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The words a, an and the are called articles. These are the determiners and point out the names. Articles are used before a noun. There are two types of articles. Indefinite Articles  Definite article Indefinite Articles: ' A' and 'an' are known as indefinite articles in English. They are used before singular, countable and common noun. Examples: a boy, a book, an elephant, an island Uses of indefinite articles:  A is used before a word beginning with consonant letter and vowels with consonant sounds. Example: a flute, a university, a European, a lion, a child etc... An is used before a word beginning with vowel letter and consonants with vowel sound. Example: an apple, an iron, an egg, an honest man, an hour etc... Some abbreviations take 'an' before them if they are pronounced with vowel sound, otherwise they take 'a' before them. Example: an MLA, an MA, an LLB, a BA etc... Definite Article: ' The' is definite article in English. Uses of definit...

When we speak or write something, a meaning is required in order to make our speech or writing intelligible. So we use meaningful words or group of words. Let's observe these group of words. The sun rises in the east. The sailor looked through his glass. Asia is the largest continent in the world. Prithvi Narayan Shah unified Nepal. The above group of words give a complete sense. These are called sentences. Now let's observe these groups of words. The east in the sun rises. The glass through looked his sailor. Largest the Asia continent in the world is. Unified Shah Prithvi Narayan Nepal. These group of words do not express a complete sense, so they are not sentences. Definition of a sentence:  A group of words which makes a complete sense is called a sentence. Kinds of sentences: According to the sense or meaning expressed by a sentence, there are five kinds of sentences. Assertive or Declarative sentence Interrogative sentence Imperative sentence Optative sentence Exclamatory...

Voice is such a form of verb which shows whether the subject acts or is acted upon. For example, The boy read a book. In this sentence, "the boy" is the doer of action "read" as the boy is subject and a book is object, as the boy did something. So the verb "read" is active. A book was read by the boy. In this sentence "a book" is the is the receiver of the verb. Thus, the verb is passive. Definition of Active Voice:  When the subject is the doer of the action, the verb is said to be in active voice. Example: He taught us English. Subject "he" is the doer of the action "taught". Definition of Passive Voice: When the subject is the receiver of the action, the verb is said to be in passive voice. Example: We were taught English by him . Table of Active and their passive   Tense/Verb form  Active Voice  Passive Voice  Simple Present  v¹/v5  is/am/are+v³  Present Continuous is/are + v⁴  is/are + being+v³  Present Perfect  has/have ...

Changing a sentence from one grammatical form to another without changing its meaning is known as transformation of sentence. Interchanging  Affirmative and Negative Sentence Rule of Work 1. Remove adverb "too" and put "so......that"     Repeat the subject     Cannot/Could not according to the tense Example:  Affirmative: He is too weak to walk. Negative: He is so weak that he cannot walk. Affirmative: She is too intelligent to fool. Negative: She is so intelligent that she cannot be fooled. 2. For superlative degrees in Affirmative, use No other ............ as + positive degree Example:  Affirmative: Napoleon was the greatest European general. Negative: No other European general was as great as Napoleon. 3. For comparative degree, use as + positive degree + as Example:  Affirmative: Abhishek is better than any other  boy in the class. Negative: No other boy in the class is as good as Abhishek. 4. Replace phrases such as "As soon as","Hardly...