Current Affairs 1st Class

Articles *-answer-* Amazing facts                 The starting letter does not matter. What matters is the sound. For example in hour H sounds as a vowel sound so an is used before it.   LEARNING OBJECTIVES                 This lesson will help you to

• Understand articles
• Use articles like a, an, the in proper places.

  QUICK CONCEPT REVIEW                 As you all know there are 26 alphabets in all. Out of these a, e, I, o, u are vowels and the rest are called consonants.                 A is used before the words that start with a                 Consonant sound. For example. A girl, a mouse, achair, a book, a pen, a bird.                                        AN is used before words that start with vowels A, E, I, 0, U. For example. An apple. An orange. An egg, an umbrella. An elephant.       ,                                                   An Apple             An orange           An egg                 ,                        An umbrella          An elephant                 A and An are used before things that are only one and not more than one. For example a lion, a car. An orange, an apple. A and A can never be used before things that cannot be counted. Like water, salt. Sugar.      Things that cannot be counted do not have an article before them. But if we add some word like a glass of Milk. 'A' has been used as a glass is a countable thing. THE is used before some particular person or thing. For Example. The Qutub Minar, The Moon, The sun or the Himalayas. The is also used before the names of rivers .seas, oceans, mountains, holy books. Newspapers. A and An tell us about any person or thing. The tells us about a particular person or thing. For Example. A copy (any copy). Please bring a pen or an apple. The house that we stay in. (particular house) the vase is next to the chair.                                 Words that do not have a vowel sound but start with a vowel do not use ‘an’ before them for example one. Here ‘o’ sounds as ‘w’ so we do not use an before one. Or university, here ‘u’ sounds as ‘y’ so we do not use an before it.                   What is important is the sound of the word and not the spelling.   Real life examples Remember no article is used before a proper noun. For example, Delhi is a beautiful city. Akbar was a more...

LEARNING OBJECTIVES                This lesson will help you to        

• understand what prepositions are        
• use correct prepositions in your sentences.  

  Remember Whenever you use a preposition at the start of the sentence, always put a comma so that the sentence makes sense. Like for example, after he left, I hurried for work.     Playtime Hide and seek you can play game where in one of you hides may be under the table, or behind the sofa or curtain and speak oney the preposition which can?t tell your position like behind. And the other person will look for you at those places only.     QUICK CONCEPT REVEIW                Prepositions are also called Where words. They are the words that tell us the place or position of the noun. Prepositions are the words that are used with a noun, pronoun or a verb to tell us their position.                 For Example               

• A bird is in the nest.                
• I am standing on the road.               
• That man slept under the tree.                
• He went to the market to buy grocery.               
• The Sun rises in the sky.                
• The vase is kept on the table.                

In is used for large areas. For example I live in India On is used before talking of middle sized places. For Example I was going on road. At is used for exact place, time. For Example Somu lives at Rajiv Chowk. By is used when we talk of a person who is doing something. For Example. This painting is made by him.                 Among is used to denote more than two things or person. For example he is among the best students in class between is used to denote two things or person for example he was sitting between ram and shyam.     Remember                 Preposition means preposition. Means they tell you the position of a noun or a pronoun.

LERNING OBJECTIVES This lesson will help you to ·  

• Understand adjectives as describing words ·  
• Use adjectives to describe a noun.  

  Playtime You can call out any naming word and the other person has to tell a few words about that thing more than its name. Person who speaks up the highest number of describing words is the winner.     QUICK CONCEPT REVIEW Adjectives are also called describing words. They tell us something more about a naming word. They B tell us the kind of, the number of or how many or the colour of persons, places, animals, birds or things. For example look at the following sentences     HUGE BUILDING FAT RAM It is such a huge building. Here the word huge tells us what kind of building it is. It describes the building. Ram is very fat. Here the word fat tells us what kind of boy Ram is. It describes Ram.                 Number also can he used to describe For example There were eleven players in his team. The word eleven tells us about how many player were there in his team.   He has four oranges with him. The word four tells us how many oranges he has.     The name of colour can used to describe a thing.   For example   She wore a red dress. The word red tells us about what colour the dress is. It describes the dress. He has a white car. The word white tells us about what colour car he has. It describes the car.     Different types of adjectives