CUET PG English Grammar Handwritten Notes, free to download as a 20-page PDF. The topic is worth about 6 to 10 marks and takes roughly one day to learn, so treat it as a single focused sitting.
The notes are scans of a real notebook: short lines, boxed rules, and a margin note wherever something is easy to get wrong.
CUET PG General Paper Structure
COQP11 carries 75 bilingual questions across five official sections. These notes cover the second half of the first one.
| Unit | Official section |
|---|---|
| 1 | English Comprehension |
| 2 | General Knowledge/Awareness |
| 3 | Computer Basics |
| 4 | General Aptitude & Logical Reasoning |
| 5 | Logical Reasoning |
What the Notes Cover
- Subject-verb agreement, the most planted error of the lot
- Tense, and the two rules that cover almost every tense question
- Articles, decided by sound and not by the letter written down
- Prepositions that get planted, learned as fixed pairs
- Misplaced modifiers and parallelism
- Confusable pairs, redundancy, and correlative pairs like hardly with when
- One-word substitution, roots, synonyms, antonyms and idioms
How to Approach the Section
These questions are not testing whether you can write. They test whether you can spot, and the examiner plants a small number of errors over and over. Learn those six or seven and you will find most of them before finishing the line.
Run the same checklist in the same order every time: find the main verb and its subject, check agreement, check the tense against any time marker, then prepositions, articles, pronouns and parallel form. Order makes it automatic.
In sentence improvement, the fix is usually to cut rather than to add. When two options mean the same thing and one is shorter, the shorter one is the answer.
Common Mistakes
- Matching the verb to the nearest noun instead of the actual subject
- Choosing a or an by the letter rather than the sound. An MBA, a university
- Answering the synonym when the question asked for the antonym
- Taking an idiom literally. The literal option is there to be chosen
- Breaking a correlative pair: hardly with than, no sooner with when
- Never picking NO ERROR. It is a real option and it is right sometimes
Video Revision
Source: CUET PG Wallah
How to Use These Notes
Page 9 is the spotting checklist and page 19 is a one-page recall grid. Between them they are a workable revision for the whole section on the morning of the exam.
Page 11 lists ten word roots. Learning those rather than word lists is what makes an unfamiliar word in a synonym question guessable.
Reading comprehension, paragraph completion and jumbled paragraphs are in the companion set of notes.
CUET PG English Grammar Notes FAQs
Ques. What grammar is tested in CUET PG?
Ans. NTA lists English grammar, usage errors, sentence correction and sentence improvement, alongside one-word substitution, synonyms, antonyms, and idioms and phrases. The same list appears again in Hindi.
Ques. Which error is planted most often?
Ans. Subject-verb agreement, and always the same way: a phrase is inserted between the subject and its verb so the verb agrees with the wrong noun. Cross out the phrase in between and it becomes obvious.
Ques. How do I choose between a and an?
Ans. By sound, never by the letter written. It is an hour and an MBA because those begin with vowel sounds, and a university and a one-rupee coin because those begin with consonant sounds.
Ques. Is NO ERROR ever the right answer?
Ans. Yes, and it is chosen too rarely. If you have run the full checklist and found nothing, trust it rather than inventing a fault.
Ques. Can the notes be downloaded free?
Ans. Yes. All 20 pages can be read on this page and downloaded at no cost.
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