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प्रश्न
Give the meaning of the following phrasal verb and frame sentence using them
stand by
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उत्तर
stand by: ready to substitute
The eleventh player was standing by to play if any player gets hurt or a substitute is needed.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Here are some words from the lesson which describe different kinds of sounds.
fill in the blank using the correct form of the word given.
The _________________ of breaking glass woke me up.
Separate the clauses in the following sentence and write the conjunction.
The traveller arrived at the station after the train had left.
Clause (1) ____________
Clause (2) ____________
Conjunction:
What is Transitive and intransitive verbs and give some example.
Change the meaning of the sentence by changing the preposition.
Put the cubes in the box.
Rewrite the following sentence by rectifying the errors in the use of modal.
Could the train be on time?
Engineers ___________ bridges.
Make a sentence in the present continuous tense using the verb given in bracket.
My brother __________ (work) in London now.
Manohar was laughing because ______.
I have ________ pencils with me.
Complete the sentence in present tense form.
Saravanan always ______ (go) for a walk in the morning.
Complete the sentence in present tense form.
We ______ (gather) here for a meeting and the chair person is yet to arrive.
Who am I? (Use a pair of …)
We cut things with ______
Write the noun form of the following word.
deafen ______.
Change the possessive adjective into a possessive pronoun.
My bike is costly.
List out the transitive and intransitive verbs in the following words.
come, buy, teach, learn, arrive, sing, run, draw, jump, write.
Discuss with your partner and punctuate the following.
sarathy said oh how thrilling it was
I promised the children a trip to the zoo.
Use the clues to complete the compound word.
| news + ______ | = ______ |  |
Change the sentence from past continuous to future continuous.
Prasanth was reading newspaper.
Fill in the blank.
6 is ______ 5.
Choose the correct reflexive pronoun.
Dad and I painted the trailer ______.
Fill in the blank.
It _____ all the candies. (eat)
Read the extract from Kayal’s diary entry regarding her Nepal Trek, and fill in the blanks with the correct tense form of the verbs given in brackets.
DAY 1 We ______(leave) Anna International Airport in Chennai two days ago catching a direct flight to Kathmandu in Nepal. We ______(spend) a day sightseeing. Kathmandu is full of people, rickshaws and the smell of sandalwood. I’ve never ______(be) on a trip like this before. So I’m really excited.
DAY 2 It ______(rain) when we reached Pokhara, Nepal’s second largest city, and saw the snowy peaks of the Himalayas for the first time. We ______(reach) Pokhara after a hairraising six-hour bus journey along very narrow roads with a lot of hairpin bends. The bus ______(be) so full that one person had to share the driver’s seat.
DAY 3 We _______________ (begin) our trek at last. We are at about 900 metres and the weather is warm and humid. For lunch we had chips and yak cheese sandwiches. I didn’t like them very much. I’m thrilled that we ______(pitch) tents for our camps in the dense forests.
DAY 4 Yesterday a landslide ______(block) our path and we had to use ropes to get over it. This morning we walked along the river Kali Gandaki through dense forests of oak trees and we pitched our camp at Tukuche below the Annapurna mountain range. The main danger in addition to landslides, is ‘yak attack’. Yaks ______(be) not dangerous but you have to be careful if you meet a herd of them because they can push you off the sides of the mountain.
DAY 5 We met a lot of children on our trek through the villages. They ______(play) in the pool of muddy rain water as we left the place. We have already climbed 2,400 metres. Up here, it never ______(rain) and there are no trees. It ______ (be) windy and dusty and I am always thirsty.
DAY 6 Yesterday we ______(go) up to the mountainside of the township of Mukthinath, at 3,600 metres. The thin air with less oxygen there ______(leave) us breathless. We ______(feel) that we couldn’t go any further. We ______(drink) a lot of extra fluids to prevent altitude sickness.
DAY 7 We turned around today and started to descend to Jomosom. As we went down, the oxygen-filled our blood again and we seemed to ______ (fly) instead of walking.
DAY 8 We went back to Pokhara in a small plane yesterday. It was exciting when we _____(fly) between the mountain peaks. We arrived in Kathmandu this afternoon and we ______(spend) our last few hours in shopping. We leave for Chennai tomorrow. We’ve had a trip of a lifetime.
The ______dancer turned ______after the final performance. (weary/wiry)
Complete the following with appropriate conditional clause.
Jayashree would travel to France, ______.
- The ______ of the photo is broken.
- We ______questions on all topics.
Fill in the blank with the correct form of the verb given in the bracket.
Her parents ______ in Coimbatore for two weeks from today (be).
Match the following with their right field, choosing appropriately from the box given.
| snow-board | Machinery |
| snow-mobile | Sports |
| snow-chains | Transportation |
| snow-storm | Geography |
| snow-bird | Weather |
| snow-belt | Travel |
Transform the following sentence as per the given instruction.
In spite of the very hot weather, Kevin stepped out to buy some bread. (Begin: Despite.…)
Using your own ideas, frame at least three sentences that show future action or state.
Examples:
- Who’ll (who will) want to follow me.
- When I’m all grown up ...
