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Question
Underline the verb and choose the correct option from the options.
This is the old kind of school.
(singular/plural)
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Solution
This is the old kind of school. - singular
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Fill in the blanks using the correct form of the verbs in brackets.
My little sister is very naughty. When she __________ (come) back from school yesterday, she had _________ (tear) her dress. We ________ (ask) her how it had _________ (happen). She _______________ (say) she ____________ (have, quarrel) with a boy. She __________ __________ (have, beat) him in a race and he ________ _______ (have, try) to push her. She _____________ ____________ (have, tell) the teacher and so he ______________ ______________ (have, chase) her, and she ____________ ____________ (have, fall) down and _____________ _____________(have, tear) her dress.
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 |
Say whether the following sentences are in the Active or the Passive voice. Write A or P after the sentence.
I found it last night in a ditch near my house. __________
Say whether the verb in the sentence below is transitive or intransitive. Ask yourself a ‘what’ question about the verb. (For some verbs, an object is a person, so ask the question ‘who’ instead of ‘what’).
You found him.
Write the noun form of the following word by adding -ness or -ity to them appropriately. Check the spelling of the new word.
Dense - ________.
Write the noun form of the following word by adding -ness or -ity to them appropriately. Check the spelling of the new word.
Stable - ________.
Make a list of adjectives in three different forms of comparison. Use different texts to find these.
Pick out lines that contain Alliteration.
Complete the following idioms using the appropriate colour term.
a bolt from the ______ (a sudden shock, surprise).
The following expression is a combination of a noun preceded by a describing word.
unappetizing diet
Replace the describing word with as many others as you can, that goes with the underlined noun.
Rewrite the following in indirect speech.
“Good morning,” I said and stepped into the safe.
“Come out,” said the manager coldly.
Complete these sentence using the appropriate modal. The clues in the bracket will help you.
My father ____________ play badminton in the evenings when he was at college. (past habit)
Rewrite the following sentence by rectifying the errors in the use of modal.
Take an umbrella. It should rain later.
Rewrite the following passage in Passive Voice.
A few days ago, someone stole Ambrose’s motorbike. Ambrose had left it outside his house. He reported the theft to the police. The police told him that they would try to find his motorbike. This morning, they found his motorbike. The police called Ambrose to the police station. The thieves had painted it and then sold it to someone else. The new owner had parked the motorbike outside a mall when the police found it. After an enquiry, the police arrested the thieves.
Edit the following passage by replacing the underlined incorrect word with correct prepositional phrase.
her simplicity. According to her studies, she also ____________.
Frame sentence using the prepositional verb given below.
stand-in
I am standing here_______ my friends.
Write the gerund/infinitive form of the verb in the blank.
If you give up ____________ (study) now, our mission will be scrubbed.
Fill in the blank with a verb in the present continuous.
Amutha and Praba _____ (play) tennis
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My mother ______ to London.
Make sentences in the present perfect continuous tense using the verbs.
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Ashwin __________ (complete) M.B.A. in another two years.
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Complete the sentence in present tense form.
Mani ______ (work) in this school for five years.
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We all ______ (sing) in the choir last week.
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He speaks well. It attracts all.
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Fill in the blank with the appropriate verb.
___ your father and mother at home?
Fill in the blank with the appropriate verb.
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| 1. | Hammer and chisel | Painting |
| 2. | Paint brush and palette | Sculpture |
| 3. | Moulds and roll pin | Embroidery |
| 4. | Scissors and pape | Pottery |
| 5. | Needle and thread | Collage |
Pick out the words from the list and put them appropriately on the table.
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| Person | Place | Animals | Thing | Ideas/ feelings |
Choose the best option to make a compound word.
Which can be placed before 'light’?
Fill in the blank with appropriate airline vocabulary given in the options.
That was a very smooth______.
Answer the questions below. Write your answers in the second column of the table.
- How old are you?
- How tall are you?
- What bicycle do you have?
- How many languages do you speak?
- At what time do you usually wake up?
- How far is your home from school?
| You | ||||||
| Age | ||||||
| Height | ||||||
| Bicycle | ||||||
| Number of Languages | ||||||
| Wake Up Time | ||||||
| Distance to School |
Look at the punctuation of these sentence. Why are they punctuated differently? Discuss in class.
But no one ever comes here!
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Fill in the blank with the opposite of the word given in bracket.
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State which of the following sentence are Compound, and which are Complex.
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Write the correct punctuation mark that best complete the sentence.
I am so excited to see my family for Christmas ____
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Choose the correct plural form.
Fly
Choose the correct verb form to the following sentence.
She _________ her exam.
Choose the correct verb.
The birds ______ in the sky.
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Here are some naming words that denote the person and things in particular.
Write the correct preposition.
The doll is ____ the box.
Mark (✓) if it is past perfect tense and (x) future perfect tense.
The boy will have grown up like a man in few years.
What we say?
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______ flower.
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stand
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- for
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sense + issue -
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Please tell me what the time is.
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+ |  |
| ____________ | ||
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+ |  |
| ____________ | ||
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