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Complete unit-wise notes for the Legal Language, Legal Writing and General English paper. Unit I, comprehension and composition: reading comprehension of general and legal texts, basic grammar — sentence, subject and predicate, phrase and clause, case, number, person, gender, tense, active and passive, modals, prepositions, infinitives, articles, gerunds and degrees of comparison — essay, story, paragraph and précis writing, abstract writing and note taking. Unit II, communication and law: the meaning of communication, its approaches, types and directions, formal and informal communication, written and oral communication, verbal, nonverbal and paralinguistic communication, barriers to communication and cultural and language sensitivity, and the legal maxims and Urdu and Hindi words the courts still use. Unit III, advocacy skills and legal reasoning: court etiquette and decorum, law and logic, the Aristotelian syllogism, deductive and inductive reasoning, and Levi's and Bodenheimer's models of legal reasoning. Unit IV, law and literature: Galsworthy's Justice, To Kill a Mocking Bird, the court scene from The Merchant of Venice, and The Handmaid's Tale. Written against the official syllabus, 82 pages.