English Grammar and Composition -By Boski Jain

                                       PRONOUNS  Read the following sentence : A. "Ram said that Ram could not come to my house because Ram's father was taking Ram                out."               Now read the same sentence again - B. "Ram said that he could not come to my house because his father was taking him out ."  Ques: Which sentence sounds better ?   Ans :  Sentence B   Ques : Why ?   Ans :   In first sentence there is lot of repetition of the word "Ram "which makes sentence                absurd and boring . And therefore sentence B sounds better .  Ques : What is the difference between first and second  sentence ?    Ans :  In first sentence noun is repeated again and again . And in second sentence nouns are                   replaced by  PRONOUNS.         PRONOUNS       WHAT ARE PRONOUNS ? "Pronouns are the words that take the  place of nouns ."  In order to avoid repetitio

                           IDIOMS [C] RELATED TO ANIMALS           IDIOMS                                           MEANING  1.  Ant's in ones pants :  unable to sit calm due to nervousness or excitement  sentence : My son has ant's in pants as he is going to Switzerland . 2. Cat nap : a short sleep  sentence : After hours of hard work ,he decided to take a cap nap . 3. Have a cow  :   extremely upset  sentence : Failures are the learning lessons , so don't have a cow , friend ! 4. Hold your horses :  To be patient  Sentence : At times in our lives we need to hold our horses to accomplish our goals . 5. Get the lions share : To get biggest share of whole  Sentence : All brothers were annoyed because eldest brother got a lions share in property . 6. Let the cat out of the bag : To reveal a secret  sentence : '' You are under arrest , let the cat out of the bag now 

                        IDIOMS RELATED TO FOOD AND BEVERAGES           IDIOMS                                      MEANING 1. To cry over spilt milk :     To complain about a loss from past                                                sentence : We should always learn from our mistakes ,because its useless to cry over spilt milk . 2.  Don't put all eggs in same basket :   do not put all resources in one  possibility                                                                                                                                                                                                                   sentence : Mother advised her son ,not to put all eggs in one basket for his secured future . 3.Finger in every pie :      involved in many activities sentence : My friend is so versatile , that he puts his finger in every pie . 4. Have egg on your face :     to be embarrassed sentence : After reciting wron

 IDIOMS (A) IDIOMS RELATED TO FRUITS AND VEGETABLES                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       IDIOMS                                                   MEANING  1.   Apple of someones eye                          great cherished person sentence :  Despite of being naughty ,my younger brother is an apple of my eye .  2.  Cherry pick                                            to select carefully                                                                         sentence :   Father asked his son ,to cherry pick his subject stream according to his aptitude. 3. Life is just a bowl of cherries                     comfortable life sentence : Life is not always a bowl of cherries ,sometimes it needs sheer hard work .                   4. To spill th

                                                 THE NOUN : GENDER  The words indicating sex of noun are called gender.  eg : mother ,father ,cow, pencil chicken etc . Nouns have four genders :  1. Masculine : The words which indicate male sex of the noun are called masculine genders .                         for eg: horse , man , king , actor etc . 2. Feminine :   The words which indicate female sex of the noun  are called feminine genders .                         for eg : queen , hen , girl , duchess etc 3.  Common : The words which denotes either male or female sex of the noun are called common                         genders .                         for eg : baby , infant . thief . parent ,pupil etc   4. Neuter :   The words which indicates neither male nor female sex of the noun are called neuter                       genders .Basically things without life .                      for eg : table , bed , school , box , toy etc .        

                                  NOUN [ THE NUMBERS ]  by bo$ki Today I am going to talk about Nouns [ the numbers ]. There are two numbers in English language  Singular and plural .'' Singular'' denotes one or single and preceded by a or an . Plural denotes more than one or many . 1.) And generally to make noun plural we add ''s '' to the  singular noun .       lets take some examples :      Singular                Plural      a key                      two keys      a car                       four cars      a watch                  three watches  Here you must have observed that in third example I have used ''es '' instead of ''s'' ....but why ? 2.)    Answer is, when the noun ends with [ ch / sh / s or x ]'' es '' is added to the noun to make it                   plural         for eg :  singular                       plural                                   box