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Story in Simple Present Tense Protagonist: Charley Other characters  Louisa, Charley's wife Sam, Charley's friend One day Charley gets late in his office so to reach home fast he decides to take train. He goes to New York Central Railway station. He gets lost in subway as it would often happen to him. When he comes out of the subway, he finds himself on a different level of the platform. He finds everything old and unfamiliar to him. He sees flickering gaslights, wooden assistance counter, smaller tickets window and funnel shaped steam locomotive. He looks in his surroundings and notices fellow passengers in old dresses and faishon. He goes to a newspaper boy and looks down to the news headlines. He sees a news regarding president, Cleveland ( after coming out he goes to the library and gets the date of newspaper.)  Charley goes to the ticket window and demands two tickets for Galesburg, Illinois. he wants to go there with his wife, Louisa. He has fascination of a peaceful cou...

Can, Could, Be Able To Can, could and be able to are used to express a variety of ideas in English: Ability/lack of ability Present and future Can/can't+ v1 (base form of verb) Sona can sing. It means Sona has ability to sing. Sona can't sing. It means does not know singing. Be + able to is an alternative form of can for the present tense where be stands for is/am/are. But of two options CAN is more usual and accepted form in day to day conversation She can run fast means she is able to run fast. Has been/have been able to is the present perfect form of (be able to) discussed above. The present perfect tense (sometimes also called the perfect tense) describes action that started before the time you are speaking of, but ends in the time you are speaking of. Have been is in the present perfect tense. Use it when you want to say that someone or something started an action in the past and finished it in the time being spoken of: I have been able to visit them regular...

Ought to 1. It is used to express moral obligation, and duty Ex: you ought to obey your teachers. You oughtn't to behave like this  The idea of obligation can also be expressed with should or must. However ought to is used when a feeling of duty is involved. 2. Ought to + perfect infinitive (have + V3) expresses an obligation not fulfilled in the past or something desirable not done in the past: Example,  You ought to have obeyed your parents. (it means which was desirable from your side but you did not do.) 4. Oughtn't + perfect infinitive ( have+ v3) expresses the idea that something wrong or undesirable was done in the past. Example You oughtn't to have involved in the fight. ( but you did). Ought to, like Should, can be used to express a deduction or assumption about present and future action. He ought to pass this year. As ought to verbally sound unacceptable, so we prefer either should or must. Need.  1.When need is used as main verb not an auxiliary modal, Need mea...

A collective noun is a noun used to group people or things taken together as one  Example a group of ships is called a fleet, a group of cows is called a herd, a grouped of lions is called a pride, a group of players is called a team, a group of caterpillars, frogs, soldiers is called an army, a group of circuits is called bank, a group of flowers is called bouquet, a group of worshippers is called congregation, a group of wolves is called pack, a group of trees is called orchard a group of books is called library a group of fishes is called school a group of ants, bats, beavers, lepers, penguins is called colony a group of grapes is called bunch a group of hyenas is called clan a group of kitten is called Kindle a group of singers is called choir a group of thieves is called gang a group of bees is called hive a group of clothes is called a wardrobe Noun collective an armada of ships a Batch of cookies a battery of tests a bed of clams, snakes a belt of asteroids a bevy of beautie...

In simple term pollution is a kind of contamination. When harmful substances produced by human activities get mixed with air, water and soil and pollute their natural compostion desirable for the existence of living organisms, this is called pollution of air, water and soil. In further paragraphs down we will understand different kinds of pollutions in short First air pollution, when harmful gasses, smoke from chimneys of factories, solid  or liquid droplets disturb composition of air, it is called air pollution. Air pollution affects us in many ways. It causes different types of diseases related to lungs and respiratory systems. It leads to increasing global temperature and damaging ozone layer, melting of glaciers and Antarctica's ice sheets etc. Next comes water pollution, when pollutants from factories and houses are released in water bodies, they pollute water which becomes harmful not only for aquatic animals but land animals too. Since water is the main reason of the existen...

William  Shakespeare( 1564 - 1616 ) Not marble nor the gilded monuments Of princes shall outlive this powerful rhyme;  But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory. 'Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity Shall you pace forth; your praise shall still find room, Even in the eyes of all posterity That wear this world out to the ending doom. So, till the judgment that yourself arise, You live in this, and dwell in lovers' eyes. Word meanings Marble= a sculpture carved from  marble  ( a type of rock) Gilded= covered or decorated with gold Monument= a structure to commemorate a person or event( memorial) Outlive= live longer than, survive Rhyme= a piece of poetry Unswept= not swept, dirty Stone= in this poem marble statute or monument Besmeared=...

There is a well-known saying if you educate a boy you educate a pereon, if you educate a girl, you educate a family. Thus educating girl child should be given the top most priority by the society. In 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft got her thought provoking book, A vindication of the right of women, published and she strongly advocated for the educational rights for women. Since then all over the world the society have seen a tremendous change in the status of women. But still we see women are inferior to men in majority of places, i.g. countries.  In case of India, we see National Literacy Rate is 74.04% ( Census 2011). There is a wide gender disparity in the literacy rate in India: effective literacy rates (age 7 and above) in 2011 were 82.14% for men and 65.46% for women. This low literacy rate has very negative impact on family planning and population control in the country. We see the same condition with relative health condition of a person and education. A literate and e...