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Fill in the blank with the right idiom. Choose from the option. We could not believe that with a few more whacks of the ice axe in the firm snow we were ______to the top. - English

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Fill in the blank with the right idiom. Choose from the option.

We could not believe that with a few more whacks of the ice axe in the firm snow we were ______to the top. 

पर्याय

  • wait for the dust to settle

  • get/have all your ducks in a row

  • fetch and carry

  • do the math

  • round the corner

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We could not believe that with a few more whacks of the ice axe in the firm snow we were round the corner to the top

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पाठ 4.1: The Summit - Vocabulary [पृष्ठ ११७]

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सामाचीर कलवी English Class 12 TN Board
पाठ 4.1 The Summit
Vocabulary | Q a) ii) e) | पृष्ठ ११७

संबंधित प्रश्‍न

Say whether the following sentences are in the Active or the Passive voice. Write A or P after the sentence.

The mechanic repaired it for me. ______________


Say WHY. . . . .

................the sky has a magical quality.


Use the following idiom/expression in sentences of your own.

to be prone to


Rewrite the following in indirect speech.

“How will you have it?” he said.
“In the fifties,” I said.


Consult a dictionary, to find the homophones for the given words.

1 in  
2 know  
3 be  
4 to  
5 watt  
6 right  
7 were  
8 bare  
9 herd  
10 throne  

Convert the following active sentence into a passive sentence by supplying an appropriate passive verb form.

Her silence worries me./I _______________ her silence.


Read the situation given and frame two suitable sentence in the appropriate form of the tense.

Mention any of your two dreams in the correct tense form. 1. ______
2. ______

Who am I? (Use a pair of …)

We wear this on our face when it is sunny ______


Who am I? (Use a pair of …)

We wear this on our feet ______


Form a new word by adding appropriate prefix/suffix.

child ______.


But there are______ near it.


Join the sentence using ‘ Relative Pronoun’.

Here is your watch. It has been found in the garden.


Fill in the blank in the following sentence with suitable conjunction from the option.

Sudharshan will succeed ______ he works hard.


Look at the picture and fill in the blank with suitable words.

The tray has______ vegetables.


You have cleaned your bike, ________?


Frame as many sentences as possible from the substitution table given below.

Example: I enjoy playing badminton and carrom daily

I

We

You

They

hate

prefer

like

love enjoy wish dislike

playing watching coaching

football

volleyball

hockey

kabaddi

cricket

tennis basketball kho-kho badminton

and or carrom chess table-tennis squash fencing

everyday usually rarely

often occasionally generally sometimes daily

Samritha Kavish prefers enjoys hates likes

Choose the correct plural form.

Fox


Choose the correct verb form to the following sentence.

They _________ in yellow colour.


Prefixes and Suffixes

Form two derivatives from each of the following words.

e.g. honest- dishonest, honesty

manage differ beauty
peace arrange collect
approve narrate class

Fill in the blank with suitable modal verb.

When Koushik was a child, he ______ play in the street.


Underline the correct verb in these sentence.

My classmates (study, studies) before a test.


Seema goes to a hotel for lunch. The waiter explains to her the different items available at that time. Here is the conversation between them. Complete the dialogue. You may use modals to frame questions.

Seema Could I get something to eat immediately?
Waiter Yes Ma’am. We have______
Seema ______
Waiter Yes Ma’am. It is available.
Seema ______
Waiter It should not take long. ______
Seema Yes bring that too. ______
Waiter ______
Seema I prefer it cold. ______
Waiter Sorry Ma’am we don’t have ice creams served here. But you can get it in the outlet next door.
Seema Oh that’s fine. Please get these quickly.
Waiter Sure, Ma’am.

Refer to the dictionary and find out the meaning of the following foreign word/phrase. Use them in sentence of your own:

per capita


Complete the following sentence with modal using the clue given.

I______ to play hockey when I was a student. (past habit)


Here are some compound words chosen from the text.

ice-fall knife-edge wind-proof sleeping-bags
half-way never-ending partly-full ice- axe

Find the meaning of the following from a good dictionary:

inscriptions


Spot the error in the following sentence. Then rewrite the sentence after correcting them.

You must right to your friend.


Form groups of 6-8. Think of similes using different objects, for example,

  1. Dry as land
  2. Wet as a puddle.

Now try to put together the similes to make a poem with rhyming lines.


Read the following sentence and frame at least two relevant questions.

That living word awakened my soul.


In the following sentence, replace the incorrect underlined word to make the sentence meaningful and grammatically correct.

The doctor gave away hope when she fell into a coma.


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