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प्रश्न
Foreign words and phrases
You have come across the French phrases ‘en famille’ |ən <famille>| and ‘bons mots’ ˌ|bɑn ˈmɑːts| in the lesson. Now, look at the following phrases and their meanings.
- viva voce - /ˌvaɪvə vəusi / - a spoken examination
- sine die - /ˈsɪnə ˈdʌɪiː/ – without a date being fixed
- resume- /ˈrezjuːmeɪ/ - a brief summary
- rapport - /ræˈpɔː(r)/ - close relationship with good understanding
- bonafide - /ˌbəʊnə ˈfaɪdi/ - genuine
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उत्तर
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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 | ____________ | ____________ |
Join the sentence using appropriate Co-ordinators. (but, or, so, and)
Cardiac Surgery was tried in the past. Patients did not survive.
Use the suffix ‘-ly’ to make another word from the following:
subsequent
Change the following into Passive voice.
Please do not walk on the grass.
Children are given toys ____________ sweets on Children’s day.
Frame sentence using the prepositional verb given below.
rely on
My mother ______ in a factory.
Match words from the different columns to make reasonable predictions. Then write them down in the space below. One has been done as an example.
Write the sentences.
- In 50 years the ice cap will have melted.
- ________________________
- ________________________
- ________________________
- ________________________
- ________________________
- ________________________
Write the noun form of the following word.
deafen ______.
Combine the pair of sentence below into simple, complex, and compound.
I saw a tiger it was wounded.
Change the possessive adjective into a possessive pronoun.
My bike is costly.
______ please bring some water for me?
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.
We spent the whole day planting saplings.
Rewrite the sentence using the given word.
The manager has accused him.
You ______.
Fill in the blank
I play tennis ______ cricket.
Choose the correct word.
This box is _______ heavy to lift.
Write the word given in the bracket in correct tense.
We ______(move) back to city yesterday.
Write
______ inn
Fill in the blank with suitable homophone:
The child looks very sick and ______.
Fill in the blank with suitable modal verb.
In schools, students ______ wear uniforms. It is compulsory.
Explain the ______‘Cut your ______according to your cloth.’ (coat/quote)
Here are some more idioms taken from the lesson. Find out their meaning and use them in sentence of your own.
tight corners
Complete the following with appropriate conditional clause.
Vicky would have passed, ______.
Do as directed.
The trio met at the station. Varsha left for Madurai. (combine into a complex sentence)
Correct the error found in the question tag in each of the following
The evil doers cannot cross the path of truth, can’t they?
Given below are some Phrasal Verb which are frequently used in connection with travelling. Guess the meaning and match.
| check-in | pay the bill when leaving a hotel |
| check out | arrive and register at airport or hotel |
Identify the two Main clause and conjunction in each of the following sentence.
It started raining suddenly and people ran for shelter.
Rewrite the following sentence using ‘If ’ without changing the meaning.
Mr. Kunaal would not sponsor my higher education unless I studied well.
Here, we see that the ‘-ing’ form of the verb ‘fight’ is used as a subject in ‘The fighting went on’. It does the work of a noun. When the ‘-ing’ form of a verb is used as a noun, it is known as a gerund or verbal noun. Read the following examples of gerunds:
- Gardening is an art.
- Cooking is a science.
- I enjoy reading poems.
- I like reading more than writing.
Rewrite the above sentences using other appropriate gerunds in place of the ones given here.
Find the meaning of the following word from a good dictionary.
Cranky
