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Every time you put your thoughts or ideas into writing in a competitive exam: CSS or PMS, it must represent you at your very best. Your best greatly depends upon the correct use of grammar, sentence structuring, preposition, punctuation, vocabulary, expression, translation, and how explicitly you put your precise thoughts relevantly and coherently to the examiner. That is why CSS and PMS exams have made English essays and Precis & Composition papers compulsory. So, you have to care much about sentence correction, spelling, punctuation, and mechanics errors.
Expressing your thoughts on the given topic coherently, fluently, and grammatically correct by supporting each of your stances through examples, facts, and illustrations is the key to cracking CSS, PMS Essay paper. But, unfortunately, although most students, with dedication and practice, learn the art of essay writing within months; despite knowing how to build an argument, introduction, the body of the essay, and analytical conclusion, a great many aspirants in Pakistan fail to score the passing marks in the CSS, PMS Essay and precis papers. This situation baffles aspirants and keeps putting them into the vortex of confusion by making qualifying for essay writing and precis paper a Herculean task, if not to all but to a lot. To help aspirants understand the proper way of cracking essays and precise papers demands understanding the elements of an essay. An essay is a perfect amalgamation of well-connected, coherent thoughts that must not possess any grammatical, spelling, punctuation, and mechanics errors; otherwise, it distracts readers and examiners and results in the failure of an aspirant at large. Unfortunately, to add fuel to the fire, nearly all available books, notes, and websites – which Google displays when you search CSS Past Papers Sentence Corrections – have incorrectly explained the questions. In this detailed article, I have explained the CSS sentence correction questions in detail and what the CSS, PMS examiner sets out in the precis paper to test aspirants.
English, for sure, has dozens of cryptic grammatical rules, many of which the CSS, PMS examiner does not test. Without any doubt, the CSS, PMS precis papers are not set out to test grammar rules; they, instead, are set up to check the clarity of the written expression of an aspirant. For example, if you place a modifier at the wrong place, the intended meaning of a sentence become at odds.
Question# 6
I always have and always shall be your friend.
Answer
- I have always been and shall always be your friend.
- I have always been, and shall always be, your friend.
Explanation
In this sentence, there is a verb mistake. The examiner has incorrectly written the sentence by using two helping verbs, “Have” and “Shall”, to help one main verb “, Be”.
Always remember the fact that “One Helping Verb” can support “Two Main Verbs”, but “Two Helping Verbs” cannot support “One Main Verb”.
To correct the given sentence, we have to use two main verbs, one main verb with each helping verb. Thus, we will write the 3rd form of the verb “Been” after the first helping verb.
I have always been and shall always be your friend.
Important Note:
It is grammatically correct to use multiple tenses in a single clause as long as they are appropriate for the context and give proper sense.
For Example
I have heard that Mr Badar left for Lahore this morning and has already reached Sahiwal, where he will be for the next two days.
In this clause (sentence), I have used present perfect tense, past indefinite (simple) tense, and future indefinite (simple) tense. Although I have mixed different tenses in a single clause, they all convey sense together and create a logical sequence of events.
Remember, whenever you want to use multiple tenses in a single clause, try to write the other tense into commas, parenthesis, or two dashes.
Example
- I have always been, and shall always be, your friend.
- I have always been (and shall always be) your friend.
- I have always been – and shall always be – your friend.
Thus, the correct answer can be any of the following:
I have always been and shall always be your friend.
I have always been, and shall always be, your friend.
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