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प्रश्न
The same word can be used as a noun in some sentences and as a verb in others. For example,
- Many are the empty remarks. ______ (Noun)
- A wise man once remarked, ______ (Verb)
Make two sentences of your own with each of the words given below, using the same word as a noun in one and as a verb in another.
- change
- show
- throw
- return
- benefit
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उत्तर
| Words | Noun | Verb |
| Change | Picnics are a welcome change from daily routine. | Change the way you think. |
| Show | The students put up a grand musical show. | You need not show me your tickets. |
| Throw | That was an easy throw. | You must throw garbage in the trash can. |
| Return | She promised to take me for a movie on her return from the market. | Please return my book, as I need to complete it. |
| Benefit | I advise you for your own benefit. | Children benefit from parent's advice. |
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They have asked me to pay the fine.
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Unscramble the sound – describing words from the text. One has been done for you.
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| 1. | noam | |
| 2. | murebl | |
| 3. | lowh | |
| 4. | mobo | |
| 5. | cohe | |
| 6. | nogra |
I haven’t met my friends __________ December.
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A ______ of grapes.
Fill in the blank with the suitable collective noun.
A ______ of rain.
Choose the correct synonym for the Italic word.
Ajay started to paint happily.
Match the phrasal verbs in column A with their meaning in Column B.
| A | B |
| fight or flight | escaping as rapidly as possible |
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| take flight | to defend oneself or to run away |
| flight of fancy | to cause someone to flee |
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______ mind going to the back bench?
We often watch TV in the afternoon, _______?
You wouldn't like to invite my Dad, ________.
Write the correct punctuation mark that best complete the sentence.
What did you want to eat for lunch ___
Choose the correct plural form.
Complete the following sentence using the prepositions from the option.
Her birthday is _____ 6th April.
Use the suitable verb.
My friends ______ a passage.
Imagine yourself as the rabbit and tell your friend deer where you are.
I am ______ the rock.
Complete the following sentence using past perfect tense.
The exam __________ when I reached the exam hall. (start)
Change the sentence into the past perfect tense and future perfect tense.
I have posted the letter.
Add a prefix to each word so it matche the new definition.
| prefix | word |
| un, re, dis, pre | lucky, check, view, approve |
Make sure the things are correct______.
Read the following word and choose the correct antonym from the option given:
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DAY 2 It ______(rain) when we reached Pokhara, Nepal’s second largest city, and saw the snowy peaks of the Himalayas for the first time. We ______(reach) Pokhara after a hairraising six-hour bus journey along very narrow roads with a lot of hairpin bends. The bus ______(be) so full that one person had to share the driver’s seat.
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DAY 4 Yesterday a landslide ______(block) our path and we had to use ropes to get over it. This morning we walked along the river Kali Gandaki through dense forests of oak trees and we pitched our camp at Tukuche below the Annapurna mountain range. The main danger in addition to landslides, is ‘yak attack’. Yaks ______(be) not dangerous but you have to be careful if you meet a herd of them because they can push you off the sides of the mountain.
DAY 5 We met a lot of children on our trek through the villages. They ______(play) in the pool of muddy rain water as we left the place. We have already climbed 2,400 metres. Up here, it never ______(rain) and there are no trees. It ______ (be) windy and dusty and I am always thirsty.
DAY 6 Yesterday we ______(go) up to the mountainside of the township of Mukthinath, at 3,600 metres. The thin air with less oxygen there ______(leave) us breathless. We ______(feel) that we couldn’t go any further. We ______(drink) a lot of extra fluids to prevent altitude sickness.
DAY 7 We turned around today and started to descend to Jomosom. As we went down, the oxygen-filled our blood again and we seemed to ______ (fly) instead of walking.
DAY 8 We went back to Pokhara in a small plane yesterday. It was exciting when we _____(fly) between the mountain peaks. We arrived in Kathmandu this afternoon and we ______(spend) our last few hours in shopping. We leave for Chennai tomorrow. We’ve had a trip of a lifetime.
Do you know what happened to the Titanic, the largest ship to sail then? She hit an iceberg and sank into the Atlantic Ocean. Now choose the right word and complete the paragraph. Read the paragraph aloud.
The wreck (1) ______(up/of) the RMS Titanic lies (2) ______( in/at)a depth of (3) ______(about/ above) 12,500 feet about 370 miles south east (4) ______(of/off) the coast of Newfoundland. It lies (5) ______(in/on) two main pieces about a third (6) ______(of/off) a mile apart. The bow is still largely recognizable (7) ______(with/ within) many preserved interiors, despite the damage it sustained hitting the sea floor. A debris field (8) ______(of/for) the wreck contains thousands (9) ______(on/ of) items spilled (10) ______(from/of) the ship as it sank. She sank (11) ______(in/at) the year 1912.
Underline the correct verb in these sentence.
A lady with ten cats (live, lives) in that big house.
Fill in the blanks with suitable homophones or confusables.
| wallet | ______ | hoard | ______ |
| fairy | ______ | desert | ______ |
| medal | ______ | night | ______ |
| wait | ______ | sweet | ______ |
| yoke | ______ | plain | ______ |
| grown | ______ | might | ______ |
| earn | ______ | quite | ______ |
Underline the prepositional phrase.
Our nation is famous for its glorious culture.
Add suitable question tag to the following sentence and punctuate properly.
The boys broke the window pane last evening.
Form a phrase with each of the following pair of noun given below.
agony + experience -
Spot the error in the following sentence and rewrite them correctly.
My grandfather is well-known in the village for his nobel deeds.
Write compound word using the pictures.
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+ |  |
| ______ | ||
We have seen that clauses are parts of a sentence, and they are classified as main and subordinate or dependent clauses. Dependent clauses can be further classified as follows according to the work they do in a sentence.
How do we decide whether a clause is a noun clause, an adjective clause or an adverb clause? There is a simple rule - we can replace an adverb clause with an adverb, an adjective clause with an adjective and a noun clause with a noun.
Look at the following examples -
- But I don’t know the answer. (Noun)
But I don’t know what they want. (Noun clause) - He told us a funny story. (Adjective)
He told us a story that was funny. (Adjective clause) - They went away. (Adverb)
They went when you were talking to your friend. (Adverb clause)
Now complete the following on your own :
- But I don’t know ____________.
- He told us ____________.
- They went ____________.
Spot the error in the spelling of the following word with reference to the passage and rewrite it correctly.
Erthen
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 ____________.
Complete the following sentence using your own ideas:
I realised what ______.
