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Definitely yes. With the right resources and practice, you can score well even if your spoken English is weak.

Also known as state-of-being verbs, these verbs cannot be used in any continuous tense, including the past continuous. This is because Stative verbs describe feelings that can't be directly observed or measured in terms of progress. Examples:

·       Incorrect: "I was knowing him."

·       Correct: "I knew him."

·       Incorrect: "He was owning a house."

·       Correct: "He owned a house."

Here are some examples:

·       I was watching a movie when the power went out.

·       They were working in the office.

·       Mary was sleeping when her parents came home.

The past continuous tense adds detail to storytelling. It provides a sense of duration and continuity to events, showing what was happening at a specific moment, or what was in progress when something else occurred.

In Indirect speech, commands and requests statement carry words like told, asked, requested, ordered followed by an infinitive.

Direct: The principal said, "Turn off the lights."

Indirect: The principal told us to turn off the lights.

Direct: Reema said, "Please help me."

Indirect: Reema requested me to help her.

In indirect speech, questions are changed to statements without any question mark. If the question starts with a WH-word, it remains as is. If it is a Yes/No question, we use if or whether.

For example:

Direct: Maya asked, "Where are you going?"

Indirect: Maya asked where I was going.

Direct: Pinto asked, "Do you like coffee?"

Indirect: Pinto asked if I liked coffee.

In Indirect Speech, pronouns change according to the perspective of the speaker and listener.

Direct: Pinky said to me, "I will help you."

Indirect: Pinky told me that she would help me.

Here, 'I' becomes 'she', and 'you' becomes 'me'.

Sentences with Direct speech reports the exact words of the speaker, as spoken by him/her, within quotation marks, while indirect sentences conveys the meaning of the message without quotation marks.

For example:

Direct: She said, "I am happy."

Indirect: She said that she was happy.

For the APEdCET entrance test, there is no specific qualifying score for the General English section; instead, candidates must achieve a minimum aggregate qualifying score of 25% (which rounds to 38 marks for the general category) of the total marks in the entire exam to be ranked. Candidates from Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) communities do not need to meet this minimum aggregate qualifying mark to be ranked.

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