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Question
Pick out from the text the VERB form of:
negligence ................
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Solution
to neglect
RELATED QUESTIONS
Find the sentence in the lesson that have the phrasal verbs given below. Match them with their meaning.
kept back - stay indoors
Notice the highlighted words in the following sentences.
- “When I leave,’ Sophie said, coming home from school, “I’m going to have a boutique.”
- Jansie, linking arms with her along the street, looked doubtful.
- “I’ll find it,” Sophie said, staring far down the street.
- Jansie, knowing they were both earmarked for the biscuit factory, became melancholy.
- And she turned in through the open street door, leaving Jansie standing in the rain.
- When we add “ing” to a verb, we get the present participle form. The present participle form is generally used along with forms of “be’, (is, was, are, were, am) to indicate the continuous tense as in “Sophie was coming home from school.”
- We can use the present participle by itself without the helping verb when we wish to indicate that an action is happening at the same time as another.
- In example 1, Sophie “said” something. “Said”, here, is the main action.
- What Sophie was doing while she was “saying” is indicated by “coming home from school”. So we get the information of two actions happening at the same time. We convey the information in one sentence instead of two.
- Analyse the other examples in the same way.
- Pick out five other sentences from the story in which present participles are used in this sense.
Fill in the blank with the proper form of the Verb as per the Subject:
Mother and her daughter ______ a good meal. (cook/cooks)
Fill in the blank with the proper form of the Verb as per the Subject:
Everyone ______ mistakes. (make/makes)
Fill in the blank with the proper form of the Verb as per the Subject:
Eight lakh rupees ______ a big amount. (was/were)
Pick out from the lesson the Verb form of:
democracy
Pick out the infinitives/gerunds/participles from the following sentence and state what one is.
I don’t like frightening stories.
Pick out the infinitives/gerunds/participles from the following sentence and state what one is.
It was a horrifying experience for all of us.
Find verb form of:
thought
Write two infinitives of your own.
