DSSSB TGT cheat sheet
DSSSB TGT · Keep the key ideas within reach.
English Language & Comprehension
Subject-verb agreement: 'one of the + plural noun' takes a singular verb; 'each, every, either, neither' are singular; 'a number of' takes plural, 'the number of' takes singular.
Tenses: use present perfect (has/have + past participle) with 'since' and 'for'; use past perfect for the earlier of two past actions.
Articles: 'a' before consonant sounds, 'an' before vowel sounds (an hour, a university); no article before uncountable nouns used generally.
Prepositions: 'since' with a point of time, 'for' with duration; 'between' for two, 'among' for more than two; 'discuss' and 'reach' take no preposition.
Active to passive: object becomes subject, verb becomes be + past participle, agent follows 'by'; intransitive verbs cannot be made passive.
Direct to indirect speech: change tense one step back, adjust pronouns to the reporter, and convert 'this/here/now' to 'that/there/then'.
Vocabulary roots: 'bene' good, 'mal' bad, 'cred' believe, 'dict' say, 'spec' look; prefixes 'anti-', 'pre-', 'sub-', 'trans-' change meaning predictably.
Common error traps: 'comprise' takes no 'of'; 'superior, inferior, senior' take 'to' not 'than'; 'hardly' and 'scarcely' are followed by 'when', not 'than'.