Write a dialogue between you and your friend about looking up words in a dictionary.

Answer:

A dialogue between me and my friend about looking up words in a dictionary is written below.

Myself: Good afternoon, Tanim.

Tanim: Good afternoon, Hatim. How are you?

Myself: I’m fine and what about you?

Tanim: I’m also fine. How about your studies?

Myself: I’m going on well with my studies. But now I’m thinking about a very important matter.                                              

Tanim: What’s that?

Myself: About looking up words in the dictionary.

Tanim: Is this the fact? Have you started using dictionary recently?

Myself: Yes, I’ve. But I find it hard to look up my desired words instantly in the dictionary. How can I

              get those words easily, friend?                           

Tanim: Haven’t you learnt it yet?

Myself:  Actually, I’m a new user. Would you mind suggesting me the ways of looking up words in the                      

              dictionary?

Tanim: I would never mind. To look up a word in the dictionary, your first work is to open the      

              page where you can find the first letter of your desired world.

Myself: I’ve got this point before. Then what should I do?

Tanim: Then you will have to match the second letter by turning over the pages or in the page.

Myself: If I follow this way, then sometimes I find the wrong word. Can you tell me the reason?

Tanim: You should proceed on matching the letters of the third, the fourth and so on to look up your              

              desired word. And then you can look up the meaning, opposite words, Parts of Speech and the

              usages of the word easily just following the word. Have you got it now?

Myself: Certainly, I’ve got it clearly.

Tanim: Will you be able to look up words in the dictionary independently in future?

Myself: Of course, I’ll. Thank you so much for your kind suggestion.

Tanim: You’re most welcome.

Myself: Bye, friend. See you later.

Tanim: Bye, see you.

ENGLISH GRAMMAR

Question Tag/ Tag question

'Tag' means 'to add'.                                                                                                                              

 The question that is added at the end of a conversation to assess approval is called ‘Tag Question’.

Some Contractions am not = aren’t, is not = isn’t, are not = aren’t, was not = wasn’t, were not = weren’t, will not = won’t, shall not = shan’t, can not = can’t, could not = couldn’t, may not = mayn’t, might not = mightn’t,  must not = mustn’t, has not = hasn’t, have not = haven’t, had not = hadn’t, do not = don’t, doesn’t, did not = didn’t, ought not = oughtn’t, dare not = daren’t,  need not = needn’t.

ASSERTIVE SENTENCE

Rule-1.Tag Question with auxiliary verbs.

Examples: He is a student, isn’t he?  I am a student, aren’t I? They are going to the railway station, aren’t they?

Rule-2.Tag Question without auxiliary verbs.( don’t , didn’t, doesn’t are used to make Tag Question).

Examples: He reads the daily newspaper, doesn’t he?  He caught a butterfly, didn’t he?  We drink tea, don’t we?

Rule 3. Positive Tag question for negative statement.

Examples: Rina doesn’t make a fun, does he?  Nishita will not realize the matter, will she?

IMPERATIVE SENTENCE

Rule-1. Positive Command, order or instruction take-won’t you?/will you?/can’t you?/could you?/

Examples: Open the window, won’t you?   Do the work at once, will you?  Speak the truth, can’t you?

Rule-2. Imperative with ‘Don’t’ at the starting takes only ‘will you?’.

Examples: Don’t tell a lie, will you? Do not go out, will you?

Rule-3. Imperative Sentence with Let’s/ let us takes only ‘shall we’?

Examples: Let’s do the work, shall we?  Let’s not do the work, shall we?

Rule- 5: Let him, Let her, Let them, let Rina etc. take ‘will you?’

Examples:Let them play well, will you? Let him discuss the matter, will you?

****A GOOD STUDENT WANTS TO KNOW EVERYTHING CLEARLY.****

****SO, HE/SHE ASKS SEVERAL QUESTIONS TO THE TEACHERS DURING DISCUSSIONS.****

Question Tag/ Tag Question

EXCLAMATORY SENTEN

Rule-1. Exclamatory Sentence with ‘Be verb’ changes into proper contraction.

Examples: how nice the flower is, isn’t it?  What a fantastic game it was?

Rule-2: Exclamatory Sentence without ‘Be Verb’ changes into proper contractions of  ‘Don’t, Doesn’t, Didn’t.

Examples: How sweetly the bird sings, doesn’t it?  How nicely the bird sang, didn’t it?

SOME EXCEPTIONAL QUESTION-TAG

Rule- 1: If the subject is ‘Nothing /Anything/Something/Everything,’ the subject in the ‘Question Tag’ will be ‘It’. Examples: Nothing is certain, is it? Everything was lost, wasn’t it? Something is better than nothing, is it?

Rule-2:  If the subject is ‘Everybody/Anybody/ Somebody/ Everyone/ Someone/ Anyone/ Nobody/ None’, the subject in the ‘Question Tag’ will be ‘They’.

Examples: Everybody likes flowers, don’t they? Somebody came here, didn’t they? Anybody can do this, can’t they?    Everyone has left the place, haven’t they? Someone will go there, won’t they? Anybody may do the sum, mayn’t they? Nobody phoned, did they? None can help me, can they?

Rule-3: If subject is ‘all of us/ some of us/ everyone of us/ most of us’, the subject will be ‘We’.

Examples: All of us came to the party, didn’t we? None of us can solve such kind of sum, can we?

Rule -4:  If the subject is ‘all of them,/some of them/everyone of them/most of them’, the subject will be ‘they’.

Examples: all of them are active, aren’t they? Most of them were active, weren’t they?

Rule-5: if the subject is ‘ all of you/ some of you / none of you/  most of you/ everyone of you’, the subject will be ‘you’.

Examples: Some of you did well, didn’t you?  All of you can sing better, can’t you?

Rule-6:

Examples: I’d go there soon, wouldn’t I?  They’d gone to the party, hadn’t they?

EXCEPTIONAL

BETWEEN

British Style and American style

Rule-1:She had a pen, hadn’t she? (British Style) She had a pen, didn’t she? (American Style)

(Both are correct rules. But you should follow American Style.)

ADVICES

1.        To improve your skills in ‘Tag Question’, practise more and more.

2.        If you couldn’t understand any rule clearly, take help from your teacher.

SSC 2016

Preparation 

Unseen Comprehensions 

English 1st Paper

Read the passage. Then answer the questions below.

The war of Liberation of Bangladesh from the occupation of Pakistan war fought in 1971. The Pakistani ruling clique and their vested interest group began to treat Bangladesh, Pakistani which was the East Pakistani, as a colony of West Pakistan. Therefore, under the leadership of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman a violent mass movement was launched which resulted in a landside victory of the Awami League at the election of the National Assembly of Pakistan in December 1970. Thus Bangabandhu acquired the right to form the Government of East Pakistan with his absolute majority in the Parliament. But under cover of negotiation with the Awami League leaders President Yahia Khan hatched a conspiracy. On the fateful night o march 25, 1971, Bangabandhu was taken to a prisoner of West Pakistan and the Pakistan army cracked down upon the innocent and armless people of East Pakistan. They also attacked the Police Force, the EPR and the Bengal Regiment who resisted them tooth and nail. The Pakistani army continued to kill people, torture women, burn houses, loot property and damage crops. One core of people fled away and took shelter in neighboring India. Meanwhile East Pakistan was declared as independent Bangladesh. A new government was formed at Mujibnagar. The Mukti Bahini was organized and trained. They began to hit back the Pakistani hordes. In fact, everyone in Bangladesh was freedom, Fighter and did his vest to help the Mukti Bahini. While Mukti Bahini gained in strength and efficiency and kept the occupation army in utter embarrassment, the Pakistani forces attacked India because of her support to Bangladesh. Eventually the Muki Bahini and the Indian forces formed a joint Command and inflicted crushing blows of the enemy in every sector compelling them to surrender. On the 16^th of December 1971, the Pakistani soldiers surrendered their arms to the joint Command at a ceremony in Dhaka, Thus after long nine months of massacre, the War of liberation came to an end and Bangladesh won freedom, Now the 16 the of December is observed as the Victory Day.

1. Choose the correct answer from the alternatives.                             7

a) In the past, Bangladesh was a ____ of Pakistan.

i) Country       ii) province      iii) village        iv) city

b) Awami League won the election in ____.

i) 1969       ii) 1968   I    ii) 1970       iv) 1971

c) Bangabandhu was arrested on ____.

i) 16 December      ii) 26 March           iii) 23 March          iv) 25 March 18

d) ____ people took shelter in India.

i) 1 million          ii) 2 million          iii) 3 million          iv) 10 million

e) A new government was fromed in ____.

i) Dhaka           ii) Mujibnagar       iii) Gazipur            iv) Sherpur 

f) Bangladesh became independent on ____ in 1971.

i) 16 December      ii) 10 December       iii) 16 March        iv) 10 November.

g) 16 December is our _____.

i) Independence Day   ii) Victory Day       iii) Martyr Day        iv) Shaheed Day

2 Answer the following questions.                                                                                 10

a) Who led a mass movement against Pakistan government in 1970?

b) Who made a conspiracy and how?

c) Where was Bangabandhu taken to?

d) Where was Mukti Bahini trained?

e) When did the Pakistani soldiers surrender?

3. Write a summary of the passage in no more than 90 to 100 words.                     10

4. Read the passage and complete the table below with information from the passage.                                                                                                                                         

Thomas Alva Edison was born in 1847 in Ohio, America. As a little boy, he was very inquisitive. He always wanted to know things were done. Very early in life he showed that he was full of curiosity, a quality which is so important to inventors. In 1869 he went to New York where he worked for some time as a telephone operator. But soon he became interested in inventions. In a very short time they were his chief business. In order to carry on this business, which was become his life's work, he built a laboratory at Menlo Park, where he had gone to live. His first great invention was a system of telegraphy. Soon afterwards he invented the phonograph', the first form of the instrument that we now know as the gramophone' or record player. The word `phonograph' means something that can write or record sound. Other scientists before Edison had thought of instruments which would do this, but Edison was the first to make an instrument which actually worked. He also invented the incandescent' lamp, a lamp in which the light is caused by a heated wire called a `filament'. The wire is heated by an `electric current'. People can now use `electricity' to illuminate' their homes. By the time Edison died in 1931 he had about a thousand inventions to his credit.

Who	Event/Activity	Time	Place/ What
Thomas Alva Edison	i)……………….	1847	Ohio, America
Edision	Worked	1869	Ii)……………
He	Built	iii) ………………	A laboratory.
He	invented	Not mentioned	iv)……………….
v)………………..	Died	1931	natural

5. From your reading of the above passage fill in the blank with suitable words. Use one word only in each blank.                                                                                        5

Thomas Alva Edison, an a)_____, invented a lot of things. From his childhood, he was very b)____. Curiosity is a quality which is very important to c)____. Although other scientists before Edison thought of instruments like d)____, they did not succeed. Electricity by which we e) _____ our houses was invented by Edison.

6. Match the parts of sentences given in column “A” and column “B” to write five complete sentences. There are more parts of sentences in column “B” than required.                                                                                                                                          5

a) There was b) He showed c) The rich man  was d) His son was e) He decided	i) To leave home and see the world.
	ii) a rich man who had only a son.
	iii) Very interested in traveling.
	iv) Always ready to give his son everything he asked for.
	v) Tremendous affection for his son.
	vi) a lot of money from his father and went away.
	viii) All the money is a frugal manner.

7. Re-arrange the following sentences according to sequence and re-write them in a paragraph:    

a) The bees came in and settled on the natural one.

b) The Queen was surprised and went away admiring the king’s wisdom.

c) She brought with her two garlands of flowers-one natural and the other artificial.

d) Pondering, he noticed some bees humming for honey are a withered rose.

e) Attracted by such reports, she came to test the king.

f) She placed them before the king to take the natural one.

g) Solomon was puzzled for a time. He asked the windows to be opened.

h) Everyone has heard the name of Solomon, the king of the jews, who was famous all over the world for his wealth and wisdom. The Queen of Sheba has heard much about Solomon’s court and wisdom. 

Transformation of sentences SSC

Changing Sentences

Simple, Complex, Compound

Complex to Compound

Rule : When/ as/although/though etc. vanish and two clauses join by –

Examples:                                                                     When/as=and

1. When we went there, We found him.                                Compound:  We went there and found him.

2. As he did it, he was rewarded.                                             Compound:  He did it and rewarded.

3. When I went there, my friend became very happy.        

Compound: I went there and my friend became very happy.

4. When I got scholarship, I became astonished.                 

Compound: I got scholarship and became astonished.

Although/though=but

5. Although it rained heavily, he went out without an umbrella.

Compound: It rained heavily but he went out without an umbrella.

6. Although the field was muddy, Bangladesh team played well against India.

Compound: The field was muddy but Bangladesh team played well against India.

7. Though he is poor, he is honest.          Compound: He is poor but honest.

8. Although he is rich, he is unhappy.  Compound: He is rich but unhappy.

If/unless=or

9. Unless you work hard, you will not pass in the examination.

Compound: Work hard or you not pass in the examination.

10. Unless Australia will play well, they will not win.

Compound: Australia will play well or they will not win.

Compound to Complex

(Vice –Versa)

**** Practise yourself/yourselves

Complex to Simple

Rule: When + Subject / As+ Subject /since+ Subject etc. vanish

And verb of the first clause turns into ‘base form +ing’ + extension/object+(,)+second clause.

Examples:

1.     As he studied attentively, he succeeded in the examination.

Simple: Studying attentively, he succeeded in the examination.

2.    When I went there, I found him absent.

Simple: Going there, I found him absent.

If the subjects are different

1.     When the lunch was over, the lady went away.

Simple: The lunch being over, the lady went away.

2.    Since the meeting was finished, they started for home.

Simple: The meeting being over, they started for home.

Rule: ‘As+it was or is/ since+ it was or is’  turn into ‘Because of’ / ‘Due to’.

Examples:

1.     As it was snowing, the winter did not come.

Simple: Because of snowing, the winter did not come.

2.    Since it was fog, they could not go out.

Simple: Due to fog, they could not go out.

Rule: If+ negative first conditional turns into ‘Without+v1+ing.

Examples:

1.     If you do not come, you will not get the book.

Simple: Without coming, you will not get the book.

2.    If the farmers do not plough the lands, they won’t get good crops.

Simple: Without ploughing, the farmers won’t get good crops.

                                                            

If the subjects are different

1.     If he does not stay at office, I shall not meet him.

Simple: Without his staying at office, I shall not meet him.

2.    If he does not teach well, we shall not appoint him for teaching us.

Simple: Without his teaching well, we shall not appoint him as our teacher.

Completing Sentences

SSC Examination Preparation 2016

Grammar

 (Irregular Rules and Proverbs )

1.       Strict the iron while it is hot/red.

2.       Things done by halves are never done.

3.       Look before you leap.

4.       All that glitters is not gold.

5.       Danger comes where danger is feared.

6.       A man is known by the company he keeps.

7.       One may succeed once or twice by telling a lie but a lie never lasts for a long time.

8.       Contentment is the key to be happy in life.

9.       United we stand, divided we fall.

10.    It takes two to make a quarrel.

11.    Faults are thick where love is thin.

12.    Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

13.    Fortune smiles upon those, who are hard working.

14.    Ambition means desire to achieve something.

15.    There proverb goes that a little learning is a dangerous thing.

16.    Happiness lies in the contentment.

17.    Spare the rod and spoil the child.

18.    Where there is a will, there is a way.

19.    While there is hope, there is life.

20.    Greed begets sin and sin brings death.

21.    Grasp all, lose all.

22.    A drowning man catches at a straw.

23.     Illiteracy is inability to read and write.

24.    Prices were higher than utility of goods.

25.    Drought ruined the crops as it did not rain in time.

26.    A friend in need is  a friend indeed.

27.    Too many cooks spoil the broth.

28.    Crying is the wilderness.

29.    Waste not  want not.

30.    Cut your coat according to your cloth.

31.    Too much courtesy, too much craft.

32.    Pride growth before destruction.

33.    Don’t live above your mean.

34.    Charity begins at home.

35.    Self preservation is the first law of nature.

36.    One shallow does not make the summer.

37.    Better late than never.

38.    Black will take no other hue.

39.    What is sport to the cat, is death to the rat.

40.    What is lotted  can not be blotted.

41.    When the danger is gone, God is forgotten.

42.    Let by gone be by gone.

43.    Birds of same feather flock together.

44.    Better an empty house than ill tenant.

45.    A bad working man quarrels with his tools.

46.    Ill got, ill spent

47.    Danger never comes alone.

48.    Beggars mustn’t be choosers.

49.    A barking dog seldom bites.

50.    The wearer best knows where shoes pinches.

51.    Cheap goods are dear in the long run.

52.    Patience is bitter but its fruits is sweet.

53.    All’s well that ends well.

54.    A burnt child dreads the fire.

55.    As  you sow, so shall you reap.

56.    Blessing are not valued till they are gone.

57.    Good wine needs no bush.

58.    Set a thief to catch a thief.

59.    A fool to other’s himself a sage.

60.    Give a dog a bad name and hang him.

61.    What is everybody’s business is nobody’s business.

62.    Too much cunning over reach has itself.

63.    Empty vessel sounds much.

64.    To the pure all things are pure.

65.    Out of debt, out of danger.

66.    Master’s wish is law.

67.    Sleeping fox catches no poultry.

68.    To add insult to injury.

69.    To rob Petter to pay Paul.

70.    A pet lamb makes a cross ram.

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