Common Errors in English - S. Chand Pdf Download

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Common Errors in English: An Introduction

Chapter 1: Parts of Speech (Part I)
☞ Noun
☞ Pronoun
☞ Adjective
☞ Verb
☞ Infinitives
☞ Participles
☞ Gerund
Chapter-end Exercises
Low Difficulty Level Exercise
Moderate Difficulty Level Exercise
High Difficulty Level Exercise

Chapter 2: Parts of Speech (Part II)
☞ Adverb
☞ Preposition
☞ Conjunction
☞ Interjection
Chapter-end Exercises
Low Difficulty Level Exercise
Moderate Difficulty Level Exercise
High Difficulty Level Exercise

Chapter 3: Determiners, Quantifiers and Articles
Chapter-end Exercises
Low Difficulty Level Exercise
Moderate Difficulty Level Exercise
High Difficulty Level Exercise

Chapter 4: Tenses
☞ Present Tense
☞ Past Tense
☞ Future Tense
Chapter-end Exercises
Low Difficulty Level Exercise
Moderate Difficulty Level Exercise
High Difficulty Level Exercise


Chapter 5: Syntax
☞ Phrase and Clause and their Types
☞ Sentence and its Types
☞ Assertive or Declarative Sentence – Affirmatives & Negatives
☞ Interrogative Sentence
☞ Imperative Sentence
☞ Exclamatory Sentence
☞ Transformation of Sentences
☞ Simple, Compound and Complex Sentences
☞ Direct and Indirect Speech
☞ Transformation of Direct to Indirect Speech and Vice-versa
☞ Active and Passive Voice
☞ Transformation of Active to Passive Voice and Vice-versa
☞ Conditional Sentence
☞ Subject - Verb Agreement
☞ Pronoun - Antecedent Agreement
Chapter-end Exercises
Low Difficulty Level Exercise
Moderate Difficulty Level Exercise
High Difficulty Level Exercise

Chapter 6: Idiomatic Expressions and Phrasal Verbs
☞ Idiomatic Expressions
☞ Phrasal Verbs
Chapter-end Exercises
Low Difficulty Level Exercise
Moderate Difficulty Level Exercise
High Difficulty Level Exercise

Chapter 7: Some Confusing Words and Phrases
☞ Homonyms
☞ Homographs
☞ Homophones
☞ Capitonyms
☞ Paronyms
☞ Heteronyms
Chapter-end Exercises
Low Difficulty Level Exercise
Moderate Difficulty Level Exercise
High Difficulty Level Exercise

Chapter 8: Spelling Rules
☞ Plurals of Nouns
☞ Using ‘i’ before ‘e’ except after ‘c’
☞ Dropping the final‘-e’
☞ Dropping the final ‘-y’
☞ Forming comparative and superlative adjectives
☞ Forming adverbs
☞ Adding ‘-ful’ or ‘-fully’
☞ Using -ize, -ise, or -yse
☞ Adding endings to words that end in ‘-our’
☞ Adding endings to words that end in ‘-y’
☞ Adding endings to words that end in a double ‘l’
☞ Verb tenses: adding ‘-ed’ and ‘-ing’
☞ Verbs ending with a silent ‘e’
☞ Verbs ending with a vowel plus -l
☞ Verbs ending with a single vowel plus a consonant
☞ Verbs ending with two vowels plus a consonant
☞ Verbs ending in ‘-c’
☞ English words with two ‘u’s’ in a row
☞ Words ending in ‘-able’ or ‘-ible’
☞ Nouns ending in ‘-acy’ and ‘-asy’
☞ Words ending in ‘-ance’ and ‘-ence’
☞ Words ending in ‘-ancy’ and ‘-ency’
☞ Words ending in ‘-ant’ and ‘-ent’
☞ Words to watch
☞ Words ending in ‘-ary’, ‘-ory’, and ‘-ery’
☞ Words ending in ‘-efy’ and ‘-ify’
☞ Words ending in ‘-ious’ and ‘-eous’
☞ Words ending in ‘-sion’, ‘-tion’, and ‘-cion’
☞ What to use: fore- or for- ?
☞ Common misspellings
☞ Spelling rules of adding/deleting prefixes and suffixes
☞ Words that are written as one word
☞ Words that are written separately
☞ British and American Spellings
☞ Things to Remember
Chapter-end Exercises
Low Difficulty Level Exercise
Moderate Difficulty Level Exercise
High Difficulty Level Exercise

Chapter 9: Punctuation and Capitalization
☞ Full stop (period)
☞ Question mark
☞ Exclamation mark
☞ Comma
☞ Semicolon
☞ Colon
☞ Apostrophe
☞ Quotation mark
☞ Ellipses
☞ Parentheses
☞ Brackets
☞ Dashes
☞ Hyphen
☞ Slash
☞ Italics and Underlining
☞ Capitalization
Chapter-end Exercises
Low Difficulty Level Exercise
Moderate Difficulty Level Exercise
High Difficulty Level Exercise


Chapter 10: Miscellaneous Errors in English Usage
☞ Abbreviations and Acronyms
☞ Auxiliary verbs (Helping verbs)
☞ Compound Words
☞ Redundancies
☞ Parallelism
☞ Dangling Modifier, or Dangler
Chapter-end Exercises
Low Difficulty Level Exercise
Moderate Difficulty Level Exercise
High Difficulty Level Exercise



Self-Assessment Tests
Self-assessment Test-1
Self-assessment Test-2
Self-assessment Test-3
Self-assessment Test-4
Self-assessment Test-5

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