SSC (English Medium) ८ वीं कक्षा - Maharashtra State Board Question Bank Solutions for English

Find from the story one word for the following.

a very narrow passage between buildings ______

Find from the story one word for the following.

the highest-ranking officer in the Municipality of a city/town ______

Find from the story one word for the following.

the highest-ranking official who commands a ship ______

Find from the story one word for the following.

any animal that catches mice ______

Find from the story one word for the following.

a low constant sound made by cats ______

Make sentence of your own using the following expression.

overcome:

Make sentence of your own using the following expression.

put up with:

Make sentence of your own using the following expression.

bargain:

Rearrange the following events as they occur in the story. Put the correct number in the boxes.

What decision taken by Dick changed his fortune?

What message does this story bring out for youngsters?

Break the words below into syllables as shown in the first one.

1. belonging: be - long - ing
2. morning: ______
3. unfriendly: ______
4. citizen: ______
5. anything: ______
6. message: ______
7. difficulty: ______
8. mayor: ______
9. captain: ______
10. elected: ______

Degrees of Comparison of Adjectives.

Read the sentences.

1. Yatin is strong.
2. Amit is stronger than Yatin.
3. Pravin is the strongest of all.

In sentence (i) the Adjective 'strong' is in its simple form. It is called Positive Degree.

In sentence (ii) the Adjective 'stronger' refers to a higher degree, when there is a comparison of two nouns. It is called Comparative Degree. (-er is added to the basic Adjective)

In sentence (iii) the adjective 'strongest' refers to the highest degree of comparison of one with more than two nouns. It is called Superlative Degree. (-est is added to the basic Adjective) 

Complete the table of degrees of comparison.

Select any one of the famous personalities mentioned in ‘Warming up 1’ on page no. 5. From the library or internet find out their success story. Write it in your own words in about 20 to 30 lines of your notebook.
Give your write-up a suitable title.

Make groups and discuss the following:

What fatal dangers/problems did mankind face centuries ago, but are no longer a threat today?

Make groups and discuss the following:

Name a few scientists/explorers/social reformers/inventors/discoverers, who spent most of their lives to find solutions to some major problems/setbacks, that mankind faced.

Make groups and discuss the following:

Did they themselves suffer from those problems/setbacks?

Make groups and discuss the following:

What inspired them to spend the best part of their lives to research and share their findings?

Explain the figure of speech Interrogation/Rhetorical with example.

Pick out words from the poem to fill in the web diagram. They should be related to the theme in the web.