Dearest Friends, For the English language learner, It is very important to know: What is voice? What is active voice and what is passive voice? When do we use passives? How to change active to passive or vice versa? Let…
"When You are Old" is a beautiful love lyric. The lyric was composed in October 1891, amid W.B.Yeat's unverifiable association with Maud Gonne who was an Anglo-Irish progressive, women activist and on-screen character.
Introduction of The Last Leaf The Last Leaf is a famous short story by O. Henry, revealed in 1907 in his collection The Trimmed Lamp and Other Stories.” The Last Leaf” is about Johnsy, a poor young woman who is…
The Proposal was originally titled as "A Marriage Proposal".It is a one-act play, a farce, by the Russian short story essayist and writer, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. The proposal is short play and has just three characters
This poem "I Cannot Remember My Mother" is about a child who does not remember his dead mother. But the child perhaps carries some unforgettable attachment of the mother’s image in his mind.
The poem “The Road Not Taken" has been written by a prolific writer "Robert Frost" in which the poet has used the symbolic logic to make the readers understand the importance of making right choices in life. The choices shape the future of the people by making them successful or unsuccessful. The choice which we make in life cannot be changed later. So, we must be careful while choosing things
Everyone desires to be the successful person in his or her life. To be the successful I mean not the only materially rich in life but also the good human being. But to hold the dream only does not make one be successful. One has to act for the purpose and in order to act fruitfully, he or she has to know how to act? In other words, successful people perform their every action in the best possible way.
There are various tricks and practices which can enhance your chances of scoring high in an exam. In this article I will help you in studying, preparing and solving exam question. All these savvy tricks and techniques are workable and will significantly help you to score high in the exam and you will definitely come out as flying colours.So read on!
Packing is an excerpt from Jerome K. Jerome's immensely popular Victorian novel "Three Men in a Boat". This is a funny story in which chaos and mess are created by the people who are not talented in packing what they believe. It uncovers clumsiness of the three real-life friends – Jerome, George, and Harris.
Ghat is a Kashmiri word sometimes also used in Urdu. It implies the spot at a river bank from where the boats withdraw to another side. The ghat of the main world implies that after a man finishes his adventure in this world he feels at the entryway of the other world. In this manner, it has been used as a metaphor of death. It implies the point from where a man departs to a different universe what is commonly called hereafter
This lesson is an extract from Arundhati Roy's first novel "The God Of Small Things" which won the Bookers Prize in 1997. Pappachi ( grandfather) is an imperial entomologist prior to his retirement. His name is Shri Benaan John Ipe. His wife Shoshamma Ipe is referred to as Mammachi ( grandmother).
Abhiley is an wonderful short story composed by 'Abdul Gani Sheikh'. In this story, the author has wonderfully depicted some principal logical contradictions, i.e. simplicity and ignorance versus modernity, and the issues of the generation gap between the general population of various ages.
