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Question
Complete the following sentence using your own ideas:
I realised what ______.
Solution
I realized what happiness meant when I stopped chasing perfection.
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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 | ____________ | ____________ |
Use the following expression to make a sentence of your own.
make up one’s mind
Sing and recite one of the famous folk songs given below.
There is a mountain for away.
And on the mountain stands a tree.
And on the tree, there is a branch.
And on the branch, there is a nest.
And in the nest, there is an egg.
And in the egg, there is a bird
One day the bird will fly.
One day we will be free.
Discuss with your teacher and classmates regarding the changes seen in the underlined words. Find the reasons behind the changes.
- a mountain – the mountain
- a tree – the tree
- a branch – the branch
- a nest – the nest
- an egg – the egg
- a bird – the bird.
Classify the words in (a) and (b) into ‘positive’ and ‘negative’ words.
- great, beautiful, arrogant, impatient, quiet, worthless, proud, happy, thoughtless, hasty
- shouted at, wasted, answered, offered, smiled, refused, toiled, grew, dyed, rewarded, destroyed.
Find five countable nouns from the passage and write their singular and plural forms.
Find the opposite of the following word from the lesson.
bought
Find the opposite of the following word from the lesson.
lent
Look at the bar-graph. Write five sentences using the appropriate degrees of comparison.
Fill in the blank using the verb in the bracket in the future form.
I ______ my sister's house next April if I go to Uttarkhand. (visit).
Fill in the blank using the verb in the bracket in the future form.
If you listen carefully, you ______ my point. (understand).
Frame sentences of your own using any five newly formed words.
Identify the clause and classify them accordingly.
My brother visits my father whenever he comes to Chennai.
Combine the pair of sentence below into simple, complex, and compound.
The students were intelligent. They could answer the questions correctly.
Fill in the blank with the opposite of the word given in bracket.
The new boss decided to ______ (appoint) the lazy workers.
Nobody called, ________.
Help the space ship reach the correct planet.
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______ ______ |
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Choose the correct word.
They went _____ the park.
Fill in the blanks with to, too and two.
I need ___ write _____ pages on this topic.
Write down clipped word for the given picture.
____________
(gymnasium)
Choose the correct reflexive pronoun.
Dad and I painted the trailer ______.
complete the sentence.
The bus ______ brand new.
Write the past form of the verbs.
eat- ______.
Given below is a list of common confusable. Distinguish the meaning of each pair of word by framing your own sentence.
conscience - conscious
Change the following sentence into Passive Voice.
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Form a phrase with each of the following pair of noun given below.
emotion + song -
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Sindhu would not have won the world championship, unless she had had singleminded devotion.
Write the compound word using the pictures.
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+ |  |
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Find the meaning of the following word from a good dictionary.
Cranky
Write the compound word from the pictures.
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+ |  |
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