English Medium कक्षा १० - CBSE Question Bank Solutions

Combine the following to make sentence like those above. 

Then go to a place (what place?). There are no people whose name begins with Z in that place. (use where)

You know that we can combine sentences using words like and, or, but, yet and then. But sometimes no such word seems appropriate. In such a case was can use a semicolon (;) or a dash (−) to combine two clauses.

She has no interest in music; I doubt she will become a singer like her mother.

The second clause here gives the speaker’s opinion on the first clause.

Here is a sentence from the text that uses semicolons to combine clauses. Break up the sentence into three simple sentences. Can you then say which has a better rhythm when you read it, the single sentence using semicolons, or the three simple sentences?

For there is not any means by which those who have been born can avoid dying; after reaching old age there is death; of such a nature are living beings.

From the table below, make as many correct sentences as you can using would and/or used to, as appropriate. (Hint: First decide whether the words in italics show an action, or a state or situation, in the past.) Then add two or three sentences of your own to it.

______ we afford to neglect children? Think Twice!!

Contracted Forms

Make a list of the contracted forms in the text. Rewrite them as full forms of two words.

For example:

I’ve = I have

We have seen that some contracted forms can stand for two different full forms:

I’d = I had or I would

Find in the text the contracted forms that stand for two different full forms, and say what these are.

In pairs, find metaphors from the story to complete the table below. Try to say what qualities are being compared. One has been done for you.

You know that a metaphor compares two things by transferring a feature of one thing to the other.

Find metaphors for the following words and complete the table below. Also try to say how they are alike. The first is done for you.

Does this poem have a rhyme scheme? Poetry that does not have an obvious rhythm or rhyme is called ‘free verse’.

Find sentences in the story with negative words, which express the following ideas emphatically.

1. The trees lost all their leaves.

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2. The letter was addressed to God himself.

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3. The postman saw this address for the first time in his career.

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The advertisement read, ‘If you smoke, statistically your story ______ end 15% before it should’.

गद्य पाठ के आधार पर निम्नलिखित प्रश्न का उत्तर लगभग 25-30 शब्दों में लिखिए:

महानगरों की 'फ़्लैट-कल्चर' और लेखिका मन्नू भंडारी के परंपरागत 'पड़ोस कल्चर' में आपको क्या अंतर दिखाई देता है? विचार करके लिखिए।

आप तरुण वैश्य/तरुणा वैश्य हैं। आप बी. एड कर चुके हैं। आपको विवेक इंटरनेशनल स्कूल, अ ब स नगर में हिंदी अध्यापक/अध्यापिका पद के लिए आवेदन करना है। इसके लिए आप अपना एक संक्षिप्त स्ववृत्त (बायोडाटा) लगभग 80 शब्दों में तैयार कीजिए।

हम कैसे कह सकते हैं कि मन्‍नू भंडारी के पिता बेहद कोमल और संवेदनशील व्यक्ति थे?

प्रस्तुत पाठ के आधार पर यह कहा जा सकता है कि बच्चे का अपने पिता से अधिक जुड़ाव था, फिर भी विपदा के समय वह पिता के पास न जाकर माँ की शरण लेता है। आपकी समझ से इसकी क्या वजह हो सकती है?