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प्रश्न
Transform the following sentence as per the given instruction.
I would rather eat fruit than a lot of unhealthy junk food. (Begin: I prefer….)
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उत्तर
I prefer eating fruit to unhealthy junk food.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Say whether the following sentence is in the Active or the Passive voice. Write A or P after the sentence.
My father gave it to the mechanic. ______
Fill in the blank below using ‘had to’/ ‘have to’/ ‘has to’.
She ____________tell the principal the truth.
Here are some words from the lesson which describe different kinds of sounds.
fill in the blank using the correct form of the word given.
Ramesh ____________ on his desk in impatience.
When we compare two nouns, we use comparative adjectives. When we compare more than two nouns, we use superlative adjectives.
For Example. –
a. Milind is taller than John.
b. Zakir is the tallest of the three brothers.
Look at the following sentence and observe the changes in the sentence. Discuss the changes and note your responses:
The dining room is brighter than the kitchen.
Make a list of adjectives in three different forms of comparison. Use different texts to find these.
Go through the statement taken from the text – ‘The social democracy means a way of life which recognises liberty, equality, and fraternity’.
The underlined part of the statement provides us some facts/information about social democracy. The remaining part of the sentence which is not underlined can be converted into a wh-question.
What does social democracy mean?
Now go through the underlined part of the statement/sentence given below and change them into question by using the appropriate Wh-form.
The politically minded Indians preferred the expression ‘the Indian nation’.
Write down eight to ten Onomatopoetic words on your own.
Write the following dialogue from the story in the Indirect Speech.
Under a bridge, two little boys were lying close together to keep warm.
‘We are so hungry!’ they said. ‘You cannot lie there!’ shouted a guard.
Find out the synonyms for the word ‘fabric’ from a dictionary.
Underline the verb and choose the correct option from the options.
This is the old kind of school.
Change the following sentence to the other voice.
You are making a cake now.
Frame sentence using the prepositional verb given below.
Stay at
Frame sentence using the prepositional verb given below.
rely on
Cows ______ us milk.
Underline the verb and identify the tense form.
He received your messages last night ______.
Combine the pair of a sentence given below into a single sentence using the noun form of the highlighted word.
He is an honest person. Everyone likes him.
Usha looked back at the ruins. The sun ______ (come) up and was touching the top of the walls.
Join the sentence using ‘ Relative Pronoun’.
This is Varun. His father is an architect.
He has been absent ______ last week.
Replace the underlined word by a participle in the following sentence.
Since he is a king, he can order everybody.
Transform the following sentence as instructed.
At the age of six, Varsha started learning music. (into Complex)
Combine the pair of sentence below into simple, complex, and compound.
The students were intelligent. They could answer the questions correctly.
Change the underlined word with the correct pronoun.
I saw Mr. Balu this morning and gave Mr. Balu my homework.
Underline the conjunction in the following sentence.
Shekar is intelligent but careless.
In 1998, Frank moved to London.
State which of the following sentence are Compound, and which are Complex.
I called him, but he gave me no answer.
Match the picture with the collective noun.
| 1. | A flock of goats |  |
| 2. | A bouquet of flowers |  |
| 3. | An army of soldiers |  |
| 4. | A shoal of fish |  |
| 5. | A choir of singers |  |
Choose the abstract noun.
| fear | box | beauty | tree | taste |
| pencil | happiness | anger | honesty | book |
Fill in the blank with the collective noun.
A ________ of bees.
Rewrite the sentence using the word in the bracket.
I have dinner at 8 p.m. (She)
Fill in the blanks
The dove______ the ant are friends.
Choose the correct word.
I ate _____ many chocolates.
Fill in the blank.
Watermelon is ______ pineapple.
Fill in the blank with the pronoun.
The children made holiday decorations by _______.
Write the past form of the verbs.
eat- ______.
Fill in the blank.
She returned after______ hour.
Use the picture and the word to write the adjective.
| long |
| round |
| thin |
| yellow |
| tall |
- The giraffe is ______.
- Its neck is ______.
- Its eyes are ______.
- Its skin is ______.
- Its tail is ______.
Use adjective you think for each of these words. You can write more than one adjective.
| Clever, stormy, beautiful, dusty, good, hot, bright, cloudless, honest, lovely, fat, tall |
a______ friend.
Change the masculine noun to feminine noun in the given sentence.
My uncle presented me a watch.
Change the sentence into present continuous tense.
They draw picture of a boy.
Read the following word and choose the correct antonym from the option given:
scattered
Underline the correct verb in these sentence.
The committee (decide, decides) when to adjourn.
Fill in the blanks in the following dialogue.
| Gopal | What’s wrong, Muthu? You look terrible! |
| Muthu | Well, you ______(look) terrible today, too, if you ______(have) a day like mine yesterday. My car slid into a tree, because the roads were slippery |
| Gopal | Oh! I was driving on the slippery roads yesterday, and I didn’t have such trouble. What happened? |
| Muthu | Well, I think if I ______(not, drive) so fast, I ______(not, slide) into the tree. |
| Gopal | Slippery roads and speed don’t mix. If drivers ______(speed) on wet roads, they’re likely to spin their car in circles. |
| Muthu | I know. But I had one more problem. I didn’t have my driver’s license with me. If I ______(have) it, I ______(not, have to) pay an extra fine in the court next week. |
| Gopal | Why were you driving without your license? |
| Muthu | Well, I lost my wallet some days ago. It slipped out of my pocket, while I was riding the bus to work. |
| Gopal | Oh, Muthu! If you ______(not, take ) that bus, you ______(not, lose) your wallet. If you ______(not, lose) your wallet, you ______(have) your driver’s license with you when you hit the tree. If you ______(have) your driver’s license with you, you ______(not, have to pay) a big fine when you go to court next week. And of course, if you ______(not, drive) too fast, you ______(not, run into) a tree, and you ______(not, be) in this mess now. If I ______(be) you, I ______(take) it easy for a while and just ______(stay) at home where you would be safe. |
| Muthu | Enough about me! How about you? |
| Gopal | Well, things are really looking up for me. I’m planning to take off for Goa as soon as I finish my finals. I’m sick of all this old, rainy weather we’ve been having. |
| Muthu | I wish I ______(go) with you. How are you planning to reach there? |
| Gopal | If I ______(have) enough money, I ______(fly). Otherwise, I ______(take) the bus. I wish ______(drive) my own car because it ______(be) nice to drive there, but it’s such a long trip. I’ve been looking for a friend to go with me and share the driving. |
| Muthu | I have a super idea! Why don’t I go with you? I can share the driving. I’m a great driver! |
| Gopal | Oh, Muthu! I can’t believe it. |
Add appropriate question tag to the following sentence.
It changes the way people commute in cities.
Refer to the dictionary and find out the meaning of the following foreign word/phrase. Use them in sentence of your own:
en route
Read what these people say and rewrite as sentence.
I have just come back from Chennai.
Akshita ______
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.
There is a pharmacy near that bus stand.
Form a phrase with each of the following pair of noun given below.
muscle + pain -
Pick out the finite verb in the following sentence:
You must speak clearly to make yourself understood.
Fill in the blank with the correct infinitive.
The doctor advised the patient ______his medicines without fail.
Change capital letters to Small letters at the beginning of a sentence if necessary.
According to (1)______National Weather Report, cyclones are winds circulating (2)______counter clockwise in(3) ______Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in (4)______southern Hemisphere. Cyclones are usually accompanied by(5) ______stormy weather. Tornadoes and hurricanes are types of cyclones. (6) ______hurricane is (7) ______cyclone that forms over(8) ______tropical oceans and seas.(9) ______hurricane rotates in(10) ______shape of(11) ______oval or a circle.(12) ______Hurricane Andrew, which hit (13)______coasts of Louisiana and Southern Florida in August 1992, caused (14)______extreme devastation. It was one of (15)______most devasting hurricanes ever to hit(16)______U.S.. Fourteen people died of(17) ______Andrew’s effect.
Write the compound word from the picture.
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+ |  |
| ______ | ||
Write compound word using the picture.
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+ |  |
| ______ | ||
Write the compound word using the pictures.
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+ |  |
| ______ | ||
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.
(I) He was too gentle to have committed the crime.
(II) He was so ______
Read the examples and fill in the blanks in the same pattern.
Examples: strange - stranger - strangest
simple - ______ - ______
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) Michelangelo was an architect and a poet.
(II) Not only _____________.
Rewrite the following sentence according to the instructions given in the bracket.
I don't know Helen very much; nevertheless, I like her.
(Begin: In spite of ………)
