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प्रश्न
Here are some more idioms taken from the lesson. Find out their meaning and use them in sentence of your own.
in a nice pickle
उत्तर
in a nice pickle- in a mess
Boney Kapoor is in a nice pickle unable to explain Sridevi’s sudden death to media personalities and to film Industry friends.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Go through the statement taken from the text – ‘The social democracy means a way of life which recognises liberty, equality, and fraternity’.
The underlined part of the statement provides us some facts/information about social democracy. The remaining part of the sentence which is not underlined can be converted into a wh-question.
What does social democracy mean?
Now go through the underlined part of the statement/sentence given below and change them into question by using the appropriate Wh-form.
In Politics, we will be recognizing the principle of ‘one man one vote’ and ‘one vote one value’.
Say whether the verb underlined below is Finite or Non-finite.
Having invaded India, they captured our land.
In the following sentence, point out the Main Clause and Subordinate Clause. Encircle the Subordinator.
Johnsy was sleeping when the two went upstairs.
In the following sentence the verbs have two object namely Direct and Indirect object. Change each of the following sentence into two passive using direct object as the subject in one and indirect in the other.
Sudha told the truth to her friend.
Write the gerund/infinitive form of the verb in the blank.
We really look forward _____________ (meet) alien creatures and ________ (find) out what they are really like.
Write the gerund/infinitive form of the verb in the blank.
Scientists admit to __________ (be) intensely curious about life on other planets.
Complete the sentence using the correct form of the verb in bracket.
When your train arrives, I __________ (wait) for you at the station.
Read the situation given and frame two suitable sentence in the appropriate form of the tense.
| Make any two requests to your classmates or friends. | 1. ______ |
| 2. ______ |
Who am I? (Use a pair of …)
We cut things with ______
Pick out the words from the list and put them appropriately on the table.
| David, Madurai, parrot, happiness, book, thought, green, tiger, Trichy, computer, Narayanan, fan, sister, Kalam, woman, pencil, Bharathi, problem, brother, Mumbai, swan, elephant, Vijay, solution, success, school, convent. |
| Person | Place | Animals | Thing | Ideas/ feelings |
Choose the correct antonym for the italic word.
Ajay mastered the techniques of painting.
“I was with him last week.” Jimmy told that ______ with him the previous week.
______us go for a walk.
Add 'r' , ‘er’ or ‘or’ to get the name of the person who does the activity. Take turns in class to make sentences with the words you have formed.
e.g: A teacher is a person who teaches. Teach + er – Teacher.
- use
- buy
- sail
- watch
- operate
- foreign
- bake
- write
- govern
- act
Look at the picture and fill in the blank with suitable words.
The tray has______ vegetables.
Fill in the blank with suitable linking word or conjunction.
She slipped badly ______ she did not hurt herself.
Write the correct punctuation mark that best complete the sentence.
Please take out the trash when you get home ___
Make a sentence of your own for any five words from the below.
| 1. | shady | misery |
| 2. | bored | calm |
| 3. | glee | interested |
| 4. | panic | slow |
| 5. | hasty | sunny |
Can you try to fill the blank.
______ sun is hot.
Say what they are doing now?
He ______.
Change the sentence into present continuous tense.
Pinku works in a power plant.
Fill in the blanks with appropriate determiners. (Articles have been included)
Once the emperor gave a bag of seeds to his council of ministers and said that he would give them six months’ time to grow the seeds. Whoever does a good job will be made the ______ emperor of that empire. ______ the ministers took their task seriously. After six months ______ ministers had small plants in their pots. A ______ had very large plants. ______ had medium sized plants. The emperor entered the hall. He was ______ amused to see ______ plants. He called the ______ minister and asked him what he did with the seed. ______ minister explained the process he adopted to make ______ plant grow. The emperor called ______ the other ministers to explain what they did. Only ______ minister had come with an empty pot. They laughed loudly at the foolishness of this minister. But the Emperor applauded him and made him the ______ Emperor. Do you know why? He had given them boiled seeds which will not grow. Only ______ minister was honest.
Change the voice of the following sentence.
The team was trained by the coach.
- The ______is not clear; we cannot read the sentences.
- We ______wedding cards here.
Do as directed.
Varsha reached the railway station. She was waiting for them there. (combine into a compound sentence)
Change the following sentence into Passive Voice.
How did you do the experiment?
Add suitable question tag to the following sentence and punctuate properly.
Bacteria can never survive in extreme weather conditions.
Continue and complete the following story and suggest suitable title for the same.
A rich man had a neighbour who was suffering from acute poverty. The rich man was proud of his wealth and treated his poor neighbour with disrespect and derision. One day, a fortune-teller told the rich man that all his wealth would be possessed by his neighbour within a month. The rich man became greatly worried and spent sleepless nights. He did not know how to safeguard his wealth round the clock. Suddenly he thought of a plan. He disposed of everything he had and with all that money, he bought a large, precious diamond. He sewed up the diamond in his turban. He proudly said to himself, “Now, there’s no way. My poor neighbour can never secure my wealth. The words of the fortune-teller will prove false."______
Rewrite each of the following sentence using the superlative degree retaining the meaning.
The peacock is more colourful than any other bird found in India.
Choose the correct option and complete the sentence.
Each of these boys ______ passed.
