SSLC (English Medium) Class 10 - Tamil Nadu Board of Secondary Education Question Bank Solutions for English

Identify the non-finite in the following sentence and underline them.

Travelling with her family, Tara enjoyed every minute of it.

Replace the underlined word by a participle in the following sentence.

While Sudha was climbing the stairs, she tripped and fell down.

Replace the underlined word by a participle in the following sentence.

After her evening prayers, my grandmother went to the temple.

Replace the underlined word by a participle in the following sentence.

Since he is a king, he can order everybody.

Replace the underlined word by a participle in the following sentence.

They took the last wicket and walked back to the pavilion.

Replace the underlined word by a participle in the following sentence.

When he saw the train in the platform he rushed.

______ on the flute, Krishna returned it.

We wish she continues ______ healthy.

The doctor advised him against ______ in the sun.

I like ______ rasam.

______ the scissors I returned it to her.

Tick the correct sentences.

Based on the understanding of the poem, read the following line and answer the question given below.

Beneath all uniforms, a single body breathes
Like ours: the land our brothers walk upon.
Is earth like this, in which we all shall lie.

1. What is found beneath all uniforms?
2. What is same for every one of us?
3. Where are we all going to lie finally?

Based on the understanding of the poem, read the following lines and answer the questions given below.

They, too, aware of sun and air and water,
Are fed by peaceful harvests, by war’s long winter started.

1. What is common for all of us?
2. How are we fed?
3. Mention the season referred here?

Based on the understanding of the poem, read the following lines and answer the questions given below.

Their hands are ours, and in their lines, we read
A labour not different from our own.

1. Who does ‘their’ refer to?
2. What does the poet mean by ‘lines we read’?
3. What does not differ?

Based on the understanding of the poem, read the following lines and answer the questions given below.

Let us remember, whenever we are told
To hate our brothers, it is ourselves
That we shall dispossess, betray, condemn.

1. Who tells us to hate our brothers?
2. What happens when we hate our brothers?
3. What do we do to ourselves?

Based on the understanding of the poem, read the following lines and answer the questions given below.

Our hells of fire and dust outrage the innocence
Of air that is everywhere our own,
Remember, no men are foreign, and no countries strange.

1. What outrages the innocence?
2. Who are not foreign?
3. What is not strange?

Based on your understanding of the poem complete the following by choosing the appropriate words/phrases given in brackets

This poem is about the ______ of all men. The subject of the poem is the ______ race, despite of the difference in colour, caste, creed, religion, country etc. All human beings are same. We walk on the ______ and we will be buried under it. Each and everyone of us are related to the other. We all are born same and die in the same way. We may wear different uniforms like’ ______’ during wars the opposing side will also have the same

______ like ours. We as human do they same labour with ______ and look at the world with the ______ Waging war against others as they belong to a different country is like attacking our own selves. It is the ______ we impair. We all share the same ______ We are similar to each other. So the poet concludes that we shouldn’t have wars as it is ______ to fight against us.

What is the central theme of the poem ‘No men are foreign’?

The poem ‘No men are foreign’ has a greater relevance in today's world. Elucidate.