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Active Voice and Passive Voice: Example of Active voice: The newspapers reported several incidents of violation of government guidelines on social distancing.

The same sentence in Passive voice: Several incidents of violation of government guidelines on social distancing were reported by the newspapers.

The Apostrophe The Apostrophe indicates possession (belonging), not plural.

e.g. •Correct: The library’s collection includes books in English, Hindi, Marathi and Sanskrit.

•Incorrect: The student’s gave various suggestion’s about the user education programme.

•Correct: The students gave various suggestions about the user education programme.

•Correct: One student’s suggestion was to increase the number of sessions in the user education programme.

•Correct: The students’ suggestions were grouped according to topics.

•Exception in the use of apostrophe: ‘it’s’ does not imply possession. It’s is a short form of ‘it is’.

e.g. Incorrect: The library trains it’s users to use e-resources

Correct: The library trains its users to use e-resources

"Are having" / "is having" Incorrect: We are having 3,000 students in the Commerce section of our college.

Correct: We have 3,000 students in the Commerce section of our college.

Incorrect: The college is having 3,000 students in the Commerce section.

Correct: The college has 3,000 students in the Commerce section.

Articles - a, an, the We do not have articles in Indian languages but it necessary to use them in English.

e.g. Incorrect: When writing article for professional journal, it is necessary to read guidelines provided on website of journal.

Correct: When writing an article for a professional journal, it is necessary to read the guidelines provided on the website of the journal.

"More" - correct usage. ‘more’ is used to compare one item with another.

e.g. Among the post-graduate students in the Economics department, there were more girls than boys.

‘more better’, more clearer’ are incorrect, as ‘more’ is implied in ‘better’ or ‘clearer’

It is incorrect to say ‘more number of’. We say 'more' or 'a greater number of'.

Singular and Plural: There should be agreement of singular and plural nouns and verbs.

e.g. Incorrect: Gender, age and occupation was used to group the respondents

Correct: Gender, age and occupation were used to group the respondents

Tenses: We must not mix tenses in a sentence.

Incorrect: The scale consisted of 36 items which are divided into three groups and were listed in order of importance.

Correct: The scale consisted of 36 items which were divided into three groups and were listed in order of importance.

OR: The scale consists of 36 items which are divided into three groups and are listed in order of importance.