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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.
tight corners
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उत्तर
Tight corners – difficult situations.
Those who act on impulse find themselves in tight comers.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Complete the sentence below using the appropriate forms of the verbs in brackets.
When you ___________ (see) Mandal again, you __________ (not/recognise) him. He is growing a beard.
In the following sentence, point out the Main Clause and Subordinate Clause. Encircle the Subordinator.
There was a colony, where many struggling artists lived.
Identify the following from the list given in the box below:
4 nouns, 4 verbs, 4 adjectives, 4 adverbs, 4 pronouns.
| bird, wonderful, friends, gather, humans, we, I, healthy, grasslands, help, directly, protect, arrive, together, away, happy, slowly, afraid, you, us. |
Classify the words in (a) and (b) into ‘positive’ and ‘negative’ words.
- great, beautiful, arrogant, impatient, quiet, worthless, proud, happy, thoughtless, hasty
- shouted at, wasted, answered, offered, smiled, refused, toiled, grew, dyed, rewarded, destroyed.
Make sentences of your own to show the difference in usage of the following Homophones.
- device ______
- devise ______
Write a recipe of your favourite dish in passive voice. Remember to list out the ingredients of the dish you have chosen and their quantity. Use Simple Present tense to write your recipe.
The trial was conducted ___________ the procedure of law.
Write a negative sentence.
I’m looking for my bag.
Make sentences in the present perfect continuous tense using the verbs.
The children ___________ in the park.
Based on your understanding of the poem, complete the summary of the poem by choosing the words/phrases given below.
| prime phase, the yellow pebbles, motionless, stages of human life, sweeping, child, journey, reckless youth. |
In the poem 'The River', the poet compares the flow of the river with different__________________. The first stanza explains how the sparkling river goes dancing over _______________ and glancing through the flowers and leaves. These acts of the river is compared to a curious and innocent _______ at play. The second stanza compares the river to a _______________ who goes through rough and smooth patches of life. Like a youth, here the river becomes louder, faster and ___________ everything all along the way. In the third stanza, the river becomes like a hard-working man who is at the _____________ of the life. Here the deep and broad river seems ____________ but it keeps moving towards the sea like a matured man who silently marches towards the goal. In the last stanza, the long ___________ of the river reaches the endless sea like a human life attains eternity.
Pick out the idioms and phrases from the box and write them in the blanks equivalent to their meanings. One is done for you.
| find one’s voice | lend an ear | sharp as a tack | over the moon | on the ball |
| bring it on | come across | get along | hang on | work out |
| Sr.No. | IDIOMS | Sr.No. | PHRASES |
| 1. | Competent - on the ball | 1. | to meet or find by chance - ______ |
| 2. | Become more confident in expressing oneself - ______ | 2. | to exercise - ______ |
| 3. | Extremely happy - ______ | 3. | To accept a challenge with confidence - ______ |
| 4. | Mentally agile - ______ | 4. | To have a friendly relationship - ______ |
| 5. | Listen - ______ | 5. | To keep something - ______ |
Rewrite the sentence nominalising the underlined word.
The child resembles her father.
Combine the pair of a sentence given below into a single sentence using the noun form of the highlighted word.
He is an honest person. Everyone likes him.
Identify the clause and classify them accordingly.
She knows where I go.
Look at the picture and complete the following.
Nila told Miruthula ______. Miruthula said that the idly ______. Nila ______ was delicious too. She also said that they had added Kashmiri chilli. Miruthula said ______very much.
Choose the correct antonym for the italic word.
Ajay mastered the techniques of painting.
Find out the anagrams. Use a pair of phrases as clues.
- An organ that pumps blood ______
- The planet we live on ______
“I have been watching a film.” He said that ______ a film.
Find any five words related to sea from the text (Sections I & II). Write them below. Then use the words to frame sentences of your own.
eg: beach – We like to play in the sandy beach.
______ - ______
______- ______
______- ______
______- ______
______- ______
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.
Grow more trees to protect nature.
Fill in the blank with the correct verb form.
If you ________ out with your friends tonight, I _____ the football match on TV.
Fill in the blank with suitable homophone:
The soldiers had to pass ______ a dark tunnel.
Look at the newspaper item given below. Use the information in the headline to complete the sentence.
12 INJURED AS BUSES COLLIDE About ______at the Dindigul bus terminus here today.
Choose the appropriate linker from within the options and complete the sentence.
______ my father arrived home, I narrated the incident.
Change the following sentence into Active Voice.
You are advised to help the poor and needy.
Identify the two Main clause and conjunction in each of the following sentence.
He is a good actor, still he is not popular.
Underline the gerund in the following sentence.
Dancing gives me joy.
Spot the error in the following sentence. Then rewrite the sentence after correcting them.
But they could not found it.
Write compound words using the pictures.
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| ____________ | ||
Write compound word using the pictures.
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| _______________ | ||
