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प्रश्न
Look up the following verbs in a good dictionary. List at least 20 different uses of the following. You may include their use with different prepositions, adverbs, and idioms.
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उत्तर
Uses of ‘go’:
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Go down (decrease; reduce) - Stocks in the company have gone down for the third straight week in a row.
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Go to bed (to sleep) - I’m going to take a shower and go to bed
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Go after (pursue an object or a goal) - The police went after him but he got away.
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Go away (leave a place) - Go away and leave me alone!
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Go back (return) - I forgot my purse and had to go back for it.
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Got to go (need to go) - Got to go before I miss my train!
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Go on (continue) - Well, the party must go on, whether we have caterers or not!
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Go up (increase, rise) - The temperature is supposed to go up to 90 today, so I hope your air conditioner is working!
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Go through (Examine; study carefully) - Make sure to go through your thesis completely before you hand it.
- Go to hell (angry rejection of someone or something) - How can you say such an awful thing to me? Go to hell!
- There you go - There you go! I knew you'd get the hang of it eventually!
- Let go - The baby refused to let go of the rattle.
- Go for it! - I'm going for a Ph.D in applied physics.
- Go crazy (to go insane) - She went crazy and started to think everyone was trying to kill her.
- Go against (to oppose) - Public opinion is going against the government on this issue.
- Happy go lucky (carefree) - A happy-go-lucky person does not plan much and accepts what happens without becoming worried.
- Go live (to begin operating) - Our new website will be going live next month.
- Go green (environment- friendly) - I have recently stopped providing plastic bags for my customers.
- Go together (appropriate for each other) - This tie and this shirt go together well.
- way to go (done something well) - I heard you girls won the contest. Way to go!
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Rewrite the story in the past tense.
The boy chases a cat. The cat climbs up the tree and purrs from the branch of the tree. The cat jumps to another tree. The boy who is chasing the cat notices a snake under the tree. He leaves his attempt to catch the cat and he runs home screaming for help.
Write compound word using the pictures.
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Pick the word from the text that is similar to the word or phrase given below.
threatening and extremely angry______.
Read the sentence, insert appropriate article in the blank and choose the noun phrase.
Suresh was astonished to see______ huge statue.
Write the correct clipped word on the line.
She bought a new ________ (refrigerator).
Fill in the blank with the correct form of the verb given in the bracket.
Her parents ______ in Coimbatore for two weeks from today (be).
Read the following sentence and fill in the blank.
The Education Minister ______ (visit) our school tomorrow, if he goes by this way
Transform each of the following sentence using the comparative degree without changing the meaning.
Hurricanes are as dangerous as tornadoes.
Rewrite each of the following sentence using the superlative degree retaining the meaning.
Some people think that nothing is as important as money in life.
We have seen that clauses are parts of a sentence, and they are classified as main and subordinate or dependent clauses. Dependent clauses can be further classified as follows according to the work they do in a sentence.
How do we decide whether a clause is a noun clause, an adjective clause or an adverb clause? There is a simple rule - we can replace an adverb clause with an adverb, an adjective clause with an adjective and a noun clause with a noun.
Look at the following examples -
- But I don’t know the answer. (Noun)
But I don’t know what they want. (Noun clause) - He told us a funny story. (Adjective)
He told us a story that was funny. (Adjective clause) - They went away. (Adverb)
They went when you were talking to your friend. (Adverb clause)
Now complete the following on your own :
- But I don’t know ____________.
- He told us ____________.
- They went ____________.
