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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.
Fraternity means a sense of common brotherhood of all Indians.
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उत्तर
What does fraternity mean?
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Underline the verbs and arrange them in two columns, Past and Earlier past.
(a) My friends set out to see the caves in the next town, but I stayed at home, because I had seen them already.
(b) When they arrived at the station, their train had left. They came back home, but by that time I had gone out to see a movie!
(c) So they sat outside and ate the lunch I had packed for them.
(d) By the time I returned, they had fallen asleep!
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Past
Earlier past
Change the following sentence into indirect speech.
First man: We must educate our brothers.
Second man: And try to improve their material conditions.
Third man: For that, we must convey our grievances to the British Parliament
The first man said that _____________________________________________________
The second man added that ____________________________________________________
The third man suggested that ____________________________________________________
Here is a question of indirect speech. Put it into reported speech.
He said, “Was it up here that Pa got bitten by the snake?”
Say whether the verb in the sentence below is transitive or intransitive. Ask yourself a ‘what’ question about the verb. (For some verbs, an object is a person, so ask the question ‘who’ instead of ‘what’).
Its legs hung limply.
Write the noun form of the following word by adding -ness or -ity to them appropriately. Check the spelling of the new word.
lofty - ________.
Complete these pieces of conversation using will or going to with the verbs given.
Rani : What shall we have for dinner?
Ravi : I can’t decide.
Rani : Make up your mind.
Ravi : All right, then. We __________ (have) fried rice and dry beans.
The word ‘hobble’ means to walk with difficulty because the legs and feet are in bad condition.
Tick the words in the box below that also refer to a manner of walking.
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haggle |
shuffle |
stride |
ride |
waddle |
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wriggle |
paddle |
swagger |
trudge |
slog |
Fill in the blanks with words from the box.
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lonely |
little |
hard |
young |
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thoughtful |
delicious |
beautiful |
A __________ woodcutter lived on a ____________ hillside. He was a ___________ son who worked _____________ but earned ____________ money. One day he saw a ____________ waterfall hidden behind a rock. He tasted the water and found it _________________.
Make pair of sentences to show the difference between the meaning of the following Homograph from the story.
well
In the following sentence, point out the Main Clause and Subordinate Clause. Encircle the Subordinator.
Though Sue looked after her well, Johnsy showed no signs of improvement.
When words with the same spelling or pronunciation are used in such a way that they convey more than one meaning, the figure of speech involved is called a pun.
A pun is a play upon words. For example,
- Hello! How’s life?
- Hell, O! It’s a strife.
Find other examples of pun with the help of your parents/teacher.
- _________________
- _________________
- _________________
- _________________
Study the following sets of words :
- Set A – pleased, happy, joyful, ecstatic
- Set B – letter, word, sentence, paragraph
The words in these sets are arranged in ascending order, each word showing a higher degree than the previous one.
Now rearrange the following groups of words in ascending order.
- adult
- aged
- infant
- youth
Read the entry about ‘voice’ in the ‘Language Study’ pages. Note that the speeches of all the boys are in the ‘active’ voice. Turn them into passive constructions.
Neel - I put the dishes in the dishwasher.
Underline the main clause in the following sentence:
Just then a Stranger-man came along the river, but he belonged to a far tribe, the Tewaras, and he did not understand one word of Tegumai’s language.
The following expression is a combination of a noun preceded by a describing word.
plentiful supply
Replace the describing word with as many others as you can, that goes with the underlined noun.
Read the highlighted words.
- All three of them were honest, kind, and hardworking.
- You are such an honest person.
The highlighted words are adjectives.
Now find at least five other adjectives from the lesson.
Change the following into Passive voice.
Go for a jog early in the morning.
In the following sentence the verb have two object namely Direct and Indirect object. Change each of the following sentence into two passive using direct object as the subject in one and indirect in the other.
The boss showed the new computer to Kaviya.
Complete the mind map based on the inputs from the extract.
| 1. | Becky Thatcher, Tom’s friend had ______ coming to school. |
| 2. | So, Tom became ______. |
| 3. | Aunt Polly ______ about Tom. |
| 4. | She tried ______. |
| 5. | Tom pretended to like _____ and asked for it very often. |
| 6. | One day Tom gave the pain-killer to ______. |
| 7. | The incidents that followed made his aunt ______. |
Change the following into passive voice.
Do not hurt the animals.
My mother throws a______ of grains for the parrots every day.
Fill in the blank by adding the appropriate prefix/suffix to the word given in bracket.
There was only a ___________ of people in the theatre.(hand)
Choose the correct option.
My mother called me _________ I was playing football.
Fill in the gaps with personal pronouns.
Kumaravel lives in Thiruvannamalai. ______ is a doctor. All the people like ______ because of ______ helping nature. ______ hospital is located at Car street and most of ______ patients are poor so ______ does not charge much money. ______ daughter goes to school. ______ studies in 5th Standard. ______ teachers love ______ very much. ______ friends are also very good. ______ always encourage ______. ______ have given ______ good advice. ______ mother is also a teacher. ______ always encourages ______ to keep studying. I also like her as ______ often comes to ______ house. One day ______ told my mother that ______ wants to learn cooking. ______ mother taught ______ cooking. Now, ______ cooks well.
Fill in the gap with appropriate Pronoun.
______ of your friends can guide you.
The girl standing ______ me was sneezing.
Frame sentences of your own using the below idiomatic phrases.
| go far | blow up | show up | call on | break off | knuckle under |
Pick out the words from the list and put them appropriately on the table.
| David, Madurai, parrot, happiness, book, thought, green, tiger, Trichy, computer, Narayanan, fan, sister, Kalam, woman, pencil, Bharathi, problem, brother, Mumbai, swan, elephant, Vijay, solution, success, school, convent. |
| Person | Place | Animals | Thing | Ideas/ feelings |
Find out the anagrams. Use a pair of phrases as clues.
- The past tense of leap ______
- Something to serve food on______
Find out the anagrams. Use a pair of phrases as clues.
- Another word for under ______
- A part of your arm ______
Fill in the blank by using the correct preposition.
Christmas falls ____ 25th December.
During the war, many people lost their homes.
The milk ____ (spill) over as she went to see the crowd passing by with loud slogans.
Fill in the blank with the correct verb form.
If you ________ out with your friends tonight, I _____ the football match on TV.
Find the describing words given in the poem.
| p | a | s | m | a | I | I | s |
| g | I | a | r | g | e | s | t |
| h | u | e | i | j | k | h | r |
| I | f | t | a | I | I | a | a |
| m | e | n | d | s | p | r | i |
| q | s | r | o | t | a | p | g |
| u | u | v | o | x | y | n | h |
| z | a | d | g | h | e | b | t |
Write the correct punctuation mark that best complete the sentence.
Where is an exciting place to visit ____.
Put the word in the correct order to make sentence. Use a different colour to write the adverb.
Softly/Murali/speaks.
Choose the correct verb form to the following sentence.
We _________ the animal in our trap.
Choose the correct verb.
We ______ home at 4 p.m. every day.
She ______ (write) a letter.
Choose the correct word.
The birds ______ in the sky.
Fill in the blank
Do you want tea ______ coffee?
Choose the correct word.
This box is _______ heavy to lift.
Recite any four lines of the poem with correct intonation.
Change the sentence into past perfect tense and future perfect tense.
Akash has finished his homework.
Fill in the blanks using a, an and the.
______camel is the ship of ______ desert.
What we say?
Fill in the blank.
______ old man
Fill in the blank using past perfect tense form of the verb:
Yusuf understood the problem because he ______(experience) the situation earlier.
Complete the following sentence with modal using the clue given.
If I were you, I ______not behave like that. (conditional sentence)
Complete the following sentence with modal using the clue given.
He ______ come today. (remote possibility)
Read the following sentence and fill in the blank.
If I ______(be) a spider, I ______ (weave) webs
Rewrite each of the following sentence using the superlative degree retaining the meaning.
No other planet in our solar system is as cold as Neptune.
Write the compound word using the picture.
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Write the compound word from the picture.
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| ____________ | ||
In the following item, sentence I is complete, while sentence II is not. Complete sentence II, making it as similar as possible to sentence I. Write sentence II.
(I) As soon as I solved one problem, the teacher gave me another.
(II) No sooner ______
Rewrite the following using a complete word instead of a contracted form.
I don’t know.
Complete the following sentence using your own ideas:
I do not remember what ______.
Write a compound word using the pictures.
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| ______ | ||
