About the Book

ESSENTIALS OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR AND COMPOSITION, as its title implies, contains everything that an Indian school student needs to know about English Grammar and Usage. In one comprehensive volume, it serves to answer all the specific questions about the English language. Things that present no difficulties to English boys and girls are found difficult by Indian students. A knowledge of these peculiar difficulties faced by Indian students is therefore essential to the successful teaching of the English language.

The book, though it is based on the fundamentals of English Grammar, concentrates on, and attempts to correct, the most frequent grammatical mistakes made by Indian students of English. For example, students are told to avoid such errors as interesting informations, useful advices, an interesting news, a valuable furniture, etc. While sentences of the type, 'Please tell me the meaning' or 'She waited for us' are correct, the sentences like 'Please explain me the meaning' and 'She waited for half an hour' are incorrect. Such wrong usages are natural. The ordinary grammar book usually fails to supply adequate information on such points. The present book helps to guide Indian pupils to speak and write simple, correct English.

Since the correction of specific mistakes and the removal of particular difficulties experienced by Indian students in the mastery of the English language is the main aim of the book, numerous illustrative examples of each grammatical item and usage have been given, followed by properly graded exercises and multiple choice questions.
Liberal space has been devoted to RWriting SkillsR, a comprehensive unit which covers every aspect of writing. New chapters have been added on. For example - Notices; Messages; Telegrams; Post cards; Advertisements; Posters; Reports and Diary writing. Rules of acquiring the above skills have been explained in detail; enough examples are given and simple exercises on each skill have been added. New examples and topics are given in the chapters that deal with Story Writing, Paragraph Writing, Picture Stories and all kinds of Comprehension and Composition. The detailed instructions and specimens and the vast variety of exercises will boost the confidence of the learners and help them to tackle, writing skills of each and every kind. They would help the learner to face any Board Examination with total self confidence and assurance. It is confidently hoped that the book, with its special features, will prove indispensable to all those who need a comprehensive, reliable, and easy-to-use textbook on English Grammar, Composition and Usage at the High School stage throughout the country.

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