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Question
Read the examples and fill in the blanks in the same pattern.
Examples: strange - stranger - strangest
close - ______ - ______
Solution
close - closer - closest
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Underline the verbs and arrange them in two columns, Past and Earlier past.
(a) My friends set out to see the caves in the next town, but I stayed at home, because I had seen them already.
(b) When they arrived at the station, their train had left. They came back home, but by that time I had gone out to see a movie!
(c) So they sat outside and ate the lunch I had packed for them.
(d) By the time I returned, they had fallen asleep!
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Past
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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’).
Jody then went to the kitchen.
List the pairs of rhyming words from the poem.
Find the opposites of the following :
| cautious - | ______ |
| dogmatic - | ______ |
| contrary - | ______ |
| savage - | ______ |
| beneficial - | ______ |
| reasonable - | ______ |
| hypothetical - | ______ |
| cruelty - | ______ |
| immune - | ______ |
Use the following phrase in your own sentence.
try one’s level best
The parents must be informed ___________ any indiscipline conduct of their wards.
Use the following phrase in a sentence of your own.
to see one fight
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.
Complete the sentence in present tense form.
Arun a ______ eagerly ______ (wait) to meet her friend since morning.
______ on the flute, Krishna returned it.
______ please open the window?
Complete the following using their group name.
A ______ of wolves went hunting in the forest.
Complete the following using their group names.
A ______ of fish swam past our boat.
Give the correct verb form for the following sentence.
They ______ (come).
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Form two derivatives from each of the following words.
e.g. honest- dishonest, honesty
| manage | differ | beauty |
| peace | arrange | collect |
| approve | narrate | class |
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We should never misuse or ______natural resources.
Vijay had ______ idea about the problem.
Read the news item that appeared in a daily and fill in the blanks with suitable forms of the verbs given in brackets
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Write the expanded forms of the following abbreviations we commonly come across in our daily life.
| 1. | IELTS | |
| 2. | GST | |
| 3. | TNPSC | |
| 4. | STD | |
| 5. | ISD | |
| 6. | MBA | |
| 7. | MHRD | |
| 8. | GPS | |
| 9. | NSS | |
| 10 | PTA | |
| 11. | NGO | |
| 12. | ICU | |
| 13. | IIM | |
| 14. | MRI | |
| 15. | ECG | |
| 16. | NCC | |
| 17. | LED | |
| 18. | CPU | |
| 19 | CBSE | |
| 20 | GDP | |
| 21 | LCD | |
| 22 | NRI | |
| 23 | IIT | |
| 24 | ITI | |
| 25 | USB |
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Fill in the blank with suitable modal verb.
______ I turn on the fan, please?
Fill in the blank choosing the word from the box. Refer to a dictionary if required.
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Change the voice of the following sentence.
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Underline the correct verb in these sentence.
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Complete the following sentence with modal using the clue given.
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Add suitable question tag to the following sentence and punctuate properly.
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Read the following sentence and fill in the blank.
If I were you, I ______(accept) this offer.
Now, Blend the following word.
foreign + exchange
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Rajesh went to the airport ______his friend.
Complete the slogan, by filling in the blank with the correct option.
Your plastic contribution ______ causing ocean pollution.
