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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’).
The fawn lifted its nose.
Match the word connectors with reference to part I, II, III respectively. Make sentences of each of these connectors.
| No | Word | Connector | |
| 1. | government | (a) | person |
| 2. | betterment of | (b) | curbs |
| 3. | pure and ethical | (c) | degradation |
| 4. | community’s | (d) | launch |
| 5. | religions | (e) | dialogue |
| 6. | astonishing | (f) | silence |
| 7. | technological | (a) | motivation |
| 8. | frank | (g) | aspect |
| 9. | social | (h) | life |
| 10. | faith | (i) | centre |
| 11. | inquisitive | (j) | officials |
| 12. | academic | (k) | problems |
| 13. | environmental | (l) | humanity |
| 14. | pin-drop | (m) | service |
| 15. | alternate | (n) | bodies |
| 16. | remarkable | (o) | evils |
| 17. | silent | (p) | advancement |
| 18. | famished | (q) | brilliance |
| 19. | unsuccessful | (s) | accommodation |
| 20. | space-research | (t) | discipline |
Find an example of alliteration from the poem.
Other examples of Alliteration are:
Explain the metaphor in the following line :
Life’s sunny hours flit by.
Change the meaning of the sentence by changing the preposition.
We travelled to Mumbai by train.
Find the synonym for the underlined word.
The narrator was quiet when Pongo questioned him.
Vijay __________ (repair) his car.
I’ve got to solve ________ math problems before I go to sleep.
This year we are celebrating my sister’s ________ birthday.
Add a suitable prefix or suffix and make new words.
| -ship | -hood | un- | after- | -ion |
| -less | - ful | -ment | im- | -ous |
| child ___ | wonder___ |
| ____noon | count___ |
| relation___ | __patient |
| ___happy | excite____ |
| danger___ | perfect___ |
Rearrange the words in the correct order to make a meaningful sentence.
loan / apply / you / if / for / you / a / get / will / immediately / it.
Change the possessive adjective into a possessive pronoun.
My book is new.
Match the phrasal verbs with their meanings.
| Section - A | Section – B |
| Phrasal verbs | Meanings |
| 1. set out | to go somewhere for a short break or holiday |
| 2. pick up | to begin a journey |
| 3. get away | to enter a bus, a train or a plane |
| 4. see off | to leave a bus, a train or a plane |
| 5. get into | to go to the station to say good bye to someone |
| 6. get off | to get someone from a place |
Discuss with your partner and punctuate the following.
sarathy said oh how thrilling it was
Will it be all right if I ________ a friend tonight?
Refer to a dictionary for the meanings and choose the odd one.
Kind
Circle and write the adverbs from the sentence.
The boy speaks loudly. ______
Frame meaningful sentence of your own using the following expression from the story. Use a dictionary if required.
an expanse of pure white serenity
Refer to the dictionary and find out the meaning of the following foreign word/phrase. Use them in sentence of your own:
via media
Recall your learning of basic preposition and complete the sentence using the prepositions given in options.
The boy jumped ______a narrow stream.
Pick out the finite verb in the following sentence:
You must speak clearly to make yourself understood.
Combine each of the following pair of sentence using participle. The first one is done for you.
The politician entered the campus. He was accompanied by many comrades.
Write compound word using the pictures.
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+ |  |
| ____________ | ||
Write compound word using the pictures.
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+ |  |
| ____________ | ||
Here, we see that the ‘-ing’ form of the verb ‘fight’ is used as a subject in ‘The fighting went on’. It does the work of a noun. When the ‘-ing’ form of a verb is used as a noun, it is known as a gerund or verbal noun. Read the following examples of gerunds:
- Gardening is an art.
- Cooking is a science.
- I enjoy reading poems.
- I like reading more than writing.
Rewrite the above sentences using other appropriate gerunds in place of the ones given here.
Read the following example, and then complete the sentence using your own idea.
Time: I entered the school when the bell was ringing.
I entered the school ____________.
Spot the error in the following sentence. Then rewrite the sentence after correcting them.
“No, I am Mathilde loisel.”
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 compound word using the pictures.
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+ |  |
| ______ | ||
Write the compound word from the pictures.
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+ |  |
| ____________ | ||
