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प्रश्न
Pick out examples of Inversion from the poem.
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उत्तर
- “Between Nose and Eyes, a strange contest arose, -”
Inversion – The words in the line have been rearranged for poetic effect. The correct order should be “A strange contest arose between Nose and Eyes”. - “Again would your lordship a moment suppose,”
Inversion – The words in the line have been rearranged for poetic effect. The correct order should be “Again, would your lordship suppose (for) a moment”. - “That the spectacles plainly were made for the Nose,”
Inversion – The words in the line have been rearranged for poetic effect. The correct order should be “That the spectacles were plainly made for the Nose”
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Fill in the blank below using ‘had to’/ ‘have to’/ ‘has to’.
Romit ___________finish his homework before he could come out to play.
Say whether the verb in the sentence below is transitive or intransitive. Ask yourself a ‘what’ question about the verb. (For some verbs, an object is a person, so ask the question ‘who’ instead of ‘what’).
He held his fingers below the level of the milk.
Write the noun form of the following word by adding -ness or -ity to them appropriately. Check the spelling of the new word.
near - ________.
Write the noun form of the following word by adding -ness or -ity to them appropriately. Check the spelling of the new word.
Pleasant - ________.
Which form of the verb is more natural in below sentence?
The weatherman has predicted that it will snow/is snowing in Ranikhet tonight.
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.
Colonel Hunt gave me three flags.
Write the following dialogue from the story in the Indirect Speech.
‘Little bird, little bird,’ said the prince, ‘please will you stay with me for one more night?’
‘My friends are waiting for me,’ answered the bird.
Say whether the underlined is Infinitive/Participle (Present or Past)/Gerund.
I wish to go to Egypt.
Find the pronunciation of the following words from a good dictionary.
strait, eruption, tremendous, dormant, extinct, tsunami, crater, plume.
What is Transitive and intransitive verbs and give some example.
Explain the metaphor in the following line :
... the shower will make the roses bloom.
Make sentences of your own to show the difference in usage of the following Homophones.
- advice ______
- advise ______
Here are a few sentences already done for you. The clues given would be helpful to\make more sentences on your own.
- I would suggest that you take the Uzhavan Express to Thanjavur from Chennai.
- You will be more comfortable if you could book 3 tier A/C.
- You could enjoy __________________.
- You should visit __________________.
- You mustn’t miss __________________ .
- You can buy __________________.
- ______________________________.
- ______________________________.
- ______________________________.
- ______________________________.
Fill in the blank with a verb in the present continuous.
Latha_______ (wait) for her daughter.
Make a sentence in the present perfect tense using the verb.
My mother ______ to London.
Finish each clue by changing the verb within brackets to an irregular past tense verb.
Then complete the crossword puzzle.
- Across
- The lake (freeze) ________ overnight.
- Hema (buy) _________ a new bicycle.
- Aravind (give) ____ me a slice of pizza.
- We (drink) _________milk.
- The dog (sleep) _________ on the sofa.
- He (write) ____________ a letter to his cousin in America.
- Down
- I (find) ________ a coin on the ground.
- Tony (teach) __________ his cat to use the litter box.
- Selvi (blow) ____________ out the candle.
I have ________ pencils with me.
Based on the understanding of the poem, fill in the blanks using the words and phrases given below to make a meaningful summary of the poem.
| brothers and sisters | bitterness | joint family | share their fun | rich and the poor folk |
| shatter their family | charm of life | separate ways | the joy of earth | stick-together families |
The poet brings out the difference in the attitudes of children living in joint family and nuclear family. The ________________ are the happiest of all. Where as the _________________ of nuclear families take ______________. The gladdest people are the children from _______________ who circle near the fireside. No power other than death can break them. The _______________ imagine themselves to be wise and in the process they ______________ ties. Each of them goes searching for pleasure in their own selected way. They harvest only ____________ and find empty joy. But the wisest among them are the children of the stick-together families. When the busy day is done, they together ______________. The stick-together family wins _______________. The old house shelters all the ______________. The poet invites wandering brothers to come and join the stick-together families in their fireside and have fun.
Identify the character, speaker, or both of the following line.
You no shoot, we no shoot.
Rearrange the words in the correct order to make a meaningful sentence.
speaks / Ruben / besides / German / languages / two.
Read the following sentences carefully and underline the preposition.
Ben saw Daisy playing across the road.
Discuss with your partner and punctuate the following
i am tired mohana said to her aunt
“I will finish this picture tomorrow.” Jothi said that ______ picture the next day.
______ please open the window?
______ please bring some water for me?
Use the phrase could you or would you in the following situation with your friend.
You would need to exchange the book purchased.
Choose the correct conjunction from the option.
Rathi found her watch ______ she had left it.
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.
The island was a green paradise.
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.
There was a forest on the island.
The bus _________ (leave) the stop before we could catch it.
Arya _______ (play) the same song for last three days. It has become boring now.
Prasanna has _______ (fall) sick after eating some snacks at the street side shop.
If he is late, we __________ without him.
State which of the following sentence are Compound, and which are Complex.
We must eat to live, but we should not live to eat.
See and write what they were doing.
While the boy was playing, the girl _____.
Write the plural form.
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tooth - _________ |
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knife - _________ |
Rewrite the sentence using the given word.
The flight has lost the contact.
I ______.
Choose the correct verb.
The birds ______ in the sky.
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| Name of the object | In your mother tongue | Use in a sentence |
I worked hard ______ I got promotion.
Write the correct clipped word on the line.
I saw him in the ___________ (laboratory).
complete the sentence.
Ragu ______ my junior in school.
Choose the sentences that are in simple future tense.
- They washed the van.
- Kamal will meet you at the shop.
- My dad helps me read.
- It will rain tomorrow.
- He ate many mangoes.
Fill in the blank with suitable homophone:
We should never misuse or ______natural resources.
Fill in the blank using past perfect tense form of the verb:
If we ______(call) the manager ahead, we would not have needed to wait so long for a table.
Complete the following with appropriate conditional clause.
Jayashree would travel to France, ______.
Give the meaning of the following phrasal verb and frame sentence using them
stand by
Fill in the blank with the correct form of the verb given in the bracket.
Yusuf ______ to the movies once in a while (go)
Complete the following sentence with modal using the clue given.
I ______ never tell a lie. (determination)
Form a phrase with each of the following pair of noun given below.
agony + experience -
Replace the underlined word/expression with possibly polite form.
Dheeraj is unemployed.
Fill in the blank with the correct infinitive.
Rajesh went to the airport ______his friend.
Choose the correct option and complete the sentence.
Neither Lekha nor Leela ______ been selected.
Write the compound word using the picture.
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+ |  |
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Write the compound word from the pictures.
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The mother gave ______ to the persistent demands of her child.
Make smaller words using the letters in the given word. (At least 5 words)
investigations
Start a collection of idioms with comparisons. Use the following category.
Idioms with objects
- as black as coal
- ______
- ______
