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69 Cards in this Set
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Barely seldom Hardly scarcely Never Rarely |
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Let us |
Shall we? |
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Command or request ( come here) |
Will you? |
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Only command |
Can't you? |
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No one is coming |
Are they |
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I usually wear pants |
So does my brother |
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Tendulkar is as great as gavaskar. To comparitiw |
Gavaskar is not better than tendulkar |
Positive to negative |
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I don't run so fast as he does |
He runs faster than I do |
Negative to positive |
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The greatest into two forms |
No other is so good as (p) Better than any other |
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Dhoni is the hardest hitter |
No other hitter hits so hard as Dhoni Dhoni hits harder than any other hitter does. |
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One of the most |
Very few are as good as More important than most other |
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As soon as I went home I took a nap(no sooner) |
No sooner did I go home, I took a nap |
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As soon as baby sees the doctor she will cry |
No sooner does the baby sees the doctor than she will cry |
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As soon as ( Hardly when ) |
Hardly had I gone home when I took a nap |
Hardly (if past , had ) when the subject past |
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As soon as the peon rang the bell all the students rushed out |
Scarcely had the peon rung the bell when/Before all the students rushed out. |
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Negative- I'm too weak to join engineering |
He is intelligent enough to join engineering |
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Simple he ran. He caught the bus |
He ran to catch the bus. Preethi, the mother of 3, became a widow |
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We aren't going |
Nor are we |
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Positive to comparative |
Sign changes |
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One of the |
Very few - positive More important than - comparative |
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As soon as + past |
No sooner did , than took Hardly had I , when I took Scarcely had I , before I took |
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Heir hair |
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Many a boy is absent today. Cheque, news, bread, hope |
Leaf of cheque, piece of news, slice of bed, ray of hope |
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Articles rivers, mountains, islands, musical instruments, trains, ships, groups of hotels, industries, flights , newspaper, dictionary, holy books, incarnation |
Bank, government organisation, courts, district office, national parties HODS, public and entertainment places |
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Titles projects community , before single countable unit |
International tournament, deserts, THE US, THE UK |
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Omissions |
Before metals, general sense, meal, school, college, prison, church temple hospital |
General sense - omitted, particular sense - included |
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Someone has stolen my bag. Into passive |
My bag has been stolen |
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When I went home, he was repairing the TV |
When I went home, the TV was being Repaired by him |
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I had completed the work before 9 |
The work had been Completed before 9 by me. |
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Please keep silence |
You are requested to keep silence |
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Who gave you this gift? |
Who were you given this gift by? |
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Authority |
On knowledge or over person |
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You have an account ___ in the bank |
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Agree |
With or to |
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Angry |
With or at |
Person and things |
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Abash |
At ( abashed at - ashamed ) |
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Ability - preposition |
At. He has great ability at English |
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On a day |
He was born on diwali |
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At, in - places |
At - small places villages, in - towns, cities and countries |
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Till, until |
Till- time, until - place |
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Allure attraction , something bad |
To |
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Blind - parts, in the sense of not caring |
Of- parts, to - in the sense of not caring |
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Busy with , in , at |
Occasion, doing things, place |
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Compare with, to |
With person, to things |
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Costs - cost of , criticise |
Criticise of |
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Depend on, depend upon |
On- person, upon - other than persons |
Died of - diseases, dir from - other than diseases |
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Differ from, with |
From- persons, with - other than persons |
Entrusted with/to - with person, to - other than persons |
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Look on, for, after, through, by,into, |
On- watch something happen, for - search, after - take care, through - study carefully, by - ignore , into - examine |
After is followed by at |
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Prefer ,preference |
Prefer to, preference for |
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Stand before |
Means face to face |
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Neither nor is followed by is/are? |
Is |
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Either or ..has/ have |
Have |
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Neither of the friends |
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None of the friends |
Is/ have |
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I as well as my friend |
Am/ |
Carries the former state |
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It is ___ I called |
I or he |
It is takes subjective person. Let takes objective |
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I doubt ___ |
Whether /if |
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No other |
Than |
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Scenery of Kashmir is / sceneries of Kashmir and shimla are |
Difference |
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My weight is |
62kg. |
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He jumped |
Six foot |
I don't know how many feet it's depth is |
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Consider, elect, appoint, called |
No as is used |
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Absolute, extreme, excellent, perfect, unique, universal, rightful, impossible, |
Do not accept comparison. Remains unchanged. |
I'm always perfect than anyone is. |
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Many a boy |
Is poor |
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No fewer less/ fewer |
Less- denotes quantity Fewer - number |
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Elder older difference |
Elder - in family Older - other than family and things |
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Enjoy, apply, resign, acquit, absent , avail |
Reflexive pronouns |
I applied myself for the job. |
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Epiculture, Gereatrics, herpatology, lymnology |
Honey bee, old age diseases, reptiles and amphibians, inland waters , |
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Taseometer, Chronometer |
Strain, accurate time |
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