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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
Say whether the following sentences are in the Active or the Passive voice. Write A or P after the sentence.
Someone stole my bicycle. ________
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.
- _________________
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Make a collection of collective nouns.
Complete the following story using the verbs in the brackets in their proper form:-
Footprint
One night a man ______ (have) a dream. He ______ (dream) that he was ______ (walk) along the beach with god. Across the sky flashed scenes from his life. For each scene, he noticed two sets of footprints in the sand; one ______ (belong) to him and the other, to God.
After the last scene ______ (flash), he looked back at the footprints in the sand. He ______ (observe) that many times along the path of his life there ______ (be) only one set of footprints and that it ______ (happen) at the saddest, most ______ (trouble) times of his life.
He ______ (question) God about it. “God, you ______ (say) that once I ______ (decide) to follow you, you ______ (will) walk with me all the way. So I don’t understand, why you ______ (leave) me alone when I ______ (need) you most.”
God replied, “During your times of trials and sufferings, where you ______ (see) only one set of footprints, they ______ (be) mine for it was then that I ______ (carry) you in my arms.”
Frame sentence using the prepositional verb given below.
Stay at
The Himalayas ______ India from the cold winds.
Convert the following active sentence into a passive sentence by supplying an appropriate passive verb form.
A friend of mine is repairing the car./The car _______________ by a friend of mine.
Change the following into passive voice.
You must not drop litter in the streets.
There aren’t ________ students in the library.
Rearrange the words in the correct order to make a meaningful sentence.
as / I / healthy / are / you / am / as
Fill in the blank with the suitable collective noun.
A ______ of rain.
Syllabify the following words.
| 1. |
education |
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| 2. | school | |
| 3. | college | |
| 4. | English | |
| 5. | opportunity | |
| 6. | friend | |
| 7. | teacher | |
| 8. | simultaneously | |
| 9. | laboratory | |
| 10. | beneficiary |
State which of the following sentence are Compound, and which are Complex.
The town in which I live is very large.
Punctuate the following sentence.
he was honest sincere hard working.
Look at the picture and fill in the blank with suitable word.
Keerthi Vasan arrived______.
Appropriate suffix to the word with the clues given.
Very pretty ______.
| words | suffixes |
| penny, beauty, develop, teach. | ful, ment, er, less. |
Use the suitable verb.
Suresh ______ the poem.
Choose the correct word.
I ate _____ many chocolates.
Choose the correct reflexive pronoun.
The children made holiday decorations by _______.
complete the sentence.
you______ a baby.
Fill in the blank.
You ________ the match by this time tomorrow. (win)
Choose the correct prefix and write the new word.
What we say?
Fill in the blank.
______ old man
Give the meaning of the following phrasal verb and frame sentence using them
draw up
Find out the antonym of the underlined word in each of the following sentence.
…which are not to be despised.
Combine the sentence and rewrite them using the word given in the bracket.
Caesar was declared emperor. The conspirators killed him. (After)
Change the following sentence into Passive Voice.
People burn a great deal of wood in winter.
Form a phrase with each of the following pair of noun given below.
digestion + enzymes -
Fill in the blank with the right idiom. Choose from the option.
The Sherpas are cheerful, gallant men, who______ tents, oxygen, food etc., for climbers during their ascent of the summit.
