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प्रश्न
Add appropriate question tag to the following sentence.
The aim should be to reduce congestion.
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उत्तर
The aim should be to reduce congestion, shouldn’t it be?
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Say whether the following sentences are in the Active or the Passive voice. Write A or P after the sentence.
Someone stole my bicycle. ________
Fill in the blanks with words from the box.
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lonely |
little |
hard |
young |
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thoughtful |
delicious |
beautiful |
A __________ woodcutter lived on a ____________ hillside. He was a ___________ son who worked _____________ but earned ____________ money. One day he saw a ____________ waterfall hidden behind a rock. He tasted the water and found it _________________.
Identify whether the following is a Simple, Complex, and Compound sentence.
If Ramanujan had been better educated, he would have been even more wonderful than he was.
Find from the poem, three examples of Interrogation :
- ___________________
- ___________________
- ___________________
Read the entry about ‘voice’ in the ‘Language Study’ pages. Note that the speeches of all the boys are in the ‘active’ voice. Turn them into passive constructions.
1950s Boy - I have watered the garden.
Rewrite the following in indirect speech.
“How will you have it?” he said.
“In the fifties,” I said.
Rewrite the following sentence using ‘not only but also’ and ‘as well as’ in 2 seperate sentences.
To protect the temples and artefacts, UNESCO launched an international campaign.
Complete the sentence in past tense form.
They ______ (request) him when the manager arrived.
Complete the sentence in past tense form.
If you ______ (work) hard, you would have won the relay match.
Fill in the blank using the verb in the bracket in the future form.
By next year, I ______ in Chennai for fifteen years. (live).
Rearrange the words in the correct order to make a meaningful sentence.
as / I / healthy / are / you / am / as
The girl standing ______ me was sneezing.
Identify the non-finite in the following sentence and underline them.
Having finished the work, the manager decided to return home.
Match the phrasal verbs in column A with their meaning in Column B.
| A | B |
| fight or flight | escaping as rapidly as possible |
| put to flight | among the best of a particular group |
| take flight | to defend oneself or to run away |
| flight of fancy | to cause someone to flee |
| have a nice flight | to flee or run away |
| in full flight | an imaginative but unrealistic idea |
| top-flight | enjoy your flight |
Read these sentence from the story carefully. Do they give command or request or make statement? Write 'C' for command and 'R' for request and 'S' for statement.
The tendril moved towards grandfather.
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Give the correct verb form for following sentence.
It______ a car.
Fill in the blank.
______ old man
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Change the sentence into present continuous tense.
They draw picture of a boy.
Complete the following with appropriate conditional clause.
I wouldn’t refuse, ______.
- The ______is not clear; we cannot read the sentences.
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Read what these people say and rewrite as sentence.
How are you?
Satish ______
Change the following sentence into Passive Voice.
Whose car did someone park in front of your gate?
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."______
Frame illustrative sentence to distinguish the meaning of the word in the following cluster.
quiet – quite – quit
Underline the gerund in the following sentence.
I love eating ice creams.
Replace the comparative adjective in the following sentence with their positive form.
Rural life is certainly more peaceful than urban life.
Comment on the changes in poetic expression in English from the time of Donne to that of Kamala Das with reference to
- prosodic features (rhyme, rhythm and metre)
- vocabulary
- language
- themes.
Read the example and fill in the blank in the same pattern.
Example: sweet - sweeter - sweetest
low - ______ - lowest
