Subject: ASF Assistant Director Past Papers

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Sumayyah bint Khabbāṭ became the first shaheed (martyr) in Islam. She was the first female martyr of the Islamic community. Her husband, Yasir, was the second male shaheed. Hazrat Hais bin Halla (RA) was the first male shaheed of Islam.

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Bemoan means  رونا یا فریاد کرنا Lament means  غم منانا یا افسوس کرنا

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CCTV is designed to help prevent and detect crime. CCTV  can reassure the public about community safety . CCTV  is located in public places to: provide evidence to relevant enforcement agencies. CCTV : a  security monitor system  that enables us to always keep a watchful eye around or in your business. Closed-circuit television ( CCTV ), also known as video surveillance By one estimate, there  CCTV  will be approximately 1 billion surveillance cameras in use worldwide by 2021.

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It has been raining since last night. We normally use ' since ' with the present perfect(had been) to describe an action or situation t hat began in the past and continues in the present ND_11_7-2023

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'He is poor, yet he is honest'. Here ' yet ' will be used as a conjunction . Sentence - Though he is poor, he is honest. Main Clause - He is honest. Subordinate Clause - Though he is poor. ND_11_7-2023

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we could use ‘ if he were ’, if the events are imagery or improbable. ‘If he were’ can be used when expressing an imaginary situation in the present that is definitely not true.   In the given question, he behaves like a king, which is an imaginary situation   So we have used ‘if he were’, instead of using ‘if he was’ . ND_11_7-2023

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No, sooner I reached home than it started to rain. نہیں، میں گھر پہنچتے ہی بارش شروع ہو گئی۔ Sentence structure : No sooner + auxiliary + subject + main verb + than + subject + simple past  'No sooner..than' is used to suggest that one action takes place immediately after another action. When 'no sooner..than' is used at the beginning of the sentences then the auxiliary verb goes before the subject. No sooner always introduces the event that occurred first. ND_11_7-2023

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“ should ” is used to indicate something which is probable . Here in this case Probability of failure on not working hard. The sentence, in this case, will be “ Work hard lest you should fail”.  ND_11_7-2023

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Ayaan is older than all the other boys in this area. older means :  a comparative of old (  an adjective) ' Older ' is followed by ' than ' whereas ' elder ' is followed by ' to ' in a sentence when there is a comparison ND_11_7-2023

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A simple sentence contains a subject and a verb, and it may also have an object and modifiers. However, it contains only one independent clause.  'he confessed his crime/guilt' which involves a single subject and predicate yet conveys complete sense is a simple sentence