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CTE 102 (July 2026 - January 2027) - ENGLISH

Assignment
The Structure of English
CTE 102
 (For July, 2026 and January, 2027 sessions)
Maximum marks 100
NOTE: Answer all questions. All questions carry equal marks.
1. Write short note on the following. 4X5=20
(i) The Nature of the Predicate
(ii) Standard Indian English
(iii) Free and Bound Morphemes
(iv) Top-down Approach for Analysing a Text
2. (a) Transcribe any five of the following words phonetically: 
 book, dictation, writing, sweets, phonetic, laughter, paper, match, please, drain
 (b) Discuss the differences between inflectional and derivational morphology. 

 3. (a) What is a grammar-based approach to language study? What are its limitations? 
 (b) Give the plural forms of the following words: 
woman, library, wolf, sheep, ox
 (c) Complete the following sentences with suitable prepositions:
 (i) Beware dogs.
 (ii) The old man died cholera.
 (iii) The bus driver was responsible the accident.
 (iv) He is slow doing sums.
 (v) My pen is not inferior yours.
 4. (a) Identify the constituent parts of any five of the following compound words: 
everything, tape-recorder, roadways, snowfall, household, rainfall, book-mark
 (b) Fill in the blanks with suitable articles. 
(i) I have account in State Bank of India.
(ii) He went to post-office to buy stamps.
(iii) We buy milk from milk booth.
(iv) Where is washroom, please?
 (c) Discuss various types of questions with examples. 
5 (a) Discuss in detail, the different types of questions. 
 (b) What do you understand by derivational and inflectional affixes? Bring out the
 differences and similarit

CTE 102 (July 2025 - January 2026) - ENGLISH

Assignment

The Structure of English CTE 102

(For July, 2025 and January, 2026 sessions)

Maximum marks 100

Answer any five questions.

All questions carry equal marks. 

1. Discuss various roles/factors take place in organizing ‘text’.

2. What is meant by context which the language occurs in?

3. (i) Look at the sentences below and identify which basic sentence pattern they belong to – SV, SVA, SVC or SVO:

a) Some people don’t like the food sold on streets.

b) The officer appeared tired after the meeting.

c) The posters were everywhere, all over the town.

d) The mother was feeling quite sad for the baby.

e) No passengers were inside the train at that time. (ii) Look at the following sentences and identify which basic sentence pattern they belong to – SVOA, SVOC or SVOO:

a) The whole nation called Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi ‘Mahatma’.

b) He kept his parents in the dark about his new friends.

c) Newspapers called the new law a shame for democracy.

d) Her parents may give her a simple gift this birthday.

e) This new idea will make our boss quite happy.

4. Identify the tense and the aspect of the verb phrases in the following sentences:

a) She was driving her car along a hilly road.

b) Some guests have arrived early in taxis.

c) You could have asked for our advice.

d) These questions have been asked so many times by the media.

e) The striking workers were shifted to a different venue.

f) Who can explain the meaning of this strange word?

g) None of the students was given a chance to speak.

h) We are looking forward to our vacations so eagerly!

i) The car has run out of fuel.

j) The final plan is still lying on his table for approval.

5. (i) Identify the relative clause(s) in the following sentences:

(a) Marcus Terentius Varro (116-27 B.C.) advised anyone who intended to build a farm house to avoid swampy land. (b)Malaria, which means bad air in Italian, was assumed to be caused by minute animals that entered the body by way of mouth and nose.

(c)In 1980, the French physician, Laveran, who was working as a surgeon with the French army in Algeria, noticed a microscopic organism in the redblood corpuscles of malaria patients.

(ii) Complete the sentences with an appropriate relative clause-

(a) Have you found the keys? You lost the keys yesterday.

(b)We met Ayushi. We met her yesterday. She is my daughter’s roommate..

(c) I slept in a bed last night. The bed was not comfortable.

6. Transcribe the following words.

(a) Essential

(b)Territory

(c) Solution

(d) Furnishes

(e) Pressure

(f) Pollute

(g)Nuisance

(h)Burden

(i) Atomic

(j) Naughty

7. The following sentences represent formal writing. Re-write them as they would be spoken, using contracted forms.

(a) They said they will be here by ten.

(b) She has told us she is going to resign.

(c) This is the house they have decided to buy.

(d) I am sure he will be careful in future.

(e) We have started working on the project.

(f) It is not the best way to do it.

(g) They have promised me they will be on time.

(h) You sign here and I will do the rest.

(i) We are going home early today.

(j) They would have come to your rescue if they had been here.

8. Write all the Phonetic symbols of the English vowels and consonants, with their suitable examples.

 

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