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प्रश्न
Frame meaningful sentence of your own using the following expression from the story. Use a dictionary if required.
accepted her seclusion with resignation
उत्तर
Grandma accepted her seclusion with resignation.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Write the noun forms of the following word adding −ance or −ence to it.
maintain ____________
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.
Road users ______________ do what they wish; they _____________ follow the traffic rules.
Make a list of any six things that the poet wants us to accept as true.
Degrees of Comparison of Adjectives.
Read the sentences.
- Yatin is strong.
- Amit is stronger than Yatin.
- Pravin is the strongest of all.
In sentence (i) the Adjective 'strong' is in its simple form. It is called Positive Degree.
In sentence (ii) the Adjective 'stronger' refers to a higher degree, when there is a comparison of two nouns. It is called Comparative Degree. (-er is added to the basic Adjective)
In sentence (iii) the adjective 'strongest' refers to the highest degree of comparison of one with more than two nouns. It is called Superlative Degree. (-est is added to the basic Adjective)
Complete the table of degrees of comparison.
| Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| (1) great | ____________ | ____________ |
| (2) famous | ____________ | ____________ |
| (3) ____________ | easier | ____________ |
| (4) ____________ | worse | ____________ |
| (5) ____________ | ____________ | poorest |
| (6) ____________ | ____________ | laziest |
| (7) little | ____________ | ____________ |
| (8) ____________ | worthier | ____________ |
| (9) popular | ____________ | ____________ |
Make pair of sentences to show the difference between the meaning of the following Homograph from the story.
left
Change the voice in the following sentence.
Trinity supported unorthodox talent.
Form groups and hold debates on the following topics. Make bulleted lists of points in favour of the topic (pros) and those against it (cons). (3-6 points each)
Girls cannot do everything that boys do.
Find from the poem, three examples of Pun :
- ___________________
- ___________________
- ___________________
Explain the metaphor in the following line :
... the shower will make the roses bloom.
Kamali ________ English very well, but she doesn’t understand Hindi.
Make a sentence in the present continuous tense using the verb given in bracket.
What are you __________? (do)
I __________ (listen) to music.
Rearrange the words in the correct order to make a meaningful sentence.
allergic / dogs / Rani / though / is / to / of / six / she / them / has.
Solve the crossword puzzle using superlative adjectives.
| Down | Across |
| 2. The _____ man ever whose age has been verified is Jiroemon Kimura. | 1. Deserts are the _______ places on Earth. |
| 4. Antarctica is the _______ continent in the world. | 3. Russia is the _______ country in the world. |
| 6. The elephant is the _______ animal in the world. | 4. Mercury is the _______ planet to the sun. |
| 8. Mount Everest is the ______ mountain in the world. | 5. Vatican City is the ______ country in the world. |
| 6. Diamonds are the _______ material in the world. | |
| 7. The cheetah is the ______ animal in the world. |
Find and use the clipped word in your own sentence.
photograph -
Work in pairs.
A rhyme is a repetition of the same sound in two or more words. Usually they come at the end of lines in poems and songs. Eg. tower – power; king – sing
Discuss with your partner and pick out the rhyming words in the poem.
John and Max don't like maths, ________?
State which of the following sentence are Compound, and which are Complex.
I called him, but he gave me no answer.
Look at the pictures given below. Arrange the jumbled words into a sentence. Write the sequence of the sentences according to the pictures in the blanks given. Pick the adjectives from the sentences and write them below the picture.
- order/a yummy, round and big cake/her parents.
- her/a wonderful doll/present/Madhu’s friends/with
- which falls on Sunday/for her birthday celebration/ Madhu/her close friends/invites
- welcome/she and her parents/with a broad smile/their/ guests
- enjoyed the day/felt/happy and/Madhu and her parents
- the house with colourful balloons/her parents/ decorate/and attractive cartoon
- pink/Madhu/frock/wears/on her/birthday/a long.
Divide the following words.
- garden
- reason
- turkey
- peanut
- skyblue
Tom left the class _______ he was sick.
Fill in the blank
I play tennis ______ cricket.
Fill in the blank.
5 is ______ 4.
Fill the blank with an appropriate auxiliary.
Niru _________ joined her family in 2 years.
Read what these people say and rewrite as sentence.
I bought a pen yesterday.
Madhu ______
Change the following sentence into Passive Voice.
They unanimously named Ravi the captain of team.
Correct the error found in the question tag in each of the following
The evil doers cannot cross the path of truth, can’t they?
Here are some compound words chosen from the text.
| ice-fall | knife-edge | wind-proof | sleeping-bags |
| half-way | never-ending | partly-full | ice- axe |
Replace the comparative adjective in the following sentence with their positive form.
Gold is not more useful than iron.
Complete the following sentence using your own ideas:
One day, while I was playing ______.
Fill in the blanks in the passage given below with the appropriate form of the verb given in brackets. Do not write the passage but write the verbs in the correct order.
A young man had a beautiful garden in his mansion. As he loved flowers, shrubs and trees, he tended to the garden himself. Next to his mansion, there was a small house in which ______ (1) (live) an old man. One day, when the young man was ______ (2) (expect) some special guests, he took extra care in ______ (3) (tend) to the garden. He pulled the weeds, ______ (4) (trim) the shrubs, combed the moss and spent a long time meticulously ______ (5) (rake) up and carefully arranging all the dry autumn leaves. As he worked, the old man ______ (6) (watch) him with interest from across the wall that ______ (7) (separate) their houses. When he had finished, the young man stood back to ______ (8) (admire) his work. “Isn't it beautiful”, he called out to the old man. "Yes", replied the old man, “but there is something missing. Help me over this wall and I'll put it right for you.” After a slight hesitation, the young man ______ (9) (lift) the old fellow over and set him down. Slowly, the old man walked to the tree near the centre of the garden, grabbed it by the trunk, and shook it. Leaves ______ (10) (shower) down all over the garden and formed a beautiful carpet.
“There”, said the old man, “now it is perfect!”
