SSC ASSISTANT TEACHER -ENGLISH(PASS)SYLLABUS

ENGLISH (PASS) [ CODE -47]]
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Poetry
William Wordsworth : Lucy Poems; The world is too much with us
P.B. Shelley : Ode to the West Wind; To a Skylark
John Keats : Ode to a Nightingale; The Autumn
Alfred Tennyson : Ulysses
Robert Browning : The Last Ride Together
Thomas Hardy : The Darkling Thrush
W.B. Yeats : The Wild Swans at Coole
Wilfred Owen : Strange Meeting
Walter de la Mare : The Listeners
Drama
Goldsmith : She Stoops to Conquer
George Bernard Shaw : Arms and the Man
John. Galworthy : Justice
Short Story and Essay
A. Short Story
Joseph Conard : Lagoon
Somerest Maughan : The Lotos Eater
O. Henry : The Gift of the Magi
H. E. Bates : The Ox
B. Essay
Charles Lamb : Dream Children: A Reverie
L.A. Hill : Principles of Good Writing
Grammar and Usage
Common Errors
Number, Gender, Tense, Voice, Mood
Agreement of Verbs, Use of Articles and Prepositions
Sentence Forms
Simple, Compound, Complex, Relative Clauses
Joining and Splitting of Sentences
Narration
Direct Speech and Indirect Speech
Composition
A single paragraph of about 50-60 words to be written on a given topic