Maharashtra State Board HSC Board Question Paper

Can you provide me the syllabus of English - Compulsory Subject on which the question paper of Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary is based?

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The syllabus of English - Compulsory Subject on which the question paper of Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary is based is as follows:

a) A Course book in English (Yuvabharati)
1. For Detailed Study
i) Prose : About 80 pages of literary and non-literary (informative) texts passages
(excluding notes, illustrations, tasks, etc.)
ii) Poetry : About 200-250 lines
2. For Non-detailed study
A selection of literary and non-literary texts (Longer Pieces) : About 40 pages.
b) Grammar

Revision of the items learned up to Std XI.
1 The Tenses Advanced level of the tenses learned upto Std XI.Sequence of Tenses.
2. Types of sentences Simple, Compound, Complex, Relative clauses.
3. Clauses Proper usage and synthesis.
4 Voice Statements, questions, indirect objects, object + object complement, negatives. (Advanced level) (Conversion)
5. Reported Speech Advanced level, continuous short paragraph consisting of three to four connected sentences.
6. Uses of ‘too’ and Conversion and synthesis. ‘enough’
7 Modal Auxiliaries may, might, must, etc.
8 Articles Uses and omission of ‘a’, ‘an’, ‘the’
9. Prepositions Indicating time, place and direction.
10. Linking words/ Use of linking words in sentences and in larger units. discourse markers
11 Word formation Changing word forms-nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives
12. Infinitives, Gerunds Usage and synthesis and Participles