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प्रश्न
Fill in the blank with the correct form of the verb given in the bracket.
Everyone______ when the earthquake hit the small town. (sleep)
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उत्तर
Everyone was sleeping when the earthquake hit the small town.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Degrees of Comparison of Adjectives.
Read the sentences.
- Yatin is strong.
- Amit is stronger than Yatin.
- Pravin is the strongest of all.
In sentence (i) the Adjective 'strong' is in its simple form. It is called Positive Degree.
In sentence (ii) the Adjective 'stronger' refers to a higher degree, when there is a comparison of two nouns. It is called Comparative Degree. (-er is added to the basic Adjective)
In sentence (iii) the adjective 'strongest' refers to the highest degree of comparison of one with more than two nouns. It is called Superlative Degree. (-est is added to the basic Adjective)
Complete the table of degrees of comparison.
| Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| (1) great | ____________ | ____________ |
| (2) famous | ____________ | ____________ |
| (3) ____________ | easier | ____________ |
| (4) ____________ | worse | ____________ |
| (5) ____________ | ____________ | poorest |
| (6) ____________ | ____________ | laziest |
| (7) little | ____________ | ____________ |
| (8) ____________ | worthier | ____________ |
| (9) popular | ____________ | ____________ |
Match the words in Column A with what they imply in Column B.
| Column A | Column B |
| (1) pilgrim | (a) threat to life |
| (2) journey | (b) trap |
| (3) evening or close of day | (c) life |
| (4) chasm, deep and wide | (d) death |
| (5) building a bridge | (e) old age |
| (6) pitfall | (f) a dutiful man |
| (7) close of day | (g) solving the problem/getting rid of the threat to life |
Write the Rhyming word and Scheme of the 3rd stanza.
The pilgrim raised his old gray head,
“My friend in the path I’ve come,” he said, “There followeth after me today
A fair haired youth, who must pass this way. The chasm which held no fears for me
To the fair haired youth, may a pitfall be.
He, too, must cross in the twilight dim.
My friend, I am building this bridge for him.”
Find any two Alliterative lines.
Change the voice in the following sentence.
Hardy taught Ramanujan.
From the story (Part I and Part II), find 4 words that begin with the prefix ‘un-’ and write their opposites.
- ______ × ______
- ______ × ______.
______ the rains, we went out.
Write the gerund/infinitive form of the verb in the blank
The astronauts managed ___________ (complete) their training in record time.
Complete the mind map based on the inputs from the extract.
| 1. | Becky Thatcher, Tom’s friend had ______ coming to school. |
| 2. | So, Tom became ______. |
| 3. | Aunt Polly ______ about Tom. |
| 4. | She tried ______. |
| 5. | Tom pretended to like _____ and asked for it very often. |
| 6. | One day Tom gave the pain-killer to ______. |
| 7. | The incidents that followed made his aunt ______. |
A good student always ________ hard.
Cows ______ us milk.
Change the following into passive voice.
Stanley will inform you later.
Supply suitable linker.
Many writers make incorrect sentences __________ they try to put sentences together. They may make grammatical errors __________ leave out important punctuation marks. Making such mistakes is quite common __________ preparing the first draft . __________ he must carefully edit his final draft.
Fill in the blank with the suitable collective noun.
A ______ of ants.
Look at the picture and complete the following.
Nila told Miruthula ______. Miruthula said that the idly ______. Nila ______ was delicious too. She also said that they had added Kashmiri chilli. Miruthula said ______very much.
Read the sentence carefully and fill in the blank with suitable tense form of the verb given in bracket.
Mary fell asleep while she______ (read) a book.
Some tips to change singular to plural
Add es for the naming words ending with ch, sh, s, ss and x.
Tom left the class _______ he was sick.
Fill in the blank
I play tennis ______ cricket.
Fill in the blank
An elephant is big______slow.
Fill in the blank with simple future tense of the verb.
Sakthi______ (earn) a lot of money.
What we say?
Read the following extract and fill in the spaces with the right form of verbs and complete the passage. The first one is done for you.
The poet stops to hear the maiden singing while she 1 ______(cut) and 2 ______(bind) the grain. The song of the lady 3 ______(fascinate) the poet, who 4 ______(stand) there to listen to the song. The girl ______(sing) a sad song.
Change the voice of the following sentence.
A house is being constructed by them.
Fill in the blank with the correct form of the verb given in the bracket.
Nothing much ______when I got to the meeting (happen).
Fill in the blank with the word given in option.
The ______warriors of the Spartan Army marched into battle against a powerful enemy.
Write the compound word using the picture.
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Read the example and fill in the blank in the same pattern.
Example: sweet - sweeter - sweetest
low - ______ - lowest
Fill in the following blanks using proper word from ‘who’, ‘when’, ‘what’, ‘how’ or ‘why’.
They wondered ______ had happened to him.
List all the nouns in the poem. Find a suitable adjective - other than the ones given here - for each of the nouns and write meaningful similes for at least 8 of them. For example, as yellow as a lemon.
