Author: Gopi Chand Narang
Translator(s)/ Editors(s): M J Warsi / Tahsin Siddiqi
Publisher: National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language
Year: 2002
Language: multilingual
Pages: 111
ISBN/UPC (if available): NA
Description
This Exercise book is prepared to accompany URDU: readings in Literary Urdu Prose by Professor Gopi Chand Narang. The text comprises graded selections from literary Urdu prose and excerpts from speeches keeping in view the lexical and stylistic difficulties. It provides learners with an elementary knowledge of Urdu a smooth transition to advanced level introducing features of the cultural tradition.
This book explains the major types of grammatical constructions an provides exercises for practice. A brief description of grammatical terms is given at the beginning of each Unit so that the learners are acquainted with grammatical rules while attempting exercises. It is obvious that this is not a comprehensive grammar of Urdu.
The book is aimed primarily for learners who feel a need for explicit discussion of basic grammatical features and profit from attempting general exercises.
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Some Old Tales (Part-1): Gopi Chand Narang
Noun
Exercise
Some Old Tales (Part-2): Gopi Chand Narang
Possessives
Exercises
The Arabian Nights: Gopi Chand Narang
Auxiliaries
Exercises
True Love: Zakir Hussain
Participles
Exercises
Premchand: Qamar Rais
Comparative and
Superlative degrees
Exercises
Godan: Premchand
Reflexive Possessive
Exercises
Umrao Jan Ada: Mirza M. Hadi Ruswa
Adverbial Expressions
Exercises
Sir Sayyid Ahmed Khan: Sayyid Ehtisham Husain
Emphatic Particles
Exercises
Fancy Fair: Muhammad Husain Azad
Imperatives
Exercises
Maualana Azad in Lok
Sabha: Abul Kalam Azad
Present and past perfect tense
Exercises
Nam Dev Gardener: Maulavi Abdul Haq
Subjunctive
Exercises
A Road a Quarter Mile
Long: Krishan Chander
Reduplication
Exercises
Celibacy: Mahatma Gandhi
Pronouns and
Postpositions
Conjunctive particle
Exercises
Charpoy: Rashid Amad Siddiqui
Future tense
Exercises
Jawaharlal Nehru: Ale Ahmad Suroor
Use of ‘to have’
Numerals
Exercises
Mirza Ghalib: Altaf Husain Hali
Pronoun
Infinitive pronoun
Exercises
Bagh-o-Bahar: Mir Amman Dehlavi
Voice (Active and
Passive)
Exercise