Chapter Summary The story “Poets and Pancakes” is taken from the book My Years with Boss written by Asokamitran. This book was written when Asokamitran used to work in Gemini studios. This was one of the best films in those days. It has been understood from the story that Asokamitran’s job is cutting newspaper clippings that concern various topics and maintaining a file of the same job. Here, the story depicts a lot about the film industry mainly the film production industry that is present in India. An inside glimpse is found while working on this. This book was ... Read More

Chapter Summary A.R. Barton in his story “Going Places” is a glimpse of fantasies or daydreams. In this story A.R. Barton portrays the teenage period in such a wide canvas when the boys and girls are dreaming of their future life and made fantasies about everything. Teenagers have no sense of reality and they are fascinated by achieving their goals though it is sometimes impossible for them. At their age, they look up like a hero and the principal fact of this story is meeting then with reality. The story is all about a girl named Sophie. She belonged ... Read More

Introduction It is quite common that in order to ask questions, in English, wh-words are used. These relative pronouns include, who, whose, when, who’s and many more. The applications of relative pronouns are made in order to provide quality and crucial information that is linked with the subject or the object of the given sentences. More to this these relative pronouns are used to modify the subject as well as the objects within a sentence. Defining Relative Pronoun According to the Collisions Dictionary, the relative pronouns are stated to include words like - who, which and that. These words are ... Read More

Introduction The gerunds are considered to be the verbs which have an ending with “ing” but the function of it is like the nouns. It functions in different ways within a sentence like a subject, direct object, indirect object, object of prepositions, and predicate nouns. Although it is seen that the gerunds end with “ing” verbs but each verb that ends with “ing” are not gerunds. The Concept of Gerund The concept of gerund says that it is a verb’s noun form that has an ending with “ing”. A verb is mainly considered a word through which the actions or ... Read More

Introduction Both Direct and Indirect objects are important parts of English grammar. Although they are a part of the grammar they have differences and it is seen that the direct object is situated directly after a verb. Differently, an indirect object is situated between the verb as well as the direct object. Information on a direct object A direct object can be a pronoun, noun, or phase of the noun that mainly receives the action. Here the action is done by the subject within a sentence and the structure of a sentence looks like SVO (subject + verb + object). ... Read More

Introduction The conjunction is highly utilized to create a link with clauses that are present in a sentence and is found in the end parts of a sentence. The ideas that are complex cannot be explained without conjunctions. Conjunctions help to describe the meaning of a series of short and simplistic sentences. Several major types of conjunctions rules are explained below to form complete sentences with appropriate meaning. What is Conjunction? According to the Cambridge Dictionary, it can be stated that conjunctions are denoted as a word that helps to connect sentences including and, but, while, although, and many more. ... Read More

Introduction According to Garner’s Modern English Usage, it can be understood that subjects and verbs should agree in person and should have an agreement with a number of nouns or pronouns. Subject-Verb Agreement generally has various rules that will be explained below with examples. The major rules of the Subject-Verb Agreement highlights how subjects and verbs are separated through joining phrases or words. What is a Subject-Verb Agreement? Subjects and verbs that are making a complete sentence should have an agreement with numbers including singular or plural and person including first, second, or third person. This rule of Subject-Verb Agreement ... Read More

Introduction Clauses in the field of English language play a crucial role in providing an appropriate meaning to the sentence. In most cases, clauses used in the sentence have both subject and predicate and a verb. However, sentences are defined as expressing a complete thought with the help of strings and words associated with the subject and the verb. Defining Clauses A combination of words within a sentence states what a clause is defined as. Together with a subject and a predicate, the clause consists of a verb in it. As stated by the Oxford Learner’s Dictionary, a clause can ... Read More

Chapter Summary “We're not afraid to die if we can all be together” is a story about togetherness and its power that can help in facing any difficult situation. The skills of Gordon Cook and all of his family are presented in this story with which one can understand the power of will and how can any critical situation be handled effortlessly. In July 1976, the writer Gordon Cook, his wife Mary, son, Jonathan, daughter, Suzanne, and some of his crewmen set out on a journey from Plymouth, England. This journey’s main aim was to duplicate the round-theworld journey ... Read More

Chapter Summary The story “The Rattrap” revolves around a peddler of rat traps who is on the brink of death himself. His overall outfit is mere rags and a generic look of shabbiness. He does not have a family therefore, he leads a nomadic life selling traps and finding shelter. On a cold night, he asked for shelter from an old man who gladly gave him one. He fed the peddler with a bowl of warm food and played cards with him. Later the peddler stole the money this old man had with him, hence he ran away. Some days ... Read More