A-level Bengali₇₆₃₇

A-level students will be expected to have studied the grammatical system and structures of the language during their course. Knowledge of the grammar and structures specified for GCSE is assumed.

In the exam students will be required to use, actively and accurately, grammar and structures appropriate to the tasks set, drawn from the following lists. The mention of an item in these lists implies knowledge of both its forms and its functions at an appropriate level of accuracy and complexity.

The examples in italics in parentheses are indicative; they serve to illustrate the part of speech or structure that the student must know and do not represent an exhaustive specification of the required grammatical knowledge.

3.3.1 Script

All single and conjunct letter forms

3.3.2 Articles

Singular and plural

Diminutives

3.3.3 Personal pronouns

Singular and plural

Polite and familiar

Subject, object and possessive case

3.3.4 Other pronouns

Demonstrative

Indefinite ( কেউ, কিছু )

Reflexive ( নিজে, নিজের etc)

Relative and correlative pronouns

3.3.5 Interrogatives

কি, কী, কে, কখন, কবে, কোন, কেমন, কোথায়, কতো and other k-words

3.3.6 Nouns

Plural forms for personal nouns

Subject, object, possessive and locative/instrumental case

3.3.7 Adjectives

Gender (সুন্দর/সুন্দরী)

Comparison (বৃহৎ/বৃহত্তর, বৃহত্তম )

Use of চেয়ে / সবচেয়ে; of থেকে / সবথেকে to express comparisons

Interrogative adjectives (কী কোন কতো, কোথায়)

Indefinite adjectives ( কোনো, কিছু etc)

Adjectival postpositions ( তোমার সামনের টেবিলটা এটা/ওটা )

Demonstrative ( ‘এটা/ওটা )

3.3.8 Postpositions

With possessive case

Without possessive case

Double postpositions

Adjectival postpositions (আমার সামনের টেবিল)

3.3.9 Verbs

Tenses: present, future, present continuous, perfect, past perfect, simple past, past habitual, past continuous: familiar and polite

Negative forms

Second person present and future imperative: familiar and polite

Emphatic

Verbal noun + case endings

Negative of zero verb

Extended (causative) verbs

Compound verbs

Conjunct verbs (noun + করা, দেওয়া etc)

Stative verbs ( বসে আছি etc)

Imperative ( করতে হবে etc)

Verbal noun + যাওয়া construction ( দেখা যায় etc)

Hypothetical past and future conditions, using the past habitual tense in its conditional sense

3.3.10 Clauses

Impersonal constructions with আছে, নেই, নাই, হওয়া, করা, পাওয়া etc

Relative clauses

Non-hypothetical conditional clauses

Clauses of time, purpose, clause, result

Relative/correlative pairs such as যখন/তখন, যেমন/তেমন, যতো/ততো etc

Expressions of need with লাগা, দরকার etc

3.3.11 Numbers

Cardinal, with and without article

Ordinal, up to ‘tenth’

Dates (year, month, day: Western calendar)

3.3.12 Common variations in Bengali spelling

Hindu/Muslim distinctions in kinship terms and other words

East/West Bengal variations in standard Bengali

Bengali calendar