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Thinking About Languagecomplete the Following Sentence. Beginning with a To-verb, Try to Answer the Question in Brackets.The School Sports Team Hopes (What Does It Hope to Do?)

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Thinking about language

Complete the following sentence. Beginning with a to-verb, try to answer the question in brackets.

The school sports team hopes ____________ (What does it hope to do?)

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The school sports team hopes to win the match.

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पाठ 2.1: The Sound of Music - Thinking about Language [पृष्ठ २६]

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एनसीईआरटी English Beehive [English] Class 9
पाठ 2.1 The Sound of Music
Thinking about Language | Q 1.1 | पृष्ठ २६

संबंधित प्रश्‍न

use the adverbs given below to fill in the blank in the sentence below.

The President of the Company is ______ busy and will not be able to meet you.


Make adverb from these adjective .

noisy ______


Make adverb from these adjective .

gloomy ______


Thinking about language

Complete the following sentence. Beginning with a to-verb, try to answer the question in brackets.

They advised the hearing-impaired child’s mother (What did they advise her to do?)


Tick the right answer.

When something is revived, it (remains dead/lives again).


Study the use of the word big in the following sentence.
He was so big− his hands and his neck, especially his mouth…
Here, big means large in size.
Now, consult a dictionary and find out the meaning of big in the following sentences. The first one has been done for you.

(i) You are a big girl now.older
(ii) Today you are going to take the biggest decision of your career. ____
(iii) Their project is full of big ideas. ____
(iv) Cricket is a big game in our country. ____
(v) I am a big fan of Lata Mangeskar. ____
(vi) You have to cook a bit more as my friend is a big eater. ____
(vii) What a big heart you’ve got, Father dear. ____


Underline the verb of reporting in the following sentence.

No one told us that the shop was closed.


Underline the verb of reporting in the following sentence.

He answered that the price would go up.


Here is sentence from the story. Choose the word from the bracket which can
be substituted for the italicised word in the sentence.

The newspapers proclaimed his work as “a scientific revolution.” (declared, praised,
showed)


Complete the sentence below by filling in the blank with suitable participial clause.
The information that has to be used in the phrases is provided as a sentence in bracket.

1. ____, the fire fighters finally put out the fire. (They worked round the clock.)
2. She watched the sunset above the mountain, ____ (She noticed the colours blending
softly into one another.)
3. The excited horse pawed the ground rapidly, ____ (While it neighed continually.)
4. ____, I found myself in Bangalore, instead of Benaras. (I had taken the wrong train.)
5. ____, I was desperate to get to the bathroom. (I had not bathed for two days)
6. The stone steps, ____ needed to be replaced. (They were worn down).
7. The actor received hundreds of letters from his fans, ____ (They asked him to send
them his photograph.)


Report these question using if/whether or why/when/where/how/which/what.
Remember the italicised verb change into the past tense.

Sheila asked the children “Are you ready to do the work?”


Now here are some more words. Complete them with ei or ie. Consult a dictionary if necessary.

  1. bel___ ve
  2. rec ___ve
  3. w ___rd
  4. l ___sure
  5. s ___ze
  6. w ___ght
  7. r ___gn
  8. f ___gn
  9. gr ___f
  10. p ___rce

(There is a popular rule of spelling: ‘i’ before ‘e’ except after ‘c’. Check if this rule is true by looking at the words above.)


Simple Present Tense

In these sentences words like everyday, often, seldom, never, every month, generally, usually, etc. may be used.

Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verb in brackets.
The heart is a pump that ___(send) the blood circulating through our body. The
pumping action ___(take place) when the left ventricle of the heart ___(contract). This
___(force) the blood out into the arteries, which ___(expand) to receive the oncoming blood.


Thinking about the Language
 Consult your dictionary and choose the correct word from the pairs given in brackets.
The (site, cite) of the accident was (ghastly/ghostly).


Thinking about the Language
 Consult your dictionary and choose the correct word from the pairs given in brackets.

Our college (principle/principal) is very strict.


The boy is crazy ______ football.


Join the following sentences to make one complete sentence without using and, but or so. Choose the correct option.

He jumped up. He ran away.


Re-write the following sentence according to the instructions given. Make other changes that may be necessary, but do not change the meaning of the sentence. Choose the correct options.

Some boys were helping the wounded man.

(Begin: The wounded ...)


The apples are so cheap that they cannot be good.  (Use: 'too')


She is very clever and beautiful.  (Use: 'not only')


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