Enghlish grammar and other exam notes

  ENGLISH COACHING CENTER                             Based on JAC BSEB CBSE ICSE SKMU and TMBU              Loan words and Borrowing as Scandinavian(101) Loanwords  are words adopted by the speakers of one language from a different language (the  source language ). A loanword can also be called a  borrowing . The abstract noun  borrowing  refers to the process of speakers adopting words from a source language into their native language. "Loan" and "borrowing" are of course metaphors, because there is no literal lending process. There is no transfer from one language to another, and no "returning" words to the source language. They simply come to be used by a speech community that speaks a different language from the one they originated in. Borrowing is a ...

  ENGLISH COACHING CENTER                             Based on JAC BSEB CBSE ICSE SKMU and TMBU American English (101) American literature  is  literature  predominantly written or produced in  English [1] [2]  in the  United States of America  and its  preceding colonies . Before the  founding of the United States , the  Thirteen Colonies  on the eastern coast of the present-day United States were heavily influenced by  British literature . The American literary tradition thus is part of the broader tradition of  English-language literature . A small amount of literature exists in other  immigrant languages . Furthermore a rich tradition of  oral storytelling  exists amongst  Native American  tribes. The American Revolutionary Period  (1775–83) ...

  ENGLISH COACHING CENTER                             Based on JAC BSEB CBSE ICSE SKMU and TMBU British English (101)   British literature  is  literature  from the  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland , the  Isle of Man , and the  Channel Islands . This article covers British literature in the  English language . Anglo-Saxon ( Old English ) literature is included, and there is some discussion of  Latin  and  Anglo-Norman  literature, where literature in these languages relate to the early development of the  English language  and  literature . There is also some brief discussion of major figures who wrote in  Scots , but the main discussion is in the various  Scottish literature  articles. The article  Literature in the other ...

  ENGLISH COACHING CENTER                             Based on JAC BSEB CBSE ICSE SKMU and TMBU Indian English (101)   Indian English literature  ( IEL ), also referred to as  Indian Writing in English  ( IWE ), is the body of work by writers in  India  who write in the  English language  and whose native or co-native language could be one of the numerous  languages of India . Its early history began with the works of Henry Louis Vivian Derozio and  Michael Madhusudan Dutt  followed by  Rabindranath Tagore  and  Sri Aurobindo . [ citation needed ]   R. K. Narayan ,  Mulk Raj Anand  and  Raja Rao  contributed to the growth and popularity of Indian English fiction in the 1930s. [1]  It is also associated, in some cases, with the works of membe...

  ENGLISH COACHING CENTER                             Based on JAC BSEB CBSE ICSE SKMU and TMBU The Ailing Planet   1. What was the issue raised by the author in the chapter ‘The Ailing Planet’? A. Global Warming B. Save Water C. Save Electricity D. deteriorating health of the earth   2. When did the Green Movement help environmentalists to raise awareness about the harmful condition of the earth? A. 1992 B. 1972 C. 1987 D. 1970   3. When was the Sustainable Development used by the World Commission on Environment and Development? A. 1987 B. 1992 C. 1990 D. 1986   4. What did the sign in the zoo in Alaska read? A. Animal B. Lion C. ‘The World’s most dangerous animal’ D. Warning   5. Where was the message ‘The World’s most dangerous animal’ written in the zoo? A. board B. Mirror C...