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प्रश्न
Note the difference between drive and ride. Use the two words correctly in your own sentences.
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उत्तर
- Ride - to sit on and be carried by an animal or a two-wheeler.
Sentence - She enjoys taking a ride on her bicycle through the park. - Drive - to sit in a vehicle and move it to drive in specific ways.
Sentence - I will drive my car to the grocery store.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Look at these sentences.
- Most snakes are quite harmless, but a few are poisonous.
- Most snakes lay eggs, but the rattlesnake gives birth to its young.
Now write five sentences like these using ‘most’ and the clues below.
1. (90% of) people are honest (10%) are dishonest.
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2. (Lots of) fruit have plenty of sugar, (some) citrus fruit are low in sugar.
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3. (Every soft drink except this one) has lots of ‘empty calories’.
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4. (The majority of) films are romances, (a few) are on other topics.
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5. (A majority of) people agree that he is a good leader, (just a few) disagree.
________________________
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Now carefully go through the changes in both the sentences and do the changes accordingly in the remaining sentence.
- We have done it.
It has been done by us.
We made a pact.
Complete these sentence using the appropriate modal. The clues in the bracket will help you.
When I was a child, I____________ climb trees easily but now I can’t. (ability in the past)
Rewrite the following sentence by rectifying the errors in the use of modal.
Take an umbrella. It should rain later.
There is a temple right ________ my house.
Look at the prefixes given and frame two new words. One is done for you.
| Prefix | Word-1 | Word-2 |
| sub | subway | subconscious |
| un | ||
| re | ||
| en | ||
| dis | ||
| ir |
Fill in the blanks with appropriate modals.
(will, shall, would, should, can, could, may, might, ought to)
Milk is a nutritious food enriched with vitamins and proteins. We ________take milk regularly so that we _______not develop deficiencies in our body. Aged persons, children, and patients ________take milk in sufficient quantities as it provides strength to their body. We _______supplement it with fruits, vegetables, and pulses for proper growth of the body. But we _______consume milk of good quality. Otherwise it _______cause harm to the body. We _______be very careful while selecting our food items because there are chances that these _______ be adulterated. We _______ protect our health.
The trains to Chennai always _________ on time.
Read the situation given and frame two suitable sentence in the appropriate form of the tense.
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| 2. ______ |
The thieves came out of the house with a______ of gold and silver.
Rewrite the sentence nominalising the underlined word.
The child resembles her father.
Frame five questions using the picture clues. Begin with “Have you ever”.
(visit the Tajmahal)
Write the correct punctuation mark that best complete the sentence.
Make sure to complete all your homework on time ___
Look at the picture and fill in the blank with suitable word.
Joanna did her classwork______.
Look at the picture and choose the correct plural word.
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Make sentence using the passive form of the verb.
Tagore/award/Nobel prize/
Refer to the dictionary and find out the meaning of the following foreign word/phrase. Use them in sentence of your own:
carte blanche
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- right up one’s alley -
- drive one up the wall –
- hit the road –
- take (one) for a ride –
- in panic mode –
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- I love thrillers and this book appeals to me strongly.
Correct the error found in the question tag in each of the following
Let’s organize a trip to Goa, can we?
Fill in the blank with the right idiom. Choose from the option.
The Sherpas are cheerful, gallant men, who______ tents, oxygen, food etc., for climbers during their ascent of the summit.
Replace the underlined word/expression with possibly polite form.
Dheeraj is unemployed.
Underline the gerund in the following sentence.
Dancing gives me joy.
Write compound word using the pictures.
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+ |  |
| ______ | ||
Spot the error in the spelling of the following word with reference to the passage and rewrite it correctly.
Mediam
Find the meaning of the following word from a good dictionary.
Nuisance
Spot the error in the following sentence. Then rewrite the sentence after correcting them.
“No, I am Mathilde loisel.”
Start a collection of idioms with comparisons. Use the following categories.
Idioms with colours:
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- as white as ______
- as red as ______
- as blue as ______
- as green as ______
- as pink as ______
- as ______ as ______
- as ______ as ______
- as ______ as ______
Write compound word using the pictures.
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+ |  |
| ____________ | ||
Write compound word using the pictures.
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+ |  |
| ______ | ||
