Asiya Marriyam

  A  sentence  is the largest unit of any language. In English, it begins with a capital letter and ends with a full-stop, or a question mark, or an exclamation mark. The  sentence  is generally defined as a word or a group of words that expresses a thorough idea by giving a statement/order, or asking a question, or exclaiming. Example : He is a good boy (statement), Is he a good boy? (question), What a nice weather! (exclaiming). Ideally, a sentence requires at least one subject and one verb. Sometimes the subject of a sentence can be hidden, but the verb must be visible and present in the sentence. Verb is called the heart of a sentence.   Example : Do it. (In this sentence, a subject ‘you’ is hidden but verb ‘do’ is visible)    “[A sentence is] a group of words, usually containing a verb, that expresses a thought in the form of a statement, question,...

  In traditional grammar,   word   is the basic unit of language.   Words   can be classified according to their action and meaning, but it is challenging to define.  A  word   refers to a speech sound, or a mixture of two or more speech sounds in both written and verbal form of language. A  word  works as a symbol to represent/refer to something/someone in language to communicate a specific meaning. Example  : ‘love’, ‘cricket’, ‘sky’ etc. '[A word is the] smallest unit of grammar that can stand alone as a complete utterance, separated by spaces in written language and potentially by pauses in speech.'  (David Crystal,  The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language . Cambridge University Press, 2003) Morphology ,  a branch of linguistics, studies the formation of words. The branch of linguistics that studies the meaning of  words  is called  lexical sem...

  There was no punctuation in any languages of ancient times. With the advancement of civilization, punctuation was introduced in the written form of the language to help a reader distinguish words and ideas from each other and to mirror the natural rhythms of the spoken language. This article will cover proper usage of some of the basic punctuations.   End Marks: Period, Note of Interrogation, Note of Exclamation Period (.) The period  is also called  full stop  in England. A period declares the end of a sentence. It also indicates the separation of sentences so that the readers cannot mix up different sentences. A period is used at the end of a sentence which is complete and not a question or an exclamatory sentence. Example: Alex was a little boy when he first saw a person dying .  He was so shocked and panicked that he could not sleep for several days .   He still fears the sight of someone’s death . The period  is also used in  abbreviat...

 How to prepare for MA English? There are five papers in Part 1 and five in  part 2.  Each paper has 5 to 6 authors and u should prepare minimum 4 authors of each paper in order to attempt 100% paper (as you have to attempt minimum 4 questions in each paper and usually, at least one question is asked from each book). So if u prepare 4 authors of each paper  you can attempt that paper. Prepare the following questions and consult past papers to know the paper pattern. It will be beneficial to you.  Questions for MA English (Part 1) Paper 1 - Classical Poetry 1. Chaucer  - “The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales” i. Chaucer’s Humour / Satire / Irony ii. Chaucer’s art of Characterization iii. Chaucer as a modern poet (humour, secularism etc.) iv. Chaucer’s ecclesiastical characters (Church’s hypocrisy, Comparison & contrast between the characters) v. Chaucer’s female characters 2. Alexander Pope – “Rape of the Lock” i. “Rape of the Lock” as social satire ii. ...

  IMPORTANT QUESTIONS FOR M.A. ENGLISH PART II ( Pu) EXAMINATION                                        PAPER 1 (POETRY) S.T Coleridge 1.    Coleridge as a poet of supernatural 2.    Coleridge as a narrator/story teller 3.    Critical appreciation of the Rime of ANCIENT MARINER     John Keats  1.    Keats as a poet of beauty 2.    Keats: the pure poet 3.    Sensuousness of Keats 4.    Negative capability of Keats 5.    Critical appreciation of the ODE ON GRECIAN URN 6.    Critical appreciation of ODE TO THE NIGHTINGALE William Blake 1.    Blake as a romantic poet 2.    Blake’s mysticism 3.    Blake’s depiction of childhood 4.                Seamus Heaney 1.    Seamus Heaney as a modern poet 2.  ...

  The era from 1660 to 1700 is considered the period of the Restoration. King Charles II was elevated to the throne in 1660. As a consequence of Cromwell's strict law, the people of England suffered from tension. The country thus accepted the restoration of Charles II. A revolutionary shift in social life and literature was brought about by this restoration. There are the following features that distinguish this period: THE RESTORATION :  Gravity, theological zeal, moral earnestness, and decorum were thrown to the winds during this period. The King was a profound debaucher. He had several mistresses. The crooked courtiers surrounded him. Corruption in all walks of life has been rampant.   Religious and Political Quarrels : We see the creation of two political parties in the Reconstruction period. They were the Tories and the Whigs. The Whigs opposed, and the Tories supported the king. The emergence of these parties has provided new meaning to men of literary competence. T...

  The Literature of the Seventeenth Century may be divided into two periods— The Puritan Age or the Age of Milton (1600-1660) , which is further divided into the Jacobean and Caroline periods after the names of the ruled James I and Charles I, who rules from 1603 to 1625 and 1625 to 1649 respectively; and the Restoration Period or the Age of Dryden (1660-1700). The Seventeenth Century was marked by the decline of the Renaissance spirit, and the writers either imitated the great masters of Elizabethan period or followed new paths. We no longer find great imaginative writers of the stature of Shakespeare, Spenser and Sidney. There is a marked change in temperament which may be called essentially modern. Though during the Elizabethan period, the new spirit of the Renaissance had broken away with the medieval times, and started a new modern development, in fact it was in the seventeenth century that this task of breaking away with the past was completely accomplished, and the mo...