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प्रश्न
Fill in the blank with modal auxiliary.
You ______lead a horse to water, but you ______make it drink.
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उत्तर
You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
You must have noticed that when we report someone’s exact words, we have to make some changes in the sentence structure. In the following sentences fill in the blanks to list the changes that have occurred in the above pairs of sentences. One has been done for you.
1. To report a question, we use the reporting verb asked (as in Sentence Set 1).
2. To report a declaration, we use the reporting verb __________.
3. The adverb of place here changes to ___________.
4. When the verb in direct speech is in the present tense, the verb in reported speech is in the ______________ tense (as in Sentence Set 3).
5. If the verb in direct speech is in the present continuous tense, the verb in reported speech changes to ______________tense. For example, ____________ changes to was getting.
6. When the sentence in direct speech contains a word denoting respect, we add the adverb _______________in the reporting clause (as in Sentence Set 1).
7. The pronouns I, me, our and mine, which are used in the first person in direct speech, change to third person pronouns such as____________, ___________, ___________ or __________in reported speech.
Underline the verbs and arrange them in two columns, Past and Earlier past.
(a) My friends set out to see the caves in the next town, but I stayed at home, because I had seen them already.
(b) When they arrived at the station, their train had left. They came back home, but by that time I had gone out to see a movie!
(c) So they sat outside and ate the lunch I had packed for them.
(d) By the time I returned, they had fallen asleep!
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Past
Earlier past
When we compare two nouns, we use comparative adjectives. When we compare more than two nouns, we use superlative adjectives.
For Example. –
a. Milind is taller than John.
b. Zakir is the tallest of the three brothers.
Look at the following sentence and observe the changes in the sentence. Discuss the changes and note your responses:
Anne is the brightest girl in class.
Write the gerund/infinitive form of the verb in the blank
They learned how __________ (survive) in space without gravity.
Read the given sentence carefully and fill in with an appropriate phrasal verb. Choose them from the help option.
There will be a ______ next week in the office.
He took a ______ of the cake.
Identify the phrase in the following sentence and classify them as Adjective, Adverb, or Noun phrase.
The train halts at every junction.
Refer to your dictionary. Add a prefix or suffix to the following words and find their antonyms.
| 1. | privileged | |
| 2. | animate | |
| 3. | discriminate | |
| 4. | empty | |
| 5. | communicate | |
| 6. | learn |
Find out the anagrams. Use a pair of phrases as clues.
- A place to grow flowers ______
- Something to be careful of______
Find out the anagrams. Use a pair of phrases as clues.
- Try to hear ______
- Another word for quiet ______.
Read the following passage and fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verb.
Where had I gone? What had I done?
What had I seen?
I ______ never ______ (see) such beautiful sights before I visited Paris in 2012. I ____________(save) money for five years before I booked my trip to Paris. I was very excited! Before my trip to Paris, I ______ never ______(be) out of India. When I went to Paris, I spent many days touring the city. The city was big. Sometimes I got lost and asked for directions. I asked for directions in French. That was easy because I ______(study) French for two years before I visited Paris. By the time I left Paris, I ____________ (tour) many beautiful places. The Eiffel Tower, the Notre Dame Cathedral, and the Luxembourg Gardens were just a few of the places I saw. Before I visited Paris, I______ only ______(see) those places on television.
So you bought a car, ________.
Complete the following using their group names.
A ______ of fish swam past our boat.
See and write what they were doing.
While I was writing, he ______.
She wakes up _____5 o’clock.
Rewrite the sentence using the word in the bracket.
I go to school at 8 o’ clock. (He)
Fill the blank with the clipped word.
He broke his __________. (spectacles)
Mark (✓) if it is past perfect tense and (x) future perfect tense.
They had cooked the vegetables.
Frame meaningful sentence of your own using the following expression from the story. Use a dictionary if required.
a turning point
Fill in the blanks with appropriate determiners. (Articles have been included)
Once the emperor gave a bag of seeds to his council of ministers and said that he would give them six months’ time to grow the seeds. Whoever does a good job will be made the ______ emperor of that empire. ______ the ministers took their task seriously. After six months ______ ministers had small plants in their pots. A ______ had very large plants. ______ had medium sized plants. The emperor entered the hall. He was ______ amused to see ______ plants. He called the ______ minister and asked him what he did with the seed. ______ minister explained the process he adopted to make ______ plant grow. The emperor called ______ the other ministers to explain what they did. Only ______ minister had come with an empty pot. They laughed loudly at the foolishness of this minister. But the Emperor applauded him and made him the ______ Emperor. Do you know why? He had given them boiled seeds which will not grow. Only ______ minister was honest.
Expand the following new headline in a sentence each.
Card license to replace paper driving license
Words belonging to different semantic fields.
Now, read the following statements taken from Arignar Anna’s address:
Find out the antonym of the underlined word in each of the following sentence.
There he was sitting in splendour on his chair.
Fill in the blank with the correct infinitive.
The archaeologists are trying ______ the ruins of Keelady.
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.
The rain approached like a dark curtain. I ______ (1) (see) it marching down the street, heavy and remorseless. It ______ (2) (drum) on the tin roof and swept across the road and over the balcony of my room. I ______ (3) (sit) there without ______ (4) (move), letting the rain soak my sticky shirt and gritty hair.
Outside, the street rapidly ______ (5) (empty). Buses, cars and bullock carts ______ (6) (plough) through the suddenly rushing water. A group of small boys came jumping along a side street, which was like a river in spate. A garland of marigolds, swept off the steps of temple, came ______ (7) (float) down the middle of the road.
The rain ______ (8) (stop) as suddenly as it had begun. The day was ______ (9) (end), and the breeze ______ (10) (remain) cool and moist.
Underline the verb and choose the correct option from the options.
Margie was scornful.
Spot the error in the spelling of the following word with reference to the passage and rewrite it correctly.
Innar
Find the meaning of the following from a good dictionary:
radicals
Spot the error in the following sentence. Then rewrite the sentence after correcting them.
But they could not found it.
The fresh college graduate jumped ______ the first offer of a job.
