TNPSC English Syllabus

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SYLLABUS – GENERAL ENGLISH

S.S.L.C. Standard (Objective Type)

Grammar

PART A

1. Match the following words and Phrases given in Column A with their meanings in

Column B.

2.Choose the correct ‘Synonyms’ for the underlined word from the options given

3. Choose the correct ‘Antonyms’ for the underlined word from the options given

4. Select the correct word (Prefix, Suffix)

5. Fill in the blanks with suitable Article

6. Fill in the blanks with suitable Preposition

7. Select the correct Question Tag

8. Select the correct Tense

9. Select the correct Voice

10. Fill in the blanks (Infinitive, Gerund, Participle)

11. Identify the sentence pattern of the following sentence (Subject, Verb, Object….)

Blanks with correct ‘Homophones’

12. Find out the Error (Articles, Prepositions, Noun, Verb, Adjective, Adverb)

13. Comprehension

14. Select the correct sentence

15. Find out the odd words (Verb, Noun, Adjective, Adverb)

16. Select the correct Plural forms

17. Identify the sentence (Simple, Compound, Complex Sentense)

18. Identify the correct Degree.

19.Form a new word by blending the words.

20.Form compound words (Eg: Noun+Verb, Gerund+Noun)

Part-B

Literature

1.Figures of speech observed in the following Poems:

Alliteration – Allusion – Simile – Metaphor – Personification – Oxymoron –

Onomatopoeia – Anaphora – Ellipsis - Rhyme Scheme - Rhyming Words –

Repetition – Apostrophe

A Psalm of Life - Women’s Rights - The Nation United - English words –

Snake – The Man He Killed - Off to outer space tomorrow morning - Sonnet

No.116 - The Solitary Reaper - Be the Best - O Captain My Captain - Laugh

and Be Merry – Earth - Don’t quit - The Apology - Be Glad your Nose is on

your face - A sonnet for my Incomparable Mother - The Flying Wonder - To

a Millionaire - The Piano – Manliness - Going for water - The cry of the

Children - Migrant Bird - Shilpi.

2.Appreciation Questions from Poetry

A Psalm of Life - Women’s Rights - The Nation United - English words –

Snake – The Man He Killed - Off to outer space tomorrow morning –

Sonnet No.116 - The Solitary Reaper - Be the Best - O Captain My Captain

- Laugh and Be Merry – Earth - Don’t quit - The Apology - Be Glad your

Nose is on your face - A sonnet for my Incomparable Mother - The Flying

Wonder - To a Millionaire - The Piano – Manliness - Going for water - The

cry of the Children - Migrant Bird - Shilpi.

3.Important lines from Poems.

Where the mind is without fear - The Solitary Reaper - Going for water - A

Psalm of Life - Be the Best - Sonnet No.116

4.Questions on the Biography of

Mahatma Gandhi - Jawaharlal Nehru - Subash Chandra Bose - Helen Keller

Kalpana Chawala - Dr.Salim Ali - Rani of Jhansi - Nelson Mandela –

Abraham Lincoln

5.Questions on Shakespeare’s

Merchant of Venice (Act IV Court Scene) - Julius Ceasar (Act III Scene 2) -

Sonnet 116

6.Questions from Oscar Wilde’s

The Model Millionaire - The Selfish Giant

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7.Dr.Karl Paulnack

Music-The Hope Raiser

8.Comprehension Questions from the following Motivational Essays:

Gopala Krishna Gokhale’s Speech on 25th July in Mumbai in response to

The address presented to him by students- Dale Carnegie’s ‘The Road to

success- Dr.APJ Abdul Kalam’s ‘Vision for the Nation’(from ‘India2020’)

- Ruskin Bond’s ‘Our Local Team’ - Hope Spencer’s ‘Keep your spirits

high’ - Deepa Agarwal’s ‘After the storm’ - Brian patten’s ‘You can’t be

that no you can’t be that’

9.Comprehension Questions from the following description of Places

Ahtushi Deshpande’s ‘To the land of snow’ - Manohar Devadoss – Yaanai

Malai - Brihadeesvarar Temple

10.British English – American English

Part-C

Authors and their Literary Works

1.Match the Poems with the Poets

A psalm of Life - Be the Best - The cry of the children - The Piano –

Manliness Going for water – Earth -The Apology - Be Glad your Nose is on

your face - The Flying Wonder -Is Life But a Dream - Be the Best - O captain

My Captain - Snake - Punishment in Kindergarten -Where the Mind is

Without fear - The Man He Killed - Nine Gold Medals

2.Which Nationality the story belongs to?

The selfish Giant - The Lottery Ticket - The Last Leaf - How the Camel got

its Hump - Two Friends – Refugee - The Open Window

3.Identify the Author with the short story

The selfish Giant - The Lottery Ticket - The Last Leaf - How the Camel got

its Hump - Two Friends – Refugee - The Open Window - A Man who Had

no Eyes - The Tears of the Desert – Sam The Piano - The face of Judas

Iscariot - Swept Away - A close encounter - Caught Sneezing - The Wooden

Bowl - Swami and the sum

4.Whose Auto biography / Biography is this?

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5.Which Nationality the Poet belongs to ?

Robert Frost - Archibald Lampman - D.H. Lawrence - Rudyard Kipling

Kamala Das - Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Famida Y. Basheer - Thomas

Hardy - Khalil Gibran - Edgar A. Guest - Ralph Waldo Emerson - Jack

Prelutsky - F. Joanna - Stephen Vincent Benet - William Shakespeare -

William Wordsworth - H.W. Long Fellow - Annie Louisa walker -

Walt Whitman - V.K. Gokak

6.Characters, Quotes, Important Lines from the following works of Indian

Authors:

Sahitya Akademi Award winner: Thakazhi Sivasankaran Pillai –

‘Farmer’

Kamala Das – 1. Punishment in Kindergarten 2. My Grandmother’s

House

R.K. Narayan - Swami and the sum - Rabindranath Tagore - Where the

mind is without fear - Dhan Gopal Mukherji - Kari, The Elephant - Deepa

Agarwal - After the Storm - Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam - Vision for the

Nation

Indra Anantha Krishna- The Neem Tree - Lakshmi Mukuntan- The Ant

Eater and the Dassie - Dr. Neeraja Raghavan - The Sun Beam

7.Drama Famous lines, characters, quotes from

Julius Caesar - The Merchant of Venice

8.Match the Places, Poet, Dramatist, Painter with suitable option

9. Match the following Folk Arts with the Indian State / Country

10. Match the Author with the Relevant Title/Character

11. Match the Characters with Relevant Story Title

The Selfish Giant - How the camel got its hump - The Lottery ticket - The

Last Leaf - Two friends – Refugee - Open window – Reflowering - The

Necklace Holiday

12. About the Poets

Rabindranath Tagore - Henry Wordsworth Longfellow - Anne Louisa

Walker -V K Gokak - Walt Whitman - Douglas Malloch

13. About the Dramatists

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William Shakespeare - Thomas Hardy

14. Mention the Poem in which these lines occur

Granny, Granny, please comb My Hair - With a friend - To cook and Eat

- To India – My Native Land - A tiger in the Zoo - No men are foreign –

Laugh and be Merry – The Apology - The Flying Wonder

15. Various works of the following Authors –

Rabindranath Tagore – Shakespeare - William Wordsworth - H.W.

Longfellow – Anne Louisa Walker - Oscar Wilde - Pearl S. Buck

16. What is the theme observed in the Literary works?

Snake - The Mark of Vishnu - Greedy Govind - Our Local Team –

Where the mind is without fear - Keep your spirits high - Be the best –

Bat – The Piano – The Model Millionaire - The Cry of the Children –

Migrant bird – Shilpi

17. Famous Quotes – Who said this?

18. To Which period the Poets belong

William Shakespeare - Walt Whitman - William Wordsworth - H.W.

Longfellow Annie Louisa Walker - D.H. Lawrence

19. Matching the Poets and Poems

Discovery – Biking – Inclusion - Granny, Granny, please comb My

Hair – With a Friend - To cook and Eat – Bat - To India – My Native

Land - A tiger in the Zoo - No men are foreign - Laugh and be Merry –

Earth – The Apology - The Flying Wonder - Off to outer space

tomorrow morning - Be the best - Is life, but a dream - Women’s

rights - The Nation united - English words – Snake – The man he

killed

20. Nature centered Literary works and Global issue Environment and

Conservation

Flying with moon on their wings - Migrant bird - Will Thirst Become -

Unquenchable? - Going for Water - Swept away - Gaia tells her

TNPSC English Study Material

TNPSC English Study Material

Grammer

1.       Verb -  Action or State

             Example- Learn, Attend, was, were, scold, walk…

2.       Noun – It denotes a Person, place or thing,

             Example- Bike, brother, college, road, Police etc

3.       Adjective – which describes a Noun

             Example – Hardworking, three, Active, Young, upset, brand new

             My sister has ten apples.

             I am Fifteen years old.

4.       Adverb- Which describes a verb, an adjective or an adverb.

           Example – Always, regularly, along, often, etc.

5.       Pronoun-  which replaces noun

Example – She, he, her, they , you, their

6.        Preposition- which links a noun to another word.

           Example- To, in, with , from , on, of.

7.       Conjunction – Join clauses and sentences.

               Example- and , but,  when

                                                                       Nouns

Let us  see the Different types of nouns  Proper Nouns, Common nouns ,Abstract nouns, Material Nouns.

Proper Nouns is a word that names specific people , things or places.

Example- Chennai, Sachin

  

Common Nouns – which has common name

Example- Girl, Brother, Men, Bicycle etc

Abstract Nouns- which means the name of a Quality, which we cannot see, smell, hear or touch but can feel

Example- Love, Beauty, Sleep, Honesty.

Material Noun- it is the name of the material with which a thing is made of,

Example- Cotton, Wood, Steel etc.

Sentences

1.       John Wrote a Poem

2.       They play Cricket.

3.       Kumar Bought a Football Yesterday

4.       I met my friend near bus stop.

5.       The lake is beautiful.

In Sentence 1,  John is the doer of the action , we call John as Subject(S)

In 2, Play is the action word, we call play the verb(V)

In 3, Football answer the question ‘What’ we say Football as Object(O)

In 4 , My friend question ‘Whom’- we call Object(O)

In 5, Beautiful is describing word, which tell us more about the subject, we call as Subject Complement(C)

Example for Complement(C)

Look at the below sentences,

1.You are kind.

2.Sawetha is a doctor.

Complement can be a noun or an Adjective, it also helps to complete the meaning of the sentence.

Adjunct

Note the underlined words,

1.       Ganesh reads his lessons Regularly.

2.       Dinesh painted the picture carefully

3.       He wrote me a letter yesterday.

The Underlined words tell us how and when a particular action is done. This word is called  Adjunct.

Example:

Mari handled   the glasses carefully

                   S          V                  O               A

TNPSC English Stories and their Nationality

Stories and their Nationality for TNPSC Exam

S.No	Story	Naionality
1	How the Camel Got its Hump	Arabia
2	The Selfish Giant	England
3	The Open Window	Burma
4	The Lottery Ticket	Russia
5	Refugee	China
6	Two Friends	France
7	The Last Leaf	American

TNPSC English Authors and their Nationality

Authors and their Nationality, Minimum 3 Question in VAO Exam

S.No	Authors	Nationality
1	Archibald Lampman	Canada
2	Elizabeth barret browning	England
3	Rudyard Kipling	England
4	D.H Lawrence	England
5	Thomas Hardy	England
6	Longfellow	England
7	Annie Louisa Walker	England
8	Wordsworth	England
9	Shakesphere	England
10	Walt Whitman	American
11	Robert Frost	American
12	Ralp Waldo Emerson	American
13	Jack Prelutsky	American
14	F.Joanna	American
15	Edgar.A.Guest	British born American poet
16	Stephen Vincent Benet	American
17	Khalil Gibran	Lebanon
18	Kamala Das	India
19	V.K Gokak	India