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प्रश्न
Read the following extract and fill in the spaces with the right form of verbs and complete the passage. The first one is done for you.
During the monsoon, a tender slightly warm breeze 1 ______(blow) on a cloudless afternoon. A sort of fragrance 2 ______(rise) from the wet grass and trees in the sunlight. It 3 ______(seem) as if the warm breath of the exhausted earth 4 ______(fall) against one’s skin. A sweet voiced bird somewhere 5 ______(chirp) repeatedly.
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उत्तर
During the monsoon, a tender slightly warm breeze 1 blows on a cloudless afternoon. A sort of fragrance 2 rises from the wet grass and trees in the sunlight. It 3 seems as if the warm breath of the exhausted earth 4 falls against one’s skin. A sweet voiced bird somewhere 5 chirps repeatedly.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Write the noun form of the following word by adding -ness or -ity to them appropriately. Check the spelling of the new word.
happy - ________.
Sing and recite one of the famous folk songs given below.
There is a mountain for away.
And on the mountain stands a tree.
And on the tree, there is a branch.
And on the branch, there is a nest.
And in the nest, there is an egg.
And in the egg, there is a bird
One day the bird will fly.
One day we will be free.
Discuss with your teacher and classmates regarding the changes seen in the underlined words. Find the reasons behind the changes.
- a mountain – the mountain
- a tree – the tree
- a branch – the branch
- a nest – the nest
- an egg – the egg
- a bird – the bird.
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. |
Add a proper prefix to the following word to make a new word.
kind
Add your own sentences to those given in the passage to illustrate the uses of ‘have’.
To refer to eating/drinking
Read the following entries in the ‘Language Study’ pages :
- clause
- sentence
Underline the main clause in the following sentence.
When the female turtle comes onshore to nest and to lay eggs, she leaves behind a trail just like a track of wheels on the sand.
Change the following sentence to the other voice.
That portrait was painted by my grandmother.
Vimal generally goes to his workplace ______ bus.
In the story, we find a lot of American slang usage of English. Complete the tabular column with standard English. One has been done for you.
| Finally hit ‘pon | |
| There ain’t anything mean about me. | |
| ‘Deed I don’t know. | There isn’t anything mean about me. |
| Yes’m. That is, I believe they do. | |
| ‘She’d a roasted bowel out of me.' | |
| ‘Oh, go ‘long with you, Tom.’ |
Fill in the gap with appropriate Pronoun.
______ is your bag, you can take it anytime.
This fruit is ______ the Mexican capital.
Find out the anagrams. Use a pair of phrases as clues.
- Another word for under ______
- A part of your arm ______
Complete the Conditional Sentence. Decide whether to use Type I, II, or III.
If they had gone for a walk, they __________ (turn) the lights off.
I will come if I __________ time.
Look at the picture and fill in the blank with suitable word.
Suguna______helps her mother at home.
| A spacesuit is like a spaceship built for one. A spacesuit lets us work and live in space. It protects us from the heat and the cold. It gives us air to breathe. The suit is made of many parts and has water to drink. It even has a built-in toilet, if you need to use it. |
Choose the things that the spacesuit provides us.
- air
- food
- water
Use the suitable verb.
Suresh ______ the poem.
Fill in the blank with suitable homophone:
Both these machines work on the same ______.
The teacher gave ______ student a separate topic for the assignment.
Underline the correct verb in these sentence.
Either of these (is, are) suitable.
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’.
Refer to the dictionary and find out the meaning of the following foreign word/phrase. Use them in sentence of your own:
via media
Fill in the blank with suitable prepositional phrase given in option.
Our teacher always acts ______ her students.
Correct the error found in the question tag in each of the following
I claim to be a person of faith and prayer, aren’t I?
Form a phrase with each of the following pair of noun given below.
sense + issue -
Rewrite the following sentence using ‘If ’ without changing the meaning.
Unless we plant more trees, we cannot save our planet.
Underline the gerund in the following sentence.
Jessie enjoys bothering others.
Replace the comparative adjective in the following sentence with their positive form.
My mother can speak more sweetly than anyone else.
Find the meaning of the following word from a good dictionary.
Hold fast to something
In the following sentence, replace the incorrect underlined word to make the sentence meaningful and grammatically correct.
The Minister gave off the prizes.
