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Correction of incorrect sentences with rules, Reason and explanation AGREEMENT BETWEEN VERB AND SUBJECT  A verb must agree with its subject in number and person. Thus a singular subject requires a singular verb and a plural subject requires a plural verb.  Incorrect Correct The number of students have increased in our class. The number of students has increased in our class. Love beget love. Love begets love. One of the dogs bite the children. One of the dogs bites the children. Our company have a good policy for promoting its employees. Our company has a good policy for promoting its employees. Five thousand dollars are a lot of money. Five thousand dollars is a lot of money. A range of mountains enclose the city of Abbotabad. A range of mountains encloses the city of Abbotabad. Ten miles are a long distance. Ten miles is a long distance. Five hundred thousand rupees are not a big amount these days. ...

 DIALOGUE WRITING  A dialogue is a "conversation between two or more people"  Ordinarily we take it as a talk between two people. Writing a dialogue should not be difficult, as it demands short sentences, common everyday speech and very brief expression of ideas or description or narration of experiences.  While writing a dialogue:  (A) Write naturally what the persons in the dialogue feel and think in their positions or capacities.  (B) Write according to the subject of the dialogue.  (C) See that the dialogue is a kind of discussion in which the two persons are presenting their own points of view on some subject.  (D) Also see that the dialogue is neither very long nor very short, but a rather satisfactory discussion of the subject within the given spaces.  (E) Try to speak like the persons (e.g., a doctor, a lawyer, a student etc.) in the dialogue would speak.  (F) The tense should be used as the talk demands, but carefully and correc...

Story Writing  STORY TELLING IS AN ART  It is a rare gift. Of recent years there has been a good deal of theorizing about Short Story as an art form. These theorists have framed many rules to help the beginner, but as far as the practical art of writing concerned, they are of little importance. To tell a story well a long practice required. An exceptionally gifted Story-teller may build an interesting story out of an ordinary situation. This is what Poe or O. Henry does. But a young student need not be so ambitious. The examiner wants just a readable narrative with some kind of plot in which main points are arranged in a proper order.  To write a good story, you must plan it out in your mind and then arrange the events in the order of time in which they occurred. If events are narrated in the wrong sequence, it will spoil the coherence or unity of the story. SOME IMPORTANT HINTS 1. Make an outline of the story with a clear idea of the plot and the main characters containe...