SSC (English Medium) इयत्ता १० वी - Maharashtra State Board Question Bank Solutions for English

Fill the gap in choosing the appropriate idioms.

If you ______________ you will realise that crime ultimately leads to poverty.

Fill the gap in choosing the appropriate idioms.

The siren of the ambulance ____________ all other traffic noise.

Fill the gap in choosing the appropriate idioms.

When the father learned about his son’s misdeeds, it ___________.

Fill the gap in choosing the appropriate idioms.

On reading exactly the same essays in both answer sheets, it _________________ the examiner, that the students had cheated during exams.

Pick out the words and phrases in the story that indicates that the author was not financially well off. One is done for you.

Fill in the blank a word or a phrase given in the brackets in their appropriate form.

“I never____________ my stomach”, she said

Fill in the blank a word or a phrase given in the brackets in their appropriate form.

I was____________ when the menu was brought.

Fill in the blank a word or a phrase given in the brackets in their appropriate form.

The author____________ the guest at the play.

Fill in the blank a word or a phrase given in the brackets in their appropriate form.

I had seen asparagus in the shops, my mouth often____________ at the sight of them.

Fill in the blank a word or a phrase given in the brackets in their appropriate form.

The author’s guest was____________ through Paris.

Make a meaningful sentence by using the following phrase, in your notebook.

in the pursuit of

Make a meaningful sentence by using the following phrase, in your notebook.

be afraid of

Make a meaningful sentence by using the following phrase, in your notebook.

give up

Read the text again. You will find that the text contains many phrases. Match the phrases in ‘A’ and their meanings in ‘B’. After matching their meanings, make sentences of your own.

Make a meaningful sentence by using the following phrase:

'pitched in to help'

Copy the first 8 lines and mark the stressed syllables using a coloured pen.

Read the poem and write -

1. The number of stressed syllables (Rhythm) in the line. A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
2. Does the poem retain a steady rhythm throughout?

Pick out the word from the given box and write it in the correct columns below.

Here the focus is not on the spellings but the pronunciation of the words.

Write the names of any five of your friends and mention the number of syllables in each name.

Copy any two stanzas of the poem in the lines below. Using a coloured pen underline the stressed syllables in each line and put a stress-mark (') over each.