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प्रश्न
Here are some more idioms taken from the lesson. Find out their meaning and use them in sentence of your own.
tight corners
उत्तर
Tight corners – difficult situations.
Those who act on impulse find themselves in tight comers.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Here is a question of indirect speech. Put it into reported speech.
Mill-wheel said, “Will he ride back with me?”
Complete these pieces of conversation using will or going to with the verbs given.
Rani : We need some bread and butter for breakfast.
Ravi : All right. I ___________ (go) to the bakery and get some.
(Before he goes out, Ravi talks to their father.)
Ravi : I ___________ (get) some bread and butter. Do you want any thing from the bakery?
Father : Yes, I want some salt biscuits.
Ravi : Fine, I ___________ (get) you a packet.
Read the following sentence:
(i) She muttered in reply and we looked at Jeevan for a quick interpretation.
(ii) These are two complete sentences underlying the above sentence.
- She muttered in reply.
- We looked at Jeevan for a quick interpretation.
These two sentences are put together by using the coordinating conjunction ‘and’.
Such sentences are joined by coordinating conjunctions (and/ but/ either...or; neither...nor) are called compound sentences.
Sentence ‘a’ and ‘b’ are Simple Sentences.
Each of them has only one subject and one predicate.
Sentence ‘a’ and ‘b’ can be written in another way.
As she muttered in reply, we looked at Jeevan for a quick interpretation.
This sentence begins with a subordinating conjunction ‘As’.
This is a complex sentence.
Two simple sentences joined by subordinate conjunctions are called complex sentences. The subordinate conjunction need not always be at the beginning of the sentence.
Prepare a list of subordinating conjunctions.
Make the following Negative using the negative words given.
She went around asking everyone about her plants. (No one/did not)
Say whether the underlined is Infinitive / Participle (Present or Past)/Gerund.
He began to cry.
Do as directed. (Make sure you do not change the meaning and tense of the sentence.)
How can I discuss its merits? (Make it Assertive.)
Rewrite the following in indirect speech.
“Can I see the manager?” I said, “Certainly,” said the accountant.
Fill in the blank with a verb in the present continuous.
My brother ____ (not/do) his homework.
Make sentences in the present perfect continuous tense using the verbs.
She ___________ in the garden since morning.
Underline the verb and identify the tense form.
The Moon revolves around the Earth ______.
Rewrite the sentence nominalising the underlined word.
The child resembles her father.
Pick out the contractions from the lesson and expand them.
| Contractions | Expansions |
Match the phrasal verbs in column A with their meaning in Column B.
| A | B |
| fight or flight | escaping as rapidly as possible |
| put to flight | among the best of a particular group |
| take flight | to defend oneself or to run away |
| flight of fancy | to cause someone to flee |
| have a nice flight | to flee or run away |
| in full flight | an imaginative but unrealistic idea |
| top-flight | enjoy your flight |
Read these sentence from the story carefully. Do they give command or request or make statement? Write 'C' for command and 'R' for request and 'S' for statement.
Grow more trees to protect nature.
Read the sentence given below and Choose the verbs appropriately.
Birds ______ in the sky.
Pick the abstract noun.
He takes pride in his job.
Write some 
pattern words and divide them.
Give the correct verb form for the following sentence.
I _______ (wait) for you.
Choose the correct verb form to the following sentence.
You _________ a beautiful painting.
Write.
______ book.
Now, use the verb given in bracket in the following sentence in their correct form.
We ______(hear) a lot of noise because the new buildings ______(transmit) sound vacant.
Fill in the blank using past perfect tense form of the verb:
Yusuf understood the problem because he ______(experience) the situation earlier.
Fill in the blank with suitable modal verb.
There is a lot of time left, so you ______ not panic.
Fill in the blank with suitable prepositional phrase given in option.
______, I had a happy childhood.
i. Rearrange the following jumbled words/phrases in the given dialogue to create a meaningful sentence. (1)
Did you know that the lack of hydrological resources affects more than 40% of the world population?
No, I didn't. What are hydrological resources?
(i) WATER RESOURCES, / SURVIVAL / AND PLANT / TO HUMAN, / ANIMAL, / REFER TO / WHICH / ARE VITAL / HYDROLOGICAL RESOURCES
ii. Report the dialogues to complete the paragraph that follows. (2)
| Photographer: | I want to use a drone for photographing your event. |
| Customer: | Really! Do you usually offer this advice? |
| Photographer: | No. I don’t. Your event is in an open and picturesque area and I want to capture the complete scene. |
The photographer told the customer that she wanted to use a drone for photographing his event. The customer exclaimed in surprise and asked (ii) ______. The photographer replied in the negative and shared that (iii) _______as his event was in an open and picturesque area.
Transform the following sentence as per the given instruction.
In spite of the very hot weather, Kevin stepped out to buy some bread. (Begin: Despite.…)
Write compound word using the picture.
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+ |  |
| ______ | ||
Fill in the following blanks using proper word from ‘who’, ‘when’, ‘what’, ‘how’ or ‘why’.
They wondered ______ had happened to him.
Write compound word using the pictures.
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+ |  |
| ______ | ||
