Course Outline

Course Title: Functional English Course No: BS (A&F): ENG 105

Class: BS (A/F), BS (COMMERCE) Course No: BS (Commerce): ENG 105
B. Com (Annual system) B. Com (Annual system), Part I, Paper III

Course Objectives:
The command over written and spoken English is now considered a necessity for the business graduates. It equips them
with necessary skills and aptitude to deal successfully with the complex and challenging situations, arising out of inter-personal,
and organizational dealings. This subject inevitably demands a systematic and comprehensive study of the related topics. The
main objectives of this course are:
1. to provide a sound base in the English grammar and composition.
2. to make aware of the fundamental rules and skills for effective oral and written communication in English.
3. to develop proficiency in the art of effective communication
Course Contents:

Section Topics Source

Part 1(Semantics): Antonyms, Synonyms, Chapter 1 (Book 5)
I
Homonyms – one word substitution
Part 2 (Syntax): Traditional Grammar Chapter 1 (Book 3)
a) Parts of Speech: Major word classes
b) Further classifications (regular, countable; uncountable; singular; Chapter 2 (Book 1)
plural),
c) Pronouns Chapter 4 (Book 2)
d) Verbs
e) Adjectives
f) Adverbs
I g) Minor word classes: Preposition,
h) Conjunctions
i) Interjections, Auxiliary verbs an Determiners
j) Kinds of verbs: finite and non finite

Part 3 (Syntax) Modern Grammar – Chapter 24, 25 (Book 2)

k) Sentence Structure:
l) Types of sentences based on function
m) Mood Chapter 26 (Book 3)
n) Transformation, Inversion of sentences
o) Analysis of Complex sentences
p) Subject, Predicate, Complements, direct & indirect objects Chapter 7 (Book 5)
q) Phrases
r) Syntactical rules (subject & verb agreement)
II
s) Synthesis of sentences
 Clauses – types and functions

Part 4 (syntax): Tense and voice Chapter 17 & 18 (Book 3)

a) Structure of tenses
b) Function, Conversion into negative and interrogative. Chapter 30 (Book 3)
II c) Active and Passive voice and usage
Punctuation

Part 5 (Narration): Chapter 31 (Book 3)

III d) Direct and Indirect speech
e) Rules of conversion
III Part 6 (Structural words): Chapter 83 (Book 1)
 -Articles and usage
Part 7 (Discourse): Composition and comprehension Chapter 32 (Book 5)
 Precis Writing
III
 Essay Writing Chapter 38 (Book 2)

Recommended Text:

1) Eastwood, J (2005) Oxford Practice Grammar. UK: Oxford.

2) Martin & Wren (2007) High School, English Grammar & Composition. New Delhi: S Chand & Company Limited.
3) Martinet & Thomson (1992) A practical English Grammar. UK: Oxford.
4) Swan, M (2005) Practical English Usage. UK: Oxford University Press.
5) Shah, Sayyid (2006) Exploring the world of English. Lahore: Ilmi Kitab Khana.
 MODEL PAPER FOR B.COM PART 1
ANNUAL EXAMINATION SYSTEM 2009 & ONWARDS
FUNCTIONAL ENGLISH

SUBJECTIVE PART TIME ALLOWED = 90 MINUTES MAX MARKS = 45

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES:
 This paper comprises of 3 Sections.
 Attempt ONLY ONE question from each section
 Each question carries 15 marks.

SECTION-I

Q. 1) (10 + 5 = 15 Marks)
a) What do you know about a sentence? Explain the syntax of a sentence in detail.
b) Differentiate the following with appropriate examples.
i) Tense and aspect
ii) Predicate and complements
Q. 2) (2 × 5 + 5 = 15 Marks)
a) Put any five of the following statements into indirect. Do not mention the agent if it is not necessary.
i) ‘Did any of you actually see the accident happen?’ Said the policeman.
ii) ‘Don’t drive through fog with only a fog light on,’ he said, ‘or oncoming drivers may take you for a motorcycle.’
iii) ‘How long will you go on looking for them?’ I asked one of the search party.
iv) ‘If you want to smoke you’ ll have to go upstairs.’ said the bus conductor.
v) ‘My new house is supposed to be haunted, but so far I haven’t seen any ghosts.’ she said.
vi) ‘I know exactly what they said,’ the detective explained to his client, ‘because I bugged their phone.’
vii) ‘I was intending to do it tomorrow,’ he said, ‘but now I don’t think I’ ll be able to do.’
b) Analyse the following sentence into its clauses, stating the kind and function of each clause

When I revisited my native village after an absence of many years, the house in which the celebrated eighteen century
composer lived was still standing but had been greatly altered since I last saw it, and its owner told me that he intended to
restore it to its original design if he could find a suitable architect.

SECTION-II

Q. 3) Write an essay on any one of the following topics; the composition must not be less than 350 words; making an outline is
must to attempting this question. (15 Marks)
i) Every person is the architect of his/her own fate.
ii) A careless person is an enemy to himself and nuisance to society.
iii) If you educate a man you educate an individual whereas if you educate a woman you educate a family.

SECTION-III

Q. 4) Precise the following passage into one-third of the original.(15 Marks)

How often one hears children wishing they were grown up, and older people wishing they were young again. Each age
has its own pleasures and pains, and happiest person is the one who enjoys what age gives him without wasting his time
in useless regrets. Childhood is a time when there are few responsibilities to make life difficult. A child is fed and looked
after by his parents. It is impossible that he will be ever again so much without having to do anything in return. In
addition, life is always representing new things to the child-things that have lost their interest for older people because
they are too familiar. A child finds pleasure in playing in the rain or in the snow. His first visit to the sea side is a
marvelous adventure. But a child has his pains, he is not so free as he wishes to be and as he thinks older people are. He
is continuously being told not to do things, or being punished for what he has done wrong. His life, therefore, is not
completely happy.
Q. 5) If man began with speech, and civilization with agriculture, industry began with fire. Man did not invent it; probably
nature produce the marvel for him by the friction of leaves and twigs, stroke of lightening, or a chance union of
chemicals; man merely had the saving wit to imitate nature, and to improve upon her. He put the wonder to a thousand
uses. First, perhaps, he made it serve as a torch to conquer his fearsome enemy, the dark; then he used it for warmth, and
move about freely from his native tropics to less enervating zones, slowly making the planets human; then he applied it
to metals, softening them, tempering them, and combining them into forms stronger and more supple than those in which
they had come to his hand. It was fire that created the old and honourable art of cooking, extending the diet of man to a
thousand foods that could not be eaten before. So beneficent and strange was it that fire always remained a miracle to
primitive man, fit to be worshipped as a god; he offered it countless ceremonies of devotion, and made it thus centre or
focus of his life and home: he carried it carefully with him as he moved from place to place in his wonderings and would
not willingly let it die. Even the romance punished with death the careless virgins of temple of Vesta who allowed the
sacred fire to be extinguished.
Answer the following question on the passage given above:-
i) Fire is called a ‘wonder’. What other single words in the passage convey the same idea?
ii) What did the primitive man fear greatly?
iii) Explain: “Man merely has the saving wit to imitate nature.”
iv) What were the results of the application of fire to metals?
v) Which word suggests that man’s original home was in the tropics?
vi) How did man sit about making the planet human?
vii) How did fire aid man in his diet?
viii) What was the principal duty of the virgins in the temple of Vesta?
ix) Suggest a suitable phrase as a title for the passage.
 MODEL PAPER FOR B.COM PART 1
ANNUAL EXAMINATION SYSTEM 2009 & ONWARDS
FUNCTIONAL ENGLISH

OBJECTIVE PART TIME ALLOWED = 30 MINUTES MAX MARKS = 30

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES:
 This paper comprises 30 MCQs.
 Each MCQ carries 1 mark.
 Encircle the correct option only.
 Cutting, overwriting and use of ink remover is not allowed.

Put an appropriate article if necessary

Q 1) My neighbour is ________ photographer. Let’s ask him for ________ advice about colour films.
a) A, the
b) A, an
c) An, the
d) An, a

Insert Model Auxiliary, if necessary.

Q 2) It ________ rain, you’d better take a coat.
a) Will
b) Would
c) Could
d) should

Put the correct form of the verb. (The number under every blank is the question number)

I in very late last night and unfortunately the dog up and to bark. This my mother who

to the top of the stairs and , Who is there?’ I This is me,’ but she me because the dog

so loudly, so she back to her room and the police.

e) e)
Q 3) Q 6) Q 10)
a) Come a) Has awaken a) Has not heard
b) Have come b) Has been awaken b) Heard
c) Came c) Woke c) Did not hear
d) Has come d) Woken d) Have not heard
Q 4) Q 7) Q 11)
a) Has awaken a) Has come a) Has barked
b) Woke b) Came b) Was barking
c) Wake c) Have come c) Has been barking
d) Has been awaken d) Has been come d) Have been barking
Q 5) Q 8) Q 12)
a) Has started a) Has said a) Has gone
b) Started b) Said b) Went
c) Has been started c) Have been said c) Have gone
d) Have started d) Have said d) Have been gone
Q 9) Q 13)
a) Have said a) Telephoned
b) Said b) Has telephoned
c) Has been said c) Have telephoned
d) Have been said d) Telephone

Q 14) I am beginning _________ what you mean and c) Understand, doing

started _________ accordingly. d) Understanding, do
a) Understanding, doing
b) ToNOTE:
understand,
Onlydoing
15 MCQs (5 MCQs from each section) are provided for specimen purposes. Actual paper will comprise 30
MCQs (10 MCQs from each section)
 e)
Q 15) Before _________ evidence you must swear
_________ the truth.
a) Give, speaking
b) Giving, to speak
c) Give, speak
d) Giving, speaking