ONE GLASS HOUSE---poem by Atul Vir Arora
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Today
Morning
This play walked in,
Shining like glass
Scintillating
Brittle like beautiful layer of water,
Like a molten liquid
Just now the conflict would come to the fore
And would break with a thud
Breaking into smithreens.
Let it penetrate
Into the heels of feet.
Let it come out
With agony
With blood sprouting .
The skin of memories have hardened,
Come out from pores of capillaries
Come sing in rhthym
The title song of love affair
More delicate than glass itself.
But a song dry and sere like
Paper flowers
Emerge from within my psyche.
Some asleep,some awake,
Some broken
Glass houses.
TRANSLATED by principal Bhupinder Singh-(Retd)
20/8.2011
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
ग्रम्मर रुलेस ग्रम्मर
grammar rules in a simple way for all classes
Bhupinder Singh
RULES OF GRAMMAR AT A GLANCE
1. Agreement of subject with verb e.g. The Manager as well as his wife and children was shocked at the news.
2. A singular subject requires a singular verb even though intervening words may be plural.
e.g. A new system of ideas and principles has been started.
3. The verb agrees with the subject not with the predicate noun (noun which follows the subject).
e.g. The best time to see the stars is two hours after midnight.
4. A compound subject connected be ‘and’ takes a plural verb. e.g. Precision and speed in typing are acquired by practice. But when the compound subject consists of two words of closely related meaning or of two nouns naming the same person, the verb is singular.
e.g. My coach and helper gives me confidence.
5. Use singular verbs with singular pronouns including each, either, anyone, neither, someone, anybody, everybody, nobody, none, e.g. Each of the five patients has been cured.
6. None usually takes a plural verb unless a singular idea is clearly expressed.
e.g. None of them are willing to take the responsibility.
7. When a subject is connected by either-or, neithcr-nor the verb is usually made to agree with the nearer.
e.g. (i) Neither the car nor its occupants were shaken.
(ii) Neither the occupants nor the car was shaken.
Rule : Neither + Subject I + Nor + Subject 2 + Verb of Subject 2 + Object (Same Rule for Either-Or)
Subject I + as well as + subject 2 + verb of object I + object (Same Rule for In addition to, alongwith besides).
8. Use a singular verb when the subject is the name of the book, a poem, a newspaper, a motion picture or a drama or the like. e.g.’ The complete works of Shaw is an immense book.
‘The Times of India’ is an excellent paper.
9. Quantity and sums or multiples of numbers when expressing a singular idea may take a singular verb.
e.g. 12 inches is one foot.
10. Fractions take a singular verb if the subject of the following phrase is singular.
Bhupinder Singh
RULES OF GRAMMAR AT A GLANCE
1. Agreement of subject with verb e.g. The Manager as well as his wife and children was shocked at the news.
2. A singular subject requires a singular verb even though intervening words may be plural.
e.g. A new system of ideas and principles has been started.
3. The verb agrees with the subject not with the predicate noun (noun which follows the subject).
e.g. The best time to see the stars is two hours after midnight.
4. A compound subject connected be ‘and’ takes a plural verb. e.g. Precision and speed in typing are acquired by practice. But when the compound subject consists of two words of closely related meaning or of two nouns naming the same person, the verb is singular.
e.g. My coach and helper gives me confidence.
5. Use singular verbs with singular pronouns including each, either, anyone, neither, someone, anybody, everybody, nobody, none, e.g. Each of the five patients has been cured.
6. None usually takes a plural verb unless a singular idea is clearly expressed.
e.g. None of them are willing to take the responsibility.
7. When a subject is connected by either-or, neithcr-nor the verb is usually made to agree with the nearer.
e.g. (i) Neither the car nor its occupants were shaken.
(ii) Neither the occupants nor the car was shaken.
Rule : Neither + Subject I + Nor + Subject 2 + Verb of Subject 2 + Object (Same Rule for Either-Or)
Subject I + as well as + subject 2 + verb of object I + object (Same Rule for In addition to, alongwith besides).
8. Use a singular verb when the subject is the name of the book, a poem, a newspaper, a motion picture or a drama or the like. e.g.’ The complete works of Shaw is an immense book.
‘The Times of India’ is an excellent paper.
9. Quantity and sums or multiples of numbers when expressing a singular idea may take a singular verb.
e.g. 12 inches is one foot.
10. Fractions take a singular verb if the subject of the following phrase is singular.
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