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A Narrow Escape
A Narrow Escape
Leela Majumdar
She wanted to spread joyousness and stir a spirit of wonder in
her readers. Her efforts were successful to make children see the
world around them as something magical and beautiful.
Holde Pakhir Palok won the state award for children's literature,
Bak Badh Pala the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award,
Aar Konokhane Rabindra Puraskar.
Exclamation
Rule: Use the exclamation point to show emphasis
or excitement.
Summer is in three months!
Quotations Parenthesis
Rule: Use quotation marks to set off a direct quotation. Rule: Use parenthesis to enclose words or figures that
Example:“What is your favorite color?” she asked. clarify or are used as an aside.
Example: He received one hundred and fifty points (150)on
Rule: Periods and commas always go inside quotation his math project.
marks. Example: “I don’t want to go to school today,”
Alan said.
Apostrophe
Colon
Rule: Use the apostrophe when combining two words. It is
Rule: Use the colon after a complete sentence to always placed in the spot where the letter(s) have been
introduce a list of items. removed.
Example: On my trip I will bring: clothes, a pillow, a Example: She’s (she is) only allowed candy on Friday.
sleeping bag, a toothbrush, and my teddy bear.
Rule: Use the apostrophe to show possession. Place the
Rule: Use the colon after the greeting of the person’s apostrophe before the s.
name in a business letter. Example: They found Ms. Connor’s gloves.
Example: Dear Mr. Smith:
Parts of Speech -Words are generally divided into eight classes or Parts
of speech according to the work they do in a sentence.
01. Noun - a word which names any person or thing. Examples: Man, Book, Gold etc.
02. Pronoun -a word used for a noun or a clause. Examples: Mike is not here; he is ill.
03. Adjective - a word which adds something to the meaning of a noun. Examples: A good boy.
04. Verb - a word which states something about a person or a thing. Examples: He walks. I go.
05. Adverb - a word which generally adds something to the meaning of a verb, an adjective or
another adverb. Examples: He walks fast.
06. Preposition - a word placed before a noun or a noun equivalent to show its relation to some
other words in the sentence. Examples: The book is on the table.
07. Conjunction - a word which joins words, phrases or clauses. Example: He said this to
Mike and Selena.
08. Interjection - a word which expresses some sudden feeling or emotion. Example: Alas! He is no
more!
Careful with Words Used as Noun and Verb
English has numerous word pairs that are spelled alike, but
pronounced differently according to whether the word is being used as
a noun or as a verb.
Example - Celery and tomatoes are fresh próduce. These
factories prodúce the finest widgets.
Example - It’s cold enough to see our breath. Don’t breathe the
chemical fumes.
How do you find the verb and noun in a sentence?
Locate the main verb in the sentence to identify the connected noun.
A verb is an action word that usually describes the act of doing. Grabbing, singing, and playing are all
verbs. More often than not, the verb in the sentence is directly linked to the subject of the sentence.
Identify who or what is completing the action in the sentence
In the sentence “She lifts weights,” “lifts” is the verb, and “she” is the noun.
In “The dog ran away,” “ran” is the verb, so “dog” is the noun.
Find words that are capitalized as a clue that they might be nouns.
Words that are capitalized in a sentence are almost always proper nouns, since they are usually the
names of people, places, or things. Look for any words in the middle of a sentence that are capitalized
and see if they could be a noun.
In the sentence “Agatha Christie wrote a lot of books,” “Agatha Christie” is the noun since it is a name.
In the sentence “Do you think the Red Sox will win?” “Red Sox” is the noun, since it is the name of a team.
See if the word follows “a,” “and,” or “the.”
These words are called articles. If a word follows an article, it is almost certainly a noun. Try to
identify any articles in your sentence and see if there is a noun that follows directly after it.
In the sentence “The dance was held on Saturday,” “dance” is the noun since it follows “the.”
When the sound is e [/ē/], write ‘ie’ belief, believe, brief, chief
Of course, as with most English spelling and grammar rules, there are exceptions!
Here are some weird uses of ei and ie.
Examples: ancient, caffeine, friend, height, leisure, seize, species
or - Like -er, the ending -or is added to verbs to make nouns meaning ‘a person or thing that does something’, e.g.
investigator, decorator, escalator, ventilator.
ar - This ending is used in a few well-known words to mean ‘a person who does something’. Some of these nouns
are related to verbs (e.g.beggar, burglar, liar) but others are not (e.g. vicar, bursar, scholar).
There are no hard and fast rules as to when these nouns have an –or ending and when they are written –er or ar
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