English Master Resource Guide
Created by: இரா.செந்தில்குமார், B.T.ASST., காப்பரத்தாம்பட்டி
Sentence Structure and Types
- SVC Pattern: This shoe is large. (Subject-Verb-Complement)
- SVIODOA Pattern: Henry gave her a pen yesterday.
- SVA Pattern: One of the boys had been singing well.
- Compound Sentence: Anuja was poor yet she stood first in the examination.
- Simple Sentence: With your permission I will go away.
Parts of Speech and Word Formation
| Root Word | Formation | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Purpose | Suffix (-less) | Purposeless |
| Disturb | Noun Form | Disturbance |
| Frighten | Noun Form | Fright |
| Die | Noun Form | Death |
| Quiet | Adverb Form | Quietly |
Note: Possessive Adjectives answer the question "whose?".
Tenses and Verbs
- Present Perfect Continuous: I have been living here since 1995.
- Present Perfect: Neetu has had a bad car crash.
- Past Continuous Interruption: The light went off while I was writing.
- Incorrect Usage: "The child always crying" (Incorrect - needs auxiliary verb 'is').
Articles, Prepositions & Vocabulary
Prepositions:
- I will call at your office some time in the evening.
- Leela went into the auditorium by mistake.
- Nobody knows the answer except Murali.
Vocabulary (Homophones):
- I don't want to Lose marks. (Lose vs Loose)
- He cited many points. (Cited vs Sighted/Sited)
- American equivalent of washbasin is sink.
Literary Context and Figures of Speech
| Author | Work | Theme / Device |
|---|---|---|
| Walt Whitman | O Captain! My Captain! | Dirge for Abraham Lincoln |
| Shakespeare | All the world's a stage | Exits/Entrances = Birth and Death |
| John Masefield | Laugh and be Merry | Poem |
| Robert Frost | Going for Water | Nature/Paused in wood |
| Elizabeth Browning | Cry of the Children | Child Labor |
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