Advertisements
Advertisements
Question
Given below is a list of common confusable. Distinguish the meaning of each pair of word by framing your own sentence.
beside - besides
Advertisements
Solution
beside (at the side of) – besides (in addition to)
I remember keeping my watch beside my glasses.
Besides supporting terrorist outfits within its borders, Pakistan claims innocence in the Pulwama attack.
APPEARS IN
RELATED QUESTIONS
Write the Rhyming word and Scheme of the 3rd stanza.
The pilgrim raised his old gray head,
“My friend in the path I’ve come,” he said, “There followeth after me today
A fair haired youth, who must pass this way. The chasm which held no fears for me
To the fair haired youth, may a pitfall be.
He, too, must cross in the twilight dim.
My friend, I am building this bridge for him.”
Say whether the underlined is Infinitive/Participle (Present or Past)/Gerund.
I wish to go to Egypt.
Underline the verb in the following sentence and state whether the sentence is in the Active or Passive voice.
Hardy corrected his statement.
Find from the poem, three examples of Alliteration :
- ___________________
- ___________________
- ___________________
Change the following into Passive voice.
Nobody should violate the rules.
Write the gerund/infinitive form of the verb in the blank.
The best astronaut almost quit _________ (try) to learn the complex information.
Fill in the blank with a verb in the present continuous.
Akila ___________ (not/sing) a song.
Kokila gave a pen to ______ child in the classroom on her birthday.
Change the underlined word with the correct pronoun.
I saw Mr. Balu this morning and gave Mr. Balu my homework.
Choose the best option to make a compound word.
Which can be placed before 'light’?
Look at the picture and write eight sentences using prepositions.
Where is the rabbit?
- ______
- ______
- ______
- ______
- ______
- ______
- ______
- ______
Recite the poem Farmer’s friend with the correct intonation.
I ______ never seen a cobra.
Common Nouns
Circle the pictures that denotes person or things in particular.
complete the sentence.
We ______ in New York, last week.
Fill in the blank.
It _____ all the candies. (eat)
Use adjective you think for each of these words. You can write more than one adjective.
| Clever, stormy, beautiful, dusty, good, hot, bright, cloudless, honest, lovely, fat, tall |
a______sun.
Change the masculine noun to feminine noun in the given sentence.
My uncle presented me a watch.
Frame meaningful sentence of your own using the following expression from the story. Use a dictionary if required.
accepted her seclusion with resignation
Use the following phrasal verbs in sentences of your own.
look
- into
- at
- through
Change the following sentence into Passive Voice.
The President gave the commander an award.
Change the following sentence into Passive Voice.
Do not tell a lie.
Rewrite the following sentence using ‘If ’ without changing the meaning.
Sindhu would not have won the world championship, unless she had had singleminded devotion.
Rewrite the following sentence using ‘If ’ without changing the meaning.
The policeman would not have arrested the man unless he had violated the rules.
Combine each of the following pair of sentence using participle. The first one is done for you.
The politician entered the campus. He was accompanied by many comrades.
Complete the following sentence using appropriate determiner.
______ of my students have become doctors.
Write the compound words from the pictures.
 |
 |
| ____________ | |
Fill in the following blanks using proper word from ‘who’, ‘when’, ‘what’, ‘how’ or ‘why’.
They wondered ______ had happened to him.
In the following sentence, replace the incorrect underlined word to make the sentence meaningful and grammatically correct.
The doctor gave away hope when she fell into a coma.
