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प्रश्न
Frame meaningful sentence of your own using the following expression from the story. Use a dictionary if required.
a turning point
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उत्तर
Gandhiji’s encounter with an ill-clad poor woman in Madurai was a turning point in his political life.
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Which form of the verb is more natural in below sentence?
Have you decided where you will go for your higher secondary?
Yes, I have. I will go/am going to the Kendriya Vidyalaya.
Make a list of adjectives in three different forms of comparison. Use different texts to find these.
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 | ____________ | ____________ |
Separate the clauses in the following sentence and write the conjunction.
She told me that she was a doctor.
Clause (1) ____________
Clause (2) ____________
Conjunction:
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We have been living in Chennai _________ eight years.
By the time Sundar got up ________.
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Read the situation given and frame two suitable sentence in the appropriate form of the tense.
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| 2. ______ |
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What a beautiful banyan tree!
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Electronic + commerce -
Refer to a dictionary for the meanings and choose the odd one.
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She ______ (swim).
Fill in the blank with the correct opposite.
Is he standing on top?
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Rewrite the sentence with punctuation mark.
do you play football
Fill in the blank.
______ old man
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Let the door not be slammed.
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Here are some compound words chosen from the text.
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| half-way | never-ending | partly-full | ice- axe |
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Look at the following complex sentence. Circle(bold) the Main clause and underline the Subordinate clause.
Nobody knows when the power supply will resume.
You should ______ your mother for your rude behaviour.
Write compound word using the pictures.
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+ |  |
| ____________ | ||
In the following sentence, replace the incorrect underlined word to make the sentence meaningful and grammatically correct.
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