PAKISTAN ENGLISH NETWORK

How to make your writing interesting? The ideal English text is clear, concise and easy to understand. Even advanced level academic textbooks are written in plain English words. So when you write, try to keep your sentences clear and well structured so that your readers will have no difficulty understanding them. Don’t try to use complex sentence patterns with the sole objective of impressing the reader. Chances are they wouldn’t. Worse still, they might abandon your text before finishing it.  When writing in English, keep the following rules in mind: Use simple language. That doesn’t mean that you should only write short, simple sentences. Instead, use a variety of sentence patterns – some complex, some simple and some compound. Just make sure that your sentences are not ridiculously long.  Make your text interesting by using a wide variety of sentence patterns. For example, use participle clauses, relative clauses, prepositional clauses, infinitive constructions and if-cla

Write a Précis of the following passage. Prevention is better than cure. It is recognized that the only way to get rid of malaria completely is o get rid of the mosquitoes which cause it. Malaria is always associated with damp and marshy land. This is not because the land is damp, but because the static water is the breeding place of the mosquitoes, which begin their life as a larva in the water. Malaria does not frequently occur in dry desert countries because mosquitoes cannot breed there. The only way to destroy mosquitoes is to prevent their breeding in static water. Draining all ponds and pools can do this. And by keeping them covered in the breeding season with a film of kerosene oil, which by depriving the larva of air kills them.  stage 1: read the passage thrice and pick important points in the  passage: Important Points: ( Write points in your own words) ·   Prevention is better than cure. ·   Mosquitoes cause malaria. ·   We should get rid of malaria. ·  

WHY STUDENTS FAIL IN ENGLISH (PRECIS & COMPREHENSION) IN CSS Dear students, Every year about 10,000 students appear in CSS exams but almost 75-80 % students fail in English (Précis   & Comprehension). Most of them prepare hard for the exams but being unaware of the expectations of the examiner, unknowingly commit some common mistakes, which lead to their failure. I strongly believe, if students know about these common mistakes and work on their grey areas, they can easy get through the English (Précis & Comprehension) paper. For this, I would like to quote the remarks and observations of FPSC examiners on the performance of CSS students in English (Précis and Comprehension). I hope this will help the students The Examiners have made the following observations on the candidates' performance on English (Précis & Composition):” The Précis writing ability of the candidates was poor. Some basic mistakes related to not writing in third person or past tens