LIFE AND LITERATURE

                                                           THE TYGER                                                                             WILLIAM BLAKE INTRODUCTION TO THE AUTHOR              William Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age.      ...

                       CLASSIFICATION AND DESCRIPTION OF VOWEL SOUNDS                  Linguistics is a systematic study of language. Phonetics is a branch of linguistics and it is the branch dealing with the medium of speech. It deals with the production, transmission and reception of the sounds of human speech. For the production of speech sounds, we need an air-stream mechanism. There are three main air-stream mechanisms, such as pulmonic, glottalic and velaric air-stream mechanisms. When the air-stream mechanism is used to push out, it is called egressive and when it is used to draw air in, it is called ingressive. Most sounds of most languages in the world are produced with a pulmonic egressive airstream mechanism.            The various organs are responsible for converting the lung air into speech sounds before it escapes into the o...

                                                            GRAMMAR IN CONTEXT                                                            WORKING WITH CLAUSES A clause is a group of words containing a subject and predicate and functioning as a member of a complex or compound sentence.  Independent and Subordinate Clauses An independent (or main clause) expresses a complete thought and can stand by itself as a sentence. A subordinate (or dependent) clause does not express a complete thought and cannot stand alone as a sentence. For example, Jeevan studied in the college cafeteria for his exam. (Independent clause) Some common dependent markers are: after, although, as, as if, becaus...