Vernacular English or Indianisms

Please write the correct form of English for the Indianisms mentioned on the left hand side of
the table.

Incorrect Correct
We people
The line is coming engaged
Residence number
Expired
Myself
Four days back
Cousin brother/sister
Have a seat
Have you shifted
Repeat again
Revert back
Return back
Reply back
Come again
Ring you/ ring you up/give you a
ring
Today Morning
Today evening
Today night
Yesterday night
Yesterday Morning
Iam having two brothers
Enter from backside
Is your wife available
Mr. First name
I,me, myself
Me and my sister/ Alefiya and I
What is your good name
That movie is solid
Please off and on
Thanks for holding

Identify the Part of speech in BOLD

The BOY is eating

Verb
Adjective
Noun
Adverb
The girl ate some delicious fruit.
Adjective
Noun
Verb
Adverb

Mary will take a course in quantum physics.

Adjective
Noun
Pronoun
Verb

The students are writing a long essay for class.

Noun
Adverb
Verb
adjective

Everyone thinks the cafeteria food is terrible.

Verb
Noun
Pronoun
Adjective

The child kicked the blue ball yesterday

Noun
Verb
Adjective
Adverb

Prepositions Exercise #1

Complete with the missing prepositions.

Jane Wilkinson has a problem. She was employed ...................... Preston

Maternity Hospital, England, but she lost her job. Her trouble is her
appetite. She was accused ...................... eating 48 birth certificates, 19
marriage certificates as well as other important papers, the
property ...................... the hospital where she was employed.
She said that she had managed ...................... control her habit
while ...................... training and studying to be a nurse. She
had ...................... that time stuck ...................... packets of Kleenex
in order to satisfy her hunger. However, she had recently got married and
her terrible hunger had returned.
When she was ...................... her teens she
started ...................... ...................... blotting paper. .....................
the time she left school she was chewing her way ...................... half a
dozen school text books each lunchtime. ...................... tea, she would
eat the sports pages ...................... her father's evening paper.
Nurse Wilkinson said, "When I found my first job, I stuck ......................
a diet of bus tickets and cigarette packets, but I lost my boy
friend ...................... it. Then it seemed a good idea ......................
become a nurse. Everything went well until I got married."

Articles Exercise #3

Fill in the definite article "the" where necessary. Type an "x"

(letter) where you don't need the article.

Hi John,
I arrived in ___ USA last Monday. We left ____ Rome, flew over ____
Alps and made a quick stop in ___ London. There we went shopping in
___ Harrods, visited ___ Tower and enjoyed a sunny afternoon in ____
Hyde Park.
On the following day we left for ___ New York. ___ time on board wasn't
boring as there were two films to watch on ___ TV. ___ people on ___
plane were all ___ Italian. Before we landed at ___ JFK airport, we saw
___ Statue of Liberty, ___ Ellis Island and ___ Empire State Building. ___
hotel I stayed in was on ___ corner of ___ 42nd Street and ___ 5th
Avenue. I don't like ___ hotels very much, but I didn't have ___ time to
rent an apartment.

Please say hello to Peter and Mandy.

Yours,
Peter

Underline the correct verb forms in the brackets.

1. Our neighbor (comes/is coming) over now for a game of chess

with my father.
2. Eduardo (kick/kicks) the ball into the net.
3. My father (does/is doing) the cooking while my mother is in the
hospital.
4. The team (is making/makes) some striking costumes for the
international competition next week.
5. In the olden days, workers (treat/treated) their employees with
great formality.
6. My aunt sometimes(overwhelms/overwhelmed) the family with
her kindness.
7. While BOB(polished/was polishing) his car, his sons were
cleaning the wheels.
 8. John (navigated/was navigating) the speedboat when it crashed
into the ramp.
9. Since I changed jobs, I (found/have found) more time to relax
and enjoy my hobbies.
10. Time (had passed/ will pass) so quickly that before you know
it we will see you again.

Email Writing Exercise #1

As an intern at Orange Consulting Pvt. Ltd, write an email to your

internship Project Manager, Mr. Ramesh Jha, informing about the
progress that you are making and some difficulties that you are
encountering.

Email Writing Exercise #2

You are the project leader for a team of 20 members. As the team
members are not submitting the weekly time sheets regularly, you need
to email them stressing the need to submit without fail.

Email Writing Exercise #2

Capgemini is doing good business and expanding, therefore, it is

relocating it’s office to a new address. Write an email to your customer
informing the change in address.