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Complete the following sentence using appropriate determiner. Only ______ people can afford to buy a flat in Chennai. - English

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प्रश्न

Complete the following sentence using appropriate determiner.

Only ______ people can afford to buy a flat in Chennai.

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उत्तर

Only a few people can afford to buy a flat in Chennai.

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अध्याय 5.1: The Status of Tamil as a Classical Language - Grammar- Articles and Determiners [पृष्ठ १५७]

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अध्याय 5.1 The Status of Tamil as a Classical Language
Grammar- Articles and Determiners | Q 2 1. | पृष्ठ १५७

संबंधित प्रश्न

Say whether the following sentences are in the Active or the Passive voice. Write A or P after the sentence.

I found it last night in a ditch near my house. __________


Change the voice in the following sentence.

He knew nothing of the modern rigour.


Identify whether the following is a Simple, Complex, and Compound sentence.

Ramanujan turned out to be a poor clerk.


List all the phrases from the poem in which two or more words are joined with ‘and’.


The following word can be used as nouns as well as verbs. Make two sentences of your own, using them as a noun in one and a verb in another.

value


  1. Write at least 5 common nouns and 5 proper nouns each. Proper nouns are always written with a capital letter at the beginning.
  2. Can you think of proper nouns that include two or more words? How are they written? Find at least ten such nouns.

Read the following aloud and note the highlighted words. They are conjunctions.

"I am terribly afraid of falling, myself," said the Cowardly Lion, "but I suppose there is nothing to do but try it. So get on my back and we will make the attempt."

The Scarecrow sat upon the Lion’s back, and the big beast walked to the edge of the gulf and crouched down.

"Why don’t you run and jump?" asked the Scarecrow.

"Because that isn’t the way we Lions do these things," he replied. Then giving a great spring, he shot through the air and landed safely on the other side.


Fill in the blank with a verb in the present continuous.

______ your mother ____ (work) today?


Make sentences in the present perfect continuous tense using the verbs.

How long __________?


Make sentences in the present perfect continuous tense using the verbs.

I ______ this mobile for three years.


Complete the story using the past tense of the verbs.

The Hare and the Tortoise

One day a Hare and a Tortoise decided to have a race. The Tortoise _______ (know) that the Hare _________ (can) run faster than him. But the Tortoise _______ (be) more intelligent than the Hare. 'Yes, I'll race you,'_________ (say) the Tortoise. The Tortoise ______ (have) a clever plan. He ______ (find) his brothers and sisters and he ______ (tell) them to wait in different places along the path of the race. So they all ______ (hide) behind the trees along the path. The race ______ (begin)! The Tortoise ______ (run) as fast as possible. But the Hare ______ (be) faster, of course. 'This will be a very easy race', ______ (think) the Hare. So the Hare _________ (decide) to rest, and he quickly ____ (fall) asleep at the side of the road. Suddenly, the Hare  ______ (wake up) and he ______ (see) a Tortoise ahead of him! 'How did he get ahead of me?' the Hare asked himself. In fact, it ______ (be) not his friend the Tortoise: it ______ (be) the Tortoise's sister. But to a Hare, all tortoises look the same. The Hare ______ (run) past the Tortoise easily. Soon, he ______ (cannot) see the Tortoise, so he ______ (sit) down to rest. Then the Hare ______ (get up) and continued the race. But as the Hare _______ (turn) around the last corner before the finish line, his friend the Tortoise crossed the line and ______ (win) the race!


Now refer to a dictionary and find idioms on the following animals, birds, and insects. Learn their meanings and share what you have learnt with your class. Try to frame illustrative sentences with those idioms. Find opportunities to use them in your everyday conversations.

lion, mouse, parrot, fox, hawk, snake, monkey, dog, snail, bee.

‘What is that noise?’ I think it is ________ aeroplane.


Complete the sentence in present tense form.

Mani ______ (work) in this school for five years.


Fill in the gap with appropriate Pronoun.

He ______ is responsible for the downfall of his life.


Transform the following sentence as instructed.

Walk carefully lest you will fall down. (into Complex)


Fill in the blank with appropriate airline vocabulary given in the options.

That was a very smooth______.


Use the phrase could you or would you in the following situation with your friend.

You want to open your classroom window.


I will come if I __________ time.


A conjunction is a word that joins two words or sentence.

He has a pencil _________ a paper.


Choose the correct place of the apple.


Write the correct clipped word on the line.

I saw some wild animals in the _______ (zoological park).


Choose the correct prefix and write the new word.


Write the word given in the bracket in correct tense.

I ______(see) him accidently.


Fill in the blank.

______ Jungle book has won many awards.


Here is a recipe to make a chocolate cake in a pressure cooker. Rewrite the instructions in the passive voice. The first one has been done for you.

Ingredients

  • 1 cup flour
  • 1/4 cup cocoa powder
  • 1 1/4 tsp baking powder
  • 1/4 cup butter
  • 3/4 cup castor sugar
  • 1/4 cup water
  • 2 eggs
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla essence
  • 1/8 tsp salt

Method

  1. First sift the flour, cocoa powder, and baking powder in a mixing bowl.
  2. Add butter, sugar, salt, water, and vanilla and beat the ingredients using a whisk.
  3. Add the eggs and beat the batter until it is smooth
  4. Transfer the batter into the baking tin.
  5. Heat the pressure cooker, covered with the lid, but without the pressure, for 3-4 minutes on high heat. Then place the cake tin in the empty cooker (Do not add water in the cooker).
  6. Close the lid (without the pressure), lower the flame, and cook for about 30 minutes.

Auction House Puzzler

You have come across many terms associated with an auction, in the lesson. Now solve the crossword puzzle with words from the lesson. Make use of the clues given.

Across

  1. conducts auction 
  2. a protective garment 
  3. strip with numbers
  4. offer

Down

  1. painter
  2. school of painting
  3. auction house 
  4. painting

Form a phrase with each of the following pair of noun given below.

nerve + disorder -


Complete the following sentence using appropriate determiner.

______ information that she gave proved false.


Find the meaning of the following from a good dictionary:

radicals


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