Advertisements
Advertisements
Question
Pick out five Compound words from the lesson.
Advertisements
Solution
- anywhere
- household crystal-clear
- courtyard
- reading room
- middle-aged
RELATED QUESTIONS
Complete the following idioms using the appropriate colour term.
______ eyed boy (favourite person).
Explain the metaphor in the following line :
Life’s sunny hours flit by.
Change the following sentence to the other voice.
Our army has defeated the enemy.
Complete the story using the past tense of the verbs.
The Hare and the Tortoise
One day a Hare and a Tortoise decided to have a race. The Tortoise _______ (know) that the Hare _________ (can) run faster than him. But the Tortoise _______ (be) more intelligent than the Hare. 'Yes, I'll race you,'_________ (say) the Tortoise. The Tortoise ______ (have) a clever plan. He ______ (find) his brothers and sisters and he ______ (tell) them to wait in different places along the path of the race. So they all ______ (hide) behind the trees along the path. The race ______ (begin)! The Tortoise ______ (run) as fast as possible. But the Hare ______ (be) faster, of course. 'This will be a very easy race', ______ (think) the Hare. So the Hare _________ (decide) to rest, and he quickly ____ (fall) asleep at the side of the road. Suddenly, the Hare ______ (wake up) and he ______ (see) a Tortoise ahead of him! 'How did he get ahead of me?' the Hare asked himself. In fact, it ______ (be) not his friend the Tortoise: it ______ (be) the Tortoise's sister. But to a Hare, all tortoises look the same. The Hare ______ (run) past the Tortoise easily. Soon, he ______ (cannot) see the Tortoise, so he ______ (sit) down to rest. Then the Hare ______ (get up) and continued the race. But as the Hare _______ (turn) around the last corner before the finish line, his friend the Tortoise crossed the line and ______ (win) the race!
Combine the pair of sentence given below into a single sentence using the noun form of the highlighted word.
Sathya gave an explanation. The police wanted her to prove it.
Underline the conjunction in the following sentence.
If you say so, I will believe it.
Choose the meaning of the italicised word.
Usha Rani had to struggle all through her life.
Give the correct verb form for the following sentence.
He ______ (do).
Refer to the dictionary and find out the meaning of the following foreign word/phrase. Use them in sentence of your own:
ex gratia
Combine each of the following pair of sentence using participle. The first one is done for you.
He lived alone. He had forgotten everybody.
