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प्रश्न
Complete the following passage using the preposition given in bracket.
(after, with, on, before, of, in, for)
(1)______ the interview, Solomon was confident (2)______ getting the job. He knew that he was qualified (3)______ the job. He was interested (4)______discharging his duty perfectly. The interview panel was impressed (5)______ his attitude and skills. So (6)______ the interview, he was (7)______ cloud nine.
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उत्तर
(1) Before the interview, Solomon was confident (2) of getting the job. He knew that he was qualified (3) for the job. He was interested (4) in discharging his duty perfectly. The interview panel was impressed (5) with his attitude and skills. So (6) after the interview, he was (7) on cloud nine.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
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 idiom/expression in sentences of your own.
to be prone to
Use the following idiom/expression in sentences of your own.
to have a beneficial effect
List as many words as you can that will go with the given adjective. (At least 3 each.)
Example: sudden - sudden change, sudden shower, sudden fall
- simple
- odd
- only
- honest
- long
Change the following sentence to the other voice.
The manager appointed many office assistants.
Find the synonym for the underlined word.
When Pongo caught the narrator with the oranges, he was very frightened.
Make a sentence in the present perfect tense using the verb.
Have you ___________ your lunch?
Complete the following sentence using appropriate Connector from the option.
The stores are open daily ____________ Sundays.
Convert the following active sentence into a passive sentence by supplying an appropriate passive verb form.
They speak English in New Zealand./English _______________ in New Zealand.
Choose the correct option.
The passengers rushed to board the bus _________ it arrived.
“I will finish this picture tomorrow.” Jothi said that ______ picture the next day.
Fill in the blanks with correct Meaning and Eponym for the given words.
| Eponym | Meaning | Origin |
| saxophone | ||
| volcano | ||
| Eiffel Tower | ||
| Boycott | ||
| Mount Everest |
Write the plural word.
Catch
Appropriate suffix to the word with the clues given.
Make something better ______.
| words | suffixes |
| penny, beauty, develop, teach. | ful, ment, er, less. |
Choose the correct verb.
Boy ______the cake.
Rewrite the sentence using the word in the bracket.
I have dinner at 8 p.m. (She)
Write the word given in the bracket in correct tense.
I ______(see) him accidently.
They came early but there was ______work to do.
Read the following passage adapted from ‘Three Men in a Boat’ and fill in the blanks with appropriate modals and read the paragraph aloud.
I thought I will go to British Museum today to read the treatment for some slight ailment of which I had a touch. I (1)______ read all I wanted to read and then felt I (2)______begin to study diseases. I started to generally turn the leaves idly. I came to typhoid fever, read the symptoms and discovered I (3)______be having it for months without knowing it. Cholera, I had severe complications. Diphtheria, I (4)______have been born with. I was relieved to find that Bright’s disease, I had only in a modified form as so far as that was concerned, I (5)______live for years. The only disease I (6)______conclude I had not got was a housemaid’s knee. I sat and pondered. I tried to feel my heart. I (7)______(not feel) my heart. I walked into the reading room as a happy healthy man but crawled out as a decrepit wreck.
Idioms:
An idiom is an expression in English with a special meaning of its own. Idioms do not give the literal meaning of the individual words used in them.
You come across the idiom ‘by the skin of one’s teeth’ in the lesson. It means ‘a narrow escape’.
Fill in the blanks with suitable homophones or confusables.
| wallet | ______ | hoard | ______ |
| fairy | ______ | desert | ______ |
| medal | ______ | night | ______ |
| wait | ______ | sweet | ______ |
| yoke | ______ | plain | ______ |
| grown | ______ | might | ______ |
| earn | ______ | quite | ______ |
Recall your learning of basic preposition and complete the sentence using the prepositions given in options.
Yuvan has been studying well ______childhood.
Underline the prepositional phrase.
My brother will return home in the evening.
Fill in the blank with the word given in option.
The old lady found ______in the company of the children in the neighbourhood.
Form a phrase with each of the following pair of noun given below.
muscle + pain -
Look at the following complex sentence. Circle(bold) the Main clause and underline the Subordinate clause.
No one knows when he will return.
Combine each of the following pair of sentence using participle. The first one is done for you.
She walked out. She was smiling
Transform the following sentence as per the given instruction.
I would rather eat fruit than a lot of unhealthy junk food. (Begin: I prefer….)
Write the compound word from the picture.
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+ |  |
| ____________ | ||
Read the following sentence and frame at least two relevant questions.
We walked down the path to the well-house.
