Enghlish grammar and other exam notes

  ENGLISH COACHING CENTER Based on JAC BSEB CBSE ICSE SKMU and TMBU Nelson Mandela long walk to freedom Q1- When was the inauguration day? A) 10 May B) 10 March C) 20 May D) 20 March   Q2- It was a celebration of South Africa’s first ______ government. A) autocratic, racial B) democratic, non-racial C) democratic, racial D) monarch, non-racial   Q3- How many deputy presidents were elected? A) two B) three C) one D) none Q4- Why did other countries broke off diplomatic relations wih South Africa? A) White rulers B) Other countries are racial C) It is a poor country D) Apartheid policy   Q5- What change brought international leaders to South Africa? A) End of Apartheid B) humanity C) peace D) trade negotiations   Q6- “We thank all of our distinguished international guests for having come to take possessi...

  ENGLISH COACHING CENTER Based on JAC BSEB CBSE ICSE SKMU and TMBU The Garden “ The Garden” is a poem crafted by Andrew Marvell, and in recent times is reputed to be his third most examined poem (Wheeler 163). As far as the construction of the poem is concerned, it has nine stanzas of iambic tetrameter couplets (Wheeler 20).   “The Garden.” In short the themes are the praise of solitude, the virtues of writing, and the speaker’s progression of outlook from physical to spiritual. One of the first that presents itself is the belief that solitude is ideal. The poem even states explicitly: “Society is all but rude,/To this delicious solitude.” (line 16) As for why the speaker seems to think that this is so, by examining the beginning of the poem it is clear that the speaker is disillusioned with the activities of mankind. As Wheeler stated when he also noted this theme, the “crowns” that are mentioned in the first stanza could be symbolic of humans rewarding others for ...

  ENGLISH COACHING CENTER Based on JAC BSEB CBSE ICSE SKMU and TMBU Character sketch of Belinda The protagonist of the poem, Belinda is a wealthy and beautiful young woman who travels to Hampton Court for a day of socializing and leisure. Her remarkable beauty attracts the attention of the  Baron , who snips off a  lock  of her hair in his infatuation. At the beginning of the narrative,  Ariel  explains to Belinda through the medium of a dream that as she is a both beautiful and a virgin, it is his task to watch over her and protect her virtue—though as the poem unfolds, it’s unclear if Belinda is really as virtuous as she seems. Despite the fact that Belinda is Pope’s protagonist, she’s actually a bit of a slippery character to come to terms with, as the reader is provided with relatively little access to her inner thoughts, and her actions are often governed by supernatural forces. For instance, it is unclear how much influence Ariel, a  sylp...

  ENGLISH COACHING CENTER Based on JAC BSEB CBSE ICSE SKMU and TMBU Rape of the Lock The Rape of the Lock  is a humorous indictment of the vanities and idleness of  18 th-century high society. Basing his poem on a real incident among families of his acquaintance, Pope intended his verses to cool hot tempers and to encourage his friends to laugh at their own folly. The poem is perhaps the most outstanding example in the English language of the genre of mock-epic. The epic had long been considered one of the most serious of literary forms; it had been applied, in the classical period, to the lofty subject matter of love and war, and, more recently, by Milton, to the intricacies of the Christian faith. The strategy of Pope’s mock-epic is not to mock the form itself, but to mock his society in its very failure to rise to epic standards, exposing its pettiness by casting it against the grandeur of the traditional epic subjects and the bravery and fortitude of epic he...

  ENGLISH COACHING CENTER Based on JAC BSEB CBSE ICSE SKMU and TMBU राजधर्म के सिदांतो को वर्णन करे राजधर्म   का अर्थ है - ' राजा का धर्म ' या ' राजा का कर्तव्य ' । राजवर्ग को देश का संचालन कैसे करना है , इस विद्या का नाम ही ' राजधर्म ' है। राजधर्म की शिक्षा के मूल   वेद   हैं। धर्मसूत्रों  -  मनुस्मृति ,  शुक्रनीति   में भी राजधर्म का विवेचन किया गया है।   महाभारत   के   विदुर   प्रजागर तथा शान्तिपर्व ,  चाणक्य   द्वारा रचित प्रसिद्ध ग्रन्थ   अर्थशास्त्र   आदि में भी राजधर्म की बहुत सी व्याख्या है ,  स्वामी दयानन्द सरस्वती   ने भी   सत्यार्थ प्रकाश   में एक पूरा समुल्लास राजधर्म पर लिखा है।   महाभारत   में इसी नाम का एक उपपर्व है जिसमें राजधर्म का विस्तृत विवेचन किया गया है।   महाभारत युद्घ के समाप्त होने के बाद महाराज   युधिष्ठिर   को   भीष्म   ने राजधर्म का ...