Grammar

You type “ok” to a friend and they ask if you are angry. You add “ok!!” and suddenly you sound fine. One mark of punctuation changed the whole message. In a law office the same thing happens with higher stakes: a comma decides who pays, a question mark decides whether a sentence is an accusation or an enquiry, and a tag like “hasn’t he?” turns a statement into a demand for agreement. So what are the small grammatical tools that control meaning, and how does the Mumbai paper test them?

In two minutes

Grammar in this module is tested as “do as directed” items — above all adding a question tag and punctuating an unpunctuated sentence — and both are solved by the same habit: find the subject and the helping verb, then decide exactly where each sentence begins and ends.

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