grammar

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Professional
Professional
Communication,
Communication,
(UPTU), 2e
(UPTU), 2e
Meenakshi Raman
Meenakshi Raman
Sangeeta Sharma
Sangeeta Sharma

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MODULE- I
MODULE- I
English Grammar and
English Grammar and
Correct Usage
Correct Usage

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Agenda
• Introduction
• Nouns
• Pronouns
• Verbs
• Modals
• Gerunds
• Infinitives
• Adjectives and Degree of comparison
• Adverbs
• Conjunctions
• Interjections
• Prepositions
• Articles

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Introduction
The persons taking part in a conversation should be competent in
both written and spoken communication. If our grammar is not
sound, our technical writing will not make much sense to our
readers

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Nouns
Noun is defined as a word used for a name of a person, place,
thing, or idea. In English, it is one of the eight parts of speech
Different types of modifiers of a noun are given below:
Determiners: The scientist assembled the machine.
Possessives: She brought the machine’s parts.
Adjectives: The cumbersome machines are kept
underground.
Prepositions: The pedestrians over the bridge …
Clauses: The conference we went to …

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Pronoun
A pronoun takes place of a noun and is used as a substitute for
nouns. Every pronoun must have a clear antecedent.

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Verbs
The doer word is called a verb in a sentence. It tells and asserts
something about a thing or a person

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Modals
Modals are special verbs that give additional information about
the function of the principal verb that follows it.

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Gerunds
Any verb with the -ing form used as a subject of a verb and acting
like a verb-noun is called a gerund.

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Infinitives
An infinitive is a kind of noun with some features of the verb,
especially that of taking an object (when the verb is transitive) and
adverbial qualifiers.
When an infinitive is
used as a noun, it
is called the ‘simple
Infinitive’

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• The ‘subject’ should agree with the ‘verb’ in number and
person.
Subject Verb Agreement

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• There are three main tenses – past, present, and future.
• Each tense be of four types – simple, continuous, perfect, and
perfect continuous.
Tenses

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Adjectives and degrees of comparison
An adjective is a word that qualifies or describes a noun. It can also
give the number by quantifying. It gives extra meaning to the noun
by adding something to it.

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Comparison of Adjectives
Positive degree: She is smart
Comparative degree: But her sister is smarter
Superlative degree: Their brother, however, is the smartest.

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Adverbs
An adverb is a word that adds more information about a place,
time, manner, cause, or degree to a verb, an adjective, a phrase, or
another adverb.

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Articles
Articles in English are used to clarify if a noun is specific or not
specific. Basically, articles are adjectives. Like adjectives, articles
also modify nouns and are used before nouns or adjectives. There
are two types of articles:
Definite articles (the): These are used for specific nouns.
Indefinite articles (a, an): These are used for specific nouns