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प्रश्न
Fill in the blanks choosing the appropriate compound words from those given in the box:
Reeta hurried along the road, dressed in her ______new dress towards the bus stop. Before ______, she had to reach the house of her ______. But the first ______of her travel was slow due to traffic jam. Her ______would be regarded with joy. She was ______ herself to reach the place. When she finally stepped into the ______, she was received with a big hug by her kind aunt. She was in time to join the ______at the village, for a ______.
| singsong | overstraining | spotless |
| gentlefolk | grandmother | courtyard |
| sunset | half-hour | homecoming |
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उत्तर
Reeta hurried along the road, dressed in her spotless new dress towards the bus stop. Before sunset, she had to reach the house of her grandmother. But the first half-hour of her travel was slow due to traffic jams. Her singsong would be regarded with joy. She was overstraining herself to reach the place. When she finally stepped into the courtyard, she was received with a big hug by her kind aunt. She was in time to join the gentlefolk at the village, for a homecoming.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Rewrite the following sentences in the ways instructed :
(i) India and Maharashtra can progress only when there is oneness of interest.
(Rewrite it using ‘unless’)
(i) Match words under A with their meanings under B.
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A |
B |
|
remote |
difficult to overcome |
|
means |
most prominent |
|
dominant |
be overcome/overpowered |
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formidable |
method(s) |
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overwhelmed |
far away from |
(ii) Fill in the blanks in the sentences below with appropriate words from under A.
(a) There were ___________ obstacles on the way, but we reached our destination safely.
(b) We have no ___________ of finding out what happened there.
(c) Why he lives in a house ____________from any town or village is more than I can tell.
(d) ___________by gratitude, we bowed to the speaker for his valuable advice.
(e) The old castle stands in a __________position above the sleepy town.
Say whether the verb in the sentence below is transitive or intransitive. Ask yourself a ‘what’ question about the verb. (For some verbs, an object is a person, so ask the question ‘who’ instead of ‘what’).
He stroked its sides.
Read the lines below.
- 'To believe is to see angels dancing among the clouds'.
The above line contain a human characteristic ‘dancing’ given to something non - human, ‘angels’. The Figure of Speech used in the line is called ‘Personification’. - ‘To believe is to know that
Everyday is a new beginning’. - To believe is to know ______ life is a gift
Lines in poetry, such as the above, state a general truth and can be used as sayings or quotes etc. They contain the Figure of Speech called Epigram.
Epigram closely resembles a proverb.
Find from the poem three other examples of Epigram.
- ______________________________
- ______________________________
- ______________________________
Make a pair of sentences of your own to point out the different meanings of the following Homograph.
fine
Complete the following idioms using the appropriate colour term.
______ eyed boy (favourite person).
Change the following sentence to the other voice.
That portrait was painted by my grandmother.
We solved the problem _______ a new device developed by our engineers.
Write the gerund/infinitive form of the verb in the blank.
If you give up ____________ (study) now, our mission will be scrubbed.
In the story, we find a lot of American slang usage of English. Complete the tabular column with standard English. One has been done for you.
| Finally hit ‘pon | |
| There ain’t anything mean about me. | |
| ‘Deed I don’t know. | There isn’t anything mean about me. |
| Yes’m. That is, I believe they do. | |
| ‘She’d a roasted bowel out of me.' | |
| ‘Oh, go ‘long with you, Tom.’ |
Fill in the blank with a verb in the present continuous.
He ______ (cry).
Fill in the blank using the verb in the bracket in the future form.
I ______ my sister's house next April if I go to Uttarkhand. (visit).
But there are______ near it.
Combine the pair of a sentence using the appropriate connector.
Sita saw a snake. At once she ran away.
Is your mother ______ home?
Find out the anagrams. Use a pair of phrases as clues.
- An organ that pumps blood ______
- The planet we live on ______
Use the phrase could you or would you in the following situation with your friend.
You want to open your classroom window.
Use two or three words from the box to describe each picture.
| red | cute | cubs | icy | tall | mountain |
| boy | tiger | kangaroo | two | little | hot |
| chillies | book | wooden | table | cat | round |
| big | black | three | windows | blue | snow |
| brown | smiling | ball | tail | house | long |
See and write what they were doing.
While my mother was cooking, my father ______.
You _______ arrived at the right time.
Choose the correct verb.
You ______ late to school.
A conjunction is a word that joins two words or sentence.
He has a ball _________ not a bat.
Complete the sentence with correct reflexive pronoun.
I like _____.
The fisher caught the _______.
Report the following dialogue.
| Prabhu | What are you doing here, Kiran? I haven’t seen you for a few months. |
| Kiran | I have just come back from my native town Virudhunagar. |
| Prabhu | Did you enjoy your vacation? |
| Kiran | Yes. I love the place. It is a clean and busy town. |
| Prabhu | Where did you go and what did you see? |
| Kiran | I went to Courtallam falls in Tenkasi. |
| Prabhu | Share some pictures of your trip. |
| Kiran | Sure. See you later. |
Fill in the blank with the correct form of the verb given in the bracket.
Evangelene ______ her job a couple of years ago. (quit)
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 |
Comment on the changes in poetic expression in English from the time of Donne to that of Kamala Das with reference to
- prosodic features (rhyme, rhythm and metre)
- vocabulary
- language
- themes.
Form groups of 6-8. Think of similes using different objects, for example,
- Dry as land
- Wet as a puddle.
Now try to put together the similes to make a poem with rhyming lines.
The leader appealed ______ the public to maintain law and order.
