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  Technical Description of a Pen A pen is a writing instrument. There are many types of pens available in the market now. They are made of plastic fiber or steel or any metal and are available in variety of colours and designs.  Previously, it was made of a bamboo stick or a reed by sharpening one end and people wrote with it on the paper by dipping the sharpened end into the ink. A pen may be divided into three categories. 1. Ink Pen An ink pen is made of two plastic or metallic tubes of which one functions as ink tank and the other as the cap of the pen. The ink tank is in fact a tube closed at one end open at other end which has a holder for the nib of the pen. A metallic nib riding a plastic tongue is inserted into the writing end of the holder. The other end the holder is tightened into the ink tank with the help of threads cut on it and the threads inside the open end of the ink tank. The plastic tongue has grooves on its surface, which facilitate the flow of ink from th...

Important Short  Questions,  MCQ's,  Viva Voce Questions,  For English BT 103 English for Communication  Expected Short Questions for English for Communication- BT 103 The following questions are important for viva voce and they may come in the main examinations also. You must prepare them. Unit 2 1. What is an affix? Ans.: An affix is a stem that changes the meaning of a word if it is attached in the beginning or end of a word. 2. What is a prefix? Ans.: A prefix is a stem that is attached to the beginning of a word to change its meaning. 3. What is a suffix? Ans.: A suffix is a stem that is attached to the end of a word to change its meaning. 4. What is a homonym? Ans.: A homonym is a word which has same spelling and pronunciation but has a different meaning. eg. Bank = The place where money is deposited, and Bank= side of a river. 5. What is homophone? Ans.: A homophone is a word that pronounced similarly to another word but it has a different spelling and me...

Dear Audience, This is my first poem. It has come from my deep feelings, my heart and my soul after my observation of several things in the Past and Present in nature in people and in me. I want to say a lot but I feel that it will mar the joy of reading the poem. Remember that setting is rural India of the Past. Read and enjoy. Freedom                      By Prof. Rama Shankar Shukla Freedom is my birthright. And nothing in this world is dearer to me. It is not the water that makes my body. Nor is the smoke, the shaper of my body. It is the free molecules that frame my body. And make me free to the very core of existence,  These free elements fuel the passion for travel. The spirit of travelling makes me a wanderer. I ride on the horses of speeding winds. Over the oceans and lands unknown. Over the mountains and woods unknown. Over the hills and agricultural lands. Over the islands smoking with volcanoes. Freedom and I were b...

  To Autumn By John Keats Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,    Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless    With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,    And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;       To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells    With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease,       For summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells. Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?    Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,    Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind; Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep,    Drows'd with the fume of poppies, while thy hook       Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers: And sometimes...