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Write as many phrases as you can using ‘enough’ and use them in your sentences.
Example: good enough
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Match the phrases in table A with lines of the poem given in table B.
| Phrases | Lines |
| (1) Toil hard | (a) If you want a thing bad enough... |
| (2) Get rid of all | (b) If neither cold nor poverty, famished... |
| (3) Extremely poor condition | (c) To work day and night for it. |
| (4) Need desperately | (d) Lose all your terror of the opposition for it. |
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Adding different prepositions to the same action verb changes the meaning of the phrases, thus formed.
For example,
call out - announce
call at - visit
call for - summon
call up - make a telephonic call
call off - cancel
Guess the difference in meanings of the underlined phrases.
- a. He promised to look into the matter.
b. He asked me to look for his lost book.
c. I shall look forward to your arrival. - a. An epidemic of cholera broke out in the village.
b. The thieves broke into the locked house.
c. They broke up their friendship. - a. You must carry out your duty faithfully.
b. Please carry on with your work.
c. They carried off the trophy in the football matches.
d. Carry forward the remaining balance to the next page.
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Using a dictionary, find the difference between the following pairs of phrases. Make sentences of your own with each of them.
| Phrases | Meaning | Own Sentences | |
| 1. | cut in | ||
| cut out | |||
| 2. | be held by | ||
| be held up | |||
| 3. | run away | ||
| run for | |||
| 4. | be known as | ||
| be known for | |||
| 5. | go with | ||
| go after | |||
| 6. | put fire into | ||
| put fire out |
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Use the following idiom/phrase in a sentence of your own.
drop it
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Use the following idiom/phrase in sentences of your own.
drop out
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Use the following idiom/phrase in sentences of your own.
stumble on
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Use the following idiom/phrase in sentences of your own.
look backward
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Use the following idiom/phrase in sentences of your own.
look forward
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Use the following idiom/phrase in sentences of your own.
let (someone) down
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Use the following idiom/phrase in sentences of your own.
sign off
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Use the following idiom/phrase in sentences of your own.
begin a new
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Fill the gap in choosing the appropriate idioms.
The wealthy landlord made a will __________ before he could die.
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Fill the gap in choosing the appropriate idioms.
Those who aspire for success should always ___________ learn more.
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Fill the gap in choosing the appropriate idioms.
If you ______________ you will realise that crime ultimately leads to poverty.
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Fill the gap in choosing the appropriate idioms.
The siren of the ambulance ____________ all other traffic noise.
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Fill the gap in choosing the appropriate idioms.
When the father learned about his son’s misdeeds, it ___________.
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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.
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Pick out the words and phrases in the story that indicates that the author was not financially well off. One is done for you.
| Words | not afford | |||
| Phrases | beyond my means |
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Fill in the blank a word or a phrase given in the brackets in their appropriate form.
“I never____________ my stomach”, she said
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