English for Nursing Students

Table of Contents ESSAYS 1 Indian Crowds Nirad C Chaudhuri 2 On Saying Please AG Gardiner 3 The Great Exhibition MK Gandhi 4 On the Edge of Oblivion Ian Wood 5 Athletes of the Beijing Olympics and Wishes from Pope Arghya Ganguly (A report in the Times of India) 6 Golden Eye Arghya Ganguly (Times of India) 7 Less Pain More Gain: Bangalore Arghya Ganguly (Times of India) POETRY 1 On His Blindness John Milton 2 Daffodils William Wordsworth 3 She Walks in Beauty Lord George Gordon Byron 4 Ozymandias Percy Bysshe Shelly 5 Ode to a Nightingale John Keats 6 Maud Alfred Lord Tennyson 7. The Lunatic the Lover and the Poet William Shakespeare 8 The Death of Sohrab Mathew Arnold 9 Ode to Solitude Alexander Pope 10 The Tyger William Blake 11 Nursing Song Anonymous 12 Soon Vikram Seth SHORT STORIES 1 Shri Sai Satcharitra (The Miracles of Shirdi Sai Baba) Govind Raghunath Dabholkar (Alias Hemadpant) 2 The Dollfs House Katherine Mansfield 3. The Three Dancing Goats (A folk tale) Anonymous 4 Fortune Teller Karel Capek 5 The Preaching George Eliot GRAMMAR 1 Parts of Speech Noun: Kinds Numbers Gender Case Verb: Kinds of Verbs Transitive and Intransitive: Usage of will and shall would and should can and could Forms of Verbs: Gerund Verbal Noun the Participle the Voice the Mood Adverb: Different