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And a thousandth of an inch to give us play.Which of the following do the machines want to prove from this line?

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And a thousandth of an inch to give us play.
Which of the following do the machines want to prove from this line?

पर्याय

  • Once Machines are fed with fuel, they take a very long time to start.

  • Once Machines are fed with fuel, they start quickly.

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उत्तर

Once Machines are fed with fuel, they start quickly.

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पाठ 5.2: The Secret of the Machines - Exercise [पृष्ठ १५०]

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सामाचीर कलवी English Class 10 SSLC TN Board
पाठ 5.2 The Secret of the Machines
Exercise | Q A. 9. | पृष्ठ १५०

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The summer of life she's ready to see in spring.
She says, "Spring will come again, my dear
Let me care for the ones who're near.”

What does she mean by “spring will come again”?


Based on your understanding of the poem, read the following line and answer the question given below.

‘‘ Not I!
My heart was so light
That I sang day and night,
For all nature looked gay.”

What was the nature of the cricket? How do you know?


Based on your understanding of the poem, read the following line and answer the question given below.

Thus ending, he hastily lifted the wicket,
And out of the door turned the poor little cricket,

The ant refused to help the cricket. Why?


Based on your understanding of the poem, read the following line and answer the question given below.

He wished only to borrow,
He’d repay it tomorrow.

Pick out the rhyming words in the above lines.


Mention a few machines used for pulling, pushing, lifting, driving, printing, ploughing, reading, and writing, etc.


And now, if you will set us to our task,
We will serve you four and twenty hours a day!

Open conditional clause is used in the given line. Why is the future tense ‘will set’ and ‘will serve’ used both in the ‘if clause’ and in the main clause?’


And now, if you will set us to our task,
We will serve you four and twenty hours a day!

Do the machines serve us twenty-four hours a day?


Based on the understanding of the poem, read the following line and answer the question given below.

Beneath all uniforms, a single body breathes
Like ours: the land our brothers walk upon.
Is earth like this, in which we all shall lie.

  1. What is found beneath all uniforms?
  2. What is same for every one of us?
  3. Where are we all going to lie finally?

Based on the understanding of the poem, read the following lines and answer the questions given below.

Their hands are ours, and in their lines, we read
A labour not different from our own.

  1. Who does ‘their’ refer to?
  2. What does the poet mean by ‘lines we read’?
  3. What does not differ?

Based on the understanding of the poem, read the following lines and answer the questions given below.

Our hells of fire and dust outrage the innocence
Of air that is everywhere our own,
Remember, no men are foreign, and no countries strange.

  1. What outrages the innocence?
  2. Who are not foreign?
  3. What is not strange?

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