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

The following compound words from the story are spelled in a jumbled order. Rearrange the letters to make them meaningful.

s t a p s i e m

The following compound words from the story are spelled in a jumbled order. Rearrange the letters to make them meaningful.

d u b g y r o a d

The following compound words from the story are spelled in a jumbled order. Rearrange the letters to make them meaningful.

f r a w e r a

The following compound words from the story are spelled in a jumbled order. Rearrange the letters to make them meaningful.

h e e d a r f o n b

The following compound words from the story are spelled in a jumbled order. Rearrange the letters to make them meaningful.

h e i l n e w a m

The following compound words from the story are spelled in a jumbled order. Rearrange the letters to make them meaningful.

n e v h i g r e t y

Write any 2 compound words of your own.

Write two compound words of your own.

Write two compound words of your own.

Write two compound words with 'black'.

Give a new blending word, after combining two words:

Breakfast + lunch = ______

Give a new blending word, after combining two words:

Smoke + fog = ______

Word Building.

(a) Reduplication: The root/stem of a word is repeated exactly the same or with a slight change.

For example, tweet-tweet, pitter-patter, chit-chat, bang-bang, riff-raff

(b) Blending: Parts of two or more words combine to form a new one.

For example, 

• breakfast + lunch = brunch
• smoke + fog = smog
• motor + hotel = motel

(c) Clipping: Reducing a word to one of its syllables or a part of it.

For example, 

• Mathematics - Maths
• Advertisement - Ad
• Laboratory - Lab

(d) Acronym: Words formed from the first letter of each of the words involved.

For example, 

• radar, scuba, Unicef, Nasa
• BBC, CID, USA, ATM, VIP
• DOB, KYC, PM, GN, TY, etc.

In your notebook, write five examples of each of the above types of word-building devices. (You may take the help of a Dictionary/Internet)

Punctuate the following sentence.
i made some money yesterday he explained

Punctuate the following sentence.
Whats your opinion on the future of indian boxing

Punctuate the following sentence.
dr a p j abdul kalam was the past president of india

Punctuate the following sentence:

did you hear him he whispered

Punctuate the following sentence to make them meaningful.

dinesh took a bus that stopped at Nanded railway station after crossing somvar peth.

Punctuate the following sentence to make them meaningful.

dr a p j Abdul Kalam was the past president of India by the way he was a great scientist orator and a humanitarian.

Punctuate the following sentence to make them meaningful.

nouns are of different types of common proper abstract concrete material.