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प्रश्न
Read what these people say and rewrite as sentence.
I am learning English.
Jayan ______
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उत्तर
Jayan said that he was learning English.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
You must have noticed that when we report someone’s exact words, we have to make some changes in the sentence structure. In the following sentences fill in the blanks to list the changes that have occurred in the above pairs of sentences. One has been done for you.
1. To report a question, we use the reporting verb asked (as in Sentence Set 1).
2. To report a declaration, we use the reporting verb __________.
3. The adverb of place here changes to ___________.
4. When the verb in direct speech is in the present tense, the verb in reported speech is in the ______________ tense (as in Sentence Set 3).
5. If the verb in direct speech is in the present continuous tense, the verb in reported speech changes to ______________tense. For example, ____________ changes to was getting.
6. When the sentence in direct speech contains a word denoting respect, we add the adverb _______________in the reporting clause (as in Sentence Set 1).
7. The pronouns I, me, our and mine, which are used in the first person in direct speech, change to third person pronouns such as____________, ___________, ___________ or __________in reported speech.
Given below is a jumbled sentence. Working in groups, rearrange the word in the sentence to form the correct sentence.
You will find that the sentence contains an idiomatic expression that you have come across in the lesson. Underline the idiom and write down its meaning. Then use your dictionary to check the meaning.
Bepin Babu/orders to/telling people/under/loved/doctor’s/eat early/that he was
Ans:____________________________________________
Idiom:__________________________________________
Look at these sentences.
- Animals cannot survive for long without water.
- So desert animals have to find different ways of coping.
The first sentence says what cannot happen or be done; the second tells us what must, therefore, be done, what it is necessary to do. Complete the sentence using cannot and have to/has to.
Old people often _______________ hear very well; they _______________ use a hearing aid.
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.
I remembered him.
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.
Identify whether the following is a Simple, Complex, and Compound sentence.
Ramanujan was self-taught : he knew nothing of the modern rigour.
Change the following sentence to the other voice.
You are making a cake now.
He didn’t turn up ____________ his busy schedule.
Complete the sentence in past tense form.
The children ______ (play) in the ground when the teacher arrived.
The soldier climbed ______ a horse and rode away.
Fill in the blank with the suitable collective noun.
A ______ of rain.
Rewrite the story in the past tense.
The boy chases a cat. The cat climbs up the tree and purrs from the branch of the tree. The cat jumps to another tree. The boy who is chasing the cat notices a snake under the tree. He leaves his attempt to catch the cat and he runs home screaming for help.
Fill in the blanks by using the correct preposition.
We go to school ____ Mondays, but not on Sunday.
Fill in the blank in the following sentence with suitable conjunction from the option.
Aravinth ______ Arun are classmates from their childhood.
Complete the words by reading their meaning.
d_l_c_ _ _s - tasty
State which of the following sentence are Compound, and which are Complex.
Govern your passions or they will govern you.
Write the correct punctuation mark that best complete the sentence.
Where is an exciting place to visit ____.
Fill in the blank.
B is______ C.
Read the sentence and write the word with the same meaning for the underlined word.
I threw a rock in the lake.
Complete the story using present continuous tense.
| Shaheen | Hello, Varun? |
| Varun | Tell me Shaheen. |
| Shaheen | What are you doing? |
| Varun | I ______. |
| Shaheen | Good. What is your Dad doing? |
| Varun | He ______. |
| Shaheen | Your Mom? |
| Varun | She ______. |
Nobody can say ______there will be an improvement in the______
(whether/weather)
Change the following sentence into Active Voice.
Not a word was spoken by the convict in self–defense.
Correct the error found in the question tag in each of the following
The employees are seldom allowed to meet their boss, aren’t they?
Continue and complete the following story and suggest suitable title for the same.
A rich man had a neighbour who was suffering from acute poverty. The rich man was proud of his wealth and treated his poor neighbour with disrespect and derision. One day, a fortune-teller told the rich man that all his wealth would be possessed by his neighbour within a month. The rich man became greatly worried and spent sleepless nights. He did not know how to safeguard his wealth round the clock. Suddenly he thought of a plan. He disposed of everything he had and with all that money, he bought a large, precious diamond. He sewed up the diamond in his turban. He proudly said to himself, “Now, there’s no way. My poor neighbour can never secure my wealth. The words of the fortune-teller will prove false."______
Frame illustrative sentence to distinguish the meaning of the word in the following cluster.
patients – patience – patents
Pick out the finite verb in the following sentence:
Getting down from the car, the Chief Guest walked towards the dais amidst applause.
Write compound word using the picture.
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+ |  |
| ______ | ||
Make smaller words using the letters in the given word. (At least 5 words)
actually
Read the following sentence and frame at least two relevant questions.
I learnt a great many new words that day.
Write compound word using the pictures.
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+ |  |
| ____________ | ||
