Articles and prepositions lessons from ABTA Test Papers for MP students
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- What is the most dreadful menace facing India today is the rise of communalism. We all should fight against it collectively.
- Letter-writing is no doubt a lost art.It was killed by penny post and modern hurry. When Cowper, Byron, Lamb and Carlyle wrote their immortal letters, the world was a leisurely place where there time to indulge in the luxury of writing to your friends.
- We went into the parlour and sat down. There was an old fellow there smoking a long clay pipe, and we naturally began to chat.
- Robert Frost was born in California in 1874. He was a major American poet. He was awarded the Pulitzer prize several times.
- A father and a son died after a tree fell upon there tea shop. It was caused by a ten minute storm.
- I was born into a middle class Tamil family in the island town of Rameswaram in the erstwhile Madras state.
- My elder brother is five years senior to me.He lives in Mumbai. He is an MBBS and is fond of serving the poor.
You can notice from the above lessons that the task is relatively easy. If you study the use of common prepositions from a standard grammar book you will score full marks. Four marks are allotted for articles+ prepositions, four mars for transformation and four marks for phrasal verbs. All of you can score full marks in this section if you pay a little attention. Solve two or three papers every day and you will definitely remember your article and prepositions.
Now I beg to draw your attention to appropriate prepositions. Don't ask for any explanations. Just lay your hand on a good grammar book and read the list of appropriate prepositions again and again. Better make it a habit with you. Write your own sentences using the prepositions you have learnt. And see the magic! Take one small step at a time. You will definitely travel a long distance in no time.
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