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प्रश्न
Frame illustrative sentence to distinguish the meaning of the word in the following cluster.
accept – except – expect
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उत्तर
Don’t accept bribes.
Except for Raghu, all had paid the fees for NEET coaching.
Those who don’t expect much gain a lot in life.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Fill in the blank in the following dialogue choosing a suitable phrase from those given below.
Teacher: You were away from school without permission. Go to the principal ________and submit your explanation.
Pupil: Yes, Madam. But would you help me write it first?
Write down points without fully expanding verbs, numbering them as you do.
Use the following expression to make a sentence of your own.
not to deter
Change the voice in the following sentence.
Sheets of paper were found in it, by Hardy.
Use the suffix ‘-ly’ to make another word from the following:
subsequent
List at least 10 verbs, the last letter of which is doubled in the past tense form. Example: sob - sobbed.
Use the following phrase in your own sentence.
at any cost
The Himalayas ______ India from the cold winds.
Who am I? (Use a pair of …)
We wear this on our face to see clearly ______
John added a ______ of sugar to the lemon juice.
She had no umbrella with her; the weather ______ (seem) so fine just a few hours ago.
Read the following sentences carefully and underline the preposition.
Divya hid the sweets behind her back.
Find out the anagrams. Use a pair of phrases as clues.
- A place to grow flowers ______
- Something to be careful of______
Find and use the clipped word in your own sentence.
zoological park -
The bus _________ (leave) the stop before we could catch it.
Read the sentences given below. Does the action happen every day or is it happening at this moment?
| 1. Deepa waters the plants every morning. | |
| 2. A triangle has three sides. | |
| 3. Sandhya is writing a letter. | |
| 4. The children are playing in the garden. | |
| 5. I go to school regularly. |
Write the plural form.
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tooth - _________ |
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knife - _________ |
Give the correct verb form for following sentence.
You ______ to school.
Choose the correct word.
The birds ______ in the sky.
Rewrite the sentence with punctuation mark.
he likes shirt pants and shorts
Match the rhyming words.
| soft | week |
| blow | know |
| grow | hot |
| seek | flow |
Complete the sentence with a correct reflexive pronoun.
The machine will destroy _________ once its task is done.
Choose the correct one to show future perfect tense.
By this time tomorrow, we _______ (arrive)in Chennai.
Fill in the blank.
______Sun
Read the extract from Kayal’s diary entry regarding her Nepal Trek, and fill in the blanks with the correct tense form of the verbs given in brackets.
DAY 1 We ______(leave) Anna International Airport in Chennai two days ago catching a direct flight to Kathmandu in Nepal. We ______(spend) a day sightseeing. Kathmandu is full of people, rickshaws and the smell of sandalwood. I’ve never ______(be) on a trip like this before. So I’m really excited.
DAY 2 It ______(rain) when we reached Pokhara, Nepal’s second largest city, and saw the snowy peaks of the Himalayas for the first time. We ______(reach) Pokhara after a hairraising six-hour bus journey along very narrow roads with a lot of hairpin bends. The bus ______(be) so full that one person had to share the driver’s seat.
DAY 3 We _______________ (begin) our trek at last. We are at about 900 metres and the weather is warm and humid. For lunch we had chips and yak cheese sandwiches. I didn’t like them very much. I’m thrilled that we ______(pitch) tents for our camps in the dense forests.
DAY 4 Yesterday a landslide ______(block) our path and we had to use ropes to get over it. This morning we walked along the river Kali Gandaki through dense forests of oak trees and we pitched our camp at Tukuche below the Annapurna mountain range. The main danger in addition to landslides, is ‘yak attack’. Yaks ______(be) not dangerous but you have to be careful if you meet a herd of them because they can push you off the sides of the mountain.
DAY 5 We met a lot of children on our trek through the villages. They ______(play) in the pool of muddy rain water as we left the place. We have already climbed 2,400 metres. Up here, it never ______(rain) and there are no trees. It ______ (be) windy and dusty and I am always thirsty.
DAY 6 Yesterday we ______(go) up to the mountainside of the township of Mukthinath, at 3,600 metres. The thin air with less oxygen there ______(leave) us breathless. We ______(feel) that we couldn’t go any further. We ______(drink) a lot of extra fluids to prevent altitude sickness.
DAY 7 We turned around today and started to descend to Jomosom. As we went down, the oxygen-filled our blood again and we seemed to ______ (fly) instead of walking.
DAY 8 We went back to Pokhara in a small plane yesterday. It was exciting when we _____(fly) between the mountain peaks. We arrived in Kathmandu this afternoon and we ______(spend) our last few hours in shopping. We leave for Chennai tomorrow. We’ve had a trip of a lifetime.
Refer to the dictionary and find out the meaning of the following foreign word/phrase. Use them in sentence of your own:
via media
Transform each of the following sentence using the comparative degree without changing the meaning.
E-mail is the fastest means of communication.
Find the meaning of the following from a good dictionary:
inscriptions
Write the opposites (antonyms) of the following.
- cheap × ______
- discouraged × ______
- inadequacy × ______
- accept × ______
- simple × ______
- irrational × ______
- understand × ______
- clear × ______
We must carry ______ despite the challenges we come across.
