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TNPSC SYLLABUS-GENERAL ENGLISH 

SSLC Standard (Objective Type Examination) 

Part-A 

Grammar 

1. Match the following words and phrases given in Column A with their meanings in Column B. 

2. Choose the correct 'Synonym' for the underlined word from the options given. 

3. Choose the correct 'Antonym' for the underlined word from the options given. 

4. Select the correct word (Prefix, Suffix). 

5. Fill in the blanks with suitable Article. 

6. Fill in the blanks with suitable Preposition. 

7. Select the correct Question Tag. 

8. Select the correct Tense. 

9. Select the correct Voice. 

10. Fill in the blanks (Infinitive, Gerund, Participle). 

11. Identify the sentence pattern of the following sentence (Subject, Verb, Object.). 

12. Fill in the blanks with correct Homophones. 

13. Find out the Error (Articles, Preposition, Noun, Verb, Adjective, Adverb). 

14. Select the correct sentence. 

15. Find out the odd words (Verb, Noun, Adjective, Adverb). 

16. Select the correct Plural forms. 

17. Identify the sentence (Simple, Compound, Complex Sentence). 

18. Identify the correct Degree. 

19. Form a new word by blending the words. 

20. Form compound words (eg.: Noun+Verb, Gerund+Noun). 

21. British English - American English.

Part-B 

Poetry 

(a) Figures of Speech (Alliteration – Simile - Metaphor – Personification – Onomatopoeia - Anaphora - Rhyme Scheme - Rhyming Words - Repetition, etc.) 

(b) Poetry Appreciation 

(c) Important Lines 

LIST OF POEMS 

1. Life - Henry Van Dyke 

2. I am Every Woman - Rakhi Nariani Shirke

3. The Secret of the Machines - Rudyard Kipling 

4. The Ant and The Cricket - Adapted from Aesop's fables 

5. No Men are Foreign - James Falconer Kirkup 

6. The House on Elm Street - Nadia Bush 

7. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening - Robert Frost 

8. A Poison Tree - William Blake 

9. On Killing a Tree - Gieve Patel

10. The Spider and the Fly - Mary Botham Howitt 

11. The River - Caroline Ann Bowles 

12. The Comet - Norman Littleford 

13. The Stick-together Families - Edgar Albert Guest 

14. Special Hero - Christina M. Kerschen 

15. Making Life Worth While - George Elliot 

16. A Thing of Beauty - John Keats 

17 . Lessons in Life - Brigette Bryant & Daniel Ho 

18. My Computer Needs a Break - Shanthini Govindan 

19.  Your Space - David Bates 

20. Sea Fever - John Masefield 

21. Courage - Edgar Albert Guest 

22. Team Work - Edgar Albert Guest 

23. From a Railway Carriage - Robert Louis Stevenson 

24. Indian Seasons - Nisha Dyrene 

25. A Tragic Story - William Makepeace Thackeray 

Part-C 

Literary Works 

I. LIST OF PROSE 

1. His First Flight - Liam O'Flaherty 

2. The Tempest - Tales From Shakespeare 

3. The Last Lesson - Alphonse Daudet 

4. The Little Hero of Holland - Mary Mapes Dodge 

5. The Dying Detective - Arthur Conan Doyle 

6. Learning the Game (Book Extract) - Sachin Tendulkar 

7. The Cat and the Painkiller (An Extract from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer) - Mark Twain 

8. Water - The Elixir of Life - Sir C.V.Raman 

9. The Story of a Grizzly Cub - William Temple Hornaday 

10. Sir Isaac Newton - Nathaniel Hawthome 

11. My Reminiscence - Rabindranath Tagore 

12. The Woman on Platform 8 - Ruskin Bond 

13. The Nose Jewel - C.Rajagopalachari 

14. A Birthday Letter - Jawaharlal Nehru 

 II. Biographies of - Mahatma Gandhi - Jawaharlal Nehru - Subash Chandra Bose - Helen Keller - Kalpana Chawala - Dr.Salim Ali - Rani of Jhansi - Nelson Mandela - Abraham Lincoln 

III. General Comprehension

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