English Preparation

Writers and poets use transferred epithets to make their writing more imaginative, poetic, expressive, and emotionally engaging to the readers. Use of transferred epithets give depth to a sentence by subtly shifting the focus and drawing attention to the emotional state of the character.

No, transferred epithet is used in storytelling, advertisements, prose, and everyday conversation also.

Example:

• “Taste the joyful crunch in every bite.” (Advertisement)
• “The soldier trudged through the weary battlefield, his thoughts heavier than his rifle.” (Storytelling)
• “She opened the impatient door and stepped into the quiet morning.” (Prose)
• “Ugh, it's been a crazy day at work.” (Daily Conversation)

Passive sentences in the Simple Present Tense are the one which the subject is acted upon. In such sentences, the subject does not do the action but is being acted upon. The passive voice uses a conjugated form of the verb 'to be' along with past participle of the main verb. 

Examples:

• Returned items are inspected by the shopkeeper. 
• The stray dog is fed by everyone in the neighbourhood. 
• The book is read. 
• The meal is cooked by Rajni. 

To form questions in the Present Indefinite Tense, one can add 'do' or 'does' before the subject and the infinitive form of the verb. When asking a question using the wh-word, place the pronoun or adverb before 'do' or 'does'. 

Examples:

• Why does Mayank never answers his phone?
• Where does Nisha work?
• Do you want to go to the park?
• Does Anjali work on Saturdays?

In English, there are four types of Present Tenses. These are:

• Simple Present Tense- Subject + V1 + s/es + Object
• Present Continuous Tense - Subject + am/is/are + V1 + ing
• Present Perfect Tense- Subject + has/have + past participle
• Present Perfect Continuous Tense- Subject + has/have + been + V1 + ing

The formula for the Simple Present Tense is-  Subject + Base form of the Verb (V1) + s/es + Object

Examples of Present Simple Tense:

1) Riya writes in her notebook.

Riya - Subject

Writes - V1 + s

Notebook- Object

2) The dog lick the bone. 

Dog- Subject

Licks- V1 + s

Bone- Object

3) Mr. Simon teaches maths at a local school. 

Subject- Mr. Simon

V1 (teach) + es- Teaches

Maths- Object

No, not exactly. All conjunctions are linking words, but not all linking words are conjunctions. Words like 'however' or 'therefore' are linking adverbs, not true conjunctions.

Coordinating conjunctions join equal parts (e.g., two independent clauses) while Subordinating conjunctions connect a dependent clause to an independent one.

• Yes, we use a comma before a coordinating conjunction when joining two independent clauses.

For example: He was tired, but he kept working.

• No comma is required when the parts are not complete sentences.

For example, He was tired but kept working.

Conjunctions are mainly of three types:

1. Coordinating conjunctions: and, but, or, nor, for, yet, so
2. Subordinating conjunctions: although, because, since, if, when, etc.
3. Correlative conjunctions: either.or, neither.nor, not only.but also.