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प्रश्न
Comment on the literary device, used in the following line:
Titania: Be kind and courteous to this gentleman….
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उत्तर
- Personification – Bottom, who has the head of an ass is personified by being called a 'gentleman‘.
- Tautology – The words 'kind‘ and 'courteous‘ having the same meaning are placed in the same line.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Arrange the words below in pairs that rhyme.
Example:
young − lung
money − sunny
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young |
sad |
money |
chop |
lung |
last |
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wax |
could |
bad |
sound |
axe |
wood |
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way |
stop |
sunny |
fast |
round |
day |
Fill in the blanks with words from the box.
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lonely |
little |
hard |
young |
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thoughtful |
delicious |
beautiful |
A __________ woodcutter lived on a ____________ hillside. He was a ___________ son who worked _____________ but earned ____________ money. One day he saw a ____________ waterfall hidden behind a rock. He tasted the water and found it _________________.
Look at these sentences.
- Animals cannot survive for long without water.
- So desert animals have to find different ways of coping.
The first sentence says what cannot happen or be done; the second tells us what must, therefore, be done, what it is necessary to do. Complete the sentence using cannot and have to/has to.
We —————————— see bacteria with our eyes; we —————————— look at them through a microscope.
Change the voice in the following sentence.
Hardy taught Ramanujan.
Find four pairs of rhyming words from the poem.
From the passage, find and write any two examples of the following:
Use of the verb 'be' (am, is, are, etc) as the main verb.
Complete the following idioms using the appropriate colour term.
a bolt from the ______ (a sudden shock, surprise).
Read the following sentence and change the form of the underlined word as directed.
The bird cackled amusedly while flying. (to noun)
Change the following sentence to the other voice.
The militants were being taken to prison by the police.
Failure is often the __________ negligence.
Fill in the blank with a verb in the present continuous.
Akila ___________ (not/sing) a song.
Make sentences in the present perfect continuous tense using the verbs.
The workers ______ higher wages for a long time.
Choose the correct verb from the following sentence.
Kannan ______ have been looking for a job for a long time.
Use the following phrase in a sentence of your own.
in the rear of
Complete the sentence given below choosing the right connector given in the option.
Call me _________ you need money.
Someone who might have committed a crime is a ______.
Read the following sentences carefully and underline the preposition.
Vinothini left the house before sunrise.
Kumaravel has lived in this city ______2012.
Replace the underlined word by a participle in the following sentence.
Since he is a king, he can order everybody.
Change the possessive adjective into a possessive pronoun.
My bike is costly.
Fill in the blanks with correct travel words.
| schedule | reach | book | railway | pack | board |
To make travel convenient, we must ______tickets well in advance. Then we have to ______our things and ______our trip. We have to reach the ______station in time and ______the train in order to ______ our destination.
Underline the conjunction in the following sentence.
The bus was overcrowded so Arun avoided travelling in it.
Fill in the blank in the following sentence with suitable conjunction from the option.
Sudharshan will succeed ______ he works hard.
Complete the words by reading their meaning.
_x_i_e_ - thrilled
Read the sentence carefully and fill in the blank with suitable tense form of the verb given in bracket.
The television was on but nobody______ (watch) it.
I'm right, ________.
Find me in the poem.
I can carry you
Find me in the poem.
You can ride on me
Give the correct verb form for the following sentence.
He ________ (watch) movie.
Use the suitable verb.
Banu ______ the lesson.
Write the words with same meaning for the following pictures.
| fast | afraid | train |
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fear |
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practice |
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speed |
Rewrite the sentence with punctuation mark.
where is my cat
He __________ before 5 ‘o’ clock. (sleep)
It ___________ before I touched it. (break)
Complete the following sentence using past perfect tense.
Raju ________ to the ground before others arrived. (reach)
Choose the correct prefix and write the new word.
Fill in the blanks using a, an and the.
______camel is the ship of ______ desert.
Fill in the blank.
I read ______ amazing story yesterday.
Match the words in Column A with their pairs in Column B to form compound words and write them in Column C.
| A | B | C |
| mantel | lashes | |
| eye | wheel | |
| water | gate | |
| bee | knob | |
| toll | piece | |
| door | proof | |
| spinning | hive |
Fill in the blank with suitable homophone:
The car skidded to a halt when I applied the ______,
Fill in the blank with suitable modal verb.
I ______rather request you to check my exercise before giving it to the teacher.
Fill in the blank with suitable modal verb.
I ______ admit my fault, if I were you.
Match the following idioms related to difficult situations with their meanings.
| A | B | ||
| 1 | alarm bells ringing | a | abandoning one who is in difficulty |
| 2 | back to the wall | b | try any method to overcome a crisis |
| 3 | grasp/clutch at straws | c | sign of something going wrong |
| 4 | saved by the bell | d | in serious difficulty |
| 5 | hang out to dry | e | help at the last moment rescuing one from a difficult situation |
Fill in the blanks in the following dialogue.
| Gopal | What’s wrong, Muthu? You look terrible! |
| Muthu | Well, you ______(look) terrible today, too, if you ______(have) a day like mine yesterday. My car slid into a tree, because the roads were slippery |
| Gopal | Oh! I was driving on the slippery roads yesterday, and I didn’t have such trouble. What happened? |
| Muthu | Well, I think if I ______(not, drive) so fast, I ______(not, slide) into the tree. |
| Gopal | Slippery roads and speed don’t mix. If drivers ______(speed) on wet roads, they’re likely to spin their car in circles. |
| Muthu | I know. But I had one more problem. I didn’t have my driver’s license with me. If I ______(have) it, I ______(not, have to) pay an extra fine in the court next week. |
| Gopal | Why were you driving without your license? |
| Muthu | Well, I lost my wallet some days ago. It slipped out of my pocket, while I was riding the bus to work. |
| Gopal | Oh, Muthu! If you ______(not, take ) that bus, you ______(not, lose) your wallet. If you ______(not, lose) your wallet, you ______(have) your driver’s license with you when you hit the tree. If you ______(have) your driver’s license with you, you ______(not, have to pay) a big fine when you go to court next week. And of course, if you ______(not, drive) too fast, you ______(not, run into) a tree, and you ______(not, be) in this mess now. If I ______(be) you, I ______(take) it easy for a while and just ______(stay) at home where you would be safe. |
| Muthu | Enough about me! How about you? |
| Gopal | Well, things are really looking up for me. I’m planning to take off for Goa as soon as I finish my finals. I’m sick of all this old, rainy weather we’ve been having. |
| Muthu | I wish I ______(go) with you. How are you planning to reach there? |
| Gopal | If I ______(have) enough money, I ______(fly). Otherwise, I ______(take) the bus. I wish ______(drive) my own car because it ______(be) nice to drive there, but it’s such a long trip. I’ve been looking for a friend to go with me and share the driving. |
| Muthu | I have a super idea! Why don’t I go with you? I can share the driving. I’m a great driver! |
| Gopal | Oh, Muthu! I can’t believe it. |
Do as directed.
While she waited at the train station, Varsha realized that the train was late. (change into a simple sentence)
Here is one long sentence. Split them into smaller sentences.
Like all living things, human beings also need food in order to live as every part of the body must get a steady supply of food so that it can work properly, but first the food eaten has to be broken down through a process called digestion so that it can dissolve in the blood and carried to all parts of the body.
Complete the following sentence with modal using the clue given.
You ______not attend my class. (order)
Combine the sentence and rewrite them using the word given in the bracket.
Adit has been promoted. Ranjan has been promoted. (as well as)
Complete the sentences choosing the right endings.
| We were thoroughly disappointed | to find out his address |
| Hardly had he stepped out | we could not go further |
| They wanted | since our team did not get a prize |
| Since we had run out of petrol | was his reckless driving |
| The cause of his injury | when it began to rain |
Replace the underlined word/expression with possibly polite form.
Subsidies are given to the poor.
Fill in the blank with the correct infinitive.
The doctor advised the patient ______his medicines without fail.
Combine each of the following pair of sentence using participle. The first one is done for you.
His coat is tattered. It needs mending.
Identify the error in each of the following sentence and rewrite them Correctly.
A variety of pleasing objects charm the eye.
Begin the sentence with "Hardly......."
She heard the news, she collapsed.
Here, we see that the ‘-ing’ form of the verb ‘fight’ is used as a subject in ‘The fighting went on’. It does the work of a noun. When the ‘-ing’ form of a verb is used as a noun, it is known as a gerund or verbal noun. Read the following examples of gerunds:
- Gardening is an art.
- Cooking is a science.
- I enjoy reading poems.
- I like reading more than writing.
Rewrite the above sentences using other appropriate gerunds in place of the ones given here.
Use the proper punctuation mark.
What’s it about
Rewrite the following using a complete word instead of a contracted form.
...and it’s good for plenty more.
Spot the error in the spelling of the following word with reference to the passage and rewrite it correctly.
Innar
Read the following sentence and frame at least two relevant questions.
That living word awakened my soul.
Write compound word using the pictures.
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