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

Pick out the Modal Auxiliary and state its function:

1. He would borrow one week, lend the next.
2. I knew, I could not afford caviar.

Pick out the modal auxiliary and state its function:

Could I use your computer for surfing net ?

Use the correct modal auxiliary with the help of the clue given in bracket and fill in the blank.

My grandmother is eighty-five, but she ______ still read and write without glasses. (Ability)

Use the correct modal auxiliary with the help of the clue given in bracket and fill in the blank.

You _______ not lose any more weight. You are already slim. (Necessity)

Use ‘not only but also’ in the following sentence.

UNESCO and the International Council on monuments* initiated a draft convention to create an international organisation responsible for protecting cultural heritage.

Use ‘not only but also’ in the following sentence.

The state parties are responsible for identifying and nominating new sites.

Use ‘not only but also’ in the following sentence.

Opera House in Australia and the Historic Center of Vienna in Austria are cultural sites of World Heritage.

Use ‘not only but also’ in the following sentence.

World Heritage Sites can also be a combination of both cultural and natural areas.

Rewrite the following sentence replacing ‘as soon as’ by ‘No sooner than’

As soon as the Bill is passed, it will become an Act.

Rewrite the following sentences, replacing ‘as soon as’ by ‘No sooner than’.

As soon as the thief escaped, the family informed the police.

Rewrite the following sentences replacing ‘as soon as’ by ‘No sooner than’

As soon as you have finished, you can submit your answer- papers.

Rewrite the following sentences replacing ‘as soon as’ by ‘No sooner than’

As soon as they can manage, they should change their house.

Rewrite the following sentence replacing ‘as soon as’ by ‘No sooner than’

As soon as the bell rings, the School Assembly will start.

Rewrite the sentence by using 'No sooner ........ than':

As soon as we went to a rocky beach, we saw the spread of the majestic ocean.

Rewrite the sentence using ‘as soon as’:

No sooner is the bill passed than it will become an act.

Form pairs and find out the various rhyming words in the poem and two of your own. Complete the following table.

Complete the lines of the poem by choosing proper pairs of rhyming words and make it meaningful.

We returned home late, one____________,
In the window, there glowed a____________. Burglars !! was our very first____________;
For defence, sticks 'n stones we ____________. ''Let's grab the loot and____________,"
was uttered soft, by____________.
The door we softly____________,
And then we were truly____________.
Oops! Before, outside, we'd__________________, The television had been left__________________.

(run, shocked, gone, night, sought, on, someone, thought, light, unlocked)

Frame 'Wh' question to get the answer underlined below. (Change the first-person pronouns to the second person where necessary.)

I hurried back to the room.

Frame a 'Wh' question to get the answer underlined below. (Change the first-person pronouns to the second person where necessary.)

I had made a study of men's faces.

Frame 'Wh' question to get the answer underlined below. (Change the first-person pronouns to the second person where necessary.)

I drew them out without a sound.