General English: Skill Development Series Volume 01

The present manual book entitled GENERAL ENGLISH is specially designed for use as a manual book in the years of the Undergraduate degree programme offered by Agriculture/ technical universities/colleges. Needless to say, language plays such a vital role in our professional as well as daily life that it becomes mandatory for students to invest their sufficient time to equip themselves with a comprehensive understanding of the significant aspects of language and English Grammar along with its basics and nuances. It is an introductory book for imparting knowledge on all the possible aspects of general English. Thus, the objective of the book is to assist students pursuing courses in English or facing the language problem. It imparts the appropriate knowledge over the aforesaid topics and help them communicate effectively in the language.

The present manual book comprises eighteen chapters in total followed by sample papers. The exercises put at the end of the chapter each will definitely confer the opportunity to students to exercise their knowledge and comprehension on the topics given by the chapters concerned. The book is systematic and logical. The language of the book is so simple and easy to understand as jargons and hard terms have been weeded out. This book definitely will upgrade the language and skills efficiency of readers by its lucid and concise explanation of the complexities of language, English grammar, phonology, etc. pages of the book are open for everyone concerned.

The book is, thus, primarily intended to meet the needs of students' community lacking English grammar as well as communicative skills.