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प्रश्न
Rewrite the following sentence replacing ‘as soon as’ by ‘No sooner than ’.
As soon as they can manage, they should change their house.
उत्तर
No sooner can they manage, than they should change their house.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Add -ly to the following adjectives, then use them to fill in the blank.
1) perfect
2) near
3) kind
4) pleasant
5) eager
Why didn’t you turn up at the meeting? We all were _______ waiting for you.
Say whether the underlined is Infinitive/Participle (Present or Past)/Gerund.
They liked his written stories.
Add a proper prefix to the following word to make a new word.
kind
Add your own sentences to those given in the passage to illustrate the uses of ‘have’.
To show possession
- 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.
Read the entry about ‘voice’ in the ‘Language Study’ pages. Note that the speeches of all the boys are in the ‘active’ voice. Turn them into passive constructions.
Neel - I put the dishes in the dishwasher.
Complete the following idioms using the appropriate colour term.
______ blood (royal blood, aristocratic origin).
Find one example of the following punctuation mark from the story and copy the sentence in which they are used - colon.
Write the homophones (words which sound the same) of the following words in the story.
- no:
- went:
- through:
- dear:
- pair:
- soul:
- here:
- knew:
- whole:
Read the highlighted words.
- All three of them were honest, kind, and hardworking.
- You are such an honest person.
The highlighted words are adjectives.
Now find at least five other adjectives from the lesson.
Everything falls to the ground _______ earth’s gravitational pull.
Consult a dictionary, to find the homophones for the given words.
| 1 | in | |
| 2 | know | |
| 3 | be | |
| 4 | to | |
| 5 | watt | |
| 6 | right | |
| 7 | were | |
| 8 | bare | |
| 9 | herd | |
| 10 | throne |
Read the given sentence carefully and fill in with an appropriate phrasal verb. Choose them from the help option.
Doing ______ every day in the morning keeps one healthy.
Form a new word by adding appropriate prefix/suffix.
practice __________.
There is a bridge ______ the river.
Fill in the blank with the suitable collective noun.
A ______ of rain.
Find out the anagrams. Use a pair of phrases as clues.
- Try to hear ______
- Another word for quiet ______.
Choose the correct conjunction from the option.
Everyone likes him _________ he is very helpful.
Choose the correct conjunction from the option.
_______ he was ill, he went to the doctor.
Find out the clipped word for the following.
education + satellite -
Look at the picture and choose the correct plural word.
Mouse
Write some 
pattern words and divide them.
Choose the correct verb form to the following sentence.
She _________ her exam.
Here are some naming words that denote the person, place and things in common
Choose the correct word.
It ______ very fast
Fill in the blank
An elephant is big______slow.
Meena studied in ______ standard.
Form meaningful sentence using the given word to bring out at least two different meaning.
bear
Complete the following with appropriate conditional clause.
Jayashree would travel to France, ______.
Fill in the blank with the correct form of the verb given in the bracket.
Everyone______ when the earthquake hit the small town. (sleep)
Go through the lesson and spot the words opposite to the meaning of the following
- rare (para 1)
- primitive (para 6)
- fiction (para 7)
- fearful (para 8)
- benign (para 11)
- diffidence (para 11)
- boredom (para 12)
- criticize (para 13)
Frame illustrative sentence to distinguish the meaning of the word in the following cluster.
lesson – lessen – lesion
Form a phrase with each of the following pair of noun given below.
surgery + instruments -
Fill in the blank with the right idiom. Choose from the option.
When they had to climb through deep new snow the party sometimes had to______.
Given below are some Phrasal Verb which are frequently used in connection with travelling. Guess the meaning and match.
| get in | leave a bus, train, etc., |
| get off | to go away from home for a vacation |
| get on | arrive inside train, bus, etc. |
| getaway | enter a bus, train, plane. |
Underline the gerund in the following sentence.
Painting is an interesting hobby
Combine each of the following pair of sentence using participle. The first one is done for you.
I heard the noise. I turned around.
Write the compound word from the pictures.
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 |
| ____________ | |
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 ____________.
Spot the error in the spelling of the following word with reference to the passage and rewrite it correctly.
Circals
