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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? - English

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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?

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उत्तर

Yes, the machines serve us twenty-four hours a day.

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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. 10. d. | पृष्ठ १५०

संबंधित प्रश्‍न

Strong is she in her faith and belief.
“Persistence is the key to everything,” says she.

How does she deal with the adversities in life?


‘Some crickets have four legs and some have two’. Elucidate this statement from the poet’s point of view.


If given a chance, who would you want to be-the ant or the cricket? Justify your answer.


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


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?’


Read the poem and find the line for the following poetic device or write your own example.

Personification.


Read the poem and find the line for the following poetic device or write your own example.

Simile.


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 your understanding of the poem complete the following by choosing the appropriate words/phrases given in brackets

This poem is about the ______ of all men. The subject of the poem is the ______ race, despite of the difference in colour, caste, creed, religion, country etc. All human beings are same. We walk on the ______ and we will be buried under it. Each and everyone of us are related to the other. We all are born same and die in the same way. We may wear different uniforms like’ ______’ during wars the opposing side will also have the same

______ like ours. We as human do they same labour with ______ and look at the world with the ______ Waging war against others as they belong to a different country is like attacking our own selves. It is the ______ we impair. We all share the same ______ We are similar to each other. So the poet concludes that we shouldn’t have wars as it is ______ to fight against us.

unity of human, dreams and aspirations, same land, our hands, unnatural, breathing body, same eyes, brotherhood, language, human-earth.

Read the given lines and answer the questions given below.

I drive past the house almost every day.
The house seems to be a bit brighter.
On this warm summer day in May.
It plays with your mind.

  1. To whom does ‘I’ refer to?
  2. Pick out the alliterated words in the 2nd line.

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