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प्रश्न
Fill in the blank using past perfect tense form of the verb:
Catherine did not have any cash because she ______(lose) her purse.
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उत्तर
Catherine did not have any cash because she had lost her purse.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Fill in the blank with comparative, superlative, and positive forms of the correct adjective in the bracket.
He is the _______________ boy in class. (forgetful)
Join the sentence using appropriate Co-ordinators. (but, or, so, and)
Heart patients were treated with sedatives. They did not survive.
List all the phrases from the poem in which two or more words are joined with ‘and’.
List at least ten articles which use fabrics in their making.
Find from the poem, three examples of Interrogation :
- ___________________
- ___________________
- ___________________
Find the opposite of the following word from the lesson.
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Complete these sentence using the appropriate modal. The clues in the bracket will help you.
My father ____________ play badminton in the evenings when he was at college. (past habit)
Change the following into Passive voice.
Have you invited Raman to the party?
Convert the following active sentence into a passive sentence by supplying an appropriate passive verb form.
They broke up the table for firewood/The table ____________ up for firewood.
Read the given sentence carefully and fill in with an appropriate phrasal verb. Choose them from the help of option.
The air hostess instructed the passengers to wear the seat belts during the ______.
Complete the following sentence using the noun form of the word given in the bracket.
The monuments are to be preserved because of their historical __________. (significant)
A______ is someone who investigates a crime.
Fill in the gap with appropriate Pronoun.
______ of his family members would come to visit you.
Transform the following sentence as instructed.
Walk carefully lest you will fall down. (into Complex)
Read these sentence from the story carefully. Do they give command or request or make statement? Write 'C' for command and 'R' for request and 'S' for statement.
Please do not cut trees.
Manju _______ (call) after we reach home.
Look at the picture and fill in the blank with suitable word.
Keerthi Vasan arrived______.
Rewrite the sentence using the word in the bracket.
I go to school at 8 o’ clock. (He)
Name the character or speaker.
“My dear, you learnt the most difficult stroke in Judo.”
Choose the correct pictures.
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Fill in the blank
They _______ everyone to the marriage by next week. (invite)
Now, use the verb given in bracket in the following sentence in their correct form.
They firmly _______(believe) in the existence of God.
Fill in the blank with suitable modal verb.
______ I use your mobile phone? It’s an emergency.
Read the given passages and rewrite them using the direct speech.
The striking workers demanded an increase in salary and asked for the withdrawal of all cases. They threatened to continue the strike if the demands were not met. The manager insisted on them calling off the strike and invited them for a discussion. He agreed to listen to their demands.
Foreign words and phrases
You have come across the French phrases ‘en famille’ |ən <famille>| and ‘bons mots’ ˌ|bɑn ˈmɑːts| in the lesson. Now, look at the following phrases and their meanings.
- viva voce - /ˌvaɪvə vəusi / - a spoken examination
- sine die - /ˈsɪnə ˈdʌɪiː/ – without a date being fixed
- resume- /ˈrezjuːmeɪ/ - a brief summary
- rapport - /ræˈpɔː(r)/ - close relationship with good understanding
- bonafide - /ˌbəʊnə ˈfaɪdi/ - genuine
Underline the prepositional phrase.
Our nation is famous for its glorious culture.
Pick out the complex sentences in the following passage.
A man saw a lion in the bush, as he was walking through the forest. He did not know what to do. He was helpless. He was too scared to turn around and run. He just knelt down as if he were getting ready to pray. He closed his eyes, thinking that the lion would pounce on him anytime. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw the lion on its knees too. Shocked, he asked the lion what it was doing. The lion replied that he was praying before he started his meal.
We have seen that clauses are parts of a sentence, and they are classified as main and subordinate or dependent clauses. Dependent clauses can be further classified as follows according to the work they do in a sentence.
How do we decide whether a clause is a noun clause, an adjective clause or an adverb clause? There is a simple rule - we can replace an adverb clause with an adverb, an adjective clause with an adjective and a noun clause with a noun.
Look at the following examples -
- But I don’t know the answer. (Noun)
But I don’t know what they want. (Noun clause) - He told us a funny story. (Adjective)
He told us a story that was funny. (Adjective clause) - They went away. (Adverb)
They went when you were talking to your friend. (Adverb clause)
Now complete the following on your own :
- But I don’t know ____________.
- He told us ____________.
- They went ____________.
List all the adjectives in the poem. Use the comparative forms of at least 8 of them to write new comparisons. Two of them have been given as examples.
| 1. | Faster than the wind | Slower than a tortoise |
| 2. | (Big) ______ | (Small) ______ |
| 3. | (Fierce) ______ | (Gentle) ______ |
| 4. | ______ | ______ |
| 5. | ______ | ______ |
Being a bachelor, the stranger had no patience with children.
