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प्रश्न
Comment on the literary device, used in the following line:
Titania: Come wait upon him: lead him to my bower.
उत्तर
- Personification – Bottom, who has the head of an ass, has been personified with the use of the pronoun 'him‘.
- Repetition – The word 'him‘ has been used twice in the same line.
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Fill in the blank in the sentence below (the verb given in bracket will give you a clue).
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Say whether the following sentences are in the Active or the Passive voice. Write A or P after the sentence.
My father gave it to the mechanic. ______________
Given below is a jumbled sentence. Working in groups, rearrange the word in the sentence to form the correct sentence.
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Idiom:__________________________________________
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It bleated frantically and butted him.
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- immediately ____________
- retrace ____________
- mouser ____________
- unfriendly ____________
- fallen ____________
- unkind ____________
- wooden ____________
- luckily ____________
- belonging ____________
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| Column A | Column B |
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| (2) journey | (b) trap |
| (3) evening or close of day | (c) life |
| (4) chasm, deep and wide | (d) death |
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The sun rose with a golden glow.
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| Homograph | Sentences |
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- Set A – pleased, happy, joyful, ecstatic
- Set B – letter, word, sentence, paragraph
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Now rearrange the following groups of words in ascending order.
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Use the following phrase in your own sentence -
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Write a question for the answer.
_________________?
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My mother ______ to London.
Underline the verb and identify the tense form.
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Fill in the blank by adding the appropriate prefix/suffix to the word given in bracket.
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Complete the sentences in the paragraph using the appropriate form of words given in brackets.
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Discuss with your partner and punctuate the following.
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We go to school ____ Mondays, but not on Sunday.
Use the blended word in your own sentence.
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Look at the list of words. Read the instructions and make Vocabulary Frames
| notice | hide | quarrelling | quickly |
| tired | wide | pretty | threw |
Top Right Corner: Write the word’s definition.
Top Left Corner: Write the word’s opposite.
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The show _______ (complete) its one thousand episodes by next month.
Punctuate the following sentence.
my friend priya speaks german and she is teaching me some words.
Give the correct verb form for the following sentence.
It ______ (play).
Appropriate suffix to the word with the clues given.
A person one who teaches ______.
| words | suffixes |
| penny, beauty, develop, teach. | ful, ment, er, less. |
Rewrite the sentence using the given word.
The flight has lost the contact.
I ______.
A conjunction is a word that joins two words or sentence.
He has a ball _________ not a bat.
Fill the blank with the clipped word.
We bought a new _______. (refrigerator)
complete the sentence.
Ragu ______ my junior in school.
Complete the sentence with the simple past form of the given verb.
We ______(stand) for hours.
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______ egg
Say what they are doing now?
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scattered
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My father gave me some pictures to look ______.
Expand the following new headline in a sentence each.
Card license to replace paper driving license
Given below is a list of common confusable. Distinguish the meaning of each pair of word by framing your own sentence.
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Rewrite the following passage in indirect speech.
Pradeep got out of bed with much excitement. “It is going to be a lovely sunny day,” he remarked to his sister Varshini.
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Choose the appropriate linker from within the options and complete the sentence.
This is ______ it must be done.
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One should keep one’s promise.
Change the following sentence into Active Voice.
Our television is being repaired now.
Correct the error found in the question tag in each of the following
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parachute + troop
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Write compound word using the picture.
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great - ______ - ______
Read the example and fill in the blanks in the same pattern. (Note the changes in the last letter.)
Example: pretty - prettier - prettiest
nasty - ______ - ______
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Read the following sentences and find the subject and the verb in each.
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| You are a stranger. | ||
| I am a visitor here. | ||
| You have heard right. | ||
| He must pay with his life. | ||
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