English Language Study Material
English Language is a very important part in almost all the competitive exams of today’s world. Without having a good command over English Language can make your chances very less to survive in this competitive world. English is now being regularly asked in most entrance exams and exams for government and private sectors jobs. Edudose English Study Material covers all aspects of English Language for these competitive exams.
Reading Comprehension
Comprehension is the process of making meaning from a written text. Typically, a candidate might have difficulty understanding due to limited vocabulary and/or a lack of familiarity with the subject matter. Both these constraints may be remedied by reading more widely and making friends with a good dictionary…
English Vocabulary
Every student at some time or the other faces the question “How do I increase my vocabulary? This is because, people who might otherwise be very fluent in spoken English do not really take care to use new words, since, for the purpose of communication, the current register of words is deemed enough. An unfortunate fallout of this nonchalant complacency is that when these people actually face questions examining their vocabulary…
Word Power
In this topic, a list of words is placed in alphabetical order. Each word is followed by a few of its synonyms. Note these words whenever you come across them. You should be familiar with most of the words for which synonyms are given if you have done all the exercises till this point thoroughly. So, this list will be giving you synonyms for the words which you know. Thus learning will be easier…
Sentence Completion
Sentence completion questions test your ability to use your vocabulary and recognise logical consistency among the elements in a sentence. You need to know more than the dictionary definitions of the words involved. You need to know how the words fit together to make logical and stylistic sense.Sentence completion questions actually measure one part of reading comprehension. If you can recognise how the different parts of a sentence affect…
Idioms and Phrases
Learning Idioms and Phrases are very important part of Competitive Exams as well as language-learning process. Much of everyday speech is based on colloquial and slang vocabulary – much of this vocabulary is based on idioms.Edudose collection of English Idioms will teach you the type of questions that asked in competitive exams…
English Grammar
Grammar is an integral part in the English section of any Competitive Examination. The typical kind of questions can be categorized as follows: a) Fill in the blanks b) Identifying errors in sentences and c) Correcting the sentences. The questions can be handled easily and you can score well if your basics are clear…
Active and Passive Voice
In English, the verb form which indicates whether the subject (person or object) of a sentence do something or something has been done on the subject called the voice. A sentence that begin with the subject or the object to determine whether the sentence was categorized as active or passive voice sentences. For example, when a sentence has…
Degree of Comparison
Most adjectives have three different forms to show degrees of comparison—the positive, the comparative, and the superlative. The positive is used to describe one item, group, or person. The comparative is used to describe two items, people, or groups. The superlative is used to describe three or more items, groups, or people…
Direct and Indirect Speech
We often have to give information about what people say or think. In order to do this you can use direct or quoted speech, or indirect or reported speech. Saying exactly what someone has said is called direct speech (sometimes called quoted speech) Here what a person says appears within quotation marks (“…”) and should be word for word….
Jumbled Sentences
The section deals with the questions of Jumbled paragraph and sentences and sentence and phrase arrangement of the given phrases or sentences. The student has to choose a logical sequence to make a meaningful sentence or paragraph. This form of exercise tests the student’s …
Cloze Test
A cloze test (also cloze deletion test) is an exercise, test, or assessment consisting of a portion of text with certain words removed (cloze text), where the participant is asked to replace the missing words. Cloze tests require the ability to understand context and…