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प्रश्न
Where can you encounter Macavity?
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उत्तर
One may meet Macavity in a street or in the square. But he vanishes when a crime is committed.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
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What does the poet long for?
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What sort of encouragement should an athlete in India be given? Give a few suggestions.
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- Why do they need his footprints?
Read the given lines and answer the question that follow.
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- How is he different from the rest?
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He always has an alibi, and one or two to spare
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- How is the speaker both humble and proud?
- Pick out the alliteration in these lines.
Read the given line and answer the question that follow.
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Creative Activity
- Write eight words you associate with success.
- Use the words to write eight lines that mean success to you or how success makes you feel.
- Arrange your lines into a poem.
- Share your poem with the class and post a copy on the notice board.
Discuss the following topic in groups of five and choose a representative to sum up the view and share them with the class.
Successful people neither brood over the past nor worry about the future.
Fill in the blank with appropriate word from the box and complete the statement suitably:
Shravan never keeps his promises. His friends know that his words are ______.
Fill in the blank with appropriate word from the box and complete the statement suitably:
The business woman wished to ______all her riches to an orphanage, after her death.
Fill in the blank with appropriate word from the box and complete the statement suitably:
Alexander the Great, wished to conquer many lands and ______the entire world.
