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प्रश्न
Match the clipped word and write it on the line.
| 1. | spectacles | auto |
| 2. | microphone | math |
| 3. | automobile | cent |
| 4. | mathematics | mic |
| 5. | centum | specs |
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उत्तर
| 1. | spectacles | specs |
| 2. | microphone | mic |
| 3. | automobile | auto |
| 4. | mathematics | maths |
| 5. | centum | cent |
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Read the following entries in the ‘Language Study’ pages :
- clause
- sentence
Underline the main clause in the following sentence.
There are a few people in every village who keep combing the beach in the early hours of the morning, throughout the year.
Complete these sentence using the appropriate modal. The clues in the bracket will help you.
I swear I ____________ tell lies again. (promise)
Fill in the blank using the verb in the bracket in the future form.
The peon ______ the bell by the time I reach the school. (ring).
Fill in the blanks
| Positive | Comparative | superlative |
| tall | ||
| smarter | ||
| largest | ||
| big | ||
| later/latter |
Read the passage. Choose between a little, a lot of, a few, few, fewer, many and much to fill in the gap.
DON’T CALL US, WE’LL CALL YOU!
Two years ago, I moved to a new neighbourhood. There seemed to be very______people in this area without telephones, so I expected to get a new phone quickly. I applied for one as soon as I moved into my new house. ‘We aren’t supplying ______ new phones in your area’, an engineer told me. ‘______ people want new phones at the moment and the company is employing ______ engineers than last year so as to save money. A new phone won’t cost you ______ money, but it will take ______ time. We can’t do anything for you before December. ‘You need______ patience if you’re waiting for a new phone and you need ______ friends whose phones you can use as well. Fortunately, I had both. December came and went, but there was no sign of a phone. I went to the company’s local office to protest. ‘They told me I’d have a phone by December,’ I protested. ‘Which year?’ the assistant asked.
Write the correct suffix.
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Mark (✓) if it is past perfect tense and (x) future perfect tense.
I had gone to my grandma’s home.
Idioms:
An idiom is an expression in English with a special meaning of its own. Idioms do not give the literal meaning of the individual words used in them.
You come across the idiom ‘by the skin of one’s teeth’ in the lesson. It means ‘a narrow escape’.
Frame illustrative sentence to distinguish the meaning of the word in the following cluster.
raise – rise– rice
Fill in the blank with the right idiom. Choose from the option.
We could not believe that with a few more whacks of the ice axe in the firm snow we were ______to the top.
