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Idioms: An idiom is an expression in English with a special meaning of its own. Idioms do not give the literal meaning of the individual words used in them. You come across

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Idioms:

An idiom is an expression in English with a special meaning of its own. Idioms do not give the literal meaning of the individual words used in them.

You come across the idiom ‘by the skin of one’s teeth’ in the lesson. It means ‘a narrow escape’.

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My friend escaped from the accident by the skin of his teeth.

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पाठ 4.1: Tight Corners - Vocabulary [पृष्ठ १११]

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पाठ 4.1 Tight Corners
Vocabulary | Q (ii) | पृष्ठ १११

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Look at these sentences.

  • Animals cannot survive for long without water.
  • So desert animals have to find different ways of coping.

The first sentence says what cannot happen or be done; the second tells us what must, therefore, be done, what it is necessary to do. Complete the sentence using cannot and have to/has to.

You ____________ believe everything you hear; you ____________ use your own judgement.


List 5 adjectives from the story.


Find the opposite of the following word from the lesson.

bought 


Frame sentence using the prepositional verb given below.

stand-in


Write the gerund/infinitive form of the verb in the blank.

Then Marina encouraged him by saying, “It’s no good ______ (quit) the project right at the end.”


Write a negative sentence.

I’m looking for my bag.


Complete the following sentence using appropriate Connector from the options.

I can play quite a few instruments ______________, the flute, the guitar and the piano.


John added a ______ of sugar to the lemon juice.


Complete the sentence given below choosing the right connector given in the option.

It is raining. Take an umbrella _________ you will get drenched.


Fill in the blank with the appropriate verb.

Fifteen minutes ___ allowed to read the question paper.


Replace the underlined word by a participle in the following sentence.

They took the last wicket and walked back to the pavilion.


Change the possessive adjective into a possessive pronoun.

My book is new.


Tiny hatchlings fall______ to many predators.


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Choose the things that the spacesuit provides us.

  1. air
  2. food
  3. water

Join the word and write the new word.

entertain + ment - _____.


She _________ never forgotten her bag.


Use the suitable verb.

My friends ______ a passage.


Use the suitable verb.

You _______ the instruction.


Fill in the blanks with to, too and two.

These clothes are ______ expensive.


Circle and write the adverbs from the sentence.

The boy speaks loudly. ______


Write down clipped word for the given picture.


____________
(photograph)


complete the sentence.

They ______ friends.


Write the animal and their young one.

Crane – ______


Fill in the blank in the following sentence with appropriate preposition.

In case _________ difficulty, you should refer _________ a dictionary and then respond _________ the question.


Find out the synonym of the underlined word in each of the following sentence.

One is liable to put in too much milk.


Choose the appropriate linker from within the options and complete the sentence.

______ you register your name, you cannot participate in the competitions.


Pick out the finite verb in the following sentence:

Getting down from the car, the Chief Guest walked towards the dais amidst applause.


Fill in the blank with the correct infinitive.

Rajesh went to the airport ______his friend.


Identify the error in each of the following sentence and rewrite them Correctly.

A variety of pleasing objects charm the eye.


Write the compound word from the pictures.

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