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Unit I

Fundamentals of Grammar
Unit II

Introduction to Business Communication

Unit III

Business Letter Writing

Unit IV

Business Etiquettes and Public Speaking

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The 8 building blocks of the English language

Nouns It is important to understand Pronouns that every word in a sentence Adjectives has a job to do, a role in the Verbs sentence. Adverbs Prepositions Conjunctions Interjections
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Nouns
- Definition:

A word or word group that is used to name a person, place, thing, quality or an idea.

Person: Mr. Ram likes to eat spinach.

Place: Jaipur is an old town.

Thing: To cook you need a couple of pots.

Quality: Honesty is a great value to possess.

KINDS OF NOUN
The name of a particular person ,place or thing is a proper noun

a)Proper Noun:
Rahul was born on Monday

Ganga is a holy river of India

New Delhi

is capital of India

The name shared in common by everyone of the same class or group is a common noun.
b) Common

Noun:

Birds fly in air Trees grow everywhere Cows eat grass

Proper noun becomes common noun when the former is used in a descriptive manner to refer a class of people or things. Kalidas is the Shakespeare of India Jaipur is the Paris of India

The name given to a number of similar things regarded as one whole group or collection c) Collective Noun:
Indian Army won the battle

The Jury found the prisoner guilty

The Police dispersed the Crowd

d) Material Noun
The Word used for substance of which things are made is a material noun. This chair is made of plastic. Gold is Yellow.

e) Abstract Noun
The word used for action, state or quality is an abstract noun. Laughter is the best medicine. Honesty is the best policy.

Based on Number
Singular Noun The noun which signifies one person,place or thing is called singular noun. E.g.-King , Bus, Knife, Child Plural Noun The noun which signifies more than one person, place or thing is called Plural noun. e.g.-Kings, Buses, Knives, Children

Based on Gender
Masculine Gendere.g.-King , Uncle , Son Feminine Gender e.g.-Queen, aunt, daughter.

Pronoun: takes the place of a noun

Amit was studying for the mid-term exam when he

realized that it was three oclock in the morning. Types of pronouns: Personal Relative Possessive Interrogative Distributive Indefinite Reflexive Reciprocal

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 Personal Pronouns- - Represents Persons.

e.g .-

I am going We are going.

Relative -Joins Sentences and relates to noun or pronoun.

e.g-

Deepak is a customer whose account is still unpaid. He broke my pen which I brought yesterday.

Possessive Pronouns-. Those which denote possession.

e.g. Mine, ours, yours, theirs, etc.

Interrogative Pronouns.-Perform the function of asking

question. E.g.- Who broke this pen? Whose Fault is this?

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 Distributive Pronouns- - Represents each of the Persons or

things used in a sentence. e.g .- Each of you have got first division. None of them failed.

Indefinite Pronouns- - Do not represent a definite Person or thing.

e.g .- Some, Many, Somebody, Nobody.

Demonstrative Pronouns- - This indicate some noun.

e.g .- These, that, those.

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 Reciprocal Pronouns - These are made of two pronouns

and indicate interrelationship between them. e.g .- each other, one another

Reflexive Pronouns- These indicate influence on the subject. e.g .- myself,himself,hereself,yourself.

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Adjective: A word which adds something to meaning of noun or pronoun

Radha is a beautiful girl.

The rainy day made us even sadder.

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Types of Adjective

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Verb: shows action or state of being

Action: He was running through the forest. State of being: He was sad that particular morning.

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Adverb: describes a verb

The little girl walked happily through the park. The orphan hungrily ate the hot stew.

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Conjunctions: words that join words, phrases or sentences

Manuel and Marisol loved to cook.
You will go to school, or you will fail. I am happy because I just received my check.

It has been cloudy since the morning.

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Article: There are only three articles--the, a , an (Actually, articles are adjectives and not a different part of speech)
The bicycle was not only red but shiny.
A yellow moon always appears in October. An excellent student, Armando passed all his exams.

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Preposition: A word or phrase that shows the relationship between the noun that it takes as an object and some other word in the sentence.

The cat was on the table.

The dog was under the table. These are some common prepositions: For on at With From

to up under above toward between in upon into

behind off

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Interjections: expressive words

Wow, you knocked that ball out of the park.
Oh, you really need to take care of yourself. Huh, what did you say? Ah, now I understand the problem.

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Identify each word in the following sentence

The beautiful queen was walking slowly on the

cool lawn, and she was reading a long book about knights and kings which she enjoyed.

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 The beautiful queen was walking slowly

article adjective noun verb verb adverb

on the cool lawn, and she was reading a

preposition article adjective article noun conjunction pronoun verb verb

long book about knights and kings which

adjective

noun

preposition

noun

conjunction

noun

preposition

she enjoyed.

Pronoun

verb

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Assignment: Identify parts of speech

1. The queen knew that she would be the only pretty woman at the party. 2. The king did not know if he was going to make the cake, and he was afraid to tell the queen. 3. The thin waitress told the customers that they desperately needed to go on a diet. 4. I ran many miles every day, and I couldnt lose a pound. 5. This quiz was a piece of cake.
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