Fractions and decimals

We say simple fractions like this:

1/8 = one eighth

5/7 = five sevenths
2/5 = two fifths
3/4 hour = three quarters of an hour

The ability to expand a sentence or a short passage into a large paragraph is essential to be a good writer. The expansion of a passage practically amounts to the writing of miniature essays on the subject of the original passage. There are no strict rules for the length of the paragraph. It must be neither too short nor too long.

A biography is the account of a person’s life written by another person. An example is ‘Life of Johnson’ written by Boswell. An autobiography is the story of a person’s life written by that person. An example is ‘My Experiments With Truth’ written by M.K. Gandhi.

In British English dates are usually written as given below:

26 May 1979

30 October 2003

Note that the names of months always begin with capital letters.

Contractions are forms like I’ve and he’ll. There are two kinds of contractions:

Noun/pronoun etc + auxiliary verb

Look at any printed prose text, and you will notice that the text content is divided into sections. Each one of these sections of text is called a paragraph. Every form of prose composition is broken up into paragraphs to make them easily readable.