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Question
What is adverbial?
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Solution
An adverbial is something that is used as an adverb. An adverbial is often one word, an adverb,
as in the following example -
You have run fast.
But, it can also be a phrase or a clause.
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Study the sentences in the columns below.
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A |
B |
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I saw this movie yesterday. |
I have seen this movie already. |
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Bepin Babu worked here for a week last year. |
Bepin Babu has worked here since 2003. |
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Chunilal wrote to a publisher last week. |
Chunilal has written to a publisher. |
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I visited Ranchi once, long ago. |
I have visited Ranchi once before. |
Compare the sentences in the two columns, especially the verb forms. Answer the following questions about each pair of sentences.
(i) Which column tells us the Bepin Babu is still working at the same place?
(ii) Which column suggests that Chunilal is now waiting for a reply from the publisher?
(iii) Which column suggests that the person still remembers the movie he saw?
(iv) Which column suggests that the experience of visiting Ranchi is still fresh in the speaker’s mind?
Answer 3:
Read the following sentence and change the form of the underlined word as directed.
His family was screaming and offering him food. (to adjective)
Combine the pair of sentence below into simple, complex, and compound.
I saw a tiger it was wounded.
What we say?
Refer to the dictionary and find out the meaning of the following foreign word/phrase. Use them in sentence of your own:
magnum opus
Fill in the blanks with suitable homophones or confusables.
| wallet | ______ | hoard | ______ |
| fairy | ______ | desert | ______ |
| medal | ______ | night | ______ |
| wait | ______ | sweet | ______ |
| yoke | ______ | plain | ______ |
| grown | ______ | might | ______ |
| earn | ______ | quite | ______ |
Rewrite the following sentence using ‘If ’ without changing the meaning.
Mr. Kunaal would not sponsor my higher education unless I studied well.
Underline the gerund in the following sentence.
I love eating ice creams.
Choose the correct option and complete the sentence.
One or the other of those men ______ lodged a complaint.
Find the meaning of the following word from a good dictionary.
Might
