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प्रश्न
Fill in the blank in the sentence given below choosing the most appropriate option from the one that follows.
Concentration is ______________by alertness.
विकल्प
help
will help
helps
helped
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उत्तर
Concentration is helped by alertness.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Find the sentences in the story with the following phrasal verbs.
| lined up | thought up | took off | stood by |
Pick out the infinitive from the following sentence:
I just had to do it.
Notice the highlighted words in the following sentences.
1. “When I leave,’ Sophie said, coming home from school, “I’m going to have a boutique.”
2. Jansie, linking arms with her along the street, looked doubtful.
3. “I’ll find it,” Sophie said, staring far down the street.
4. Jansie, knowing they were both earmarked for the biscuit factory, became melancholy.
5. And she turned in through the open street door leaving Jansie standing in the rain.
– When we add “ing” to a verb we get the present participle form. The present participle form is generally used along with forms of “be’, (is, was, are, were, am) to indicate the continuous tense as in “Sophie was coming home from school.”
– We can use the present participle by itself without the helping verb, when we wish to indicate that an action is happening at the same time as another.
– In example 1, Sophie “said” something. “Said”, here, is the main action.
– What Sophie was doing while she was “saying” is indicated by “coming home from school”. So we get the information of two actions happening at the same time. We convey the information in one sentence instead of two.
I. Analyse the other examples in the same way.
II. Pick out five other sentences from the story in which present participles are used in this sense.
Say whether the words underlined are infinitives/ participles or gerunds.
I like to eat fruits rather than eating sweets.
Underline the gerund/present participles/infinitive.
Setting goals may appear easy, but it is quite challenging.
Pick out the infinitives from the following sentence.
He would teach me to write whole sentences and to add numbers.
That need not happen.
(Rewrite: using does)
Complete the word chain of ‘verbs’. Add four words, each beginning with the last letter of the previous word:
think → ______ → ______ → ______ → ______
The teacher is hoping to ______ an art exhibition before the end of the year.
Since he woke up he ______.
