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प्रश्न
Form meaningful sentence using the given word to bring out at least two different meaning.
train
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उत्तर
train – You must train yourself to catch the train in time.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
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
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 dipped his fingers in the milk.
When Tenzing and Hillary reached the summit, Tenzing in utter joy said, “We have done it.” In this sentence, the subject (we) is the doer of the action while (achieving the feat) is the subject. The verb of passive voice is formed by using the correct form of the verb ‘to be’ + past participle of the main verb. Construct the sentence accordingly.
Now carefully go through the changes in both the sentences and do the changes accordingly in the remaining sentence.
- We have done it.
It has been done by us.
We spent the night at Camp Eight.
‘I hear the bright bee hum.’ The poet has used the word ‘hum’ that indicates the sound made by the bee. This is an example of Onomatopoeia. The poet has used different figures of speech like alliteration, inversion, and hyperbole in the poem. Identify them and pick out the lines accordingly.
Inversion
Words that have the same spelling, but differ in meaning when used in different contexts are called homographs. For example,
- A temple fair attracts a lot of crowds.
Her performance in the test was fair. - A rose is the king of flowers.
The sun rose with a golden glow.
Think of 5 homographs and list them below. Then write 2 sentences of your own, to bring out the difference in meanings.
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Explain the metaphor in the following line :
Oft a little morning rain
Foretells a pleasant day.
Make sentences of your own to show the difference in usage of the following Homophones.
- advice ______
- advise ______
Rewrite the following sentence replacing ‘as soon as’ by ‘No sooner than ’.
As soon as the Bill is passed, it will become an Act.
Write the gerund/infinitive form of the verb in the blank.
The best astronaut almost quit _________ (try) to learn the complex information.
When she was eighteen, she ______ run fast.
Present perfect with “ever and never”
Have you ever…?
Have you ever eaten a kiwi fruit?
Yes, I have eaten a kiwi fruit. Or No, I have never eaten a kiwi fruit.
| Activity | Yes, I have (name) | No, I have never. (name) |
| … been to Ooty | ||
| … traveled by plane | ||
| … visited a museum | ||
| …tried swimming in sea | ||
| … gone hiking | ||
| … sung karaoke | ||
| ……… lost money | ||
| …… taken a cold shower in winter | ||
| … listened to French music | ||
| … eaten a peach |
Fill in the blank with the connector that goes with the underlined word.
Either Raghu _________ Bala will have to buy vegetables from the market.
When the burglars broke into the house, everybody _________ (have) sound sleep.
Refer to a dictionary for the meanings and choose the odd one.
Cheerful
Punctuate the following sentence.
long ago in a town in Switzerland there lived a famous man called william.
Give the correct verb form for the following sentence.
They ______ (come).
Fill in the blank
I play tennis ______ cricket.
Match the clipped word and write it on the line.
| 1. | spectacles | auto |
| 2. | microphone | math |
| 3. | automobile | cent |
| 4. | mathematics | mic |
| 5. | centum | specs |
The fisher caught the _______.
Choose the correct option that shows the future perfect tense.
We __________(see) the movie last week.
Fill in the blank with suitable homophone:
Oxygen is the ______ element present in the earth’s crust.
Now, use the verb given in bracket in the following sentence in their correct form.
The Prime Minister ______(leave) for America to meet the delegates tomorrow.
Fill in the blank with modal auxiliary.
You ______lead a horse to water, but you ______make it drink.
Frame illustrative sentence to distinguish the meaning of the word in the following cluster.
quiet – quite – quit
Fill in the blank with the word given in option.
Thomas Alva Edison did not lose his ______, even after facing a series of experimental failures in his quest to discover tungsten.
Identify the two Main clause and conjunction in each of the following sentence.
Fifty candidates appeared for the interview, but only five were selected.
Spot the error in the spelling of the following word with reference to the passage and rewrite it correctly.
Circals
Fill in the following blanks using proper word from ‘who’, ‘when’, ‘what’, ‘how’ or ‘why’.
They wondered ______ had happened to him.
Read the following sentence and frame at least two relevant questions.
We walked down the path to the well-house.
Write the compound word from the pictures.
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