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प्रश्न
Frame meaningful sentence of your own using the following expression from the story. Use a dictionary if required.
a turning point
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उत्तर
Gandhiji’s encounter with an ill-clad poor woman in Madurai was a turning point in his political life.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Go through the statement taken from the text – ‘The social democracy means a way of life which recognises liberty, equality, and fraternity’.
The underlined part of the statement provides us some facts/information about social democracy. The remaining part of the sentence which is not underlined can be converted into a wh-question.
What does social democracy mean?
Now go through the underlined part of the statement/sentence given below and change them into question by using the appropriate Wh-form.
The politically minded Indians preferred the expression ‘the Indian nation’.
Complete the following comparisons.
- as white as ______
- as green as ______
- as red as ______
- as blue as ______
- as black as ______
- as bright as ______
Find an example of alliteration from the poem.
Other examples of Alliteration are:
Write the homophones (words which sound the same) of the following words in the story.
- no:
- went:
- through:
- dear:
- pair:
- soul:
- here:
- knew:
- whole:
Look at the action words in bold. Identify whether they are either finite or non-finite verb.
| They want to try a new approach. | |
| Trying is easy. | |
| Having tried everything, he gave up. | |
| All I can do is try. | |
| If she tried, she would succeed. |
Choose the correct option.
We use ______ when something is compulsory, obligatory, and important.
Kamali ________ English very well, but she doesn’t understand Hindi.
Write the –ing form of the verbs.
| 1. | Come ______. |
| 2. | Take ______. |
| 3. | Fly ______. |
| 4. | Swim ______. |
| 5. | Study ______. |
| 6. | Read ______. |
Complete the story using the past tense of the verbs.
The Hare and the Tortoise
One day a Hare and a Tortoise decided to have a race. The Tortoise _______ (know) that the Hare _________ (can) run faster than him. But the Tortoise _______ (be) more intelligent than the Hare. 'Yes, I'll race you,'_________ (say) the Tortoise. The Tortoise ______ (have) a clever plan. He ______ (find) his brothers and sisters and he ______ (tell) them to wait in different places along the path of the race. So they all ______ (hide) behind the trees along the path. The race ______ (begin)! The Tortoise ______ (run) as fast as possible. But the Hare ______ (be) faster, of course. 'This will be a very easy race', ______ (think) the Hare. So the Hare _________ (decide) to rest, and he quickly ____ (fall) asleep at the side of the road. Suddenly, the Hare ______ (wake up) and he ______ (see) a Tortoise ahead of him! 'How did he get ahead of me?' the Hare asked himself. In fact, it ______ (be) not his friend the Tortoise: it ______ (be) the Tortoise's sister. But to a Hare, all tortoises look the same. The Hare ______ (run) past the Tortoise easily. Soon, he ______ (cannot) see the Tortoise, so he ______ (sit) down to rest. Then the Hare ______ (get up) and continued the race. But as the Hare _______ (turn) around the last corner before the finish line, his friend the Tortoise crossed the line and ______ (win) the race!
Underline the verb and identify the tense form.
I have been ill for a couple of days ______.
Read the following sentences carefully and underline the preposition.
After lunch, the children were allowed to play.
Read the sentence, insert appropriate article in the blank and choose the noun phrase.
Purvaja ate______ salad of raw vegetables for dinner.
She _________ never forgotten her bag.
Recite any four lines of the poem with correct intonation.
Complete the following sentence using past perfect tense.
She _______ the apple as I told her to stop. (eat)
Complete the following sentence using past perfect tense.
Raju ________ to the ground before others arrived. (reach)
Can you try to fill the blank.
This is ______ ball.
Complete the following with appropriate conditional clause.
Jayashree would travel to France, ______.
Complete the following with appropriate conditional clause.
Vicky would have passed, ______.
Refer to the dictionary and find out the meaning of the following foreign word/phrase. Use them in sentence of your own:
a-la-carte
Given below is a list of common confusable. Distinguish the meaning of each pair of word by framing your own sentence.
born - borne
Recall your learning of basic preposition and complete the sentence using the prepositions given in options.
The boy jumped ______a narrow stream.
Choose the appropriate linker from within the options and complete the sentence.
This is ______ it must be done.
Combine the sentence and rewrite them using the word given in the bracket.
Adit has been promoted. Ranjan has been promoted. (as well as)
Add suitable question tag to the following sentence and punctuate properly.
I am always the winner.
Fill in the blank with the right idiom. Choose from the option.
When they had to climb through deep new snow the party sometimes had to______.
Look at the following complex sentence. Circle(bold) the Main clause and underline the Subordinate clause.
No one knows when he will return.
Find out the antonym of the underlined word in each of the following sentence.
Maamanaar was unmatched.
Fill in the following blanks using proper word from ‘who’, ‘when’, ‘what’, ‘how’ or ‘why’.
The person ______ is making the speech is my friend.
In the following sentence, replace the incorrect underlined word to make the sentence meaningful and grammatically correct.
When will the Shatabdi Express pull up?
