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प्रश्न
Classify the words in (a) and (b) into ‘positive’ and ‘negative’ words.
- great, beautiful, arrogant, impatient, quiet, worthless, proud, happy, thoughtless, hasty
- shouted at, wasted, answered, offered, smiled, refused, toiled, grew, dyed, rewarded, destroyed.
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उत्तर
| Positive words | Negative words |
| (a) happy, great, beautiful, quiet | proud, thoughtless, hasty, arrogant, impatient, worthless |
| (b) offered, smiled, grew, dyed, rewarded, answered | refused, toiled, destroyed, shouted at, wasted |
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