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प्रश्न
Rewrite the following sentence inserting the appropriate phrases in their proper form.
(to get out of, to come up, to turn on, to give in, to get into, to come down, to work out, to turn off, to give off, to give out, to work in)
Smita ___________ to her desire and _______________ her favourite toys to the poor.
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उत्तर
Smita gave in to her desire and gave off her favourite toys to the poor it.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
This text is written in an old-fashioned style, for it reports an incident more than two millennia old. Look for the following words and phrases in the text, and try to rephrase them in more current language, based on how you understand them.
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give thee medicine for thy child
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Pray tell me
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Kisa repaired to the Buddha
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there was no house but someone had died in it
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kinsmen
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Mark!
The writer carefully builds up an atmosphere of loneliness and grief in the story. Working in groups, pick out words/ phrases from the story that build up the atmosphere. Copy the following table in your notebook and complete it.
| Loneliness | Grief |
| • An old man was walking through the town, now and again drawing his tattered clothes tighter to shield his body from the cold and biting wind • his lonely way |
• the whole town was wrapped in deathly silence |
long term / on / reading / impact / has / a / one’s personality
is / the / it / hobbies / one / best / of
Find out the meaning of the phrase given below and use them in your own sentence.
money for old rope
Insert the appropriate word/phrase given below, in the sentence that follow.
I ______ the school gate when I heard the school bell ring.
Replace the underline word/phrase with the appropriate one, to retain the proper meaning.
Accepting the great value of his research; they awarded him with a Ph.D. (degree)
Adding different prepositions to the same action verb changes the meaning of the phrases, thus formed.
For example,
call out - announce
call at - visit
call for - summon
call up - make a telephonic call
call off - cancel
Guess the difference in meanings of the underlined phrases.
- a. He promised to look into the matter.
b. He asked me to look for his lost book.
c. I shall look forward to your arrival. - a. An epidemic of cholera broke out in the village.
b. The thieves broke into the locked house.
c. They broke up their friendship. - a. You must carry out your duty faithfully.
b. Please carry on with your work.
c. They carried off the trophy in the football matches.
d. Carry forward the remaining balance to the next page.
Discuss with your partner and find proverbs, idioms, or phrases of similar meaning to the one given and fill them in the stars given below:
Make a meaningful sentence by using the phrase “to belong to”.
