List of English Essays and Grammar Topics (Updated)

ESSAYS

> My Favorite Personality (Coming Soon)
> Reasons for Low Literacy Rate in Pakistan (Posted on 1 Jan.)
> Disadvantages of Cell Phones 
> Muslims are not Terrorists
> Beijing Olympics 2008
> Beijing Olympics 2008 Records and Ceremony
> The Fate of Atomic Energy
> World Trade Organization (WTO)- An American Perspective
> Importance of Education
> Negative Apply for Unemployment
> Actions Speak Louder than Words
> E-Commerce in Pakistan
> Multinational- A Threat to Developing Economics
> Advertising Agencies in Trade and Industry
> Problems of Mega City
> Self-Reliance and Self-Improvement is the Key to Success
> The Invention of Computer Technology that Changed My Life
> Responsibilities of Citizens in the Face of Terrorism
> Urdu as A Medium of Instruction
> Most of the Pakistani TV Channels are New
> Energy Crisis in Pakistan
> A Visit to Seaside in Karachi
> Future of Science in Pakistan
> Agriculture in Pakistan
> Student Life

GRAMMAR TOPICS

> Putting of Missing Verbs Forms in News Reports (Coming Soon)

> Verbs (Posted on 26 Dec.)
> Tenses of Verb (Present, Past, Future)
> Personal Pronouns
> Interrogative Pronouns (WH Pronouns)
> Form of Tenses in Verb
> Active and Passive Voice
> Auxiliaries
> Strong and Weak Verbs

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Reasons for Low Literacy Rate in Pakistan

Literacy rate is low in almost all the developing countries like Pakistan. However, Pakistan, unfortunately, has the slavish and feudal spell of colonialism in which education was only the privilege of the well-to-do, and the poor were not considered worth educating, as their only fate was the manual labor and blue-collar jobs. It is a pity that 97% of the population of our country is Muslims whose religion has declared literacy compulsory for every man or woman irrespective of his/her social, physical, financial, or cultural status. This shows that we are at such a terribly pathetic stage of our history where we are

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Disadvantages of Cell Phones

Cell phones have become an integral part of our lives. A man without a cell phone is considered, or sometimes considers himself, incomplete. As it is the case with not only any invention or contrivance but also with any object consideration to be capable of misuse or abuse, the cell phones are also subject to the human approach.

“There is nothing bad in anything in its original sense; it is the thinking that makes it so” Shakespeare
“The mind in its own place makes a heaven of a hell or a hell of a heaven” Milton.

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Muslims are not Terrorists

It is a well-established fact that the so-called world “intelligentsia” has been unable to put forward any rational definition of the word “Terrorism”. Everywhere we come across different aspects of this bogey. Some westernized minds say, “All Muslims are not terrorists, but all the terrorists are Muslims”. However, we can remember that there have been terrorist acts by the Tamil Tigers, the Russian intelligence Agency “K.G.B”, the Indian Intelligence Agency, “RAW”, the US Intelligence Agency “C.I.A”, the Korean and the most atrocious “The Israel troops and forces”. The true and bitterly true side of this scenario is that the activities of a handful of Muslims are like those of Robin Hood, Zorro,

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The Fate of Atomic Energy

It had been sufficient for eye opening of the world to see what had happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki cities of Japan. What a great destruction was made of human life and property is a historical event to be remembered by all the peace loving nations of the world. During the post war period after 1945 to 1990 the American block and Iron curtain Russian block both remained busy in inventing and dumping the atomic weapons. Meanwhile Chine, France and Great Britain have become atomic powers, and now in the last years of 20th century. India,

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Verbs

The word Verb is derived from Latin Word VERBUM, which means a Word. It is an important word of a sentence. A verb tells us:

(1) What a person or thing does
E.g.: (a) She sits (b) He runs etc

Transitive and Intransitive:
(2) What is done to a person or thing is called a Transitive (Passing over) Verb.
E.g.: (a) He eats (food) (b) You write (letters)

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Tenses of Verb (Present, Past, Future)

Tense of verb shows the “time” of an action or event, accordingly:

(1) A verb that refers to present time is called Present Tense.
e.g., I eat, We go, Horse runs etc.

(2) A verb that refers to past time is called Past Tense.
e.g., I ate, We slept, Boys played etc

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Personal Pronouns

While mentioning the subjects in the sentences we avoid o repeat the proper nouns and in their place, we use Personal Pronouns.
e.g. For Ahmed drinks a milk, we can write, he drinks milk.

They are called Persons. Read the following examples.
I go, we go, you go, He (She, it) goes, they go.

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Interrogative Pronouns (WH Pronouns)

These are the pronouns used for asking questions.
e.g.

1) Who comes here every day?

2) Whose in this house?

3) Whom did she like?

4) What do you want?

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Form of Tenses in Verb

According to completeness or incompleteness of the actions of verbs. There are four forms of each tense (Present, Past, Future).

Indefinite or Simple:The Verb in this form of tense expresses the action simply without mentioning about the completeness or incompleteness of the work.
e.g. I come, We go, You eat, I played, They went, You’ll sleep etc.

Continuous:
The verb in this form of tense expresses incomplete or continuous action.
e.g., I am going, You were going, She’ll be going etc.

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Active and Passive Voice

Compare the sentences.

(1) Salma helps Sara (2) Sara is helped by Salma


Both the sentences have the same meaning. In first sentence, Salma (Subject) does the work on Sara (Object) it is called Active Voice.


In second sentence, something (help) is done to Sara (denoted by the subject). In short, in Active Voice person denoted by the subject does something and is the

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Auxiliaries

Following is the list of Auxiliaries.

• Be (is, am, are, was, were, being, been)
• Have
• Do
• Can (can, could)
• May (may, might)
• Shall (shall, should)
• Will (will, would, won’t)
• Must
• Used
• Ought
• Need
• Dare

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Strong and Weak Verbs

The principal parts of a verb in English are

Present (First Form)             Past (Second Form)             Past Participle (Third Form)

Weak Verbs:

These verbs end in ‘d’ and ‘t’ and have the same form for present and past.

Examples 

	1st Form	2nd Form	3rd Form
Put	Put	Put	Put
Hit	Hit	Hit	Hit
Shut	Shut	Shut	Shut
Spread	Spread	Spread	Spread
Shed	Shed	Shed	Shed

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World Trade Organization (WTO)- An American Perspective

Good-paying American jobs, higher living standards, and the continued growth of the U.S economy depend on the ability to sell its goods and services to consumers everywhere. The World Trade Organization (WTO) helps the U.S achieve this goal. As a leading force in establishing the WTO as an international institution, the U.S negotiates trade agreements to reduce barriers to trade with 144 other members today, allowing American businesses, farmers and working people to find new opportunities, create new jobs, and raise family living

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Importance of Education

"All professions are conspiracies against the laity." George Bernard Shaw, "The Doctor's Dilemma"

"Give a man fish, and you feed him for one day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime." Chinese Proverb

"Train up a fig tree in the way it should go; and when you are old, sit under it." Charles Dickens, "Dombey and Son"

"If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a

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Negative Apply for Unemployment

Unemployment affects not just the person himself but also his/her family and in the end the society where he lives. Unemployment brings with it despair, unhappiness and anguish. If forces people to live their lives in a way they do not wish to - The life expectancy is negatively affected.Life expectancy is the ease by which people living in a time/place are able to satisfy their needs/wants. Here are the main aspects:

• Mental Health: Mental health problem like law self-confidence, feeling

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Beijing Olympics 2008

The 2008 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Game of the XXIX Olympiad, was a major international multi-sport event that took place in Beijing, China, from Aug 8 (except football, which started on Aug 6) to Aug 24, 2008. 10,500 athletes competed in 302 events in 28 sports; one event more than was on the schedule of the 2004 Games.

2008 Olympic Torch

The design of the Olympic Torch is based on traditional scrolls and uses a traditional Chinese design known as the "Propitious Clouds". The torch is

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Beijing Olympics 2008 Records and Ceremony

Olympic Records

The top ten ranked NOCs at these Games are listed below.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10	China (CHN) United States (USA) Russia (RUS) Great Britain (GBR) Germany (GER) Australia (AUS) South Korea (KOR) Japan (JPN) Italy (ITA) France (FRA)	51 36 23 19 16 14 13 9 8 7	21 38 21 13 10 15 10 6 10 16	28 36 28 15 15 17 8 10 10 17	100 110 72 47 41 46 31 25 28 40

The Games saw 43 new world records and 132 new Olympic records set. A

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Actions Speak Louder than Words

“I am ashamed of my emptiness”, said the Word to Work,

“I know how poor I am when I see you”,  said the Work to Word. Rabindamath Tagore “Stray Birds”

“People who know how to  act are never preachers”, -Emerson

“A thought that does not result in an action is nothing much,  and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all” –George Bernanos

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E-Commerce in Pakistan

The Pakistan Software Export Board (PSEB) has a number of programs to activate the local IT sector.

• IT companies qualify for an income tax exemption on software-export revenues until June 30^th 2016
• Software exporters may retain 35% of their earnings in foreign exchange accounts.
• Computers and related hardware are exempt from customs duties, though

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