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प्रश्न
Fill in the blank with suitable homophone:
Both these machines work on the same ______.
पर्याय
principle
principal
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उत्तर
Both these machines work on the same principle.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Fill in the blank in the sentence below (the verb given in bracket will give you a clue).
The earth trembled, but not many people felt the ____________. (tremble)
Use the following expression to make a sentence of your own.
not to deter
Say whether the underlined is Infinitive/ Participle (Present or Past)/Gerund.
The dying swallow fell at his feet.
Use the following phrase in your own sentence.
at any cost
Read the following sentence and change the form of the underlined word as directed.
The depth of the sea from the ledge scared the seagull. (to adjective)
Complete these sentence using the appropriate modal. The clues in the bracket will help you.
______ I have another glass of water? (request)
______ open the window? It is very hot in the room.
Write a negative sentence.
I’m reading a fantastic book.
The plane _______ (leave) at 3 o’clock.
Match words from the different columns to make reasonable predictions. Then write them down in the space below. One has been done as an example.
Write the sentences.
- In 50 years the ice cap will have melted.
- ________________________
- ________________________
- ________________________
- ________________________
- ________________________
- ________________________
Change the following into passive voice.
He has already mended the TV set.
Fill in the blank using the verb in the bracket in the future form.
By next year, I ______ in Chennai for fifteen years. (live).
There ___ ten dogs in my street.
Look at the punctuation of these sentence. Why are they punctuated differently? Discuss in class.
But no one ever comes here!
Give the correct verb form for following sentence.
You ______ an engineer.
A conjunction is a word that joins two words or sentence.
He has a ball _________ not a bat.
You __________ to your uncle’s house. (be)
Add appropriate question tag to the following sentence.
It changes the way people commute in cities.
Words that define a belief, attitude or theory end with the suffix ‘-ism’. Here is a sentence from the speech of Dr. Annadurai: ‘I admit that the environment is such that even people with robust optimism will be discouraged and forced to take to the path of ease and comfort’.
The meaning of the word ‘optimism’ is ‘the hopeful feeling that all is going to turn out well’. Match the ‘-ism’ words with their appropriate meanings.
| S. No | Meanings | S. No. Meanings Words |
| 1 | e.g. love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it | patriotism |
| 2 | a brutal, barbarous, savage act | nationalism |
| 3 | the doctrine that your country’s interests are superior | egocentrism |
| 4 | participating in sports as a hobby rather than for money | feminism |
| 5 | belief that the best possible concepts should be pursued | criticism |
| 6 | a serious examination and judgment of something | amateurism |
| 7 | habitual failure to be present at work | barbarism |
| 8 | a doctrine that advocates equal rights for women | idealism |
| 9 | concern for your own interests and welfare | heroism |
| 10 | exceptional courage when facing danger | absenteeism |
Give the meaning of the following phrasal verb and frame sentence using them
stand by
Complete the following sentence with modal using the clue given.
He ______ come today. (remote possibility)
Rewrite the following sentence using ‘If ’ without changing the meaning.
Unless we plant more trees, we cannot save our planet.
Underline the gerund in the following sentence.
Painting is an interesting hobby
Rewrite each of the following sentence using the superlative degree retaining the meaning.
The peacock is more colourful than any other bird found in India.
Choose the correct option and complete the sentence.
Manoj ______ present along with his parents.
The students could not ask any questions to the teacher. (Rewrite using unable to)
Find the meaning of the following word from a good dictionary.
Hold fast to something
Write the opposites (antonyms) of the following.
- cheap × ______
- discouraged × ______
- inadequacy × ______
- accept × ______
- simple × ______
- irrational × ______
- understand × ______
- clear × ______
Write compound word using the pictures.
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Being a bachelor, the stranger had no patience with children.
