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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:
per capita
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उत्तर
Per capita- used to refer to the amount for each person
The sharp fall in per capita income was one of the signs of the financial crisis.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Study the sentences in the columns below.
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B |
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I saw this movie yesterday. |
I have seen this movie already. |
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Bepin Babu worked here for a week last year. |
Bepin Babu has worked here since 2003. |
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Chunilal wrote to a publisher last week. |
Chunilal has written to a publisher. |
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I visited Ranchi once, long ago. |
I have visited Ranchi once before. |
Compare the sentences in the two columns, especially the verb forms. Answer the following questions about each pair of sentences.
(i) Which column tells us the Bepin Babu is still working at the same place?
(ii) Which column suggests that Chunilal is now waiting for a reply from the publisher?
(iii) Which column suggests that the person still remembers the movie he saw?
(iv) Which column suggests that the experience of visiting Ranchi is still fresh in the speaker’s mind?
Answer 3:
Make a list of various prepositions, write their definition, and make sentences of your own. Here are some prepositions that will definitely be brainstorming for you.
- in, into, inside
- on, onto, above, over
- beside, besides
- for, from, since
- to, towards
- down, below, under, beneath, underneath
- between, among, amongst (And the list goes on _____)
Complete the following chart of personal pronouns using words from the brackets-
(him, our, we, he, her, their, it, me, your).
| Person | Pronouns | |||
| First | I, ______ | my, ______ | ______, us | mine, ours |
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Second |
you | ______ | you | yours |
| Third | ______ she, it, they | his, ______ its, ______ | ______ her, them, ______ | his, hers, its, theirs |
- Which of the above pronouns do you use when you talk about yourself ?
- Suppose you are telling someone about the good/bad things they have done.
- What pronoun are you likely to use ?
- Suppose you are complaining about one or more persons/things to your teacher/ mother. What pronouns will you use?
Read the following dialogues and supply appropriate modals.
| Student: | Can we leave our bags in the class during the break? |
| Teacher: | Yes, you ____________ but arrange them neatly. |
| Passenger: | My child is 6 years old. Do I have to buy him a ticket? |
| Conductor: | Yes, you ____________. It costs half of the price of an adult ticket. |
| Vani: | Can we go for coffee after the meeting? |
| Yoga: | No, I____________. I have to go home. |
| Salesman: | When ___________ I receive my order? |
| Customer: | I ___________ assure you sir, the order ___________ be delivered tomorrow |
| Neela: | Do you think I should write about my education background in the resume? |
| Preethi: | Yes, you ___________ . You ___________ get a better job. |
Identify the preposition in the given sentence and underline them
Riya borrowed a dress from me and lent it to her friend, Mary.
Find the synonym for the underlined word.
When Pongo caught the narrator with the oranges, he was very frightened.
Who am I? (Use a pair of …)
We wear this on our ears ______
Identify the phrase in the following sentence and classify them as Adjective, Adverb, or Noun phrase.
Kohli hopes to win the trophy.
Fill in the blank with the suitable collective noun.
a ______ of tea.
Change the possessive adjective into a possessive pronoun.
My bike is costly.
Choose the correct antonym for the italic word.
Ilavazhagi won world championship in 2008.
The turtles come ashore only during the ______.
Complete the Conditional Sentence. Decide whether to use Type I, II, or III.
If I had time, I __________ (go) shopping with you.
Fill in the blank with suitable linking word or conjunction.
You can use a pen ______ a pencil for writing.
Write compound word using the pictures.
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+ |  |
| ______ | ||
Fill in the blank.
A is ______ B.
What we say?
Read the extract from Kayal’s diary entry regarding her Nepal Trek, and fill in the blanks with the correct tense form of the verbs given in brackets.
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.
DAY 6 Yesterday we ______(go) up to the mountainside of the township of Mukthinath, at 3,600 metres. The thin air with less oxygen there ______(leave) us breathless. We ______(feel) that we couldn’t go any further. We ______(drink) a lot of extra fluids to prevent altitude sickness.
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.
DAY 8 We went back to Pokhara in a small plane yesterday. It was exciting when we _____(fly) between the mountain peaks. We arrived in Kathmandu this afternoon and we ______(spend) our last few hours in shopping. We leave for Chennai tomorrow. We’ve had a trip of a lifetime.
Fill in the blank using past perfect tense form of the verb:
We were not able to stay overnight as we______not______(reserve) the tickets in advance.
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
Refer to the dictionary and find out the meaning of the following foreign word/phrase. Use them in sentence of your own:
teta-te
Recall your learning of basic preposition and complete the sentence using the prepositions given in options.
A trekker climbed ______ a mountain meticulously
Fill in the blank with suitable prepositional phrase given in option.
______ rain, take an umbrella.
Choose the appropriate linker from within the options and complete the sentence.
______ she can drive, she travels by bus.
Change the following sentence into Passive Voice.
Whose car did someone park in front of your gate?
Add suitable question tag to the following sentence and punctuate properly.
Anita never comes late to office.
Transform each of the following sentence using the comparative degree without changing the meaning.
Hurricanes are as dangerous as tornadoes.
Choose the correct option and complete the sentence.
To make a promise and then not to keep it ______ dishonesty.
Spot the error in the spelling of the following word with reference to the passage and rewrite it correctly.
renouned
Fill in the following blanks using proper word from ‘who’, ‘when’, ‘what’, ‘how’ or ‘why’.
She started jumping for joy ______ she heard the news.
