B36-neral English Assignment #1 Fadlan isku dey in aad daabacan karto Section A: There is something wrong with these sentences. Can you write them correctly? 1. febraury is the shortest month of the year. __________________________________________________________ 2. i always like to eat An ice-cream. ___________________________________________________________ 3. dayah is very found of Dolls. ___________________________________________________________ 4. a spider tries to catch a fly in its Web. ___________________________________________________________ 5. the mice run a away From the cat. ___________________________________________________________ 6. an elephant Never forgets. ___________________________________________________________ 7. a sentence begins with Capital letter and ends with a period. ___________________________________________________________ 8. saturday is the first Month of the year. ___________________________________________________________ Section B: which of the following groups of words are sentences and which are phrases? 1. In the house. ___________________________________________ 2. He is at home. __________________________________________ 3. Once upon a time. ______________________________________ 4. In a fortnight.___________________________________________ 5. Behind the door. ________________________________________ 6. Aero planes zoom. ______________________________________ 7. Take care of your health.__________________________________ 8. Might is right.___________________________________________ Section C: The words below have been jumbled. Put them back in their right order so that they make sentences. Remember the capital letters and full stops. 1. Four, square, a, has, sides. ____________________________________________________ 2. water, on, a, cork, floats ____________________________________________________ 3. elephant, is, an, animal, a, large ______________________________________________________ 4. capital, of Delhi, is, India, the ______________________________________________________ 5. mother, my, early, gets, up, the, morning ______________________________________________________ 6. his, bad, tools, blames, a, workman ______________________________________________________ 7. here, came, Ashok, ago minutes, a, few ______________________________________________________ 8. with, floor, cleaned, she ,a, the, brush ______________________________________________________ Section D: Rewrite each of these, putting in the punctuation marks. 1. how do you do ______________________________________________________ 2. how sweet this rose smells ______________________________________________________ 3. dose the earth move round the sun ______________________________________________________ 4. will you please made room for me ______________________________________________________ 5. what nonsense you talk ______________________________________________________ 6. how many people were there ______________________________________________________ 7. how foolish I have been ______________________________________________________ 8. all is not gold that glitters ______________________________________________________ Section E: Here are sentences which have been divided into two parts and the parts have been mixed up. Fit the right parts together to make sensible sentences. 1. Flowers (a) sail on the sea. 2. A policeman (b) shines by night. 3. Hens (c) is made from cream. 4. An aeroplane (d) lay eggs. 5. Trams (e) is a holy river. 6. Peas (f) flies in the air. 7. The Ganga (g) wears a helmet 8. Butter (h) bloom in the garden. 9. The moon (I) run on rails. 10. Ships (j) grow in pods. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Section F: Divide each of the following sentences into subject and predicate:- 1. The earth move round the sun. __________________________________________________________ 2. The sheep are grazing in the field. __________________________________________________________ 3. Sheik Jabir was respected by all his countrymen. __________________________________________________________ 4. The village schoolmaster taught his little school, __________________________________________________________ 5. Breakfast is the first meal of the day. __________________________________________________________ 6. The mother of these children is a widow. __________________________________________________________ 7. Tom always does his lessons well. __________________________________________________________ 8. The elephant has a long trunk. __________________________________________________________ Section G: Choose from B the predicate which goes with the subject in A:- A (subjects) B (predicates) 1. Grapes a) have yellow skins. 2. Ripe bananas b) grow on vines. 3. A black dog c) sweep clean. 4. New brooms d) barked very loudly at me. 5. Wild animals e) is the first meal of the day. 6. A bad workman f) brings us letters. 7. The postman g) blames his tools. 8. Calcutta h) moves round the sun. 9. The earth i) is a very big city. 10. Breakfast j) are kept in cages. Section H: study the nouns in the box and think what kinds of things they name. Then answer the questions. Remember to put in all commas. Blouse mumps leprosy frock spring on ion trousers spade Hammer measles giraffe socks chisel tiger summer leopard saw wolf autumn winter tomato malaria Spinach peas 1. Which four are seasons? ________________________________________________________ 2. Which four are tools? ________________________________________________________ 3. Which four are wild animals? ________________________________________________________ 4. Which four are diseases? ________________________________________________________ 5. Which four are vegetables? ________________________________________________________ 6. Which four are clothes? ________________________________________________________ Section I: Each of the phrases below contains a Collective Noun. Complete each phrase by putting in the missing word. Choose from the box below:- Cattle soldiers sticks sheep musicians Flowers bananas stone ships cigarettes 1. a packet of ______________________________ 2. a bunch of ______________________________ 3. a herd of _______________________________ 4. a flock of _______________________________ 5. a fleet of _______________________________ 6. a bouquet of ¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬_______________________________ 7. a band of _______________________________ 8. a regiment of _______________________________ 9. a bundle of _______________________________ 10. a heap of _______________________________ Section J: pick out the verbs in the following sentence and say in each case whether the verb is used as a Transitive, Intransitive, or Incomplete verb. Where the verb is Transitive, name its Object:- 1. Asha opened the door. _____________________________________ 2. She made a doll. __________________________________________ 3. Ilyas saw a snake. ________________________________________ 4. The boy laughed. __________________________________________ 5. The water is boiling. ________________________________________ 6. The poor girl cried bitterly.____________________________________ 7. The sun sets in the west. ____________________________________ 8. The man died._____________________________________________ 9. The fire burnt the house._____________________________________ 10. He met a beggar –maid.____________________________________ 11. The train started.__________________________________________ 12. The hare fell into the well. ___________________________________ 13. He seems innocent.________________________________________ Section K: From the words in brackets choose the one which fits best. Draw a line under it. 1. Sheep (grunts, chatter, bleat) 2. Cows (cry, snort, low) 3. Snakes (hiss, hum, murmur) 4. Mice (chatter, cream, squeak) 5. Aeroplane (buzz, zoom, echo) 6. Donkeys (neigh, bark, bray) 7. Frogs (grunts, bark, croak) 8. Elephants (roar, bellow, trumpets) Section L: Bick out the adjectives in the following sentences by underlining them and say what kind of adjective each one is by writing in the space provided 1. There are twenty five boys in this class._________________________ 2. Neither party has done the right thing __________________________ 3. There is little hope of her recovery. ____________________________ 4. He made several mistakes. __________________________________ 5. I do not like those foolish people. ______________________________ 6. Few men came to see the match. _____________________________ 7. The thirsty crow drank the cold water ___________________________ 8. the rich man gave the poor beggar ten dollars ____________________ Section M: instead of the word in italics, choose from the box, the one which means the opposite:- Straight bright deep smooth wealthy Miserable fresh blunt calm foolish 1. A dull day. ___________________________________ 2. A stormy sea. ___________________________________ 3. A sharp knife. ___________________________________ 4. Stale bread. ___________________________________ 5. A curved line. 6. A happy mouse __________________________________ 7. A rough coat _____________________________________ Section N: Tick the correct adjectives from the ones given in the brackets. 1. These mangoes have a (delicious, faint, delicate,) flavor. 2. A lion is a (fierce small, timid) animal 3. As he fell the child gave a (deep, full, shrill) cry 4. In hot weather I like to wear a (thick, long, thing) frock 5. The trees were blown down by a (slow rough loud) wind 6. Good meat should be (rough, fresh, stale) 7. The smell of onion is (old, strong, attractive) Section O: Change these sentences, using adjective predicatively:- 1. This is an interesting book. ___________________________________ 2. This is a dull story. ____________________________________ 3. These are sour mangoes. ____________________________________ 4. These are sweet grapes. ____________________________________ 5. These are foolish boys ____________________________________ 6. Those are black shoes ____________________________________ 7. That is a large building ____________________________________ Section P: complete these sentences using any adjective that you think is suitable:- 1. The man was very ______________. He could not understand such a simple matter. 2. The labourour was very ________________ at the end of the day. 3. The old man was very _____________ ha gave good advice to everyone. 4. When Farah failed, his father was very _______________. 5. the __________________ solider was rewarded for his bravery 6. The ________________ child was crying because he had not eaten anything. 7. The dog is always _________________ to his master. Section Q: what qualities are associated with these animals? Complete the phrases by selecting the right word from the list in the balloons. Strong brave gallant sly blind Timid stupid angry wise faithful stubborn busy slimy stubborn hungry proud 1. the ___________ ass 2. the ___________ old 3. the ___________ lion 4. the ___________ lamb 5. the ___________ peacock 6. the ___________ ox 7. the ___________ bee Section R: Rewrite the following sentences, using the adverb in brackets in its proper place:- 1: he has deceived any person (never) ________________________________________________________ 2: he hasn’t finished (yet) ________________________________________________________ 3: she has arrived (just) ________________________________________________________ 4: he is late for school l(often) ________________________________________________________ 5: she gets up at six (usually) ________________________________________________________ 6: the film was good (fairly) ________________________________________________________ 7: I have any money (hardly) ________________________________________________________ Section S: pick out the adverb in the following sentences by underlining them and then tell what kind of adverb is each by writing in the space provided. Some sentences have more than one adverb. 1. Walk forward and then walk back slowly. 2. yesterday she wrote her exercise neatly 3. The sun shines everywhere. 4. The smoke rises upwards. 5. Mr. Osman worked hard and did the exercise well today. 6. Today you have not done your lessons done. 7. he never comes home late Section T: Rewrite these sentences by using adverb from the box instead of each phrase in italics:- Ever soon easily immediately everywhere sometimes 1. have you at any time been up in balloon ________________________________________________________ 2. I have looked in every place for your glasses. ________________________________________________________ 3. Now and again she works quite hard. ________________________________________________________ 4. In a short time we shall have finished our breakfast. ________________________________________________________ 5. She could do this work without any difficult. ________________________________________________________ 6. She came to see me without wasting a moment. Section U: complete these sentences, filling in the spaces with the most suitable adverb. Choose from the box:- Noisily early swiftly silently slowly Tunefully patiently brutally rudely bravely 1. the choir sang _________________ 2. he ran _________________ 3. the orphan had been _________________ 4. the teacher explained _________________ 5. the children played _________________ 6. he went to bed _________________ 7. the burglar crept _________________ Section V: fill in the blanks with the adverbs opposite in meaning to those given in italics. Politely carelessly backwards happily quickly late Cruelly foolish downwards upstairs wrongly badly 1. the king treated the queen ____________ _____ (kindly) 2. our team played __________________ (well) 3. the servant has gone __________________ (downstairs) 4. the smoke rises upwards __________________ 5. he never does his work __________________ (carefully) 6. he always comes home __________________ (early) 7. you have spelt these words __________________ (correctly) Section W: fill in the blanks with suitable personal pronoun:- 1. Look at the house! How ________ burns! 2. ________ am sorry if _________ have hurt 3. now girls _________ must not get excited 4. the teacher told Mohan that ________should obey ________ 5. _______ like meera because ______ feel______ can trust Section X: fill the blanks with reflexive or emphasizing pronoun:- 1. I wash _______ when I get up in the morning. 2. The horse hurt ________. 3. she _________ it to blame for it 4. Nasra, you will hurt ____________. 5. We often deceive_____________. 6. the thieves hid _____________ 7. the boys helped___________ to the cakes Section Y: Fill in the blanks with interrogative pronoun:- 1._______ is the merchant here and_________ the Jew? 2._______ did you give my message? 3._______ is your brother’s bicycle? 4. _______ did you enjoy at the cinema? 5. By ______ were you instructed in this matter? Section Z: Fill in the blanks with suitable possessive adjective and possessive pronouns:- 1. I have lost _______ pen. Can I have one of _________? 2. Anil has lost _______ pen. Ask Maya if she can lend him ______. 3. We have had _______ breakfast. Have they had _______? 4. You have forgotten to bring _______ book; you can have _______, if you please. 5. They have lost _______ bicycle; they can use _______, if they like.
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