Sunday, 23 August 2015



           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.
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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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