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प्रश्न
Start a collection of idioms with comparisons. Use the following category.
Idioms with objects
- as black as coal
- ______
- ______
उत्तर
- as black as coal
- as soft as butter
- as light as cotton
- As white as snow
- As hard as nails
- As solid as a rock
- As clear as crystal
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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.
Study the following sets of words :
- Set A – pleased, happy, joyful, ecstatic
- Set B – letter, word, sentence, paragraph
The words in these sets are arranged in ascending order, each word showing a higher degree than the previous one.
Now rearrange the following groups of words in ascending order.
- mountain
- peak/summit
- mound
- hill
Rewrite the following sentence by rectifying the errors in the use of modal.
Take an umbrella. It should rain later.
Mani divided his toys ______ his brothers and sisters.
Given below in Column A are some phrasal verbs taken from the text. Find the meanings by using a dictionary and complete Column B.
| S. No. |
Column A | Column B |
| Phrasal Verb | Meaning | |
| 1. | fond of | |
| 2. | hidden away | |
| 3. | lock up | |
| 4. | laughed at | |
| 5. | look at | |
| 6. | bring up | |
| 7. | gave up | |
| 8. | went through | |
| 9. | went through | |
| 10. | figure out |
Make sentences in the present perfect continuous tense using the verbs.
I ______ this mobile for three years.
Finish each clue by changing the verb within brackets to an irregular past tense verb.
Then complete the crossword puzzle.
- Across
- The lake (freeze) ________ overnight.
- Hema (buy) _________ a new bicycle.
- Aravind (give) ____ me a slice of pizza.
- We (drink) _________milk.
- The dog (sleep) _________ on the sofa.
- He (write) ____________ a letter to his cousin in America.
- Down
- I (find) ________ a coin on the ground.
- Tony (teach) __________ his cat to use the litter box.
- Selvi (blow) ____________ out the candle.
Complete the following sentence using appropriate Connector from the option.
The store was out of chocolate chips; ______________ they would need to make a different type of cookies.
Convert the following active sentence into a passive sentence by supplying an appropriate passive verb form.
Begin the work tomorrow./Let the work ____________ tomorrow.
Report the following sentence.
“Tomorrow I have to take a test in English”, said Sudha.
Join the sentence using ‘ Relative Pronoun’.
Here is your watch. It has been found in the garden.
Read the following paragraph and pick out the different types of nouns and put them in the table.
Hobby is an activity that we enjoy doing in our free time. It keeps us busy in our leisure time. People choose their hobbies on the basis of their interests and personality. Do you know what Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam’s hobby was?
| Proper Noun | Common Noun | Collective Noun | Abstract Noun |
Fill in the blank with suitable linking word or conjunction.
The box was heavy ______ he could not lift it.
Give the correct verb form for the following sentence.
I _______ (read) the poem.
Fill in the blank with the correct opposite.
Is this a small tree?
No, it is _____.
Choose the correct word.
I ate _____ many chocolates.
complete the sentence.
The bus ______ brand new.
Can you try to fill the blank.
______ sun is hot.
Change the voice of the following sentence.
May God bless you with happiness!
Add appropriate question tag to the following sentence.
These should not be thought of as luxury but as necessity.
Fill in the blank with modal auxiliary.
You ______ be joking
Read what these people say and rewrite as sentence.
I have completed my work.
Satya ______
Underline the prepositional phrase.
The boy studied well in spite of many obstacles.
Frame illustrative sentence to distinguish the meaning of the word in the following cluster.
scraping – scrapping – scrubbing
Frame illustrative sentence to distinguish the meaning of the word in the following cluster.
raise – rise– rice
Combine each of the following pair of sentence using participle. The first one is done for you.
The politician entered the campus. He was accompanied by many comrades.
Transform each of the following sentence using the comparative degree without changing the meaning.
E-mail is the fastest means of communication.
Read the following dialogue and complete the report in the space provided.
| Priya | Where are you going? |
| Vijay | I am going to the railway station. |
| Priya | Why are you going there? |
| Vijay | I want to receive my uncle who is coming from Bangalore. |
| Priya asked Vijay | (a) ______ |
| Vijay replied | (b) ______ |
| Priya further inquired | (c) ______ |
| Vijay stated that | (d) ______ |
Within two minutes, write as many phrases or sentences as you can using ‘a little’.
Spot the error in the spelling of the following word with reference to the passage and rewrite it correctly.
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