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प्रश्न
Here are some more idioms taken from the lesson. Find out their meaning and use them in sentence of your own.
in a nice pickle
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उत्तर
in a nice pickle- in a mess
Boney Kapoor is in a nice pickle unable to explain Sridevi’s sudden death to media personalities and to film Industry friends.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Complete the sentence below using the appropriate forms of the verbs in brackets.
We are off today. We ________ (write) to you after we _______ (be) back.
Do as directed. (Make sure you do not change the meaning and tense of the sentence).
Mantri Ji said Maharaj Pundit Shahane's visit to our court is an open challenge. (Punctuate)
The following word can be used as nouns as well as verbs. Make two sentences of your own, using them as a noun in one and a verb in another.
return
When words with the same spelling or pronunciation are used in such a way that they convey more than one meaning, the figure of speech involved is called a pun.
A pun is a play upon words. For example,
- Hello! How’s life?
- Hell, O! It’s a strife.
Find other examples of pun with the help of your parents/teacher.
- _________________
- _________________
- _________________
- _________________
The following expression is a combination of a noun preceded by a describing word.
fatal mistake.
Replace the describing word with as many others as you can, that goes with the underlined noun.
Choose the correct option.
We use ______when something is suggested or recommended.
Complete the sentence using the correct form of the verb in bracket.
We hope you ___________ (have) a great time in Ooty.
Fill in the blank with the appropriate verb.
___ your father and mother at home?
Make meaningful sentences from the table given below.
| A turtle |
live in the sea. is huge. have a connection with the land. are found in coastal waters. are wonderful creatures. has flippers to swim. |
| Turtles |
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.
There was a forest on the island.
Don’t worry, we will be _______ (reach) the airport in time.
We won't be late, ________.
State which of the following sentence are Compound, and which are Complex.
The town in which I live is very large.
Choose the abstract noun.
| fear | box | beauty | tree | taste |
| pencil | happiness | anger | honesty | book |
Read the sentence, insert appropriate article in the blank and choose the noun phrase.
Suresh was astonished to see______ huge statue.
I worked hard ______ I got promotion.
Imagine yourself as the rabbit and tell your friend deer where you are.
I am ______ the tree.
Can you try to fill the blank.
This is ______ owl.
Frame meaningful sentence of your own using the following expression from the story. Use a dictionary if required.
frivolous rebukes
Fill in the blank with suitable modal verb.
I ______ admit my fault, if I were you.
Refer to the dictionary and find out the meaning of the following foreign word/phrase. Use them in sentence of your own:
magnum opus
Complete the following sentence with modal using the clue given.
You ______ help the needy. (moral obligation)
Fill in the blank with the right idiom. Choose from the option.
Each member of the team had all their ______.
Find out the antonym of the underlined word in each of the following sentence.
There he was sitting in splendour on his chair.
Combine each of the following pair of sentence using participle. The first one is done for you.
His coat is tattered. It needs mending.
Now the teacher will read the following words. Listen carefully to the stress in each word. Write against each word whether it is a noun or a verb and mark the stress.
| 'contract | con'tract |
| conduct | con'duct |
| 'object | ob'ject |
| 'subject | sub'ject |
| 'present | pre'sent |
| 'desert | de’sert |
| 'project | pro'ject |
| 'refuse | re'fuse |
| 'address | ad'dress |
Write compound word using the pictures.
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+ |  |
| ____________ | ||
Rewrite the following using a complete word instead of a contracted form.
I’ve slowed it up.
Read the example and fill in the blank in the same pattern.
Example: sweet - sweeter - sweetest
great - ______ - ______
This narrative is written in the first person - using ‘I’. Rewrite the following sentence using ‘Helen Keller/Young Helen’ appropriately in place of ‘I’ and making other necessary changes in the sentence.
Then my eyes filled with tears; for I realised what I had done, and for the first time I felt repentance and sorrow.
