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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.
shot his bolt
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उत्तर
shot his bolt- exhaust one’s effort
Mithali Raj had shot her bolt and made 54 runs to help India win the World Cup Cricket title.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
The table below contains a list of nouns and some adjectives. Use as many adjectives as you can to describe each noun. You might come up with some funny descriptions!
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Adjective |
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elephant |
circular, striped, enormous, multicoloured, round, cheerful, wild, blue, red, chubby, large, medium-sized, cold |
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face |
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building |
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water |
Say whether the following sentences are in the Active or the Passive voice. Write A or P after the sentence.
It had been thrown there. __________
Look at these sentences.
- Animals cannot survive for long without water.
- So desert animals have to find different ways of coping.
The first sentence says what cannot happen or be done; the second tells us what must, therefore, be done, what it is necessary to do. Complete the sentence using cannot and have to/has to.
You —————————— reach the island by land or air; you —————————— go by boat.
When Tenzing and Hillary reached the summit, Tenzing in utter joy said, “We have done it.” In this sentence, the subject (we) is the doer of the action while (achieving the feat) is the subject. The verb of passive voice is formed by using the correct form of the verb ‘to be’ + past participle of the main verb. Construct the sentence accordingly.
Now carefully go through the changes in both the sentences and do the changes accordingly in the remaining sentence.
- We have done it.
It has been done by us.
I remembered him.
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.
reach
Add a proper prefix to the following word to make a new word.
kind
Read the entry about ‘voice’ in the ‘Language Study’ pages. Note that the speeches of all the boys are in the ‘active’ voice. Turn them into passive constructions.
1950s Boy - I have watered the garden.
Complete the following idioms using the appropriate colour term.
roll out the ______ carpet (give a special welcome).
What is adverbial?
Sachin is a famous cricketer. He ______ bat well.
Read the situation given and frame two suitable sentence in the appropriate form of the tense.
| Give two instructions to your classmates. | 1. ______ |
| 2. ______ |
Do you have ______coins with you? I need some.
Identify the phrase in the following sentence and classify them as Adjective, Adverb, or Noun phrase.
The train halts at every junction.
Join the sentence using ‘ Relative Pronoun’.
I have sold the house. It was located at the bank of a river.
Change the underlined word with the correct pronoun.
Neil Armstrong was born in 1930. Neil Armstrong landed on the moon in 1969.
Find me in the poem.
I can alert you
Complete the sentence with a correct reflexive pronoun.
She put ________ into the trouble.
Write
______ egg
Match each sentence to the correct picture by writing the number in the box.
- . A brown and white puppy is having fun.
- Wild animals are in the thick forest.
- A cute boy is painting with green colour.
- A naughty boy is riding horse with his sleepy dog
Form meaningful sentence using the given word to bring out at least two different meaning.
tear
Fill in the blank with suitable modal verb.
My brother ______ go abroad to pursue his higher studies next year.
Fill in the blank with the correct form of the verb given in the bracket.
Evangelene ______ her job a couple of years ago. (quit)
Complete the following sentence with modal using the clue given.
You ______not attend my class. (order)
Complete the following sentence with modal using the clue given.
He ______ come today. (remote possibility)
Choose the appropriate linker from within the bracket and complete the sentence.
______ (Though/Whereas) he committed a mistake, he apologised ______(and/since ) promised that he would not repeat it.
Fill in the blank with the word given in option.
Theatrical plays were a main source of ______before the advent of television.
Fill in the blank with the correct infinitive.
The archaeologists are trying ______ the ruins of Keelady.
Write the compound word using the picture.
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Write the compound word from the pictures.
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Write compound words using the pictures.
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