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प्रश्न
Start a collection of idioms with comparisons. Use the following category.
Idioms with animals
- as cunning as a fox
- ______
- ______
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उत्तर
- as cunning as a fox
- as brave as a lion
- as hairy as a gorilla
- as hungry as a horse
- as wise as an owl
- as gentle as a lamb
- as proud as a peacock
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Say whether each of the verbs underlined below is Finite or Non-finite.
I want to live in a developed India.
What is adverbial?
Write the gerund/infinitive form of the verb in the blank.
Some say it’s no use _____________ (travel) to distant planets, because it takes too long.
Frame sentence using the prepositional verb given below.
prepare for
India is ________ largest democracy in the world.
Report the following sentence.
Maha said, “Lakshan, you should get up early in the morning.”
Combine the pair of sentence given below into a single sentence using the noun form of the highlighted word.
Suresh is always punctual and regular. It has earned him a good job.
Mahatma Gandhi ______ the father of our nation.
Change the underlined word with the correct pronoun.
Muthu likes computer games, but he doesn’t play computer games very often.
Find and use the clipped word in your own sentence.
photograph -
Use the blended word in your own sentence.
Spanglish -
Add 'r' , ‘er’ or ‘or’ to get the name of the person who does the activity. Take turns in class to make sentences with the words you have formed.
e.g: A teacher is a person who teaches. Teach + er – Teacher.
- use
- buy
- sail
- watch
- operate
- foreign
- bake
- write
- govern
- act
Sinduja is getting ready to sleep. She starts writing her diary. Help her complete it by using the verbs given in brackets.
(start, eat, have, finish, go, reach)
- I got up at 7’O clock.
- . I ______breakfast.
- I______ to office by car.
- I______ to work.
- I______ lunch at______ .
- I ______my task at 7 p.m.
- I______ home at 8 p.m.
Fill in the blank with words given in the box to make compound word.
We must drink tender ______water in summer
Choose the correct plural form.
Bench
Change the sentence from past continuous to future continuous.
They were going to Coimbatore.
Fill in the blank with simple future tense of the verb.
Many people ______ (serve) you.
______ the water overflowed from the tank.
Complete the following sentence with modal using the clue given.
He ______ come today. (remote possibility)
Recall your learning of basic preposition and complete the sentence using the prepositions given in options.
There is usually a garden ______a bungalow
Choose the appropriate linker from within the options and complete the sentence.
Be quick to hear ______ slow to speak.
Add suitable question tag to the following sentence and punctuate properly.
Somebody must bell the cat.
Pick out the compound sentences in the following passage.
The food we eat has to be digested and then thrown out of the body. The air we breathe in has to be thrown out, to help us survive. But we hold negative emotions like insecurity, anger, and jealousy within ourselves for years. If these negative emotions are not eliminated, the mind grows corrupt and diseased. Let us do away with hatred and lead a healthy life filled with peace and joy
Rewrite each of the following sentence using the superlative degree retaining the meaning.
Some people think that nothing is as important as money in life.
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 example and fill in the blank in the same pattern.
Example: sweet - sweeter - sweetest
low - ______ - lowest
Find the meaning of the following word from a good dictionary.
Nuisance
Write the compound word from the pictures.
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+ |  |
| ______ | ||
Rewrite the following sentence according to the instruction given in the bracket.
They opened the window because they did not want the smoke to go into the kitchen.
(Use: so…. that)
