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प्रश्न
Start a collection of idioms with comparisons. Use the following categories.
Idioms with colours:
- as black as ______
- as white as ______
- as red as ______
- as blue as ______
- as green as ______
- as pink as ______
- as ______ as ______
- as ______ as ______
- as ______ as ______
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उत्तर
- as black as coal
- as white as snow
- as red as blood
- as blue as sky
- as green as an emerald
- as pink as a rose
- as yellow as gold
- as orange as a pumkin
- as brown as a coffee bean
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संबंधित प्रश्न
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 dipped his fingers in the milk.
Read the following sentence:
(i) She muttered in reply and we looked at Jeevan for a quick interpretation.
(ii) These are two complete sentences underlying the above sentence.
- She muttered in reply.
- We looked at Jeevan for a quick interpretation.
These two sentences are put together by using the coordinating conjunction ‘and’.
Such sentences are joined by coordinating conjunctions (and/ but/ either...or; neither...nor) are called compound sentences.
Sentence ‘a’ and ‘b’ are Simple Sentences.
Each of them has only one subject and one predicate.
Sentence ‘a’ and ‘b’ can be written in another way.
As she muttered in reply, we looked at Jeevan for a quick interpretation.
This sentence begins with a subordinating conjunction ‘As’.
This is a complex sentence.
Two simple sentences joined by subordinate conjunctions are called complex sentences. The subordinate conjunction need not always be at the beginning of the sentence.
Prepare a list of subordinating conjunctions.
Underline the clauses in the below sentence and also the words that link or connect the clauses.
They may be composed and sung or recited for many years before they are actually written down.
Match the words in column A with their Antonym in column B.
| S.No. | A | B |
| 1. | concentrate | incomplete |
| 2. | inevitable | distract |
| 3. | occasional | wise |
| 4. | complete | continual |
| 5. | insane | preventable |
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 milk.
Change the underlined word with the correct pronoun.
Neil Armstrong was born in 1930. Neil Armstrong landed on the moon in 1969.
Fill in the blank with appropriate airline vocabulary given in the options.
______ 3B is down this hall and to your right.
Discuss with your partner and punctuate the following
i am tired mohana said to her aunt
“I have been watching a film.” He said that ______ a film.
Pick a suitable prefix and suffix from the given box and complete the following words.
| able,ful, ly, sub, ion, un, tri, re, im, mis |
| _____call | comfort_____ |
| _____category | _____understand |
| _____proper | success_____ |
| equal_____ | _____colour |
| construct_____ | new_____ |
______ please open the window?
Find and use the clipped word in your own sentence.
photograph -
I'm clever, ________?
He is still sleeping, ________.
Write the correct punctuation mark that best complete the sentence.
Wow___What a wonderful event ____
Write the plural word.
Catch
Punctuate the following sentence.
who took care of meena
Read the sentence and write the word with the same meaning for the underlined word.
I threw a rock in the lake.
Choose the correct reflexive pronoun.
The children made holiday decorations by _______.
Change the sentence into past perfect tense and future perfect tense.
They have cooked their meal.
Words belonging to different semantic fields.
Now, read the following statements taken from Arignar Anna’s address:
Refer to the dictionary and find out the meaning of the following foreign word/phrase. Use them in sentence of your own:
en mass
Underline the prepositional phrase.
With reference to your advertisement in a local newspaper, I am applying for the post of a salesman.
Change the following sentence into Active Voice.
The smuggler has been nabbed by the police.
Replace the comparative adjective in the following sentence with their positive form.
Train journey is more comfortable than bus journey.
Choose the correct option and complete the sentence.
Seker or his brothers ______ done it.
Underline the verb and choose the correct option from the options.
Margie was scornful.
In the following item, sentence I is complete, while sentence II is not. Complete sentence II, making it as similar as possible to sentence I. Write sentence II in the case.
(I) Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches.
(II) None ___________.
Being a bachelor, the stranger had no patience with children.
