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प्रश्न
Complete the following table.
| No. | Figure of Speech | Line of the poem | Explanation |
| 1. | ________________ | ________________ | The sky is imagined to art like a human being. |
| 2. | ________________ | with gleaming gold | ________________ |
| 3. | Oxymoron | ________________ | ________________ |
| 4. | ________________ | The country wears a perfect smile. Anaesthesia, Amnesia, Hypnosis | ________________ |
| 5. | Paradox | ________________ | ________________ |
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उत्तर
| No. | Figure of Speech | Line of the poem | Explanation |
| 1. | Personification | , and the skies surrender. | The sky is imagined to art like a human being. |
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with gleaming gold |
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| 3. | Oxymoron | So history is new again | The old is wiped out or changed to appear new |
| 4. | Climax | The country wears a perfect smile. Anaesthesia, Amnesia, Hypnosis | The words increase in intensity for creating a strong impact. |
| 5. | Paradox | our past's tomorrow | Opposite ideas - past and tomorrow - create a dramatic effect for meaning. |
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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’).
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The fawn lifted its nose.
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to have a difference of opinion
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| • She was tired | and | • she finished her homework. |
| • She wanted to buy a car | • she had no money. | |
| • He was angry | • he did not fight. | |
| • He did not know the answer | • he did not copy his friend’s answer. | |
| • They did not have money | • they lived happily. | |
| • He did not read the book | • he knew the story. |
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Someone has to initiate it immediately
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There is a temple right ________ my house.
Write the gerund/infinitive form of the verb in the blank
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Kamali ________ English very well, but she doesn’t understand Hindi.
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eat cry play read sing watch
Write a negative sentence.
Raja is driving a new car.
It was ________ unforgettable experience.
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| 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 |
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The air hostess instructed the passengers to wear the seat belts during the ______.
My mother throws a______ of grains for the parrots every day.
Form compound words from the boxes given below and fill in the blanks in the sentences that follow with the appropriate compound words.
| waiting | out | income |
| green | sun | room |
| tax | alarm | dry |
| traffic | wall | house |
| clock | jam | glasses |
| hair | cleaning | cut |
| put | paper |
- Siva visited the hair stylist to have a clean __________.
- Tharani had given the sarees for __________.
- The __________ is a natural process that warms the earth’s surface.
- Never wait for an __________ to wake you up.
- The children were late to school as there was a __________ near the toll plaza.
- The government expects every individual to promptly pay the __________.
- People usually wear __________ during summer.
- The patients were asked to sit in the__________ until the doctor arrived.
- With teamwork we are able to multiply our __________.
- The room was looking bright with the colourful __________.
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Fill in the blank with the appropriate verb.
___ your father and mother at home?
underline the modal verbs in the list given in the box.
| shall | should | will | have to | would | can | need to |
| could | may | ought to | might | dare | used to | need |
Use the phrase could you or would you in the following situation with your friend.
You would need to exchange the book purchased.
Look at the punctuation of these sentence. Why are they punctuated differently? Discuss in class.
One always felt like drawing close to him
The show _______ (complete) its one thousand episodes by next month.
Join the sentence of Column A with B using the words given in the box.
| A | B |
| 1. The clouds moved away | he helped Velu in time. |
| 2. Velu thanked his friend | the sun came out. |
| 3. It rained heavily | you will get choked. |
| 4. Eat slowly | the match continued. |
| and but or because |
Write the correct punctuation mark that best complete the sentence.
Please take out the trash when you get home ___
Give the correct verb form for the following sentence.
It ______ (play).
Complete the following sentence using the prepositions from the option.
I will meet you _____ 7.30.
Choose the correct plural form.
Fly
Read the situation given. Write the response of the subject in a sentence. Tick the correct box to identify the kind of sentences.
D- Declarative; In- Interrogative; E- Exclamatory; Im- Imperative
| D | In | E | Im | ||
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Example: (Vendor) while weighing the fruits How many kilos do you want? |
✓ | ||||
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(Children) while eating ice-cream |
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| 2. | (Teacher) while noticing students talking in the classroom | ||||
| 3. | (Waiter) while attending a new customer | ||||
| 4. | (Student) while introducing oneself | ||||
| 5. | (Tourist) while visiting the Taj Mahal | ||||
| 6. | (TTR) while checking the tickets of passengers | ||||
| 7. | (Critic) while writing a review of a book | ||||
| 8. | (Receptionist) while attending to a guest in the hotel |
Form new words with appropriate suffixes.
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Choose the correct verb form to the following sentence.
I _________ the Tajmahal.
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| Name of the object | In your mother tongue | Use in a sentence |
Write the correct preposition.
The doll is ______ the boxes.
Fill in the Blank.
Athithya is standing ______ Devi.
Complete the following sentence using past perfect tense.
The satellite _________ on the moon before they gave the command. (land)
What we say?
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My father gave me some pictures to look ______.
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prescribed - proscribed
Read the list of words formed by adding suffixes.
| frequently | satisfaction | willingness |
| comfortable | resemblance | nobility |
Form two derivatives from each of the following words by adding prefixes and suffixes.
| Word | Prefix | Suffix |
| patient | patient | patiently |
| honour | ||
| respect | ||
| manage | ||
| fertile | ||
| different | ||
| friend | ||
| obey |
Fill in the blank with modal auxiliary.
______ you have taken all this trouble?
Complete the following sentence with modal using the clue given.
If I were you, I ______not behave like that. (conditional sentence)
Combine the sentence and rewrite them using the word given in the bracket.
The boys were stealing mangoes from a grove. At that time, the owner of the grove came in.(while)
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You are advised to help the poor and needy.
Find out the antonym of the underlined word in each of the following sentence.
Maamanaar was unmatched.
Combine each of the following pair of sentence using participle. The first one is done for you.
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Combine each of the following pair of sentence using participle. The first one is done for you.
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Example: sweet - sweeter - sweetest
low - ______ - lowest
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- Dry as land
- Wet as a puddle.
Now try to put together the similes to make a poem with rhyming lines.
Write a compound word using the pictures.
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Write the compound word from the picture.
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In the following sentence, replace the incorrect underlined word to make the sentence meaningful and grammatically correct.
He ran around problems while trying to fix the computer.
Fill in the blanks in the passage given below with the appropriate form of the verb given in brackets. Do not write the passage but write the verbs in the correct order.
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