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प्रश्न
Add appropriate question tag to the following sentence.
The aim should be to reduce congestion.
उत्तर
The aim should be to reduce congestion, shouldn’t it be?
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Here are some words from the lesson which describe different kinds of sounds.
fill in the blank using the correct form of the word given.
The _________________ of breaking glass woke me up.
Write down eight to ten Onomatopoetic words on your own.
Pick out any two lines from the poem that contain an Apostrophe.
Make pair of sentences to show the difference between the meaning of the following Homograph from the story.
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The poet opens his poem with a question. Is the question asked to receive some answer? No. It is a question used to emphasize and stress upon the fact that modern man has no time to enrich his life from nature.
Such a device used by poets falls under the Figure of Speech called 'Interrogation' or 'Rhetorial Question'. Refer to the poem 'The Pilgrim' and find examples of Interrogation.
Do as directed. (Make sure you do not change the meaning and tense of the sentence).
Tenali Raman was a poet scholar and jester in Vijaynagar in Krishnadevarayas court. (Punctuate)
The following expression is a combination of a noun preceded by a describing word.
unappetizing diet
Replace the describing word with as many others as you can, that goes with the underlined noun.
Make sentences of your own to show the difference in usage of the following Homophones.
- practice ______
- practise ______
Use the following phrase in your own sentence.
at any cost
Underline the infinitive in the following sentence.
Can I read the book?
Sachin is a famous cricketer. He ______ bat well.
Make a sentence in the present continuous tense using the verb given in bracket.
My brother __________ (work) in London now.
Complete the story using the past tense of the verbs.
The Hare and the Tortoise
One day a Hare and a Tortoise decided to have a race. The Tortoise _______ (know) that the Hare _________ (can) run faster than him. But the Tortoise _______ (be) more intelligent than the Hare. 'Yes, I'll race you,'_________ (say) the Tortoise. The Tortoise ______ (have) a clever plan. He ______ (find) his brothers and sisters and he ______ (tell) them to wait in different places along the path of the race. So they all ______ (hide) behind the trees along the path. The race ______ (begin)! The Tortoise ______ (run) as fast as possible. But the Hare ______ (be) faster, of course. 'This will be a very easy race', ______ (think) the Hare. So the Hare _________ (decide) to rest, and he quickly ____ (fall) asleep at the side of the road. Suddenly, the Hare ______ (wake up) and he ______ (see) a Tortoise ahead of him! 'How did he get ahead of me?' the Hare asked himself. In fact, it ______ (be) not his friend the Tortoise: it ______ (be) the Tortoise's sister. But to a Hare, all tortoises look the same. The Hare ______ (run) past the Tortoise easily. Soon, he ______ (cannot) see the Tortoise, so he ______ (sit) down to rest. Then the Hare ______ (get up) and continued the race. But as the Hare _______ (turn) around the last corner before the finish line, his friend the Tortoise crossed the line and ______ (win) the race!
Fill in the blanks
| Positive | Comparative | superlative |
| tall | ||
| smarter | ||
| largest | ||
| big | ||
| later/latter |
“I have been watching a film.” He said that ______ a film.
Work in pairs and say the sentence to each other. Do you hear any difference in the way it is spoken? Discuss and share with the class. Discuss the difference in the meaning of the sentence.
This is a banyan tree.
Read the sentence given below and Choose the verbs appropriately.
The florist ______ flowers on the street.
Fill in the blank with the collective noun.
a ________ of birds.
Fill in the blanks with to, too and two.
Donald ran _____ kilometers.
Write the correct clipped word on the line.
She bought a new ________ (refrigerator).
Fill in the blank using past perfect tense form of the verb:
Edith ______(visit) several doctors before she found out what the problem was with her knee.
In the following passage, circle(bold) the verbs in simple present tense and underline the verbs in simple past. The first one has been done for you.
That night he strolled into the Palette Club about eleven o’clock and found Trevor sitting by himself in the long room. “Well, Alan, did you get the picture finished all right? ” he said, as he lit his cigarette. “Finished and framed, my boy!” answered Trevor, “and by-the-bye, you have made a conquest. That old model you saw is quite devoted to you. I had to tell him all about you - who you are, where you live, what your income is, what prospects you have.”
Make sentence using the passive form of the verb.
Chattisgarh/form/2000
Here are some more idioms taken from the lesson. Find out their meaning and use them in sentence of your own.
shot his bolt
Find out the antonym of the underlined word in each of the following sentence.
One does not feel wise, braver or more optimistic.
Expand the following outline into complete story and supply a suitable title for each.
Big cotton merchant – owned a factory – many employees – one day a heap of cotton stolen – no clue – merchant’s secretary assured to find out - asked him to host dinner - invite all workers – merchant agreed – middle of feast – secretary suddenly shouted – cotton sticking to hair of thieves – the guilty dusted their heads – tried to clear – caught in the trap – punished.
Identify the error in each of the following sentence and rewrite them Correctly.
Either Shyam or Ram have to pay the fine.
Fill the blank by choosing the correct option to complete the concluding line of an issued circular by an Organisation to its Managers.
A copy of the plan is enclosed and _______ may be communicated to all Team Leaders for compliance.
In the following item, sentence I is complete, while sentence II is not. Complete sentence II, making it as similar as possible to sentence I. Write sentence II.
(I) Sushil's attitude towards work has always puzzled me.
(II) I have ______
Find the meaning of the following from a good dictionary:
infusion
