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प्रश्न
Spot the error in the spelling of the following word with reference to the passage and rewrite it correctly.
Erthen
उत्तर
Erthen - Earthen
संबंधित प्रश्न
Complete the sentence below using the appropriate forms of the verbs in brackets.
When you ___________ (see) Mandal again, you __________ (not/recognise) him. He is growing a beard.
When Tenzing and Hillary reached the summit, Tenzing in utter joy said, “We have done it.” In this sentence, the subject (we) is the doer of the action while (achieving the feat) is the subject. The verb of passive voice is formed by using the correct form of the verb ‘to be’ + past participle of the main verb. Construct the sentence accordingly.
Now carefully go through the changes in both the sentences and do the changes accordingly in the remaining sentence.
- We have done it.
It has been done by us.
We made a pact.
Write down eight to ten Onomatopoetic words on your own.
Explain the figure of speech inversion and anastrophe with example.
Underline the verb form in the following sentence and state its Tense and Aspect.
They are waiting for the right winds.
Separate the clauses in the following sentence and write the conjunction.
She told me that she was a doctor.
Clause (1) ____________
Clause (2) ____________
Conjunction:
Say WHY. . . . . .
Ramanujan’s letter bored and irritated Hardy, at first.
What are conjunctions? explain with some example?
What are interjections? explain with some examples.
Convert the following active sentence into a passive sentence by supplying an appropriate passive verb form.
Her silence worries me./I _______________ her silence.
Based on the understanding of the poem, fill in the blanks using the words and phrases given below to make a meaningful summary of the poem.
| brothers and sisters | bitterness | joint family | share their fun | rich and the poor folk |
| shatter their family | charm of life | separate ways | the joy of earth | stick-together families |
The poet brings out the difference in the attitudes of children living in joint family and nuclear family. The ________________ are the happiest of all. Where as the _________________ of nuclear families take ______________. The gladdest people are the children from _______________ who circle near the fireside. No power other than death can break them. The _______________ imagine themselves to be wise and in the process they ______________ ties. Each of them goes searching for pleasure in their own selected way. They harvest only ____________ and find empty joy. But the wisest among them are the children of the stick-together families. When the busy day is done, they together ______________. The stick-together family wins _______________. The old house shelters all the ______________. The poet invites wandering brothers to come and join the stick-together families in their fireside and have fun.
Underline the verb and identify the tense form.
The Moon revolves around the Earth ______.
In the following passage, some words are missing. Choose the correct words from the given options to complete the passage.
Raghav (a) ______ in a middle-class family. He is a (b) ______ boy of 8. His mother (c) ______ as a software engineer in an MNC. (d) ______ is his favourite hobby. He (e) ______ the first prize in school level competition for drawing last week. He (f) ______ drawing at the age of 3. His mother (g) ______ he (h) ______ a great painter in future.
| (a) | (i) will be born | (ii) is born | (iii) born | (iv) has born |
| (b) | (i) school-going | (ii) going to school | (iii) school coming | (iv) school gone |
| (c) | (i) working | (ii)works | (iii) has worked | (iv) will work |
| (d) | (i) drawn | (ii) had drawn | (iii) drawing | (iv) having drawn |
| (e) | (i) win | (ii) was winning | (iii) wins | (iv) won |
| (f) | (i) was starting | (ii) starting | (iii) started | (iv) is starting |
| (g) | (i) hoped | (ii)hoping | (iii) hopes | (iv) has hoped |
| (h) | (i) will become | (ii) becomes | (iii) would become | (iv)will be becoming |
There are ______places to visit but we don’t have ______ time to visit them.
Read the following sentences carefully and underline the preposition.
Vinothini left the house before sunrise.
They have been here ______ a long time.
Read the following dialogue and report it.
Betty: What are you doing here, Kitty? I haven’t seen you since June.
Kitty: I’ve just come back from my holiday in Darjeeling.
Betty: Did you enjoy it?
Kitty: Yes, I enjoyed I love Darjeeling. The landscape is amazing.
Betty: Did you go to the Lloyd’s Botanical Garden?
Kitty: Yes. It was my first trip. I can show you some pictures. Are you doing anything tomorrow?
Betty: I must arrange a couple of things. But I am free tonight.
Kitty: You might come to my place. What time shall we meet?
Betty: I’ll be there at eight. Is it all right?
Betty asked Kitty ______ And she added ______ since June. Kitty explained that ______back from her holiday in Darjeeling. Betty asked if ______ it. Kitty told her that she ______ Darjeeling and that the landscape ______ Betty wanted to know ____________ to the Lloyd’s Botanical Garden. Kitty said that it ______first trip and that she ______ some pictures. And then she asked her if she ______ Betty explained that she ........................................ a couple of things. But she added that she ______ free that night. Kitty suggested that she ______ place and asked her at what time ______ Betty said she ______ there at eight. And finally, she asked ______ all right.
Look at the punctuation of these sentence. Why are they punctuated differently? Discuss in class.
Who’s going to see them?
Put the words in correct order and rewrite sentence.
It is a plate. (Round, Pink, Small)
Rewrite the sentence using the given word.
My friends have come to the party.
My friend ______.
Write the opposites for the following pictures.
| fix | young | near |
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old | |
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break | |
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far |
Choose the correct reflexive pronoun.
Every morning, I brush my teeth and stare ________ at the mirror.
Answer the following.
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| Name of the object | In your mother tongue | Use in a sentence |
Read the extract from Kayal’s diary entry regarding her Nepal Trek, and fill in the blanks with the correct tense form of the verbs given in brackets.
DAY 1 We ______(leave) Anna International Airport in Chennai two days ago catching a direct flight to Kathmandu in Nepal. We ______(spend) a day sightseeing. Kathmandu is full of people, rickshaws and the smell of sandalwood. I’ve never ______(be) on a trip like this before. So I’m really excited.
DAY 2 It ______(rain) when we reached Pokhara, Nepal’s second largest city, and saw the snowy peaks of the Himalayas for the first time. We ______(reach) Pokhara after a hairraising six-hour bus journey along very narrow roads with a lot of hairpin bends. The bus ______(be) so full that one person had to share the driver’s seat.
DAY 3 We _______________ (begin) our trek at last. We are at about 900 metres and the weather is warm and humid. For lunch we had chips and yak cheese sandwiches. I didn’t like them very much. I’m thrilled that we ______(pitch) tents for our camps in the dense forests.
DAY 4 Yesterday a landslide ______(block) our path and we had to use ropes to get over it. This morning we walked along the river Kali Gandaki through dense forests of oak trees and we pitched our camp at Tukuche below the Annapurna mountain range. The main danger in addition to landslides, is ‘yak attack’. Yaks ______(be) not dangerous but you have to be careful if you meet a herd of them because they can push you off the sides of the mountain.
DAY 5 We met a lot of children on our trek through the villages. They ______(play) in the pool of muddy rain water as we left the place. We have already climbed 2,400 metres. Up here, it never ______(rain) and there are no trees. It ______ (be) windy and dusty and I am always thirsty.
DAY 6 Yesterday we ______(go) up to the mountainside of the township of Mukthinath, at 3,600 metres. The thin air with less oxygen there ______(leave) us breathless. We ______(feel) that we couldn’t go any further. We ______(drink) a lot of extra fluids to prevent altitude sickness.
DAY 7 We turned around today and started to descend to Jomosom. As we went down, the oxygen-filled our blood again and we seemed to ______ (fly) instead of walking.
DAY 8 We went back to Pokhara in a small plane yesterday. It was exciting when we _____(fly) between the mountain peaks. We arrived in Kathmandu this afternoon and we ______(spend) our last few hours in shopping. We leave for Chennai tomorrow. We’ve had a trip of a lifetime.
Fill in the blank using past perfect tense form of the verb:
We were not able to stay overnight as we______not______(reserve) the tickets in advance.
Make sentence using the passive form of the verb.
Chattisgarh/form/2000
Expand the following new headline in a sentence each.
ATMs without security guard to close
Underline the correct verb in these sentence.
A lady with ten cats (live, lives) in that big house.
Based on your understanding of paragraphs 6 and 7, complete the mind map:
Note the following words from the story. They all refer to different ways of walking. Find out their meanings and use each of them in meaningful sentences of your own. Refer a thesaurus and add a few more to the list.
- trod
- fluttered
- hurried
- skipped
- strode
- sped
Fill in the blank with the correct form of the verb given in the bracket.
Her parents ______ in Coimbatore for two weeks from today (be).
Fill in the blank with modal auxiliary.
______ you have taken all this trouble?
Complete the following sentence with modal using the clue given.
You ______ follow the traffic rules. (regulation)
Change the following sentence into Passive Voice.
The Governor inaugurated the exhibition at ten o’clock.
Fill in the blank with the right idiom. Choose from the option.
Each member of the team had all their ______.
Transform the following sentence as per the given instruction.
She is so busy that she finds no time to entertain her friends. (Rewrite using ‘too’)
Write compound word using the pictures.
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+ |  |
| ____________ | ||
Use the proper form of the verb in each line.
‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers -
That (perch) in the soul -
And (sing) the tune without the words -
And never (stop) at all -
Find the meaning of the following from a good dictionary:
restorative
This narrative is written in the first person - using ‘I’. Rewrite the following sentence using ‘Helen Keller/Young Helen’ appropriately in place of ‘I’ and making other necessary changes in the sentence.
The morning after my teacher came she led me into her room and gave me a doll.
