SSC (Marathi Semi-English) 9th Standard [इयत्ता ९ वी] - Maharashtra State Board Question Bank Solutions for English (Second/Third Language)

What did the Greek soldiers hidden in the wooden horse do after nighfall?

What distressing sounds and sights could be witnessed at Troy, that fateful night?

What was the destiny of the royal family of Troy and that of Helen?

Refer to the Language Study pages and read the following entries:

1. word
2. phrase
3. clause
4. sentence.

A phrase is a meaningful group of words. Read the following phrases:

• The wise Odysseus
• A great horse of wood
• A skilful engineer
• The greatest heroes
• The secret of opening and shutting the entrance
• On the seashore outside the walls
• In the darkness
• Watching for the return of the fleet
• Part of their strong wall

Write three phrases on your own.

A phrase is a meaningful group of words. Read the following phrases:

• The wise Odysseus
• A great horse of wood
• A skilful engineer
• The greatest heroes
• The secret of opening and shutting the entrance
• On the seashore outside the walls
• In the darkness
• Watching for the return of the fleet
• Part of their strong wall

All the above phrases are parts of sentences; they do not form a complete sentence by themselves. A sentence expresses a complete idea. You know that it has a subject and a predicate. A sentence has at least one finite verb in it. Read the following examples:

• The tents had been burnt.
• The shore was deserted.
• The Greek ships had all gone.

Write three sentences using your own ideas.

Identify one example of a main clause and one example of a dependent clause from page 74.

1. What games did you play when you were a small child - in pre-primary or primary school?
2. Who were your playmates?
3. What do you remember best from that time?

Is the poet a grown-up person or a child?

Pick out from the first stanza, four expressions where the poet pleads with the butterfly not to go away.

Use the proper punctuation mark.

Where did you find it

Use the proper punctuation mark.

What’s it about

Match the words/lines and their meaning.

Say WHO -

Reminds the poet of his childhood ______.

Say WHO -

Is afraid to touch the butterfly ______.

Say WHO -

Is like a hunter ______.

Say WHO -

Is the poet’s sister ______.

Do you have fun playing/studying with your friends?

Sometimes, the normal word order is changed in the lines of a poem, to emphasise something or to make the lines sound better. This change in word order is called ‘inversion’.

Can you find examples of inversion in this poem? Write them down. Then rewrite the lines using regular word order and compare the effect.

Example: 

1. A little longer stay in sight!
2. Stay in sight a little longer.

The rhyme scheme of the first stanza is a a b b c b c c b.

Now write the rhyming words in the second stanza.