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Question
Choose the correct verb from the following sentence.
We worked ______ in the city for ten years before we moved to the village.
Options
worked
had been working
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Solution
We worked had been working in the city for ten years before we moved to the village.
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The table below contains a list of nouns and some adjectives. Use as many adjectives as you can to describe each noun. You might come up with some funny descriptions!
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Noun |
Adjective |
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elephant |
circular, striped, enormous, multicoloured, round, cheerful, wild, blue, red, chubby, large, medium-sized, cold |
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face |
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building |
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water |
Explain the figure of speech tautology with example.
Complete the sentence in present tense form.
It ______ (pour) outside now.
Refer to a dictionary and find out the meaning of the words given below.
- beam-
- smile-
- guffaw-
- laugh-
- giggle-
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| Name of the object | In your mother tongue | Use in a sentence |
Circle the consonant letters.
p r l o j s a k i y d q
- We enacted a humorous ______in our school function.
- The children ______in the ground every afternoon.
Foreign words and phrases
You have come across the French phrases ‘en famille’ |ən <famille>| and ‘bons mots’ ˌ|bɑn ˈmɑːts| in the lesson. Now, look at the following phrases and their meanings.
- viva voce - /ˌvaɪvə vəusi / - a spoken examination
- sine die - /ˈsɪnə ˈdʌɪiː/ – without a date being fixed
- resume- /ˈrezjuːmeɪ/ - a brief summary
- rapport - /ræˈpɔː(r)/ - close relationship with good understanding
- bonafide - /ˌbəʊnə ˈfaɪdi/ - genuine
Given below are some idiomatic expressions with their meanings. Understand the meaning.
Spot the error in the following sentence. Then rewrite the sentence after correcting them.
But they could not found it.
