FA Part 1 students can download the official English Grammar and Composition textbook for Class 11 here for free. This book is published by Punjab Curriculum and Textbook Board (PCTB) Lahore and covers the complete grammar and composition syllabus for intermediate classes. This page covers the first five chapters, the core grammar foundations, while the composition chapters and advanced grammar topics are covered on the Class 12 page.
For 1st year students, this half of the book builds the grammar foundation everything else depends on: parts of speech, punctuation, tenses, common errors, and sentence types. Each chapter below includes real examples from the book and its own important questions, useful for quick revision before the English paper.
Book Overview
| Class | 11th Class / 1st Year |
| Subject | English Grammar and Composition |
| Category | FA, FSC, ICS, ICOM (All Intermediate) |
| Board | Punjab Board (PCTB) |
| Author | Zarqa Bashir |
| Chapters Covered | 5 of 13 (Grammar Basics: Parts of Speech to Sentences) |
| Format | PDF (Free Download) |
Chapter List
Chapter 1: Parts of Speech
This chapter introduces the eight parts of speech and their subtypes in detail. Nouns are broken into proper/common, collective, countable/uncountable, material, abstract, and compound types. Pronouns cover ten categories with a full personal-pronoun case table. Verbs are classified as action, auxiliary, transitive/intransitive, stative, modal, phrasal, regular/irregular, and linking, alongside subject-verb agreement rules. The chapter closes with adjective comparison degrees, adverb kinds, a preposition usage table, conjunction classes, and interjections.
Important Questions:
- What are the eight parts of speech? Noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection.
- In the sentence ‘The crowd is very big,’ what kind of noun is ‘crowd’? It is a Collective Noun, since it names a group taken as a whole.
- Choose the correct verb form: ‘Rabia ___ a mile every day.’ ‘runs’ — third person singular subjects take the -s/-es form in the simple present.
- Fill in the blank with the correct preposition: ‘Rashid is fond ___ muffins.’ ‘of’ — the fixed phrase is ‘fond of’.
Chapter 2: Punctuation
This chapter explains the eight main punctuation marks and their rules: the full stop, the comma (lists, vocative address, apposition, direct speech, dates), the question mark, the exclamation mark, the colon (before quotations, lists, or closely related clauses), the semicolon (joining related clauses, especially when they already contain commas), the apostrophe (contractions, plurals, possession), and quotation marks.
Important Questions:
- How should ‘I dont know Jameel’ be correctly punctuated? ‘I don’t know, Jameel.’ — a comma is placed before a word in the vocative (direct-address) case.
- Punctuate: ‘What are you doing next weekend’ ‘What are you doing next weekend?’ — a question mark closes a direct question.
- When should a semicolon replace a comma in a compound sentence? When the individual clauses already contain commas, e.g. ‘She was a lovely, young woman; and we all loved her.’
- How is possession shown with an apostrophe? Before or after possessive -s, as in ‘the cat’s master’ (singular) and ‘my parents’ house’ (plural).
Chapter 3: Tenses
This chapter covers the three main tenses, Present, Past, and Future, each broken into four forms: simple, continuous, perfect, and perfect continuous, with structure tables and example sentences. It shows how each tense changes across positive, negative, interrogative, and negative-interrogative sentence types, and includes a reference table of irregular past/past-participle verb forms.
Important Questions:
- Identify the tense: ‘Dawood drinks coffee every morning.’ Simple Present Tense.
- Identify the tense: ‘The train has just left the station.’ Present Perfect Tense.
- Identify the tense: ‘The sick child has been sleeping for three hours.’ Present Perfect Continuous Tense.
- Identify the tense: ‘Pervez had done his homework when her parents came back.’ Past Perfect Tense.
Chapter 4: Correction of Common Errors
This chapter lists eight recurring grammar mistakes and how to fix them: subject-verb agreement, pronoun-antecedent errors, apostrophe misuse, redundancy, misplaced modifiers, lack of parallel structure, comma splices, and faulty comparisons, each shown as an incorrect sentence paired with its correction.
Important Questions:
- Correct the error: ‘Many peoples attended the funeral of the great man.’ ‘Many people attended the funeral of the great man’ — ‘people’ is already plural and takes no -s.
- Correct the error: ‘The children was playing in the giants garden.’ ‘The children were playing in the giant’s garden’ — fixes subject-verb agreement and adds the possessive apostrophe.
- What is a comma splice, and how is it fixed? Joining two independent clauses with only a comma; it is fixed with a semicolon, as in ‘I ordered pizza; I also ordered garlic knots.’
- Why is ‘The weather in Canada is colder than Mexico’ a faulty comparison? It illogically compares weather to a country; the correct form is ‘colder than the weather in Mexico.’
Chapter 5: Sentences
This chapter defines a sentence as a group of words containing a subject and predicate, then classifies sentences by function, declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory, and by structure, simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex, showing how clauses combine using coordinating conjunctions, semicolons, or subordinators like ‘because,’ ‘when,’ and ‘who.’
Important Questions:
- What are the four types of sentences based on function? Declarative, Interrogative, Imperative, and Exclamatory sentences.
- What type of sentence is ‘Please clean your cupboard today’? An imperative sentence, since it gives an instruction or request.
- Give an example of a compound-complex sentence from the chapter. ‘He did not come because he was ill so his friend was not happy’ — two independent clauses joined by ‘so’ plus a dependent clause starting with ‘because’.
- What is the key difference between a complex and a compound sentence? A complex sentence joins an independent clause with a dependent clause using a subordinator; a compound sentence joins two or more independent clauses of equal rank.
Download English Grammar and Composition Class 11 PDF
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Who Should Read This
This book is for all FA, FSC, ICS, and ICOM Part 1 students studying English under Punjab Board. This page covers the grammar fundamentals — parts of speech, punctuation, tenses, common errors, and sentence types — that every 1st year student needs before moving on to the composition topics on the Class 12 page.
Applicable Boards
This PCTB textbook is used across all Punjab Board affiliated colleges — Lahore Board, Faisalabad Board, Gujranwala Board, Multan Board, Rawalpindi Board, Sargodha Board, DG Khan Board, and Sahiwal Board.
FAQs
Is this the official PCTB English Grammar book for Class 11?
Yes. This is the official PCTB English Grammar and Composition textbook for intermediate classes, approved by Punjab Board and authored by Zarqa Bashir.
Is this book for FA students only?
No. This book is common for all intermediate categories under Punjab Board including FA, FSC, ICS, and ICOM. Both 1st year and 2nd year students use the same Grammar and Composition book.
How many chapters does this book have, and which ones are on this page?
The full book has 13 chapters. This Class 11 page covers the first 5, the core grammar chapters (Parts of Speech, Punctuation, Tenses, Correction of Common Errors, and Sentences). The remaining chapters, including Pair of Words, Idioms, and all composition topics, are on the Class 12 page.
Where can I find essays, letters, and pair of words?
Those chapters are covered on the Class 12 page, since this shared book’s composition and advanced grammar chapters are grouped there.
Is the PDF free to download?
Yes, the English Grammar and Composition Class 11 PDF is completely free to download and read on any device.
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