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Question
Use the following phrase in your own sentence.
at any cost
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Solution
We were told by our coach to win the match at any cost.
RELATED QUESTIONS
Degrees of Comparison of Adjectives.
Read the sentences.
- Yatin is strong.
- Amit is stronger than Yatin.
- Pravin is the strongest of all.
In sentence (i) the Adjective 'strong' is in its simple form. It is called Positive Degree.
In sentence (ii) the Adjective 'stronger' refers to a higher degree, when there is a comparison of two nouns. It is called Comparative Degree. (-er is added to the basic Adjective)
In sentence (iii) the adjective 'strongest' refers to the highest degree of comparison of one with more than two nouns. It is called Superlative Degree. (-est is added to the basic Adjective)
Complete the table of degrees of comparison.
| Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| (1) great | ____________ | ____________ |
| (2) famous | ____________ | ____________ |
| (3) ____________ | easier | ____________ |
| (4) ____________ | worse | ____________ |
| (5) ____________ | ____________ | poorest |
| (6) ____________ | ____________ | laziest |
| (7) little | ____________ | ____________ |
| (8) ____________ | worthier | ____________ |
| (9) popular | ____________ | ____________ |
Say whether the verb underlined below is Finite or Non-finite.
Having invaded India, they captured our land.
Say WHY. . . . . .
Ramanujan’s letter bored and irritated Hardy, at first.
Comment on the literary device, used in the following line:
Titania: Be kind and courteous to this gentleman….
Find at least two examples of consonance from poems that you study in this book.
Complete the following idioms using the appropriate colour term.
a bolt from the ______ (a sudden shock, surprise).
Frame illustrative sentence to distinguish the meaning of the word in the following cluster.
accident – incident – incidence
Now, Blend the following word.
binary + digit
Identify the error in each of the following sentence and rewrite them Correctly.
You, who is my friend, should help me.
He has poor eyesight and is in need ______ glasses.
