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प्रश्न
Refer to the dictionary and find out the meaning of the following foreign word/phrase. Use them in sentence of your own:
magnum opus
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उत्तर
magnum opus: the most important piece of work done by a writer or artist
‘The Jungle Book’ is considered to be a magnum opus of Rudyard Kipling’s.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
The table below contains a list of nouns and some adjectives. Use as many adjectives as you can to describe each noun. You might come up with some funny descriptions!
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Noun |
Adjective |
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elephant |
circular, striped, enormous, multicoloured, round, cheerful, wild, blue, red, chubby, large, medium-sized, cold |
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face |
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building |
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water |
Fill in the blank with comparative, superlative, and positive forms of the correct adjective in the bracket.
This is _____________ a road in town. (busy)
Find two lines that contain Inversion.
- ____________
- ____________
Find the opposites of the following :
| cautious - | ______ |
| dogmatic - | ______ |
| contrary - | ______ |
| savage - | ______ |
| beneficial - | ______ |
| reasonable - | ______ |
| hypothetical - | ______ |
| cruelty - | ______ |
| immune - | ______ |
Use the words given below in your own sentences so as to get different meanings. One is done for you.
| cricket | Cricket is a popular sport. |
| Cricket is active at night. | |
| bank | |
| will | |
| bark | |
| watch | |
| bat | |
Frame sentence using the prepositional verb given below.
prepare for
Fill in the blank with a verb in the present continuous.
_________ she ________ (watch) TV?
Convert the following active sentence into a passive sentence by supplying an appropriate passive verb form.
His attitude shocked me./I _______________ by his attitude.
Identify the character, speaker, of the following line.
My God, why cannot we have peace and all go home?
Complete the sentence in present tense form.
Arun a ______ eagerly ______ (wait) to meet her friend since morning.
Fill in the blank by adding the appropriate prefix/suffix to the word given in bracket.
He was sleeping __________ in his couch. (comfort)
Identify the clause and classify them accordingly.
My brother visits my father whenever he comes to Chennai.
Read the following sentences carefully and underline the preposition.
Saravanan climbed onto the horse.
Fill in the blank with the suitable collective noun.
A ______ of shoes.
Give the correct verb form for following sentence.
We ______to school.
Singular and Plural
Write the opposites for the following pictures.
| fix | young | near |
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old | |
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break | |
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far |
Fill in the blank.
A is ______ B.
Read the sentence and write the word with the same meaning for the underlined word.
I threw a rock in the lake.
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.
The poet stops to hear the maiden singing while she 1 ______(cut) and 2 ______(bind) the grain. The song of the lady 3 ______(fascinate) the poet, who 4 ______(stand) there to listen to the song. The girl ______(sing) a sad song.
Fill in the blank with suitable modal verb.
______ I use your mobile phone? It’s an emergency.
Make sentence using the passive form of the verb.
First passenger train/inaugurated /India /1853
Make sentence using the passive form of the verb.
Indian Airlines/set up/1953
Refer to the dictionary and find out the meaning of the following foreign word/phrase. Use them in sentence of your own:
par excellence
Refer to the dictionary and find out the meaning of the following foreign word/phrase. Use them in sentence of your own:
a-la-carte
Do as directed.
While she waited at the train station, Varsha realized that the train was late. (change into a simple sentence)
Read the example and fill in the blank in the same pattern.
Example: sweet - sweeter - sweetest
fast - faster - ______
This narrative is written in the first person - using ‘I’. Rewrite the following sentence using ‘Helen Keller/Young Helen’ appropriately in place of ‘I’ and making other necessary changes in the sentence.
Then my eyes filled with tears; for I realised what I had done, and for the first time I felt repentance and sorrow.
Write a compound word using the pictures.
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