English Grammar Rules- Quick Revision for PNB SO

As you all know, the PNB SO exam 2025 has been scheduled for 5 May 2025, leaving a very short time for the correct preparation. This is an important phase to refine its understanding of each subject. In all subjects, the English PNB SO holds significant importance in the exam. A strong command of English helps clean the written examination and promotes overall communication skills, which are important for the role of an expert officer.

English grammar rules for PNB

To help you in preparing this final-minute PNB toWe present a brief compilation of the required English grammar regulations that will help you strengthen your basic principles and increase your accuracy and speed in the exam.

1. Noun – rule

• Rule 1: Proper nouns Always start with a capital letter.
  Correct: Ravi lives in Delhi.
• Rule 2: uncountable nouns Do not take ‘A’ or ‘A’ and there are always singular.
  Correct: Information is useful.
  Wrong: One information is useful.
• Rule 3: collective nouns Depending on the use can take a solution or plural verb.
  Correct: Team Is win. (As a unit)
  Correct: Team Are to argue. (As individuals)

2. Pronoun

• Rule 1: pronoun should agree With their anticadents in the number and penis.
  Correct: Every student did His homework.
• Rule 2: Avoid vague pronoun.
  Wrong: When Rahul met Mohan, He Was happy (Who is he”?)
• Rule 3: Reflectual pronoun Can not be the subject.
  Wrong: Went to the market himself.
  Correct: I went to the market myself.

3. Verb

• Rule 1: Activities should agree with number of subjects.
  Correct: He runs fast.
  Wrong: He runs fast.
• Rule 2: Use the correct form of the verb after modal.
  Correct: She can speak English.
• Rule 3: Avoid double negative.
  Wrong: He did nothing.
  Correct: He did nothing.

4. Period of time

• Rule 1: Maintain stress in a sentence.
  Correct: She came, sat down, and started talking.
• Rule 2: Current Perfect Used for the tasks that occurred at an unspecified time.
  Correct: I have seen that film.
• Rule 3: Use past perfect For the first of the previous tasks.
  Correct: He had left Before me arrived,

5. Adjective – Rules

• Rule 1: adjectives usually come before the noun.
  Correct: She wore a red dress.
• Rule 2: Do not use comparative with “double comparative”.
  Wrong: Better
  Correct: better
• Rule 3: Use the correct adjective order.
  Correct: A beautiful short round Indian table.

6. Adverbs – Rules

• Rule 1: Adverbs amend the verb, adjective or other adverbs.
  Correct: She sings Beautifully,
• Rule 2: Never use “no” with “rarely”, “rarely”, “barely”.
  Wrong: I hardly not saw him.
  Correct: I have hardly seen him.
• Rule 3: Refers of frequency come before the main activities, but “after being”.
  Correct: She always comes late.
  Correct: she is always late.

7. Subject-process agreement

• Rule 1: Insolvency subjects take singular actions.
  Correct: The dog barks.
• Rule 2: When using “either/or”, the verb agrees to the nearest topic.
  Correct: Either boy or girl Is Responsible.
• Rule 3: Indefinite pronoun like everyone, each, no one is unique.
  Correct: Everyone Is Here.

8. Proposal

• Rule 1: Use “in” for months/years, “on” for dates/days for time.
  Correct: Birth In 1999, Monday, 5 pm.
• Rule 2: Some actions are always followed by specific proposals.
  • Interested in, trust, good, etc.
    Correct: He is good But Mathematic.
• Rule 3: Avoid fruitless pre -groups.
  Wrong: Where are you going?
  Correct: Where are you going?

9. Conjunction – Rules

• Rule 1: The coordination combination should be added properly.
  Correct: Not only… but also, either… either, neither… nor …
• Rule 2: Use “however” (contrast) – “But” but not “.
  Correct: Although he is poor, he is honest.
• Rule 3: Avoid the splashes of the altarma (join 2 sentences with just one altitude).
  Wrong: She was tired, she fell asleep.
  Correct: She was tired, so she slept.

10. Article

• Rule 1: Use “A” before the consonant sounds, “A” before the tone.
  Correct: A book, a apple, an hour
• Rule 2: Use “The” before specific or earlier mentioned nouns.
  Correct: I saw A Dog. The dog was barking.
• Rule 3: Do not use articles before appropriate noun.
  Wrong: India is a big country.

11. Voice (active/passive) – rule

• Rule 1: In passive voice, the object becomes the subject.
  Correct: he wrote a letter. → A letter was written by him.
• Rule 2: Only transitive verbs can be used in passive voice.
• Rule 3: Stress should be preserved in stress change.

12. Direct and indirect speech – rules

• Rule 1: Change in stress (if the reporting action is past).
  Correct: He said, “I’m tired.” → He said that he was tired.
• Rule 2: Change the pronoun and time expressions.
  • Now → again, today → that day, I → that/that/that
• Rule 3: If the action is currently no stressful changes.
  Correct: He says, “I am happy.” → He says he is happy.

13. Conditional sentence – rule

IF-Clause	Main section (result)	Example
simple present	simple present	if you heat ice, it melts.
simple present	Will + verb	If it rains, I will live.
Simple past	Will be + verb	If I was you, I would go.
past perfect	+ There will be parts of the past	If he had studied, he would have passed.