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प्रश्न
Fill in the blank with modal auxiliary.
People who live in glass houses______ not throw stones.
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उत्तर
People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
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.
When Tenzing and Hillary reached the summit, Tenzing in utter joy said, “We have done it.” In this sentence, the subject (we) is the doer of the action while (achieving the feat) is the subject. The verb of passive voice is formed by using the correct form of the verb ‘to be’ + past participle of the main verb. Construct the sentence accordingly.
Now carefully go through the changes in both the sentences and do the changes accordingly in the remaining sentence.
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It has been done by us.
I was carrying the Indian flag.
List at least ten articles which use fabrics in their making.
- Write at least 5 common nouns and 5 proper nouns each. Proper nouns are always written with a capital letter at the beginning.
- Can you think of proper nouns that include two or more words? How are they written? Find at least ten such nouns.
Complete the following idioms using the appropriate colour term.
once in a ______ moon (very rarely).
Find the meaning of the following phrase and use it in your own sentence.
again and again
Frame sentence using the prepositional verb given below.
Stay at
By the time Sundar got up ________.
Write the noun form of the following word.
beautiful ______.
Frame five questions using the picture clues. Begin with “Have you ever”.
(visit the Tajmahal)
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.
We spent the whole day planting saplings.
Add 'r' , ‘er’ or ‘or’ to get the name of the person who does the activity. Take turns in class to make sentences with the words you have formed.
e.g: A teacher is a person who teaches. Teach + er – Teacher.
- use
- buy
- sail
- watch
- operate
- foreign
- bake
- write
- govern
- act
Fill in the blank with the opposite of the word given in bracket.
Be ______ (general) when you are telling us what you need.
Fill in the blank with suitable linking word or conjunction.
You can use a pen ______ a pencil for writing.
Give the correct verb form for the following sentence.
I _______ (read) the poem.
Help the space ship reach the correct planet.
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They ________ written three letters already.
Rewrite the sentence using the given word.
My friends have come to the party.
My friend ______.
Fill in the blank.
6 is ______ 5.
Choose the correct pictures.
in front of
Change the voice of the following sentence.
A house is being constructed by them.
Refer to the dictionary and find out the meaning of the following foreign word/phrase. Use them in sentence of your own:
in camera
Fill in the blank with the correct form of the verb given in the bracket.
Her parents ______ in Coimbatore for two weeks from today (be).
Look at the following complex sentence. Circle(bold) the Main clause and underline the Subordinate clause.
Nobody knows when the power supply will resume.
Write compound words using the picture.
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Fill in the blanks in the passage given below with the appropriate form of the verb given in brackets. Do not write the passage but write the verbs in the correct order.
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The rain ______ (8) (stop) as suddenly as it had begun. The day was ______ (9) (end), and the breeze ______ (10) (remain) cool and moist.
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- Cooking is a science.
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Rewrite the above sentences using other appropriate gerunds in place of the ones given here.
Write the opposites (antonyms) of the following.
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- discouraged × ______
- inadequacy × ______
- accept × ______
- simple × ______
- irrational × ______
- understand × ______
- clear × ______
The fresh college graduate jumped ______ the first offer of a job.
In the following sentence, replace the incorrect underlined word to make the sentence meaningful and grammatically correct.
She handed in the business to her son.
