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Question
Read the following sentence and frame at least two relevant questions.
I was like that ship before my education began.
Solution
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Who was like that ship before her education began?
- What he was like before his education began?
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Read the following sentence:
(i) She muttered in reply and we looked at Jeevan for a quick interpretation.
(ii) These are two complete sentences underlying the above sentence.
- She muttered in reply.
- We looked at Jeevan for a quick interpretation.
These two sentences are put together by using the coordinating conjunction ‘and’.
Such sentences are joined by coordinating conjunctions (and/ but/ either...or; neither...nor) are called compound sentences.
Sentence ‘a’ and ‘b’ are Simple Sentences.
Each of them has only one subject and one predicate.
Sentence ‘a’ and ‘b’ can be written in another way.
As she muttered in reply, we looked at Jeevan for a quick interpretation.
This sentence begins with a subordinating conjunction ‘As’.
This is a complex sentence.
Two simple sentences joined by subordinate conjunctions are called complex sentences. The subordinate conjunction need not always be at the beginning of the sentence.
Make pairs and groups and find out some more simple, complex, and compound sentences from the text.
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 | ____________ | ____________ |
Make the following Negative using the negative words given.
There were a few potted plants in the courtyard. (not many)
Make pair of sentences to show the difference between the meaning of the following Homograph from the story.
well
Join the sentence using appropriate Co-ordinators. (but, or, so, and)
These procedures can be performed through very small incisions. Our patients experience a number of benefits.
Add a proper prefix to the following word to make a new word.
kind
Rewrite the following in indirect speech.
….. the words seemed to mean, “Let us do this painful thing while the fit is on us.”
Change the meaning of the sentence by changing the preposition.
There were many people around the house.
Change the following into passive voice.
Carry it home.
Read the situation given and frame two suitable sentence in the appropriate form of the tense.
| Mention any of your two dreams in the correct tense form. | 1. ______ |
| 2. ______ |
Form a new word by adding appropriate prefix/suffix.
child ______.
The head office is ______ Nungambakkam. It is ______ College Road. As you go ______ the station, the office is ______ the right side.
The sailors were taken ______ the forest and made to walk ______ 10 miles.
Fill in the blank with the appropriate verb.
The ship with its crew ___ sailing good.
Transform the following sentence as instructed.
If Meena reads more, she will become proficient in the language. (into Compound)
Change the possessive adjective into a possessive pronoun.
Her speech is nice.
Punctuate the following sentence.
he was honest sincere hard working.
Look at the pictures given below. Arrange the jumbled words into a sentence. Write the sequence of the sentences according to the pictures in the blanks given. Pick the adjectives from the sentences and write them below the picture.
- order/a yummy, round and big cake/her parents.
- her/a wonderful doll/present/Madhu’s friends/with
- which falls on Sunday/for her birthday celebration/ Madhu/her close friends/invites
- welcome/she and her parents/with a broad smile/their/ guests
- enjoyed the day/felt/happy and/Madhu and her parents
- the house with colourful balloons/her parents/ decorate/and attractive cartoon
- pink/Madhu/frock/wears/on her/birthday/a long.
Change the sentence from past continuous to future continuous.
Rafiq was eating breakfast.
Complete the sentence by using the following options.
Charles greeted his_________ and aunt.
Fill in the blank with suitable modal verb.
We are not completely sure but Kishore ______ come back tomorrow.
Fill in the blank with suitable modal verb.
Helen jotted down the important points lest she ______ forget it.
Complete the following with appropriate conditional clause.
People get sun-burnt, ______.
Fill in the blanks with suitable homophones or confusables.
| wallet | ______ | hoard | ______ |
| fairy | ______ | desert | ______ |
| medal | ______ | night | ______ |
| wait | ______ | sweet | ______ |
| yoke | ______ | plain | ______ |
| grown | ______ | might | ______ |
| earn | ______ | quite | ______ |
Complete the sentence with the correct tense form of the verb in bracket.
I (never) think of a career in medicine before I spoke to my Biology teacher but now I think (seriously) it.
Find out the antonym of the underlined word in each of the following sentence.
One does not feel wise, braver or more optimistic.
Fill in the blank with appropriate correlative conjunction.
Vani is ______a good singer ______a good dancer.
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."______
Spot the error in the spelling of the following word with reference to the passage and rewrite it correctly.
Innar
The leader appealed ______ the public to maintain law and order.
