIC item, you should use the article THE.

Confused? Lets see an example. Assume that you've selected for a Bank Exam. You have a stupid friend like me. So obviously She will ask you a party.
Suppose if She says

• Lets go to a Restaurant, that means She doesn't have any specific restaurant in Her mind. So you can give her party in ANY cheap restaurant.  But,
• If she says Lets go to THE restaurant, that means She has some SPECIFICATIONS. I mean she have a specific restaurant in her mind. So you cant escape ;)

Well, this is the basic difference between A/An and The. There are so many differences and usages of these articles. We shall discuss them later.

Ok, lets discuss about the Indefinite articles first.

Indefinite Articles :

A : The indefinite article 'a' is used before singular countable nouns that start with a Consonant sound.

An : The indefinite article 'an" is used before singular countable nouns that start with a Vowel sound. 

Wow, Nice definitions. No?

Have a look at some examples,

A :

• A Bat
• A Cat
• A Rat
• A Jug

An :

• An Apple
• An Egg
• AN Ink-Bottle
• An Orange
• An Umbrella

Great,

Now tell me, what should I use before the words European, One-Eyed Beggar, University, Useful Website?

Can I say, Guide4BankExams is an Useful site to know about Banking Exams? 

NO

why ?

Please Re-Read the definitions. Here we are talking about Vowel and Consonant SOUNDS. Not the Letters. People often confuse with this. They blindly put A before a word, if it starts with a Vowel letter (A, E, I, O, U) and put An before the word which starts with the consonant letter. 

Consider the SOUND, not the LETTER.

Confusing?  Lets see a short cut for this. 

• If a word starts with a SWAR (Any of the Indian Language) sound, then we should use An before it.
• If a word starts with a Vyanjan (An of the Indian Language) sound, then we should use A before it.

Have a look at this picture,

so, now see these examples,

A :

• A European
• A One-Eyed beggar
• A University
• A Useful Website

An:

• An hour
• An Honest Man
• An honourable person

Thats it.

Now lets see some more TRICKY examples in English.

Suppose , if you want to say about the Member of Parliament, you can say a Member of Parliament, But if you use shorter form as M.P, Then you should say, He is an M.P

Lets see another example, He is an NRI but He is a Non Resident Indian

Thats all for now friends, tomorrow we shall discuss about the article THE.

Good Day

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The structure of the English Paper

English language section of Bank Exams contains Two Parts.


1. Objective
2. Descriptive


First of all We shall discuss about Objective type. In Objective type, They ask questions about
• Functional Grammar :
         Again we can decide this Functional Grammar into several parts. Those are
                                              • Speech
                                              • Voice
                                              • Degrees
                                              • Sentences
                                              • Parts of Speech
                                              • Articles
                                              • Tenses
                                              • Phrases
                                              • Classes
                                              • Miscellaneous


 • Comprehension : Comprehend means "To Understand". Here they check your ability to understand the given passage (Its always good to read the given passage for 2 or 3 times before answering it).


• Vocabulary : In this they will ask
                                                     • Wordpower
                                                     • Synonyms
                                                     • Antonyms


• Jumbled Sentences : In this, they will  jumble 5 or 6 sentences of a paragraph. You should put them into the correct order.
• Fill in the Blanks : Here they will give you some sentences with blanks, and you should fill the blanks with appropriate words.


• Sentence Completions : These are also similar to filling the blanks. But the difference is, here they give you half of the sentence and you should add the remaining sentence from the options


Friends, this is the basic structure of the English paper of Bank Exams. The most important rule while attending any English question in a competitive exam is that never look for the answer in the option, first read the question and have the strength to find its answers without looking into options after you get the answer check that in option and choose it. But if you go for option directly you will just get confused because examiner sets options in such a way that you feel all the options are correct this will drop your confidence and you will definitely opt for a wrong option. Hope this article helped you... Thats all for now friends... Have a Good Day. 

                                                                                               

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