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📚 20 IMPORTANT GRAMMAR RULES FOR IBPS RRB PO PRELIMS 🎯 English Language | Error Spotting | Sentence Improvement | Cloze Test ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1. SUBJECT–VERB AGREEMENT Singular subject → Singular verb Plural subject → Plural verb Example: The list of items is on the table. 2. COLLECTIVE NOUNS Team, committee, jury → Usually singular when acting as one unit. Example: The committee has decided. 3. EITHER…OR / NEITHER…NOR The verb agrees with the nearer subject. Example: Neither the teacher nor the students are present. 4. EACH / EVERY / EITHER / NEITHER These generally take a singular verb. Example: Each of the boys has done his work. 5. ONE OF + PLURAL NOUN “One of” is followed by a plural noun, but the verb is usually singular. Example: One of the boys is missing. 6. TENSE CONSISTENCY Maintain the correct tense according to the context. Example: He said that he would come. 7. PRESENT PERFECT VS PAST SIMPLE Present Perfect: Action connected to the present. Past Simple: Completed action at a definite past time. Examples: She has completed her work. She completed her work yesterday. 8. ARTICLES (A / AN / THE) A → Consonant sound An → Vowel sound The → Specific or unique noun Examples: a university, an honest man, the Sun. 9. NO ARTICLE Do not generally use an article before abstract or uncountable nouns when speaking in a general sense. Example: Honesty is the best policy. 10. PREPOSITIONS OF TIME In → Months, years, long periods On → Days and dates At → Exact times Examples: in October, on Monday, at 6 PM. 11. ADJECTIVE ORDER Opinion → Size → Age → Shape → Colour → Origin → Material → Noun Example: A beautiful small old round red Indian wooden table. 12. COMPARATIVES & SUPERLATIVES Comparative → Usually followed by “than” Superlative → Usually preceded by “the” Examples: Rahul is taller than Amit. Rahul is the tallest boy in the class. 13. MUCH / MANY & LITTLE / FEW Much / Little → Uncountable nouns Many / Few → Countable nouns Examples: much money, many books, little water, few students. 14. PRONOUN–ANTECEDENT AGREEMENT A pronoun should agree with its antecedent in number and person. Example: The students submitted their assignments. 15. WHO / WHOM / WHOSE / WHICH / THAT Who → Subject Whom → Object Whose → Possession Which → Things or animals That → People or things in many defining clauses Example: The candidate who won the exam was congratulated. 16. ACTIVE & PASSIVE VOICE Passive structure: Object + appropriate form of “be” + V3. Example: Active: The officer approved the loan. Passive: The loan was approved by the officer. 17. DIRECT & INDIRECT SPEECH In reported speech, tense often shifts when the reporting verb is in the past. Will → Would Can → Could Am/Is → Was Are → Were Example: He said, “I will come.” He said that he would come. 18. PARALLEL STRUCTURE Use the same grammatical form in a list. Correct: She enjoys singing, dancing and reading. 19. CONDITIONAL SENTENCES Type 1: If + Present Simple → will + V1 Example: If you study, you will pass. Type 2: If + Past Simple → would + V1 Example: If I had more time, I would study. Type 3: If + Past Perfect → would have + V3 Example: If he had studied, he would have passed. 20. COMMONLY CONFUSED WORDS Affect (verb) → Influence Effect (noun) → Result Accept → Receive or agree Except → Excluding Advise (verb) → Recommend Advice (noun) → Recommendation Between → Commonly used for two Among → Commonly used for more than two ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE RHA BANKING EMPIRE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━