BBS Business English

Fill in the blanks with appropriate conjunction. 

a) No sooner had I finished my lunch .......... . I went out:

i) then ii) when iii) than iv) but 

b) .......... he studied hard, he did not pass the exam.

i) Despite ii) Because iii) Because of iv) Although

c) She went to school .......... her sickness.i)

in spite ii) despite iii) though iv) because of

d) I like reading .......... . I don't like swimming.

i) due to ii) and iii) but iv) as

e) She was .......... capable nor intelligent for the job. Therefore, she was rejected for it.

i) either ii) as well as iii) neither iv) both

Change the following into passive, if possible.

a) Nobody is looking after the children.

b) An engineer married Ramesh's youngest daughter.

c) They have been coming Kathmandu very soon.

d) Who wrote this book?

e) She will write an essay.

Answer the following questions as instructed.

a) Walking tirelessly, she reached on the top of the mountain. (Identify participial phrase)

b) Write an exclamative sentence following the given word order. What (+adjective) + noun + sub + verb?

c) He drove for nearly six hours (Identify modifier)

d) Write a sentence following the sentence pattern S+V+O+A.

e) Write a compound sentence joined by the conjunction 'and'.

Edit the given passage with special attention to subject - verb agreement, tense forms, pronoun preference,

 punctuation marks, etc. (There are six mistakes altogether)

Books are by far, the most lasting product of human effort. Temples crumbles into ruin, pictures and statues

decay, but books survive Time does not destroy the great thoughts which are as fresh today as when they first

 pass through their author's mind. These thoughts speaks to us through the printed page. The only effects of

 time has been to throw out of currency of the bad products. Nothing in literature which are not good can live

for long. Good books have always helped man in various spheres of life. No wonder that the world keeps its books

 with great care.

Rewrite the following sentences by choosing the best alternative.

(a) This book is only of 100 pages, I ……… it by lunch time.

i. will be reading   ii. will read

iii. will have read   iv. read

(b) Rajendra……… completed his work yet.

i. has   ii. have

iii. haven't   iv. hasn't

(c) Water ……… at 100 degree Celsius at sea level.

i. boiled   ii. will boil

iii. runs   iv. will be run

(d) The fuel ……… Out by 2030

i. will have run   ii. will run

iii. runs   iv. will be run

(e) She is used to ……… tobacco

i. chew   ii. chewed

iii. chewing   iv. having chewed

Complete the following sentences following the rules of subject-verb-agreement.

(a) Not only the students but also their instructor ….. been called to the principal's office

i. were   ii. have

iii. has   iv. are

(b) No news ……… good news

i. are   ii. is

iii. have   iv. were

(c) Ten pounds……… a reasonable price for this computer.

i. seem   ii. were

iii. seems   iv. are

(d) The poor ........ honest

i.are   ii.is

iii.has   iv.had

(e) The memorands ........ signed

i.were   ii.is

iii.has been   iv.was

Answer the following questions as instructed

a) She was feeding her baby when her husband returned home (Identify the word that indicates time

sequence)

b) Write a simple sentence with the subject 'she'.

c) He does not hardly attend the class (Avoid double negative).

d) Write a sentence following the sentence pattern S+V+O+O.

e) The students of BBS are very genius (Identify prepositional phrase)

Read the paragraph and edit, as necessary. There are five mistakes in verb form and one mistake

 in punctuation.

If people continue to choose to move from small towns into cities for greater opportunities, cities will have to

 adapt to the changes in their populations. Cities will need to create more affordable housing for new

residents. They are need to build schools for their children so that they will

study, and parks so that they will play. Transportation and other services will needing to be expanded to accommodate larger numbers of

people. if the city meets this challenge people will be able to move to and from their jobs easily. If it does not,

 people probably earn less money, as they will only be able to accept work that is close to their homes. As cities

expand, new neighbourhoods will being created in areas that are now uninhabited. Areas that were once

 considered suburban will most probably be swallowed up by urban expansion and become part of the city. As

 new neighbourhoods are established, new businesses will also open to meet the needs of these new residents.

 With these new businesses are coming new jobs,

Identify the types of pronoun of the italicized words as in the example. 

Example: I will be present in the meeting.Ans: Personal pronoun (nominative case)

(a) Everybody loves chocolates.

(b) Who is creating this mess?

(c) I know the man who stole my watch.

(d) He told her that he was busy that day.

(e) That was awesome!

Complete the following sentences following the rules of subject-verb agreement. 

(a) The scissors ......... blunt.

i. is    ii. have  iii.has   iv. are

(b) Two-thirds of the students ........ him.

i. recognizes   ii. recognize    iii. has recognized   iv. are recognizing

(c) Fifty thousand pesos ........ a large amount for Armando Gonzalez.

 i. was   ii. were     iii.are   iv. have been

(d) The Prime Minister and Chancellor of Tribhuvan University ........ attending the meeting today.

 i. are   ii. is     iii.has   iv. have

(e) The datum on the table ........ vary significant.

i. were   ii. are   iii. in   iv. is

Answer the following questions as instructed.

(a) Furthermore, she had taken additional classes. (Identify the additional detail indicator)

(b) Write a complex sentence with the subject 'he.'

(c) The boy, who is standing at the corner, is my brother. (Identify relative pronoun)

(d) Analyze the sentence pattern of the given sentence: She offered me a gift.

(e) Write a sentence by using 'only' as a modifier.

Read the paragraph and edit, correcting the mistakes in parallelism. There are six mistakes altogether. 

In his discussion of developing countries, Schumacher says that dual economies create political problems, and tensions arise in society, too. Every country has poor people and those that are very rich. However, in a dual economy, the difference between the two groups is so great that a cultural gap develops between the two groups. The rich, a small percentage, typically live in the capital or are inhabitants of the second largest city. The poor live in the country or are town dwellers. The problem is that most development efforts go to the big cities and help the rich. The gap between the poor and people with money increases as the rich benefit from the changes and the poor do not.

Rewrite the following sentences by choosing the appropriate form of the verb.

(a) By this time tomorrow, I .......... to New York.

i. will fly       ii. will have flown      iii. fly   iv. am flying

(b) Now News .......... good news.

i. is   ii. has   iii. were   iv. have

(c) The minister ........... last night.

i. had passed away   ii. past away  iii. passed away   iv. have passed away

(d) If no one stops, he will keep on ...........

i. to talk   ii. talk   iii. talked   iv. talking

(e) A team of experts ............ working on this matter.

i. is   ii. are   iii. has   iv. have

Identify the prepositions and their case types (nominative case, possessive case or objective case) in the following sentences. 

(a) I will not attend the annual sales review meeting.

(b) What are your plans for this Dashain?

(c) If the report is not yours, it must be theirs.

(d) He threw the pass to me.

(e) It was they who surveyed the property.

Answer the following questions as instructed:

a) Whose wallet was left in the conference hall? (Identify interrogative pronoun)

b) The competition was very tough. (Identify adjective)

c) Did anybody attend the meeting? (Change into passive voice)

d) The kinds in the school are very cheerful. (Identify subject and predicate)

e) You may have either a salad or a cup of soup with your main course. (Identify correlative conjunction)

Edit the following sentence based on the guidelines within in the brackets. 

a. Violence in sports is a bad thing. (Avoid vagueness choosing specific words that identify particular examples and details)

b. The reason Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence was because he felt the king was a tyrant. (Eliminate awkward phrasing and smooth it out)

c.If you develop skills, you can easily get employment opportunities. (Change into compound sentence)

Identify the verb mood (indicative, imperative or subjunctive) in the following sentences:

(a) The company is expanding into the Northeast.

(b) Write this down before you forget it.

(c) Are you going to the opening session?

(d) If she were my teacher, I would follow her advice.

(e) I wish it would stop raining.

. Complete the following sentences with appropriate form of the verb: 

(a) John got his documents ........

i. print   ii. to print    iii. printing   iv. printed

(b) Smith is not very well. Oh, I...... sorry.

i. am     ii. is     iii. will be    iv. like

(c) Let the rhinos............. preserved.

i. to   ii. be    iii. being   iv. to be

(d) Unless ..... you won't succeed in any profession.   

i. work   ii. don't work    iii. hod worked   iv. have worked

(e) Nobody·.... the answers

i. know   ii. knows   iii. have known     iv. don't know

Answer the following questions as instructed: 

a) Anupam said I enjoyed browsing Facebook. (Rewrite with proper punctuation)

b) The people were deeply saddened by the demise of Mr. Khan. (Identify adverb)

c) We know the truth. (Change into passive voice)

d) The newly elected chairman deserves respect (identify subject and predicate)

e) This budget will need to be revised to maintain a 15 percent reserve. (Identify demonstrative pronoun)

Choose the correct word in the following sentences:

a) Bear/Bare/Beer is an animal that hibernates during winter.

b) She came to that conclusion with her parents' accent/ascent/assent.

c) I attended two classes today. The later/latter/letter is more interesting.

d) This document needs through/thorough/throw editing.

e) This is one of the rights/rites/rite as mentioned in Hindu inscriptions.

Explain the ways of recognizing 'verbal signals' with suitable examples. 

Read the following passage to identify "additional information indicators", "contrast marker", "conclusion

marker", "effect or cause marker", and "time indicator".

Man is not destined to vanish. He can be killed, but man is not destined to vanish. He can be killed, but he

cannot be destroyed, because his soul is deathless, and his spirit is irrepressible. Therefore, though the

 situation seems dark in the context of the confirmation between the superpowers, the silver lining is provided

by amazing phenomenon that the very nations which have spent incalculable resources and energy for the

 production of deadly weapons are desperately trying to find out how they might never be used they threaten

 each other, intimidate each other, and go to the brink, but before the total hour arrives, they withdraw from the brink.

List any five techniques of using language effectively with an example for each technique. 

Write a paragraph of at least seven sentences and explain how your paragraph is coherent. 

Write the most probable language functions of the following sentences, words, or phrases with a short explanation for each answer. 

(a) Nepal is a beautiful country.

(b) Either you're with us or with them.

(c) CC TV, ozone, endoscopy

(d) Neologisms and slangs

(e) You are nominated as the Dean of Tribhuvan University.

Discuss at least five techniques of using language effectively. 

"Our society and culture influence the way we use language." Explain with examples. 

Rewrite the following sentence as instructed in the brackets:

a. Work is where you earn money. (eliminate awkward phrasing to smooth it out)

b. From the conceptual point of view, the task is quite difficult to visualize. (replace underlined part with one adverb)

c. The manager ended the meeting, and the staff resumed their work. (change into complex sentence)

Write any five meeting related terms with their meanings. 

Write any five banking terms with their meanings. 

Write the meaning of the following business idioms and expressions.

i) a rule of thumb   ii) ahead of the game   iii) blockbuster   iv) crunch timev) Multi-task

Write any five terms related to organizations). structures and their meanings. 

Suryodaya Education Network has recently introduced a policy of subsidizing 50 per cent of the tuition fee of employee's children. Write a memo for announcing this policy. 

Write a memo to all the staff of your office to attend a brief meeting to discuss new plans and policies. (Assume that you are the Manager in a project) 

What is memo? Discuss the components in brief.

Write a complaint letter expressing your dissatisfaction on customer service of a reputable hotel. 

Prepare a leaflet of one of your favourite holiday destinations. 

Write a news report on the opening of 25th branch of Shikhar Bank Limited in Ilam headquarters. 

Is Judy Brady's characterization of a wife still accurate today? Which of the characteristics she describes haveremained the same? Which have changed? Give reasons. ("I Want a Wife")

Imagine you are the marketing in-charge in XYZ mobile company. Describe your job. 

Make a sample of advertisement of a shampoo to be published in newspaper. 

Prepare a brochure design for a reputed hotel serving for a decade. 

Write a notice to announce a welcome program for the new students of 'Rudrawati Multiple Campus Gulmi'. 

Suppose your college is going to organize a one-day workshop on "Role of Youths for the Development of Nepal". Write a press release inviting local media to cover the news of the event. 

Prepare a brochure design for a furniture industry that is renowned in your city. 

Suppose your college is organizing a one-day Food Festival to collect funds for flood victims. Write a press release inviting the media to cover the news. 

Prepare a leaflet for a newly opened restaurant in your city. 

Write a news report based on the following prompts :[Health awareness program - organized by Suryaday Yuwa Club, Wami Maidan participated by the local people - inaugurated by the Head of District Hospital - main attraction : awareness play performance]

Prepare a brochure design for a newly operated Homestay in your locality. 

With the help of the following clues, develop a paragraph for the title "Climate Change"

 .......... a burning and pressing issue of the present world

........... the whole world has been affected

........... temperature of the earth is increasing, snow-capped mountains are changing into black hills, sea level

 is increasing, islands are gradually sinking into the sea

........... solution.

Write a short paragraph (at least 7 sentences) which contains claim, reason(s), evidence(s) and example(s). 

Develop the following topic sentence into a paragraph. [6]I love watching television because of three reasons.

Write a paragraph on 'Social Media'. (your paragraph should have a claim, supporting details and concluding sentence) .

Develop the following topic sentence into a paragraph: Parents need to grow up children providing them with the freedom of choice

Trace the path you expect to follow to establish yourself in your chosen profession, considering possible obstacles you may face and how you expect to deal with them.

Describe a place that has played an important role in your life. Include a narrative that conveys the place's significance to you.

What kind of comparison strategy does Bharati Mukherjee use in her essay " Two Ways to Belong in America"? Why does she use that strategy? How effective is her conclusion to achieve her objective in this   essay?

Write an essay about a relative or a friend you have known since you were a child. Consider how your opinion of that person is different now from what s/he was then.

According to Daniel Engber, Organic Food advocates argue that real, natural, healthy food "testes better, anyway." Do you agree that natural food tastes better than junk food? ("Let Them Drink Water!")

Read the following paragraph and answer the questions that follow

A vexed enemy of mankind, as people have discovered, is not science, but war since science merely reflects

 the prevailing social forces. It is found that when there is peace, science is conservative, when there is war,

 and science is perverted to destructive ends. The weapons which science gives do not necessarily cause war,

 they make war increasingly terrible. Till now, it has brought us to the doorstep of doom. Our main problem,

 therefore, is not to curb science, but to stop war - to substitute law for force, international government for

 anarchy in the relations of one nation with another.

That is a job in which everybody must participate including the scientists. But the bombing of Hirosima

 suddenly woke us up to the fact that we have very little time. The hour is late, and our work has scarcely

begun. Now we are face to face with an urgent question --- 'Can education and tolerance, understanding and

 creative intelligence run fast enough to keep us abreast with our own mounting capacity to destroy?' This is

the question which we shall have to answer one way or the other in our generation. Science must help us in

arriving at the answer, but the main decision lies within ourselves.

a. Extract the topic sentence from the paragraph above. Is the topic sentence in the normal position?

b. Why do you think that is the topic sentence which you have chosen?

c. Does the writer provide sufficient evidence(s) and reason(s) to support the major claim?

With the help of the following clues, develop a paragraph for the title "Jealousy".

……… a subject of literature but not of daily conversations

……… unmentionable emotion………

 it is a feeling of fear, unhappiness, or even ill will

……… for psychologists, its origin can have biological, economic causes

The narrative essays "Only daughter" by Sandra Cisneros and "My Mother Never Worked" by Bonnie Smith-

Yackel make extensive remarks upon how the then patriarchal society viewed a female and her work. Do you

think the contents of the essays are still relevant in today's context? Explain.<

Write an essay describing an especially frightening horror film. What specific sights and sounds make this

film so horrifying? Include a thesis statement (and label it) assessing the film's success as a horror film. (Be

 careful not to simply summarize the plot of the film)

Write an essay comparing two places you are familiar with. Your thesis statement should indicate if you are emphasizing similarities or differences.

How, according to Gayle Rosenwald Smith, in her essay "The Wife-Beater," does calling a shirt a wife-beater

teach women "the wrong thing about men?" Do you agree with Smith that the casual use of the term "wife-

beater" dangerous? Why?

Alex Tabarrok in his essay "The Meat Market" argues, "some American doctors are routinely removing piecesof tissue from deceased patients for transplant without their, or their families' prior consent. Do you thinkdoctors should be allowed to do this? How would you react if such a procedure were performed on a memberof your own family? Write an essay answering these questions.

Read the following paragraph and answer the questions that follow: [6]Americans are probably the most pain-conscious people on the face of the earth. For years we have had it drummed into us—in print, on radio, over television, in everyday conversation—that any hint of pain is to be banished as though it were the ultimate evil. As a result, we are becoming a nation of pill-grabbers and hypochondriacs, escalating the slightest ache into a searing ordeal. We know very little about pain, and what we don’t know makes it hurt all the more. Indeed, no form of illiteracy in the United States is so widespread or costly as ignorance about pain—what it is, what causes it, how to deal with it without panic.Almost everyone can rattle off the names of at least a dozen drugs that can deaden pain from every conceivable cause—all the way from headaches to hemorrhoids. There is far less knowledge about the fact that about 90 percent of pain is self-limiting, that it is not always an indication of poor health, and that, most frequently, it is the result of tension, stress, worry, idleness, boredom, frustration, suppressed rage, insufficient sleep, overeating, poorly balanced diet, smoking, excessive drinking, inadequate exercise, stale air, or any of the other abuses encountered by the human body in modern society! The most ignored fact of all about pain is that the best way to eliminate it is to eliminate the abuse. Instead, many people reach almost instinctively for painkillers—aspirins, barbiturates, codeines, tranquilizers, sleeping pills, and dozens of other analgesics or desensitizing drugs.(a) What is the main purpose of this passage? To persuade? Compare and contrast? Define? Describe? Or what else? How do you know?(b) Which one do you think is the topic sentence? Is that in the normal position?(c) What does the writer say about American’s attitude towards medicine? Does the writer support it?

What extended definitions are given to the words 'wife' in Judy Brady's "I Want a Wife" and 'wife-beater' in Gayle Rosenwald Smith's "The Wife-Beater"? How do you think these words are connected to each other in the two essays?

Write a narrative account of a typical day at the worst job you ever had. Include and label a thesis statement that expresses your negative feelings.

Do you think Stan Cox is overly optimistic about the "good old days" before air conditioning was widely available? Give reasons to support your answer ("The Case Against Air Conditioning").

Describe a food that is as meaningful as pulao for Jhumpa Lahiri. Make sure that your answer has a clear thesis, and it has used sufficient references from Lahiri's essay "Rice". [10]

Write an essay discussing under what circumstances animals should be used for scientific experimentation.

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow. [6]What makes a beautiful face? How long or short should the perfect nose be; is there an optimal length to the face or ear lobe; what should the angle of the eyes be in respect to the bridge of the nose? Recent research suggests that beauty is simply a matter of being Mr or Ms Average.Three hundred psychology students were asked to rate pictures of faces using an attractiveness score of one to five. Some of the pictures were of a single individual, and some were composite faces, made up from the features of 2, 4, 8, 16 or up to 32 individual faces. The lowest scores for attractiveness were found for individual faces. The attractiveness ratings increased with increases in the number of faces which were combined to make a composite face.a. What is the main purpose of the passage? To persuade, to argue or to describe? How do you know?b. What does the passage say about beauty?c. Do you agree with the writer's opinion?

Imagine that you have moved to your first air-conditioned residence after years of suffering without it, write an essay explaining how air conditioning has changed your life.

According to Daniel Goleman, organic food advocates argue that real, natural, healthy food tastes better than junk food. Do you think this argument is valid or just a propaganda to promote another business? Discuss.

Write a subjective description of a scene you remember from your childhood. In your thesis statement and conclusion, explain how your adult impressions of the scene differ from those of your childhood.

Briefly describe Sandra Cisneros's struggle against gender stereotypes as narrated in "Only Daughter". Do your parents also have different expectations for their sons and daughters?

Based on your reading of Amy Chua's essay "Why Chinese Mother Are Superior", Explain how child-reading practices in China are different from those in Nepal.

Write a paragraph on 'Higher education in Nepal'. (your paragraph should have a topic sentence, supporting details and concluding sentence) 

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow: It is becoming fashionable to use 'carbon offsetting' in order to salve your conscience about the pollution to which you contribute when taking an airline flight. Companies have been set up that enable you to buy offsets that, for example, help to build biogas digesters in India, install hydroelectric power in Bulgaria or distribute energy efficient light bulbs in Jamaica. There are two reasons why we should disapprove of this practice. First, the availability of the scheme makes people think there is nothing wrong with supporting the carbon polluting aviation industry. If people want to contribute to such schemes, they could do so without taking a flight Second, the companies that offer carbon offsetting are not sufficiently regulated for customers to know whether the money paid over really does go to the energy saving scheme, or even whether the scheme really will save energy and thereby reduce carbon emissions.a. What do you think is the claim of the passage?b. What are the reasons presented to support the claim?c. Are the reasons sufficient to support the claim?

Develop the following topic sentence into a paragraph: People's character is influenced by environment.

In the essay "The Meat Market", Alex Tabarrok states that some American doctors are routinely removing pieces of tissues from deceased patients for transplant without their, or families' prior consent. Do you think doctors should be allowed to do this? How would you react if such a procedure were performed on a member of your own family?

What do you think are the major causes of corruption in politics and bureaucracy? Based on your identification, formulate some specific solutions to sort out this problem.

What distinction does Bharati Mukherjee show between an immigrant and an exile in her essay "Two Ways to Belong in America"? What are the connotations of these· two terms? Discuss.

On your reading of Judy Brady's essay "I Want a Wife", first describe what Bready means by wife and then describe whether such ideal wife exists or not.