English For Competitive Examinations Includes Descriptive And Objective Tests

This book has been designed by combining the goodness of the original Wren & Martin text, High School Grammar & Composition, and specialized content developed by a panel of competitive examination experts in the area of the English language. The USP is therefore adapting a classical text to the needs of the various admission and recruitment competitive examination aspirants. Its exhaustive coverage ensures that virtually no competitive examination remains untouched. Students preparing for descriptive tests such as UPSC (Compulsory English and General English Papers of Main Exams) and state PCS examinations, Judicial Services examination, Indian Forest Service examination, Statistical Services and many other examinations in which subjective papers/tests are mandatory will find this book immensely useful. The book is also a boon for those students who are preparing for objective tests such as Banking and Insurance, SSC, UPSC preliminary, Defence Services, Law entrance, Business School entrance examinations, and many other admission and recruitment examinations. A unique feature of this book is demonstration of the connectedness of the concepts and their applications visually, with the help of arrows and pointers. The aspirant will also find questions from recent examinations on virtually every page of the book. An index of examination-wise questions has been included so that the aspirant can choose the sections according to the targeted examination and focus more. Topic-wise distribution of questions in English examination papers - both descriptive and objective - will also help aspirants to undertake a very well directed test-prep program using the book.

English is globally recognized language for cross-border business communication. As a dominant business language, fluency and expertise in the language can help you build great opportunities of professional growth. The paper of English language usually contains Questions relating to Grammatical Concepts, Word Power and Compositional English in almost all competitive examinations like Bank PO, Bank Clerical, CDS, NDA, Railways, etc. The book of General English includes over 600 Practice Exercises and 10,000 Words & Sentences Structures for all Competitive exams divided in 32 chapters. Each chapter comprehensively contains short synopsis, detailed description of important rules and enough practice exercises. Almost all types of objective questions and previous years’ questions that appear in Competitive examinations have been compiled together to help the candidates in understanding the rationale behind the answers. Table of ContentSpotting the Errors, Phrase Substitution and Sentence Improvement, Ordering of Sentences , Ordering of Words/Rearranging the Sentence, Cloze Test/Passages, Choosing Appropriate Words, Double Blanks in a Sentence, Related Pair of Words, Synonyms/Antonyms, Idioms and Phrases, Homonyms, Phrasal Verbs, Comprehension, Tense, Forms of Verbs, Modals, Subject-Verb Agreement, Non-Finites, Noun, Pronoun, Articles, Preposition, Conjunction, Adjectives and Determiners, Adverbs, Question Tags, Conditionals, Un-English and Superfluous Expressions Reported Speech (Direct- Indirect Narrations), Active-Passive...

A number of national level examinations like IAS Mains, State PCS, IES, IFS, etc. check the English language aptitude of candidates with a compulsory English language paper. This book has been designed for such examinations which assess the English language abilities in detail.The present book covering English Language in descriptive nature has been divided into four parts namely Writing Skills, Comprehension Skills, Grammar Skills & Verbal Skills.Part A has been further divide into Essay Writing, Expansion Writing, Report Writing, Precis Writing and Letter Writing. The Verbal Skills section covers Paronyms & Homonyms, One Word Substitutions, Synonyms & Antonyms, Phrasel Verbs, etc. whereas the Grammar Skills section covers The Function of Tenses, Voice, Narration, Synthesis, Prepositions, etc. Each chapter in the book contains detailed theory including a number of sample examples in a simple & easier way to understand the topics well. Workbook Exercises have been provided in between the chapters for Part B, C & D to help aspirants practice the concepts discussed in each chapter. Answers for all the questions have been given at the end of the section. As the book covers varied aspects of English language, it for sure will help aspirants score high in the upcoming national and state level competitive and recruitment examinations.

The book has been especially designed and planned as a practice book in order to cater to the long-felt needs of the prospective candidates for competitive examinations conducted by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC), Staff Selection Commission (SSC), Banks and many other agencies for recruitment to various services under government, government undertakings, autonomous bodies, and so on. Besides, the book will fully serve the purpose of the students studying at colleges and universities.

Disha’s ESSENTIAL ENGLISH, true to its name, covers every essential topic and every essential type and pattern of MCQs asked in various competitive examinations conducted in India. It will serve as a SINGULAR VOLUME to provide complete preparation for scoring high in the English section of any competitive exam. Essential features of the book • Organised into IV parts: Grammar, Verbal Aptitude, RC & Para jumbles; Descriptive English - including 40 Chapters grouped under 10 Segments. • Grammar topics and sub-topics explained in an easy-to-understand manner. • Classroom Exercises to test and reinforce in-depth understanding of Concepts. • Extensive Exam pattern MCQs on each Topic to give you complete practice. • Dedicated Chapters for every specific MCQ pattern. • Things To Remember/Strategies To Employ for solving each Question Type. • 5000+ MCQs in all with Answers and Explanations. • Descriptive composition – Essay, Précis, Letter.