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प्रश्न
Fill in the blank with suitable homophone:
I like to have toasted ______ for breakfast.
पर्याय
bread
bred
उत्तर
I like to have toasted bread for breakfast.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Study the sentences in the columns below.
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A |
B |
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I saw this movie yesterday. |
I have seen this movie already. |
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Bepin Babu worked here for a week last year. |
Bepin Babu has worked here since 2003. |
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Chunilal wrote to a publisher last week. |
Chunilal has written to a publisher. |
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I visited Ranchi once, long ago. |
I have visited Ranchi once before. |
Compare the sentences in the two columns, especially the verb forms. Answer the following questions about each pair of sentences.
(i) Which column tells us the Bepin Babu is still working at the same place?
(ii) Which column suggests that Chunilal is now waiting for a reply from the publisher?
(iii) Which column suggests that the person still remembers the movie he saw?
(iv) Which column suggests that the experience of visiting Ranchi is still fresh in the speaker’s mind?
Answer 3:
Complete the sentence below using the appropriate forms of the verbs in brackets.
Hurry up! Madam _________ (be) annoyed if we _________ (be) late.
Which form of the verb is more natural in below sentence?
Don’t worry about the dog. It won’t hurt/isn’t hurting you
Look at these sentences.
- Animals cannot survive for long without water.
- So desert animals have to find different ways of coping.
The first sentence says what cannot happen or be done; the second tells us what must, therefore, be done, what it is necessary to do. Complete the sentence using cannot and have to/has to.
He ______ have a new bicycle now; he______ wait till next year.
Remove the Affixes (Prefix and Suffix) and write the Root-word.
- successful ____________
- immediately ____________
- retrace ____________
- mouser ____________
- unfriendly ____________
- fallen ____________
- unkind ____________
- wooden ____________
- luckily ____________
- belonging ____________
Find four pairs of rhyming words from the poem.
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.
- cold
- freezing
- cool
- chill
From other sources find synonyms of the following words used in the story.
rich (city)
Complete the following idioms using the appropriate colour term.
once in a ______ moon (very rarely).
Explain the metaphor in the following line :
Life’s sunny hours flit by.
Find out and write down some proverbs/axioms/quotations that convey a message similar to ‘Self-help is the best help.’
I ____________ go to the school yesterday because I was ill.
Now refer to a dictionary and find idioms on the following animals, birds, and insects. Learn their meanings and share what you have learnt with your class. Try to frame illustrative sentences with those idioms. Find opportunities to use them in your everyday conversations.
| lion, mouse, parrot, fox, hawk, snake, monkey, dog, snail, bee. |
Fill in the blank using the verb in the bracket in the future form.
By next year, I ______ in Chennai for fifteen years. (live).
The following passage has not been edited. There is one error in the tense of the verb in each line. Write the wrong word as well as the correct word in the given place. One is done for you.
| Sentence | Wrong words | Correct words |
| When Anand reach Arun's place, his | reach | reached |
| friends have arrived already. Arun | ||
| introduces Anand to them. Arun's brother | ||
| buy some snacks from the market. | ||
| Arun serving it to all his friends. Then | ||
| they all sat together to planning their holidays. | ||
| Arun have a cottage in Ooty, so | ||
| they all plan to go to Ooty during the holidays. | ||
| “Would we have a good time?, asked Arun. | ||
| They all cheerfully say, “Yes!” |
Find the antonym for the following word.
Careless ×
The predators follow the ______of the turtles to eat their eggs.
Fill in the blank with words given in the box to make compound word.
We must drink tender ______water in summer
Give the correct verb form for the following sentence.
She _______ (draw) a picture.
Complete the sentence with a correct reflexive pronoun.
The machine will destroy _________ once its task is done.
Fill in the blank with simple future tense of the verb.
Many people ______ (serve) you.
Can you try to fill the blank.
This is ______ owl.
Complete the following with appropriate conditional clause.
People get sun-burnt, ______.
- The ______is not clear; we cannot read the sentences.
- We ______wedding cards here.
You are busy getting ready for school. You receive a What's App message from your best friend, saying that he/she is very upset over the fight you had yesterday and doesn’t want to talk to you anymore. This distresses you as she sounds very firm. However, today is a big day at school with two tests lined up. What will be your state of mind? How will you handle this situation?
Fill in the blank with suitable prepositional phrase given in option.
Our teacher always acts ______ her students.
Find out the antonym of the underlined word in each of the following sentence.
There he was sitting in splendour on his chair.
Identify the error in each of the following sentence and rewrite them Correctly.
Many a student were awarded at the function.
Spot the error in the following sentence. Then rewrite the sentence after correcting them.
“No, I am Mathilde loisel.”
Write compound word using the pictures.
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| ___________ | ||
