Daily Vocabulary Dose (DVD)

Hello readers! Having a good knowledge of vocabulary is of great use. It helps you in many ways. Good knowledge of vocabulary makes your speech and writing piece even more influential. Moreover if you are going to appear in competitive exams then you must have a good knowledge of vocabulary. Questions involving synonyms and antonyms will test your word power. But what can you do to improve your word power? I personally feel that learning the dictionary may not be a good idea for most of us. I have seen people trying to learn dictionary and then giving up soon. There are countless words in the English dictionary. Do you think you can learn all of them? Well, there are people who have managed to learn the dictionary as well. But lets try to do something realistic which helps the majority.
Here at The Learning Era I have come up with a solution to help my readers. I am introducing Daily Vocabulary Dose (a.k.a DVD).  I will be picking up words from newspaper everyday and writing their meaning. Along with that I will frame sentences using those words to give you a better understanding of the meaning of the word. This way if we learn ten new words everyday it means we are going to learn three hundred new words every month. Remember to bring out any significant change in our knowledge of vocabulary we need to be very persistent. With consistency we will improve our knowledge of vocabulary to a great extent.
Happy Learning! :)

Let's Celebrate Women's Day

Hello all the readers of The Learning Era! Wishing all of you a very Happy Women's Day. This is a day worth celebrating. We are so lucky to find women around us. I feel lucky to be born as a girl. A woman can play several roles. She could be a mother, a daughter, a sister, a friend, a wife, a counselor, a guide. Its an age old saying that God couldn't be everywhere so he created mother. Such is the importance of women in our life. Today women are excelling in every field. They have not only restricted themselves to household chores but have shown their capabilities beyond that too. We hear successful stories of so many women. After two months from now when results of board exams will be declared, we will get to see the newspapers filled with stories of the girls making it to the top. Women have made their way to top industries. We have seen women topping exams as tough as civil services. The roles of women have changed significantly in the past few years. The views of the society towards women have also changed. Yes, at many places we are still not able to show equality towards women but I am not focussing on the darker side now. 

While talking about the achievements of women, I must take out some time to praise their families as well. I read somewhere "behind every successful woman is a family who believed in her and not the society". It feels great when I see a father saying that he is more focused towards getting his daughter well educated than towards getting her married. I also feel happy when I see a married girl appearing for exams. The scene when her husband comes to drop her to the examination center and wishes her good luck for the exams. Its a live example of watching India developing. 

I said in the beginning of this article that this day is worth celebrating. But can you tell me how are you celebrating this day? Are you going to cook food today and not letting the ladies of your house enter the kitchen for a day? Or are you going to buy some gift for them? Think about it. Is it enough to thank the women for all that they have done for us? Is one day enough to celebrate the importance of women in our life? The simple answer is NO! But then the question arises what can we do to honour the women whose presence in our lives make it worth living? Well, we don't have to do much. We just have to take few resolutions and implement them in our life.  Yes, you heard it right! Who said only new years are for talking the new year resolutions? Let's together take some resolutions to make the women feel special. Let me tell you about a resolution I took this year. I am not going to attend any "dahej wali shadi". I won't attend any marriage involving dowry in any form. And I feel that its the simplest yet quite effective way of protesting against dowry system. We all have read about women being burnt alive for dowry. There are parents who are ready to give huge amount of dowry but are not willing to spend on their daughter's education. We should also take a resolution of not judging a girl on the basis of her clothes. Just because she is not wearing traditional salwar kameez, doesn't mean she is characterless. Respect a girl irrespective of what she wears. Another great resolution for women's day will be to include the women in the discussions going on in the house. The discussion could be about anything between an upcoming family function to the financial matters and managing the budget. Gone are those days when women were supposed to do only household chores. Involve women in discussions and they may come up with some extraordinary ideas. Encourage woment of your house or whom you know to learn various skills. Encourage them to be self sufficient. Make them learn skills like driving and self defense. Have you seen women lifting weights in the gym? Don't consider women to be weak. And that will be the best way to give them a feeling of equality.

How are you celebrating this women's day? Share your ideas with me through the comment.

ASK THE LEARNING ERA: i am studying in 9th std... and i need a big help in writing section of english exams.....my teacher told me to read books,i read books also.but i am only able to score btveen 50to 55s out of 70 marks exams.....could u plzz tell me something to improve my writing skills????quick ans plzzz

Hey there! If you are scoring somewhere between 54-55 out of 70, it means that you are scoring approximately 80%. This isn't a bad marks though there are chances of improvement. Keep one thing in mind that the teacher should use red ink in your answer sheet only for giving tick marks. Don't give the teacher any scope of pointing out mistakes in your answer sheet. Pay special attention to grammar. Remember grammar is not only important in the grammatical section of English exam but all the other section ad well.  Tense and narration are very important part of grammar. If you don't have command over these seconds you are likely to lose your marks. Observe where you tend to lose your marks in writing section. Do you lose your marks because of the content or because of grammar. Don't make your sentences too long. Try using simple language. Avoid grammatical mistakes. Don't keep rewriting the same thing just for the sakw of filling up your answer sheet. These are few general tips to score more in English. Hope it helps. For further query feel free to contact me using the contact form or mail me at learningforeverera@gmail.com
Happy learning! :)

TENSE

ENGLISH GRAMMAR
CHAPTER - 1
PART - 1 

Hello everyone! From today I have started writing chapters of grammar in my blog. Importance of grammar is well known to all of you. You can't score well in English unless you have complete command over grammar. While including the chapters of grammar of grammar in my blog I'll keep in mind the requirements of school and board exams as well as competitive exams like SSC, Banking, Railway etc. I feel that the way of studying grammar remains the same whether you are in school or you are preparing for competitions. The grammatical rules are the same for everyone. If you have studied grammar well in your school days you will be scoring good in competitive exams too. And if you are not able to score good in competitive exams then instead of going through very high level books, you should go through some standard grammar book for class 9th and 10th. In this chapter I will be discussing tense with you. For your convenience I have written the chapter part wise. This is the first part and will be consisting of introduction some basic points. I suggest you not to skip this part as this part is very helpful in building foundation for further study of tense. Happy Learning!
INTRODUCTION
• Tense is that form of a verb which denotes the time of an action and its degree of completeness.
• Time and tense are NOT the same thing.
• Time is basically a concept.
Let's go through some examples to understand the difference between time and tense. 
1. He goes to Patna. => Present time, Present Tense
2. He went to Patna. => Past time, Past tense
3. He goes to Patna tomorrow => Future time, Present tense. Though the word "goes" denotes present tense, the sentence denotes future time.
4. He wanted to see you. => Past tense, Present, Past and Future time. The word "wanted" is in past tense but the sentence is in past, present and future time.
5.   The earth revolves round the sun. Present Tense, Past, Present and Future time.
After going through these basic definitions and differences between time and tense, now let's learn about the kinds of tense.
Broadly speaking there are three kinds of tense. These are:-
1. Past tense
example:  I played cricket.
2. Present tense
example:  I play cricket.
3. Future tense
example: I will play cricket.
Each of these tenses are further of four kinds. Lets learn more about them with suitable examples.
1. PAST TENSE
i. Simple Past Tense
e.g. She ate an apple.
   ii. Past Continuous Tense
e.g. She was eating an apple.
  iii. Past Perfect Tense
e.g. She had eaten an apple.
  iv. Past Perfect Continuous
e.g She had been eating an apple.
2. PRESENT TENSE
i. Simple Present Tense
e.g. She eats an apple
ii. Present Continuous Tense
e.g. She is eating an apple.
iii. Present Perfect Tense
e.g. She has eaten an apple.
iv. Present Perfect Continuous Tense
e .g. She has been eating an apple.

HOW TO SCORE WELL IN COMPREHENSION

HOW TO SCORE MORE IN COMPREHENSION AND PASSAGE
(For school and board exams)
In order to score good marks in English you need to have a strong command over all the sections asked in the exam. In this article I am going to deal with the proper way of solving questions of comprehension which help you score more in the examination. In this section you are provided with an unseen passage and based on it you are asked some questions. Roughly there are two kinds of questions asked in this section. The first kind of question comprises of questions based on the subject matter of the passage. The second kind of question comprises of questions based on word power. Many students, on initially seeing the question paper, find the comprehension part really easy. However the marks scored by them in this particular section are below their expectations. For some students the comprehension section becomes really time consuming. And they end up wasting so much time in solving the comprehension that they get very little time to solve other sections. However I personally feel that comprehension are the easiest and the most scoring part of the English exams What else is better than having the answers right in front of you?. Right approach is the key of scoring good marks in comprehension.
To save time the best approach according to me is to go through the questions in the comprehension first. You should read the questions provided at the end of passage first. After you are done going through the questions read the passage. Following this pattern will give you a fair idea of what answers you are supposed to find while reading the passage. Don't forget to mark  the answers while going through the passage. So by now you have read the questions, read the passage and have marked the answer. Now comes the most important part. All these efforts mean nothing if you are not able to present it well in your answer sheet. Remember NEVER to copy the sentence exactly as it is given in the passage. Your answer may be correct but you won't get full marks unless you have written it in your own words. If you don't find much scope of writing in your own words then at least do some modifications in the sentence. However make sure you are just writing the sentence in your own words. You don't have to alter the meaning of the sentence. Grammar also plays a very important role in deciding your marks. Even if you have followed all the above mentioned rules correctly but made some grammatical mistakes, you will surely be losing marks. So be very thorough with grammatical rules. Avoid making a single grammatical mistake. Practice plenty of comprehension based questions. All this will help you score good marks in comprehension. Good luck! :)