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Fill in the blank with comparative, superlative, and positive forms of the correct adjective in the bracket. You are very naughty. You are _____________ your brother (clever)

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Fill in the blank with comparative, superlative, and positive forms of the correct adjective in the bracket.

You are very naughty. You are _____________ your brother (clever).

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You are very naughty. You are more clever than your brother.

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पाठ 1.2: On To The Summit : We Reach The Top - Comparisons [पृष्ठ २४]

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बालभारती English Yuvakbharati [English] Standard 11 Maharashtra State Board
पाठ 1.2 On To The Summit : We Reach The Top
Comparisons | Q (a) | पृष्ठ २४

संबंधित प्रश्‍न

Fill in the blanks with words from the box.

lonely

little

hard

young

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 _________________.


Join the sentence using appropriate Co-ordinators. (but, or, so, and)

Cardiac Surgery was tried in the past. Patients did not survive.


Find the antonym of the following from the passage.

Defenceless × ______


Make a collection of collective nouns.


Complete the following idioms using the appropriate colour term.

a ______ list (a list of defaulters).


Use the following phrase in your own sentence.

be sure of


Change the meaning of the sentence by changing the preposition.

There were many people around the house.


Find the meaning of the following phrase and use it in your own sentence.

again and again


Rewrite the following sentence using ‘not only but also’ and ‘as well as’ in 2 seperate sentences.

UNESCO and the International Council on monuments initiated a draft convention to create an international organisation responsible for protecting cultural heritage.


Rewrite the following sentence using ‘not only but also’ and ‘as well as’ in 2 seperate sentences.

Opera House in Australia and the Historic Center of Vienna in Austria are cultural sites of World Heritage.


Change the parts of speech of the given words in the chart.

Noun Verb Adjective Adverb
exhaustion      
  widen    
    mad  
      perfectly

Rewrite the following sentence by rectifying the errors in the use of modal.

Take an umbrella. It should rain later.


Write the gerund/infinitive form of the verb in the blank.

Would you like __________ (accompany) us on our journey if you could?


Find the synonym for the underlined word.

When Pongo caught the narrator with the oranges, he was very frightened.


Write a negative sentence.

He is learning to read.


Complete the sentence in past tense form.

If you ______ (work) hard, you would have won the relay match.


Frame sentences of your own using any five newly formed words.


Combine the pair of a sentence using the appropriate connector.

Sita saw a snake. At once she ran away.


Identify the phrase in the following sentence and classify them as Adjective, Adverb, or Noun phrase.

I have never seen such a picture.


Fill in the gap with appropriate Pronoun.

______ of his family members would come to visit you.


Read the following sentences carefully and underline the preposition.

Hema keeps all her teddy bears on top of her wardrobe.


Transform the following sentence as instructed.

The boy could not attend the special classes due to his mother’s illness. (into Compound)


Pick out the words from the list and put them appropriately on the table.

David, Madurai, parrot, happiness, book, thought, green, tiger, Trichy, computer, Narayanan, fan, sister, Kalam, woman, pencil, Bharathi, problem, brother, Mumbai, swan, elephant, Vijay, solution, success, school, convent.

 

Person Place Animals Thing Ideas/ feelings
         
         
         
         
         

Change the underlined word with the correct pronoun.

Neil Armstrong was born in 1930. Neil Armstrong landed on the moon in 1969.


______ please close the door?


Fill in the blank with the opposite of the word given in bracket.

The new boss decided to ______ (appoint) the lazy workers.


Read the sentence given below and Choose the verbs appropriately.

The florist ______ flowers on the street.


Sinduja is getting ready to sleep. She starts writing her diary. Help her complete it by using the verbs given in brackets.

(start, eat, have, finish, go, reach)

  1. I got up at 7’O clock.
  2. . I ______breakfast.
  3. I______ to office by car. 
  4. I______ to work. 
  5. I______ lunch at______ . 
  6. I ______my task at 7 p.m. 
  7. I______ home at 8 p.m.

Punctuate the following sentence.

I like playing with my friends sandy sunny sameer.


Match the rhyming words.

health charm
hook wealth
harm look

Write the past continuous forms for the given verb.

I ______ while he was singing. (dance)


Give the correct verb form for the following sentence.

I _______ (wait) for you.


Circle and write the adverbs from the sentence.

The painter paints wonderfully. ______


complete the sentence.

We ______ in New York, last week.


She _________ a job in America by next year. (get)


Choose the correct one to show future perfect tense.

By this time tomorrow, we _______ (arrive)in Chennai.


Complete the sentence with the simple past form of the given verb.

We ______(stand) for hours.


Fill in the blank.

______Sun


Say what they are doing now?

Leema ______.


Fill in the blank with suitable modal verb.

______ I have some more juice, please?


The ______dancer turned ______after the final performance. (weary/wiry)


Underline the correct verb in these sentence.

Everybody (enjoy, enjoys) a good song.


Add appropriate question tag to the following sentence.

The aim should be to reduce congestion.


  1. My teachers ______me towards the path of success.
  2. The tourist ______explained the historical importance of the site.

You are busy getting ready for school. You receive a What's App message from your best friend, saying that he/she is very upset over the fight you had yesterday and doesn’t want to talk to you anymore. This distresses you as she sounds very firm. However, today is a big day at school with two tests lined up. What will be your state of mind? How will you handle this situation?


Do as directed.

Dinesh and Prabhu wanted to meet Varsha at the bus stop. They went to the bus stop. (combine into a compound sentence)


Read the list of words formed by adding suffixes.

frequently satisfaction willingness
comfortable resemblance nobility

Form two derivatives from each of the following words by adding prefixes and suffixes.

Word Prefix Suffix
patient patient patiently
honour    
respect    
manage    
fertile    
different    
friend    
obey    

Recall your learning of basic preposition and complete the sentence using the prepositions given in options.

The boy jumped ______a narrow stream.


Underline the prepositional phrase.

The boy studied well in spite of many obstacles.


Choose the appropriate linker from within the options and complete the sentence.

I could not complete my paper in the examination ______ I was slow in answering the questions.


Go through the lesson and spot the words opposite to the meaning of the following

  1. rare (para 1)
  2. primitive (para 6) 
  3. fiction (para 7)
  4. fearful (para 8)
  5. benign (para 11) 
  6. diffidence (para 11) 
  7. boredom (para 12)
  8. criticize (para 13)

Rewrite the following sentence using ‘If ’ without changing the meaning.

The rescue team would not have saved the victims unless they had received the call in time.


Rewrite the following sentence using ‘If ’ without changing the meaning.

The portraits would not have been so natural unless the artist had given his best.


Rewrite the following sentence using ‘If ’ without changing the meaning.

Mr. Kunaal would not sponsor my higher education unless I studied well.


Use the gerundial form of the verb in the bracket and fill in the blank.

______ (shop) is my favourite hobby.


Read the dialogue between Shabnam and her mentor, Sara, regarding her summer internship programme.

Sara: Why did you choose to participate in this internship programme?
Shabnam: Ah! I am convinced this programme has the potential to enhance my abilities.

Select the correct option to complete the reporting of the above dialogue.

Sara asked Shabnam _____ in that internship programme. Shabnam sighed and exclaimed that she was convinced that programme had the potential to enhance her abilities.


Read the example and fill in the blanks in the same pattern.

Example: strange - stranger - strangest

large - ______ - ______


Given below are some idiomatic comparisons with ‘like’. Can you guess their meaning? Look them up in a good dictionary. You won’t find them under ‘like’. Which words will you look up to find these comparisons?

  1. Like a bull in a china shop (Here, china means delicate articles of porcelain)
  2. Like a cat on a hot tin roof.
  3. Like a red rag to a bull.
  4. Like a cat that stole the cream.
  5. Like water off a duck’s back.
  6. Memory like a sieve.

Using your imagination write more comparisons using ‘like’


Complete the slogan, by filling in the blank with the correct option.

Your plastic contribution ______ causing ocean pollution.


Complete the following sentence using your own ideas:

I realised what ______.


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