Introduction to basics of grammar: The English Alphabet
We have a set of letters in a fixed order in any language that is called alphabet of that language. Such as- English language, Hindi language, Urdu language etc.
Letter: A symbol usually written or printed representing a speech sound and constituting a unit of an alphabet.
- There are 26 letters in the English alphabet.
- We write these letters in 2 ways:
- Capital letters (Upper Case)
- Small letters (Lower Case)
The capital letters may be written like this:
The small letters may be written like this:
We can divide these letters in two groups:
- Vowels: Aa, Ee, Ii, Oo and Uu are called vowels.
- Consonants: All the letters except vowels are called consonants.
We can learn vowels and consonants better with the help of Hindi alphabets.
Vowels (स्वर)
- a ( अ )
- aa ( आ )
- e/i ( इ )
- ee ( ई )
- u/o ( उ )
- oo/u ( ऊ )
- e/ai ( ए )
- ai ( ऐ )
- o ( ओ )
- au/ou ( औ )
- ang ( अं )
- ah ( अ: )
Consonants ((व्यंजन)
- ka ( क )
- kha ( ख )
- ga ( ग )
- gha ( घ )
- nga ( ङ )
- cha ( च )
- chha ( छ )
- ja ( ज )
- jha ( झ )
- yan ( ञ )
- ta ( ट )
- tha ( ठ )
- da ( ड )
- dha ( ढ़ )
- na ( ण )
- ta ( त )
- tha ( थ )
- da ( द )
- dha ( ध )
- na ( न )
- pa ( प )
- pha/fa ( फ )
- ba ( ब )
- bha ( भ )
- ma ( म )
- ya ( य )
- ra ( र )
- la ( ल )
- va/wa ( व )
- sha ( श )
- sha ( ष )
- sa ( स )
- ha ( ह )
- ksha ( क्ष )
- tra ( त्र )
- gya ( ज्ञा )
- shra ( श्र )
NOTE:
- All sentences start with capital letters. Such as-This is water. That is milk. etc.
- The first letter of name and surname is capital letter. Such as- Joseph Jacob, Ishmael Abraham etc.
- Uses capital letters for abbreviation. Such as- CPU- Central Processing Unit, PM- Prime Minister etc.
Exercises or Practice questions:
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