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THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR - RALPH WALDO EMERSON

                                                              THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR                                                                                                       - RALPH WALDO EMERSON  SUMMARY        Originally titled "An Oration Delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at Cambridge, [Massachusetts,] August 31, 1837," Emerson delivered what is now referred to as "The American Scholar" essay as a speech to Harvard's Phi Beta Kappa Society, an honorary society of male college students with unusually high-grade point averages.       At the time, women were barred from higher education, and scholarship was reserved exclusively for men. Emerson published the speech under its original title as a pamphlet later that same year and republished it in 1838. In 1841, he included the essay in his book Essays but changed its title to "The American Scholar" to enlarge his audience to all college students, as well as other individuals intere

THE IMPORTANCE OF LEARNING ENGLISH

THE IMPORTANCE OF LEARNING ENGLISH  INTRODUCTION: English is the most widely distributed of all the language of the world. It is spoken by more than 300 million people. It is the common means of communication between the people’s of the different nations. English has occupied a unique position in the educational system in India.Even after independence it continuous to be major language. Having prestigious position in our society Lord Macaulay in his famous minutes of 1835 education. Clearly supported the Western education in India. Through the medium of English. It is significant in the context of the that is being given to English even to this day. The learning of English proved to be a beneficial in more than one way. Uses of English language: English is commonly used as a medium for the communication of information and news . All the telex messages, telegram, computer data processing, satellite communication or only in English. More than 4000 news paper in the world are in English.

MORPHOLOGY, GRAMMAR AND SYNTAX

                                          MORPHOLOGY, GRAMMAR AND SYNTAX        In linguistics, morphology (/mɔːrˈfɒlədʒi/) is the study of words, how they are formed, and their relationship to other words in the same language. It analyzes the structure of words and parts of words such as stems, root words, prefixes, and suffixes. Morphology also looks at parts of speech, intonation and stress, and the context of the way can change a word's pronunciation and meaning.       Morphology differs from morphological typology, which is the classification of languages based on their use of words, and lexicology, which is the study of words and how they make up a language's vocabulary. While words, along with clitics, are generally accepted as being the smallest units of syntax, in most languages, if not all, many words can be related to other words by rules that collectively describe the grammar for that language.            For example, English speakers recognize that the words dog an

SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER -Oliver Goldsmith

  SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER                                                                                                  -Oliver Goldsmith  Introduction:            Oliver Goldsmith, He was born on November 10, 1730, Kilkenny West, County Westmeath, Irish-born British essayist, poet, novelist, and dramatist. Goldsmith attended Trinity College in Dublin before studying medicine in Edinburgh. Settling in London, he began writing essays, some of which were collected in The Citizen of the World (1762). In 1764 he became an original member of Samuel Johnson’s famous Club. “We, the circumscribers, having read with great pleasure, an intended epitaph ~or the for monument of Dr. Goldsmith, which considered abstractly, appears to be ~for elegant composition and masterly style in every respect worthy of the pen of its learned author; are yet for the opinion that the character of the deceased as a writer, particularly as a poet, is perhaps not delineated with all the exactness.” -Samuel Johnson W

THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL -Richard Brinsley Sheridan

 THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL                                                                                                          -Richard Brinsley Sheridan  Introduction :                 Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan was an Irish satirist, a politician, a playwright, poet, and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. He is known for his plays such as The Rivals, The School for Scandal, The Duenna and A Trip to Scarborough. WikipediaBorn into Literary Family Sheridan was born in October of 1751 in Dublin, Ireland, the son of a prominent actor and a noted author. His mother, Frances Chamberlaine Sheridan, wrote one fairly successful play and one respected novel. She died while he was an adolescent. His father, Thomas Sheridan, was a playwright, actor, theater manager, orator, and also a scholar of English elocution who published a dictionary. The First Success as Playwright Success for Sheridan began with The Rivals in (1775). Initially, the performance of the play fa