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प्रश्न
Refer to the dictionary and find out the meaning of the following foreign word/phrase. Use them in sentence of your own:
ad hoc
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उत्तर
Ad hoc – created for a particular
An ad-hoc committee was set up to probe the scam in the universities.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
By filling appropriate letters in the blank spaces, you will get a past participle from it. Use the word as an adjective in your own sentence. One is done for you.
(a) s _ _ n _ d
Word- signed. The advocate took all the signed documents to the court.
(b) p_ _ z _ d
(c) f_ _ t_ e n e_
(d) b _ i _ e_
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She saw her son in a big hall.
Identify whether the following is a Simple, Complex, and Compound sentence.
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From other sources find synonyms of the following words used in the story.
brave
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The children were asked to come without their parents.
Complete these sentence using the appropriate modal. The clues in the bracket will help you.
______ I have another glass of water? (request)
______ the rains, we went out.
Write the gerund/infinitive form of the verb in the blank.
If you give up ____________ (study) now, our mission will be scrubbed.
Hari _____________ (work) hard to pass the entrance examination.
Convert the following active sentence into a passive sentence by supplying an appropriate passive verb form.
They didn’t invite me, but I went anyway. / I ________________ but I went anyway.
Complete the following sentence using the noun form of the word given in the bracket.
At one point in life, he had no __________ but to trust his friend. (choose)
Fill in the gap with appropriate Pronoun.
______ books have been written by a great Indian writer.
Replace the underlined word by a participle in the following sentence.
They took the last wicket and walked back to the pavilion.
Write two sentences for each pattern.
| SV | ||
| SVO | ||
| SVC | ||
| SVA | ||
| SVOC | ||
| SVIODO | ||
| ASV | ||
| SVAA |
Match the sport and the equipment.
eg. Cricket – Bat
| 1. | Football | Bow and Arrow |
| 2. | Tennis | Club |
| 3. | Golf | Net |
| 4. | Volleyball | Racquets |
| 5. | Archery | Helmet |
Complete the following using their group name.
A ______ of wolves went hunting in the forest.
He walks usually _______ the morning.
Fill in the blank with the pronoun.
The children made holiday decorations by _______.
Change the sentence into the past perfect tense and future perfect tense.
I have posted the letter.
Write the past form of the verbs.
run - ______
Say what they are doing now?
Peter ______.
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DAY 1 We ______(leave) Anna International Airport in Chennai two days ago catching a direct flight to Kathmandu in Nepal. We ______(spend) a day sightseeing. Kathmandu is full of people, rickshaws and the smell of sandalwood. I’ve never ______(be) on a trip like this before. So I’m really excited.
DAY 2 It ______(rain) when we reached Pokhara, Nepal’s second largest city, and saw the snowy peaks of the Himalayas for the first time. We ______(reach) Pokhara after a hairraising six-hour bus journey along very narrow roads with a lot of hairpin bends. The bus ______(be) so full that one person had to share the driver’s seat.
DAY 3 We _______________ (begin) our trek at last. We are at about 900 metres and the weather is warm and humid. For lunch we had chips and yak cheese sandwiches. I didn’t like them very much. I’m thrilled that we ______(pitch) tents for our camps in the dense forests.
DAY 4 Yesterday a landslide ______(block) our path and we had to use ropes to get over it. This morning we walked along the river Kali Gandaki through dense forests of oak trees and we pitched our camp at Tukuche below the Annapurna mountain range. The main danger in addition to landslides, is ‘yak attack’. Yaks ______(be) not dangerous but you have to be careful if you meet a herd of them because they can push you off the sides of the mountain.
DAY 5 We met a lot of children on our trek through the villages. They ______(play) in the pool of muddy rain water as we left the place. We have already climbed 2,400 metres. Up here, it never ______(rain) and there are no trees. It ______ (be) windy and dusty and I am always thirsty.
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DAY 7 We turned around today and started to descend to Jomosom. As we went down, the oxygen-filled our blood again and we seemed to ______ (fly) instead of walking.
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Find the antonyms of the following words in the puzzle and shade them with a pencil. The first one has been done for you.
| seldom, admitted, methodical, reality, virtue, vile, indignant, relish, fact |
Spot the word
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Poonam ______ not catch the bus yesterday.
Recall your learning of basic preposition and complete the sentence using the prepositions given in options.
The laudable thoughts were apparent ______many scholars in a conference.
Change the following sentence into Passive Voice.
The Governor inaugurated the exhibition at ten o’clock.
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.
Read the example and fill in the blanks in the same pattern. (Note the changes in the last letter.)
Example: pretty - prettier - prettiest
hungry - ______ - ______
Find the meaning of the following word from a good dictionary.
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Write compound word using the pictures.
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