About the Author: Alfred George Gardiner (1865-1946) was a British journalist and author. His essays, written under the pen-name, Alpha of the Plough, are highly regarded. His uniqueness lay in his ability to teach the basic truths of life in an easy and amusing manner. The Pillars of Society, Pebbles on the Shore, Many Furrows, and …
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About the Author: Manoj Das (1934) is an Indian award-winning bilingual writer who writes in Oriya and English. He has written many novels, short stories, poems, travelogues, and articles on history and culture. This text is an edited version of Das’s short story which narrates Bhola Grandpa’s hilarious adventures seen through the eyes of a …
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INTERCHANGE OF INTERROGATIVE AND ASSERTIVE SENTENCES In some special types of Interrogatives, when the question is affirmative, a negative answer is implied; and when the question is negative, an affirmative answer is implied. Hence an Interrogative sentence is often changed into an Assertive sentence, and vice versa. [কিছু বিশেষ ধরনের হ্যাঁ-সূচক প্রশ্নবােধক বাক্যে না-সূচক বিবৃতির …
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SYNTHESIS OR JOINING OF SENTENCES Joining or Synthesis (putting together) means the combination of a number of sentences into one new sentence-simple, complex, or compound. [Joining or Synthesis এর অর্থ হল কয়েকটি বাক্যকে জুড়ে নতুন একটি বাক্য তৈরী করা।] The following are the chief ways of combining two or more Simple Sentences into one Simple …
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What is the Degree of Comparison? To describe, quantify, modify or identify nouns/pronouns, adjectives are used. Adjectives have comparison their own degrees called degrees of adjectives or degrees of comparison that compare one thing/person to another. [ দোষ-গুনের তারতম্য বোঝাতে আমরা দুই ব্যক্তি বা বস্তুর মধ্যে যে তুলনা করি তাকে Comparison of Adjective বলে ৷ …
