Five Tips For Improving English Grammar Essentially

Well Grammar is one of the most important part in any languages especially when we talk about English. Grammar is the set of structural rules governing the composition of clauses, phrases, and words in any given natural language.

First of all, there are many ways or we can say there are many loop holes that you can detect on your particular level of English subject. Every language is made of nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, tenses etc. Don’t be confused, this article let you perfect way to correct your grammar errors.

Tips for Improving Grammar

Here is the five essential tips that can boost up your grammatical power and skills.

1) Tenses

2) Vocabulary

3) Reading

4) Writing

5) Listening

Lets look on every tips in brief so that you can grammatical errors. Assume to read each and every part of this article with focusing your mind. These are the easiest things to learn English grammar without investing  a time.

Improve Tenses : 

tenses are anatomy of human languages, moreover tenses are important to describe what you going to say to your prospective listeners. Lots of students failed to maintain tenses correction while speaking or writing English. That’s why tenses error is one of the common error in English grammar. Improving you tenses knowledge is not one minute’s task. Students have to learnt very seriously.

We have covered Tenses in English grammar article for improving your tenses which is fundamental part of teaching English yourself.

Learn Vocabulary : 

Vocabulary: A sound Vocabulary is essential for acquiring communication skills. Using the right word at the right place makes communication more meaningful and effective. A strong vocabulary is very important for students appearing for competitive exams and also in their professional lives. We must realize that our vocabulary cannot be enriched overnight. Essential vocabulary is the most important thing while speaking or writing English language to describe the subject. There are grades of Vocabulary while appearing in to highly qualified English level exams. One of the hardest part is 8^th grade vocabulary. 

Read, How to Increase Vocabulary or English word bank easily.  

 Reading :

next part will be your reading habit of English language. Reading is the old method to improve not only English grammar but also to understand the vocabularies, tenses, noun, synonyms, antonyms etc.

Read what you love, love what you read. This is the quote that you should remind while correcting or improving your grammar skills. Grammar practice can be boost up through reading.

Buy your favorite magazines, books, novels etc and read it with concentration. Understand the each and every words of stories. Read the English news paper that will help you to improve in grammar and vocabulary collection.

Writing :

When we are kid in primary schools, our teacher always told us that we should have write at least one article per day to improve not only our grammar mistakes but also our hand writing style. Writing is one of the boring task In this scenario but I promise you, ones it habituate in your daily routine, you will entertain yourself quiet well.

 There are many ways to improve writing, one of the best way is write general knowledge or current affairs. Atleast write one article per day on your notebook or your computer about daily things that happening. Nowadays we can use facebook or twitter to write our thoughts. People are there to help our grammatical errors too.

Listening :

This one is my favorite part and the best way to learn whole English language with entertain. Actually listening is not just a listening that you are thinking right now. As far as psychology is concern, average of human ear listens millions of line per day but brain didn’t collect that all. After wakeup in the morning on next day, your temporary memory gonna erase.

Listening is art of meditation, you can listen your favorite news channel or your favorite movies, tv series which broadcasting in English. Initial practices may require subtitles to understand. Just focus what speakers is saying and what is the mean and you will find quiet gainful moment.

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Helpful Tips to Improve Vocabulary in English

how to improve your vocabulary

A sound Vocabulary is essential for acquiring communication skills. Using the right word at the right place makes communication more meaningful and effective. A strong vocabulary is very important for students appearing for competitive exams and also in their professional lives. We must realize that our vocabulary can not be enriched overnight. Building it requires regular and determined efforts.

Vocabulary improvement primarily involves two activities.

1) Adding new words to our vocabulary

2) Revising meanings of words we already know.

You must make the effort to learn new words regularly, if not daily. Reading is an excellent way of enhancing your vocabulary. A student aspiring to apply for higher education courses or who wants to apply for an competitive examinations should start building up skills of word power at an early stage. Revising the meaning of words already learnt is as important as learning new words. If a word is not used for a long time it easily slips from our memory. Proficiency in vocabulary can be enhanced by widening the base of our word bank. Exercises in verbal analogy and verbal ability not only improve our word power but also help us to learn how to understand the meanings of words in various contexts.

Tips to Improve Vocabulary

There are two methods that can directly enhanced your vocabulary and word bank.

1) Verbal analogy

2) Verbal ability

What is verbal analogy

Verbal analogy and verbal ability are parts of almost all major competitive examinations. The word ‘analogy’ is derived from the Greek ana, which means ‘relation’ and logus, which means ‘knowledge’.

The word analogy is a noun meaning a similar feature, condition, state, etc. shared by two things that are compared. It is also the process of reasoning based on similar features of two different things, items, people, animals, etc. in competitive examinations the verbal analogy section enables the examiner to evaluate the candidate’s reasoning skills as it test his/her ability to compare and establish proper relationships among the given items on the basis of certain commonalities.

Questions on analogy cover a wide range of relationships that we observe in our daily life. Some common types of relationships that candidates are frequently required to identify are those between state and capital, country and currency, male and female, parent and offspring etc.

How to crack ANALOGIES

You can try to understand the relationship between the word of the key pairs in the following ways.

ü  Narrowing down your choices

ü  Framing a sentence

ü  Keeping the different meaning of the words in mind

ü  Looking out for clues meant to mislead

ü  Looking for relationships

ü  Looking for synonyms of antonyms

ü  Looking for some common characteristics

Examples:

Ornithology: Birds::Botany: Plants

Explanations: Ornithology is the study of birds whereas botany is a study of plants

Prism: Glass::Wall: brick

Explanation: Prism is made of glass and a wall is made of bricks

Verbal Ability

Like verbal analogy, verbal ability is an important component of any competitive examination. There are more than forty different ways of framing questions to test the verbal ability of students. To understand this topic better, it can be divided in to four broad categories

1. Vocabulary based questions
2. Grammar based questions
3. Verbal reasoning questions
4. Writing style questions

In this article, we will talk about vocabulary based questions. There are the most common type of verbal ability questions and are probably simplest to understand and answer. In this type, the questions are based on the meaning of the given terms or its synonyms, its antonyms or idiomatic usages. This primarily aims at testing the candidate’s vocabulary.

That’s it guys, read about how to crack analogies above to improve your vocabulary and starts daily practice now. 

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Adjectives - English Grammar

Meaning : Adjectives is a describtive word. if you want to discribe anything then you should have to use "Adjectives".
like if i want to descibe my website, how should i describe it?
Jobgyaan is Fast.
Jobgyaan is faster than other websites
jobgyaan is the fastest website in the online learning web world.

so here we have describe this website as a "Fast" world which is obviously "Adjective" in simple words you can describe any details with Adjective words.

Usage of Adjectives

so as we know, Adjectives are words that describe or modify another person or thing in the sentence. The Articles "a, an, and the" are adjectives. Adjectives can tell the reader how much / how many of something you’re talking about, which thing you want passed to you, or which kind you want.

Types of Adjectives

remind down below quote for better understanding 

An adjective is a word or set of words that modifies or describes a noun or pronoun. Adjectives may come before the word they modify.

• Attributive adjectives
• Predicative adjectives
• Absolute adjectives
• Nominal adjectives 

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Parallelism- English Grammar For Bank & Competitive Exams Preparation

Parallelism- English Grammar

parallelism, also known as parallel structure or parallel construction, is a balance within one or more sentences of similar phrases or clauses that have the same grammatical structure. Parallelism improves writing style and readability, and is thought to make sentences easier to process.

so who is joining the structure and hey what is parallelism in easy terms ? and how could it helps us in to government bank examinations? or in competitive exams?

Parallelism- English Grammar Examples

lets says if we want to join the two sentences like below examples.
he likes blogging
he likes singing
he likes dating
so in parallelism we gonna write he likes blogging, singing, and dating.

factors that joins  the parallel sentences

so what are the factors that joins  the parallel sentences?

• and 
• but 
• as 
• or
• then
• although

we can use parallelism in to nouns, gerunds, adjectives, and in tenses. meanwhile previous sentence also a parallelism. lets see below examples.

        And 

            He enjoyed the Dandiya of Gujarat  and  the Bhangra  of  Punjab

        But 

            That Circulation  form is not active, but passive (Adj)

        As 

            Scoring a big score against fast bowler is as hard as against spin bowlers

        Or 

            Mila wants to work a bold role or a lust role in her next movie

See the below Examples of Parallelism Correction. 

☓ Abhishek had bought a Cake, found a Knife, and choose a Place  for Party before Aish  arrived.

✔ Abhishek had bought a Cake, found a Knife, and chosen a Place  for Party before Aish  arrived.

☓  Mary likes to hike, to swim, and bicycling

✔  Mary likes to hike, to swim, and to ride a bicycle.

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What is prepositions and how to use them in english grammar

Prepositions Sometimes made us 5 marks in to correction questions of english grammar in government competitive exams, specially in IBPS, Bank Po and SSC exams always include Prepositions quiz in english to know skills of candidates. So first question coming in to mind is what is Prepositions? here is the answer

the world which takes "Pre" "position" known as preposition. lol this is not a definition, Preposition means "a word governing a noun or pronoun and expressing a relation to another word or element in the clause is called preposition"

what is prepositions?

generally in "Hindi" and in "gujarati" prepositions comes after a pronouns. but in english grammar prepositions comes before a pronouns. here is hindi and gujarati name of both.
prepositions = "NaamYogi Avayav"
pronouns = "Sarvanaam"

here is the examples of prepositions in english grammar.

fishes swim in water (machhaliya pani mai tairti hai)

there are more than 150 prepositions in english grammar to use, but all of them have different scenario to be used where and when in between pronouns. lets see first of all howmany popular prepositions are there.

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list of prepositions

1. aboard

2. about

3. above

4. across

5. after

6. against

7. along

8. amid

9. among

10. anti

11. around

12. as

13. at

14. before

15. behind

16. below

17. beneath

18. beside

19. besides

20. between

21. beyond

22. but

23. by

24. concerning

25. considering

26. despite

27. down

28. during

29. except

30. excepting

31. excluding

32. following

33. for

34. from

35. in

36. inside

37. into

38. like

39. minus

40. near

41. of

42. off

43. on

44. onto

45. opposite

46. outside

47. over

48. past

49. per

50. plus

51. regarding

52. round

53. save

54. since

55. than

56. through

57. to

58. toward

59. towards

60. under

61. underneath

62. unlike

63. until

64. up

65. upon

66. versus

67. via

68. with

69. within

70. without

how to use prepositions

there are the most important prepositions which generally questioned on competitive examination.

now lets find out shortcut and tricks to use perfect preposition for better scoring.

In & Into

use "IN" on sentence which mentioning Motion or position. but if sentence mentioning a motion which is inside from outside, then use "InTo".

See the below example.

• fishes swim in water
• i live in this house
• the lion jumped into the wall.
• ria entered into a classroom.

from & out of

there is one certain thing to use "from" when there is any chances of "Where". out of is used on "motion which is mentioning outside from inside. lets see below example.

• Do you come from mumbai ? (where )
• He comes from Mumbai. (where)
• The lion came out of the cage. (although we can use "where" but lion is coming outside from inside so we have to use "Out Of")

find out more prepositions uses on pdf click here to download pdf file.

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What is noun and how to use it on english grammar for competitive exams

A noun is the name of a person, place, thing, or idea. Whatever exists, we assume, can be named, and that name is a noun. in other words, noun is (other than a pronoun) used to identify any of a class of people, places, or things common noun, or to name a particular one of these proper noun. Some nouns are plural and some nouns are always singular.

what is singular noun and what is plural noun?

have you ever heard about "एकवचन बहुवचन" ? thats it, singular noun is "ekvachan" and plural noun is "bahuvachan"

Examples of Singular Noun

this is a Book

this is a banana

this is a cow 

this is a horse

Examples of Plural Nouns

these are books

those are bananas

these are cows

those are horses

Now we have brief idea about Singular Noun V/s Plural Nouns.

But some nouns are always singular in number so those nouns takes singular verb. lets see below example.

Singular Noun                                  Plural Noun

piece of brick                                     Two pieces of Brick 

the scenery of girnar is beautiful          the scenery of girnar is beautiful.

furniture, fruit, rice, soap, hair, luggage, stationary these are the nouns who uses always singular verb.

in the same way some nouns are always plural, so they takes plural verb. for example

thanks, wishes, jeans, etc.

some nouns seems to be plural but they are single in word like : news, politics, mathematics etc. for those nouns english always take singular verb.

some nouns seems to be singular but they are using plural verb like : police, cattle.

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usage of articles A, An, and The. | English Grammar for competitive exams

An article is a word or prefix or suffix that is used with a noun to indicate the type of reference being made by the noun. in english there are two main articles which is given below.

indefinite articles	A, An
definite article	The

what is the difference between articles and how to use it

lets say if you want to elaborate about anything which is general or Any normal object then you should use indefinite articles or A, An. but if you want to mention something which is specific or static thing then you should use Definite article "The".

For an example,

Purvi wants to study English grammar from a website.

well website is not a specific or any kind of static thing or object to be mentioned as a "the" articles but lets say if purvi has a static object.

Purvi wants to study English grammar from the jobgyaan.com

cool, B| now you got an idea about where to use articles but lets go in to deep for more specific idea about to usage of articles in english grammar for government exams or competitive exams preparations.

How to use Articles in English grammar 

A, is used on consonant sound,

on before singular countable nouns.

An, is used on Vowel Sound, 

on before singular countable nouns.

see these examples 

A

A book

A shell

A shirt

A cat

An

An elephant

An umbrella

An article

Tricks to remember

Articles are all about sounds not letters, one does not simply to consider letters while putting articles before noun. let's say A,E,I,O,U letters sounds like we can put "An" before any noun spell which can starts from it?

like : 

I am writing this article for a hour 

is it right?

the answer is "No" cause "Hour" sounds like "Our" not "Hovur" understand? like "European" sounds like "yuropean" not like "eyuropean" so the tricks is consider noun's sound not its spelling. one can not put "An" everytime before "AEIOU"

Another trick is when you using shortcuts of any words then use "An" like

i am posting status on a facebook 

i am posting status on an FB

narendra modi is a chief minister of gujarat

narendra modi is an CM of gujarat

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Tenses In English Grammar with ShortNotes and Tricks

Tense comes from Old French tens  and  from Latin tempus "time". Tenses are much important for any competitive examination's english grammar and comprehensives. lets start with easy understanding, The time is is called Tense in English grammar. so whenever we mentioning or talking about time there would be bunch of tenses and each and every sentences of any languages in world mentioning time so tense is most important while preparing english subject for bank exams or any competitive exams.

there are three main tenses and each three tenses have sub tenses.

three main tenses 

1. Present tense
2. past tense
3. future tense

each main tenses contains four sub tense like

1. simple
2. continuous 
3. perfect
4. perfect continuous 

like present tense, present simple tense, present perfect tense, present continuous tense, present perfect continuous tense. see this example below.

total tenses chart

now this chart will give total idea about tenses and their logics.

how tenses used in grammer?

Present Simple Tense

Present simple tense is used for repeating action or universal truth, it can be used on habits, routine works, daily events etc etc. see the below examples.

1. I live in india
2. Do you play cricket?
3. he does not have a mobile.
4. the earth goes round to sun.

Present Continuous Tense

Present continuous tense is used for action that is happening now or action that is definitely happening in future. see the below examples.

1. I am reading JobGyaan.com 
2. We Are going to share this post on facebook after reading this.
3. Kapil is going for an exam today morning.
4. Isha is not replying me on facebook.

Present Perfect Tense 

Present Perfect Tense has relation between Past and Present. Present perfect tense is used for event which is completed immediately on past or changes that have been done recently on past. present perfect tense is continuing situation. this is the tense that started in past and continuing still in present. see below example for better understanding.

1. i have just scroll down to present perfect tense from present continuous tense examples.
2. have you finished your homework ?
3. has the moon come up?
4. i have been on jobgyaan.com since 5 minutes.

Present Perfect Continuous tense

Present Perfect Continuous tense is used for events or action that continuing live to now or event that just stopped now. see the below examples.

1. i have been writing this article for last two days to make it easy to understand.
2. we have not been drinking beer since dry day.
3. ria has been waiting for my reply since one hour.

simple past tense

Simple past tense is used for event or action that is completed in past see the below examples of simple past tense.

1. we went to exam hall last sunday.
2. i got highest marks in last exam.

past continuous tense

Past continuous tense is used to indicate that a longer action in the past was interrupted or to elaborate about past time which was going on. see these examples.

1. While i was writing this article, my internet was disconnected.
2. while i saw him, he was reading jobgyaan.com

past perfect tense

past perfect tense is used to indicate an action or event which is perfectly over in past time. see the below examples to better understand.

1. we had no idea about these easy grammar tricks before we opened this page on jobgyaan.
2. i had closed my facebook id before my mom arrived in my room.

past perfect continuous tense

past perfect continuous tense is used to show that something started in the past and continued up until another time in the past like for "one hour" or "five minutes" or "two weeks". however, the duration does not continue until now, it stops before something else in the past. see below examples for practice.

1. they had been chatting on whatsapp for an hour before mom arrived.
2. when i met him, he had been coding for jobgyaan for three days.

Future simple tense

future simple tense is used to express an action which is yet to happen, a planning, promise and prediction.

see below examples of future simple tense.

1. i shall write new article on jobgyaan.
2. i will share it if i find this helpful.
3. ria will call me when i arrive.

Future continuous tense

Future Continuous used to indicate that a longer action in the future will be interrupted by a shorter action in the future. Remember this can be a real interruption or just an interruption in time. Future continuous tense is also used for two parallel actions in the future. see the below examples.

1. You will going to be waiting for tina when her train arrives tonight at station.
2. you will be reading this article if you find difficulties in exam preparation.
3. when i reach home, my mom will be waiting for me.

Future Perfect Tense

Future Perfect tense is used for Completed Action Before Something in the Future and Duration Before Something in the Future. see the below example for understanding.

1. By next November, i will have passed my ibps exam.
2. Will ria have learned enough engish to communicate before she attends IBPS?

Future Perfect Continuous

Future Perfect Continuous tense is used for Duration Before Something in the Future or Cause of Something in the Future. it is also used to show an already started action which will be running on a perticular time in future. see the examples.

1. By the end of this month, i will have been preparing ibps for three months.

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