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प्रश्न
Refer to the dictionary and find out the meaning of the following foreign word/phrase. Use them in sentence of your own:
faux pas
उत्तर
Faux pas – an embarrassing or tactless act, blunder
I did not disclose his faux pas till he joined a college.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Write the noun form of the following word by adding -ness or -ity to them appropriately. Check the spelling of the new word.
lofty - ________.
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.
Make pairs and groups and find out some more simple, complex, and compound sentences from the text.
Identify whether the following is a Simple, Complex, and Compound sentence.
When he opened it, he found sheets of paper.
- Write at least 5 common nouns and 5 proper nouns each. Proper nouns are always written with a capital letter at the beginning.
- Can you think of proper nouns that include two or more words? How are they written? Find at least ten such nouns.
Use the following word to construct a meaningful sentence on your own.
courageous -
Choose the correct option.
We use ______ when something is the right thing to do.
Make a sentence in the present perfect tense using the verb.
______ he brought his bike?
Ashwin __________ (complete) M.B.A. in another two years.
Complete the sentence in present tense form.
We ______ (gather) here for a meeting and the chair person is yet to arrive.
Read the situation given and frame two suitable sentence in the appropriate form of the tense.
| Make any two requests to your classmates or friends. | 1. ______ |
| 2. ______ |
Who am I? (Use a pair of …)
We wear this on our face when it is sunny ______
There isn’t _____ (many/much) traffic on Sundays.
Combine the pair of a sentence using the appropriate connector.
Robert completed the project. He submitted it to the teacher.
Rewrite the sentence nominalising the underlined word.
The child resembles her father.
Find out the anagrams. Use a pair of phrases as clues.
- The past tense of leap ______
- Something to serve food on______
Write the plural form.
| leaf |  |
_______. |
Choose the correct plural form.
Bush
Fill in the blank
I play tennis ______ cricket.
Fill in the blank with present continuous tense of the given word.
Bharathi ______ (write) his home work.
Fill in the blank with suitable homophone:
The car skidded to a halt when I applied the ______,
Fill in the blank in the following sentence with appropriate preposition.
The nearest hospital ______this place is ______a distance of twenty kilometers. You can reach it either ______car or ______a bicycle.
Correct the error found in the question tag in each of the following
The landlady will charge me for the damage, shan’t she?
Read the following sentence and fill in the blank.
If Raj ______(be) a sculptor, he ______(make) beautiful idols.
Fill in the blank with the correct infinitive.
The doctor advised the patient ______his medicines without fail.
Complete the following sentence using appropriate determiner.
She earns so ______that she could not make a decent living
The students could not ask any questions to the teacher. (Rewrite using unable to)
Write the compound word using the pictures.
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+ |  |
| ______ | ||
Write compound word using the pictures.
 |
+ |  |
| ____________ | ||
We have seen that clauses are parts of a sentence, and they are classified as main and subordinate or dependent clauses. Dependent clauses can be further classified as follows according to the work they do in a sentence.
How do we decide whether a clause is a noun clause, an adjective clause or an adverb clause? There is a simple rule - we can replace an adverb clause with an adverb, an adjective clause with an adjective and a noun clause with a noun.
Look at the following examples -
- But I don’t know the answer. (Noun)
But I don’t know what they want. (Noun clause) - He told us a funny story. (Adjective)
He told us a story that was funny. (Adjective clause) - They went away. (Adverb)
They went when you were talking to your friend. (Adverb clause)
Now complete the following on your own :
- But I don’t know ____________.
- He told us ____________.
- They went ____________.
Read the following example, and then complete the sentence using your own idea.
Time: I entered the school when the bell was ringing.
I entered the school ____________.
