Advertisements
Advertisements
Question
Make sentences of your own to show the difference in usage of the following Homophones.
- device ______
- devise ______
Solution
- device - The computer is an electronic device.
- devise - Mr. Malhotra manages to devise a new strategy to fight the competition.
APPEARS IN
RELATED QUESTIONS
Say whether the verb in the sentence below is transitive or intransitive. Ask yourself a ‘what’ question about the verb. (For some verbs, an object is a person, so ask the question ‘who’ instead of ‘what’).
The fawn lifted its nose.
Here are some words from the lesson which describe different kinds of sounds.
fill in the blank using the correct form of the word given.
Ramesh ____________ on his desk in impatience.
______ open the window? It is very hot in the room.
Make a sentence in the present continuous tense using the verb given in bracket.
I ______ (wait) for my mother.
The sailors were taken ______ the forest and made to walk ______ 10 miles.
Fill in the blanks with correct Meaning and Eponym for the given words.
| Eponym | Meaning | Origin |
| saxophone | ||
| volcano | ||
| Eiffel Tower | ||
| Boycott | ||
| Mount Everest |
Look at the picture and choose the correct plural word.
Mouse
Write what they were doing at 5 o’clock yesterday.
I _________ cricket with my friends.
My mother _________ TV.
We _________ mango.
My friends _________ their bicycles.
Mohan _________ a letter.
The bell _________ loudly.
Write down clipped word for the given picture.
____________
(hippopotamus)
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.
