SSC (English Medium) 10th Standard - Maharashtra State Board Question Bank Solutions for English

Identify the kind of sentence: 
Can you please tell me what you just heard?

Extend the following extract by adding an imaginary paragraph of your own {about 120 words):
My mother brought me up-to-date on events in Dehra. "Padre Dutt managed to retrieve the skeleton from police. custody. and it was interred in a comer of the cemetery not far from your grandfather's grave. I attended the funeral with two or three other old-timers who had known the Greens Miss Kellner is bedridden now and could not come. Padre Dull is gelling on too, and is a little absent-minded. It was raining heavily) during the funeral service and by mistake he read out the 'Burial al Sea· Not that anyone seemed to notice. Anyway, he had arranged for a decent coffin, and there's to be a tombstone too. paid for out of church funds and with a contribution from our Sardarji, the present owner of the hotel. So poor Mrs. Green has found a final resting - place. May she rest in peace!" 

Read the following extract and convert it into a continuous writeup.
[ You may begin with: "The writer's mother asked the pink lady if she required a room ..... "]
"May I come in?" asked the pink lady.
"Please come in," said my mother."Do sit down. Do you require
a room?"
"Not today, thank you. I'm staying with Padre Dutt. He insisted on putting me up. But I may want a room for a day or two - just for old times' sake."
"You've stayed here before."
"A long time ago. I'm Mrs. Green, you know. The missing Mrs
Green. The one for whom you put up that handsome tombstone in the cemetery. I was very touched by it. And I'm glad you didn't add 'Beloved wife of Henry Green' because I didn't love him any more than he loved me."
"Then - then - you aren't the skeleton?" stammered my mother.
"Do I look like a skeleton?"
"No!" we said together.
"But we heard you disappeared," I said, "and when we found that skeleton -"
"You put two and two together.''
"Well, it was Miss Kellner who convinced us," said my mother.
"And you did disappear mysteriously. You were missing for years. And everyone knew Mr. Green was a philanderer." "Couldn't wait to get away from him," said the pink lady."Couldn't stand him anymore. He was a lady-killer, but not a real killer."
"But your father came looking for you. Didn't you get in touch
with him?"
"My father and I were never very close. Mother died when I was
very young, and the only relative I had was a cousin in West Africa. So that's where I went- Sierra Leone!''

Make the following sentence Affirmative without change of meaning.

Negative: I am not so sure, now.

Affirmative: .........................

Make the following sentence Affirmative without change of meaning.

Negative: He will not be able to stop them.

Affirmative: ...........................

Make the following sentence Affirmative without change of meaning.

Negative: I don’t remember.

Affirmative: .........................

Make the following sentence Affirmative without change of meaning.

Negative: I can do no more.

Affirmative: .......................

Make the following sentence Affirmative without change of meaning.

Negative: Sir, do not anger her

Affirmative: .....................

Make the following sentence Affirmative without change of meaning.

Negative: I shall not want many soldiers.

Affirmative: ...........................

Say whether the following sentence is Assertive (Statements), Imperative (Commands, Requests, etc.), Interrogative (Questions) or Exclamatory (Exclamations).

The Mantra carries a prayer.

Say whether the following sentence is Assertive (Statements), Imperative (Commands, Requests, etc.), Interrogative (Questions) or Exclamatory (Exclamations).

Is the world so poor?

Say whether the following sentence is Assertive (Statements), Imperative (Commands, Requests, etc.), Interrogative (Questions) or Exclamatory (Exclamations).

Kill not your children because of poverty.

Say whether the following sentence is Assertive (Statements), Imperative (Commands, Requests, etc.), Interrogative (Questions) or Exclamatory (Exclamations).

Let’s walk together.

Say whether the following sentence is Assertive (Statements), Imperative (Commands, Requests, etc.), Interrogative (Questions) or Exclamatory (Exclamations).

What can one person do?

Say whether the following sentence is Assertive (Statements), Imperative (Commands, Requests, etc.), Interrogative (Questions) or Exclamatory (Exclamations).

We have made progress.

Say whether the following sentence is Assertive (Statements), Imperative (Commands, Requests, etc.), Interrogative (Questions) or Exclamatory (Exclamations).

How utterly we have failed our children!

Say whether the following sentence is Assertive (Statements), Imperative (Commands, Requests, etc.), Interrogative (Questions) or Exclamatory (Exclamations).

What a big challenge it is!

Rewrite the following sentence as Assertive (statement).

Why didn’t you come earlier?

Rewrite the following sentence as Assertive (statement).

How frightened their eyes look!

Rewrite the following sentence as Assertive (statement).

How angry it makes me!