English : A Section To Test Your Linguistic Soundness…
As pointed out by Sandipan, in light of the “socially sensitive measures” undertaken by NUJS, CLAT 2011 will most probably focus less...
Idioms
In German an idiom is called a ‘Spracheigentuemlichkeit’, which means a peculiarity of a language. This is exactly what an idiom is. It is...
A Step Beyond Reading the Reading Comprehensions
Before you start reading this, make sure you’ve read the three previous posts of the ‘Reading Comprehension Series’. Find the first one here, second one here and the...
Sentence Corrections – Part II
After discussing sentence corrections in terms of subject verb agreements and modifiers we now go on to delve into another aspect of...
Rudiments of Reading Comprehension
Read.
Well, it’s called a reading comprehension for a reason. If you are not used to reading long passages, then please start practicing now. And...
Para-jumbles Exercise – 3
Here is the third Exercise on Para-jumbles with 10 questions. (Click here for the first one and here, for the second one.) Select the...
Solving Reading Comprehensions
Before you start reading this, make sure you've read the two previous posts of the 'Reading Comprehension Series'. Find the first one here and...
Grammar: The Supposed “Morbid Anatomy” of Language
“The techniques of grammatical analysis can be used to demonstrate the enormous creative power of language-how, from a finite set of grammatical patterns, even...
Word Power Capsule – 1
Around 5-10 marks of your CLAT paper will be related to words: their synonyms, antonyms, and spellings. This section, while requiring a...
Contextual Vocabulary Exercise – 1
Now that we know that there will be no proper vocabulary in CLAT 2011 and what actually is going to be asked is contextual...