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प्रश्न
Replace the comparative adjective in the following sentence with their positive form.
My mother can speak more sweetly than anyone else.
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उत्तर
No one speaks as sweet as my mother.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Say whether the underlined is Infinitive/Participle (Present or Past)/Gerund.
They liked his written stories.
‘I hear the bright bee hum.’ The poet has used the word ‘hum’ that indicates the sound made by the bee. This is an example of Onomatopoeia. The poet has used different figures of speech like alliteration, inversion, and hyperbole in the poem. Identify them and pick out the lines accordingly.
Hyperbole
Make a pair of sentences of your own to point out the different meanings of the following Homograph.
fine
Give the Comparative and Superlative forms of -
| Positive | Comparative | Superlative | |
| (1) | ancient | ____________ | ____________ |
| (2) | special | ____________ | ____________ |
| (3) | significant | ____________ | ____________ |
| (4) | advanced | ____________ | ____________ |
| (5) | accurate | ____________ | ____________ |
Form groups and hold debates on the following topic. Make bulleted lists of points in favour (pros) and those against (cons) the given statement. Let the whole class vote on who won the debate.
A man should use animals for his own needs.
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
What is Complement and explain its two types?
You ____________ drive fast. It’s not safe.
Who am I? (Use a pair of …)
We cut things with ______
Fill in the blank with appropriate airline vocabulary given in the options.
The captain and the co-pilot sit in the______.
Find out the anagrams. Use a pair of phrases as clues.
- Something used to water plants ______
- A thing you put on your foot ______
Don’t worry, we will be _______ (reach) the airport in time.
Work in pairs.
A rhyme is a repetition of the same sound in two or more words. Usually they come at the end of lines in poems and songs. Eg. tower – power; king – sing
Discuss with your partner and pick out the rhyming words in the poem.
Put the words in correct order and rewrite sentence.
Mahesh is a boy. (Thin, Tall, Clever)
Find me in the poem.
You can climb on men
Fill in the blank with words given in the box to make compound word.
| rain | coconut | coat | sail | fire |
Clean the ashes out of the______ place.
Read the sentence and write the word with same meanings for the underlined words.
This is a little dog.
Fill in the blank
I play tennis ______ cricket.
Fill in the blank with simple future tense of the verb.
They ______ (anticipate) your wishes.
______ of my friends wished me on my birthday.
In the following passage, circle(bold) the verbs in simple present tense and underline the verbs in simple past. The first one has been done for you.
Unless one is upright there is no use in being a charming fellow. Sometimes it is better to be honest than attractive. These are the great truths of modern life which Shyam never realised. He never said an ill-natured word in his life. He was always polite and spoke softly to everybody
The world of sports has given us many idiomatic expressions like ‘blow-by-blow.’ Read the description of each of the idioms given below. Then match these idioms with their meaning given in the box.
| Idioms | Meaning |
| i) throw in the towel: Wet towels are kept near a boxing ring to wipe the sweat of boxers between rounds. When a boxer was getting badly beaten, his manager would throw a towel in the ring to end the fight. | a. state of near collapse or defeat |
| ii) in our corner: In a boxing match, the corners are the two opposite angles of a boxing ring where the boxers rest between rounds. | b. unfair or unsporting behaviour |
| iii) on the ropes: Boxing rings are typically enclosed by four ropes. As a boxer when your opponent has forced you against the ropes with his/her attack, you are in trouble. | c. prepare for a conflict |
| iv) below the belt: Hits below the beltline are generally considered illegal in boxing. | d. on your side in an argument or dispute |
| v) square off: facing each other at the beginning of a match | e. to give up |
Refer to the dictionary and find out the meaning of the following foreign word/phrase. Use them in sentence of your own:
in toto
Find out the antonym of the underlined word in each of the following sentence.
Not the flat, shallow type….
Rewrite the following sentence using ‘If ’ without changing the meaning.
The manager would not have selected Nithiksha unless she exhibited good accounting skill.
Complete the following sentence using appropriate determiner.
During my student life I used to give ______ trouble to my teachers.
Report the dialogue between a vendor and his customer by completing the sentence:
| Vendor: | It is nice to see you, Sir! |
| Customer: | Yes, indeed! Unlike last month, I have been away for quite some time this month. |
The vendor greeted his customer respectfully and mentioned that he was pleased to see him.
The customer answered in the affirmative and explained that _______.
Underline the infinitive in the following sentence.
They could help one another with the homework and talk about it.
Find the meaning of the following word from a good dictionary.
Cranky
Write the compound word from the pictures.
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