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प्रश्न
"Here comes someone running". Who has been referred to in this sentence?
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उत्तर
The bearded man is being referred to in these lines. He had planned to attack the king, but was instead attacked by the king’s bodyguards, as they had recognised him. He had received a wound in his stomach. He was rushing towards the hermit’s hut for help.
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Sergei says, “I am happy that my words have taken effect.” Why does he say so? Is he right in saying this?
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working in the fields is alone. Which words and phrases highlight her being
alone? What effect do they create in the mind of the reader?
Look at the passage below and study how the personal pronouns refer to different people.
Based on your reading of the passage, complete the statements using given connectors.
(a) The mother, father ______ thought ______ (and)
(b) They planned to walk to the woods ______ (which)
(c) They reached the place ______ in eighteen months (which)
(d) They eagerly unpacked their picnic basket ______ (but)
(e) It was ______, when the three tortoises arrived at the picnic place, (after)
(f) The mother tortoise ordered the baby to go home for the opener, saying ______ (that).
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(h) The mother and father promised to wait ______ (until)
(i) ______ they began to get very hungry, (after)
Six humans trapped by happenstance
In black and bitter cold.
Each one possessed a stick of wood,
Or so the story's told.
Their dying fire in need of logs;
The first man held his back.
For on the faces around the fire,
He noticed one was black.
Read the lines given above and answer the question that follow:
Which sin is hinted at in these lines?
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Our shining loads to the temple fair...
Who will buy these delicate, bright
Rainbow-tinted circles of light?
Lustrous tokens of radiant lives,
For happy daughters and happy wives.
Read the lines given above and answer the question that follow.
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Read the extract given below and answer the question that follow.
What hint does he give regarding the cause for the depletion of his race?
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Read the extract given below and answer the question that follow.
What did the Big House look like?
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Read the extract given below and answer the question that follow.
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(iv) Soapy threw away the umbrella. ______
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What preparations did the kind old couple make for the New Year?
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Rubbish
Multiple Choice Question:
When do strange questions strike the poet?
Complete the following sentences from memory choosing a phrase from those given in brackets.
____________ was held at the time of the Eid festival.
Complete the following sentence by providing a reason:
Towards the end of the story B. Wordsworth, the poet told the boy to never visit him because ______.
