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प्रश्न
Transform the following sentence as per the given instruction.
As soon as the teacher enters, she is greeted by her students. (Begin: No sooner….)
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उत्तर
No sooner did the teacher enter that she was greeted by her students.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Fill in the blank below using ‘had to’/ ‘have to’/ ‘has to’.
I ____________cut my hair every month.
Fill in the blank below using ‘had to’/ ‘have to’/ ‘has to’.
We _____________ complain to the police about the noise.
Make a list of adjectives in three different forms of comparison. Use different texts to find these.
Say whether the underlined is Infinitive/Participle (Present or Past)/Gerund.
I wish to go to Egypt.
Pick out examples of Inversion from the poem.
Change the voice in the following sentence.
He could not break the ban.
Identify whether the following is a Simple, Complex, and Compound sentence.
If Ramanujan had been better educated, he would have been even more wonderful than he was.
Do as directed. (Make sure you do not change the meaning and tense of the sentence).
I have not read that scripture. (Rewrite using ‘unaware.’)
Find what the young one of the following animal is called:
donkey -
Words that have the same spelling, but differ in meaning when used in different contexts are called homographs. For example,
- A temple fair attracts a lot of crowds.
Her performance in the test was fair. - A rose is the king of flowers.
The sun rose with a golden glow.
Think of 5 homographs and list them below. Then write 2 sentences of your own, to bring out the difference in meanings.
| Homograph | Sentences |
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Read the following entries in the ‘Language Study’ pages :
- clause
- sentence
Underline the main clause in the following sentence.
There are a few people in every village who keep combing the beach in the early hours of the morning, throughout the year.
Complete the following idioms using the appropriate colour term.
a ______ belt (area of fields, woods, etc. around a city).
What is Complement and explain its two types?
Explain the metaphor in the following line :
Oft a little morning rain
Foretells a pleasant day.
Read the highlighted words. They are verbs.
The goalkeeper pounced on Dhyan Chand and hurt him
Now find at least 5 other verbs from the passage.
Complete these sentence using the appropriate modal. The clues in the bracket will help you.
When I was a child, I____________ climb trees easily but now I can’t. (ability in the past)
Rewrite the following sentence by rectifying the errors in the use of modal.
The magistrate ordered that he might pay the fine.
Rewrite the following sentence by rectifying the errors in the use of modal.
Could the train be on time?
Identify the preposition in the given sentence and underline them.
The burglar found the keys under the pot in the balcony.
Write the gerund/infinitive form of the verb in the blank
They learned how __________ (survive) in space without gravity.
Find the synonyms for the underlined word.
The narrator was in trouble because he took the oranges.
Complete the summary of the extract using the appropriate words from the box below.
| pain-killer | stopped | cruelty | remedies | teaspoon | school |
| summersets | Peter | pretended | dejected | health | crack |
Tom Sawyer felt _________ as Becky Thatcher had stopped coming to _______. His Aunt Polly was very concerned about his ________ condition. So, she began to try various ________ on him. Tom became fed up with his Aunt’s brand of remedies and __________ to like the pain-killer. He started to ask for it very often. But, Tom used the medicine to mend
the ______ on the floor. One day, Tom gave the pain-killer to his Aunt’s cat, _____. The ________ had an adverse effect on the cat and it started to jump around the room. Aunt Polly entered the room in time to see the cat throw a few ____________ and sail through the open window. She found the ___________ with a little pain-killer sticking to it and knew that Tom had treated the cat with it. She realized that what was _________ to the cat should be the same to the boy too and __________ giving medicines to him.
The following passage has not been edited. There is one error in the tense of the verb in each line. Write the wrong word as well as the correct word in the given place. One is done for you.
| Sentence | Wrong words | Correct words |
| When Anand reach Arun's place, his | reach | reached |
| friends have arrived already. Arun | ||
| introduces Anand to them. Arun's brother | ||
| buy some snacks from the market. | ||
| Arun serving it to all his friends. Then | ||
| they all sat together to planning their holidays. | ||
| Arun have a cottage in Ooty, so | ||
| they all plan to go to Ooty during the holidays. | ||
| “Would we have a good time?, asked Arun. | ||
| They all cheerfully say, “Yes!” |
Fill in the blanks with the help of the picture clues.
But there are______ near it.
Write the noun form of the following word.
enter ______.
Combine the pair of sentence given below into a single sentence using the noun form of the highlighted word.
The policeman arrived quickly. It made us happy.
Fill in the blank with the appropriate verb.
Gullivers Travels ___ an excellent story.
Fill in the blank with the appropriate verb.
Mathematics ___ a branch of study.
Put students in pairs and tell them to interview their partner. To do this they must make questions, e.g. What’s the worst storm you’ve ever seen? They can also ask follow-up questions to find out more information. Do feedback on this as a whole class. Other thematic questionnaires of this kind could be:
Emotional experiences
- The most frightened I’ve ever been …
- The happiest moment I’ve ever had …
- The most nervous I’ve ever been …
Musical experiences
- The best song I’ve ever heard …
- The worst song I’ve ever heard …
- The longest time I’ve ever danced …
Places in your life
- The most dangerous place I’ve been in …
- The cheapest restaurant I’ve eaten in …
- The most boring town I’ve ever visited …
“I was with him last week.” Jimmy told that ______ with him the previous week.
Fill in the blank with the opposite of the word given in bracket.
We should learn from our ______ (success).
Give the correct verb form for the following sentence.
You ______ (take) leave.
Divide and list out the words under each pattern.
| party | teacher | speaker | starfish | curtain | snowman |
| garden | pancake | heater | cowboy | farmer | weasel |
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Give the correct verb form for the following sentence.
I _______ (read) the poem.
Use the suitable verb.
Banu ______ the lesson.
The rat ran fast _______ a cat was chasing it.
Fill in the blanks.
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| Students are going ______ school. | There are ______ chocolates. | The tree is ______ big. |
Complete the sentence with a correct reflexive pronoun.
Teachers teach _________ a new lesson every day.
Change the sentence into past perfect tense and future perfect tense.
We have built a house in our village.
Fill in the blank using a, an and the.
______ Earth goes around______Sun.
Read the following word and choose the correct antonym from the option given:
serenity
The teacher gave ______ student a separate topic for the assignment.
Fill in the blank with suitable modal verb.
The voyagers did not ______ to drop anchor at the unknown island.
When the pole vaulter cleared 28 ______, it was declared a record ______. (feet/feat)
Add appropriate question tags and role play the dialogue with your friend.
| Jeyanth | Hello, Anish! It’s your Physics exam today,______ |
| Anish | Yes. They had set a very long paper. Yet, I managed to finish the paper. |
| Jeyanth | True. My maths paper too was very long. I couldn’t finish it. |
| Anish | I too could not complete my paper. |
| Jeyanth | Ok. Actually, my question paper was very easy. |
| Anish | Mine wasn’t easy. I made a silly mistake. |
| Jeyanth | Tell me about your English paper. |
| Anish | The story comprehension was very easy. I am sure to score more than ten marks on fifteen. I wrote it very well. There wouldn’t be any mistake. |
| Jeyanth | For me, my letter-writing was the best. I didn’t make a single mistake. |
| Anish | Ok. I’ve got lots to study for tomorrow’s exam. |
| Jeyanth | Me too. So, see you later. All the best, bye. |
| Anish | Thank you. Wish you the same, bye. |
Complete the sentence with the correct tense form of the verb in bracket.
I (never) think of a career in medicine before I spoke to my Biology teacher but now I think (seriously) it.
Fill in the blank with modal auxiliary.
You ______ be joking
Find out the antonym of the underlined word in each of the following sentence.
One does not feel wise, braver or more optimistic.
Complete the following passage using the preposition given in bracket.
(among, for, at, to, in, )
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Choose the appropriate linker from within the options and complete the sentence.
This is ______ it must be done.
Combine the sentence and rewrite them using the word given in the bracket.
A library is a public place. We see a number of books kept there for reading. (where)
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The Governor inaugurated the exhibition at ten o’clock.
Frame illustrative sentence to distinguish the meaning of the word in the following cluster.
accident – incident – incidence
Frame illustrative sentence to distinguish the meaning of the word in the following cluster.
accept – except – expect
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In case of emergency, please contact this number.
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Fifty candidates appeared for the interview, but only five were selected.
Replace the underlined word/expression with possibly polite form.
Elambrathi has a second-hand car.
Combine each of the following pair of sentence using participle. The first one is done for you.
His coat is tattered. It needs mending.
