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प्रश्न
Look at the newspaper item given below. Use the information in the headline to complete the sentence.
12 INJURED AS BUSES COLLIDE About ______at the Dindigul bus terminus here today.
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उत्तर
About 12 passengers were injured as buses collided at Dindigul.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
You must have noticed that when we report someone’s exact words, we have to make some changes in the sentence structure. In the following sentences fill in the blanks to list the changes that have occurred in the above pairs of sentences. One has been done for you.
1. To report a question, we use the reporting verb asked (as in Sentence Set 1).
2. To report a declaration, we use the reporting verb __________.
3. The adverb of place here changes to ___________.
4. When the verb in direct speech is in the present tense, the verb in reported speech is in the ______________ tense (as in Sentence Set 3).
5. If the verb in direct speech is in the present continuous tense, the verb in reported speech changes to ______________tense. For example, ____________ changes to was getting.
6. When the sentence in direct speech contains a word denoting respect, we add the adverb _______________in the reporting clause (as in Sentence Set 1).
7. The pronouns I, me, our and mine, which are used in the first person in direct speech, change to third person pronouns such as____________, ___________, ___________ or __________in reported speech.
Here is a question of indirect speech. Put it into reported speech.
He said to Mill-wheel, “Do you think the fawn is still there?”
Which form of the verb is more natural in below sentence?
I’m not free this evening. I will work/am working on a project.
Complete the following table.
| No. | Figure of Speech | Line of the poem | Explanation |
| 1. | ________________ | ________________ | The sky is imagined to art like a human being. |
| 2. | ________________ | with gleaming gold | ________________ |
| 3. | Oxymoron | ________________ | ________________ |
| 4. | ________________ | The country wears a perfect smile. Anaesthesia, Amnesia, Hypnosis | ________________ |
| 5. | Paradox | ________________ | ________________ |
List the pairs of rhyming words from the poem.
Complete the following idioms using the appropriate colour term.
see ______ (become angry).
Pick out four examples of personification. Write what is personified in each:
- ______________________
- ______________________
- ______________________
- ______________________
Give your opinion and compare the items in each picture using -er more, less, or an irregular form. Use the words. You may form your sentences in more than one way.
- educational
- interesting
- trendy.
Make a sentence in the present perfect tense using the verb.
She ____________ to anybody.
Complete the sentence in present tense form.
Saravanan always ______ (go) for a walk in the morning.
Complete the sentence in past tense form.
The office goers ______ (wait) for the train.
Read this text and fill in the blanks with future perfect tense
Iniya moves to Chennai to join an IAS coaching class. Tomorrow by this time, she ______ (join) the class. She ______ (undergo) training till next year. She ______(work)very hard by the time she comes home. Her parents______ (worry) about her health all the time. They______ (write)many letters by the time she comes home. They will be very happy when Iniya becomes an IAS officer
Find the antonym for the following word.
confine ×
Refer to a dictionary for the meanings and choose the odd one.
Ample
State which of the following sentence are Compound, and which are Complex.
Man proposes, but God disposes.
Give the correct verb form for following sentence.
He ______ to school.
Give the correct verb form for following sentence.
She ______ a driver.
Rewrite the sentence using the word in the bracket.
I have dinner at 8 p.m. (She)
Circle the pictures that denotes person or things in particular.
Fill in the blank with simple future tense of the verb.
Many people ______ (serve) you.
Write
______ flag
Change the masculine noun to feminine noun in the given sentence.
My uncle presented me a watch.
Use the following phrasal verbs in sentences of your own.
put
- on
- up
- off
Add appropriate question tag to the following sentence.
These shared AVs will run at higher utilization rates.
Give the meaning of the following phrasal verb and frame sentence using them
turn away
Correct the error found in the question tag in each of the following
We needn’t apply for a bank loan, do we?
Correct the error found in the question tag in each of the following
The rhinoceros has a horn made of keratin, haven’t they?
Spot the error in the following sentence and rewrite them correctly.
I had my evening meals in a restaurant near my office.
Start a collection of idioms with comparisons. Use the following categories.
Idioms with colours:
- as black as ______
- as white as ______
- as red as ______
- as blue as ______
- as green as ______
- as pink as ______
- as ______ as ______
- as ______ as ______
- as ______ as ______
Complete the following sentence using your own ideas:
I did not know what ______.
