(1) I can’t pay you. (Rewrite making it affirmative.)
Ans. I am unable to pay you.
(2) “I want to work for you,” I said. (Change Into indirect speech.)
Ans. I said that I wanted to work for him.
(3) Use the following phrase in your own sentence : a touch of sadness
Ans. There was a touch of sadness in the face of the beautiful woman.
(2) Spot the error and rewrite the correct sentence : My hand find the edge of the mattress.
Ans. My hand found the edge of the mattress.
(3) Find out two hidden words from the given word : publisher
Ans. Publish, brush.
(4) Pick out an infinitive from the lesson and use it in your own sentence.
Ans. I wanted to get a good book from the library.
(5) Identify the type of sentence : “Can you cook?”
Ans. Interrogative sentence.
(6) Complete the compound words from the story :
(i) oil ____
(ii) fifty ___
(iii) easy ___
(iv) ____tower
(v) moon ____
Ans. (i) oil-rich (ii) fifty rupee (iii) easy-going (iv) clock tower (v) moonlight.
(7) Write the present and past participles of ‘rob’.
Ans. Present participle – robbing; past participle – robbed.
(8) Punctuate : i asked can you feed me
Ans. I asked, “Can you feed me?”
Activities based on Contextual Grammar:
(1) Frame a Wh-question to get the underlined answer : (Change the first person pronoun to second person pronoun if necessary.)
I made tea in the morning.
Ans. When did you make tea?
(2) Pick out the finite verbs from the following sentences and write their tense :
(1) Anil gave it to a stray dog and told me to be off.
Ans. gave, told – simple past tense.
(2) It seems he wrote for magazines – a queer way to make a living.
Ans. seems – simple present tense; wrote – simple past tense.
(3) Add a question tag:
Anil kept worrying about his next cheque.
Ans. Anil kept worrying about his next cheque, didn’t he?
(4) Frame a Wh-question to get the underlined answer : (Change the first person pronoun to second person pronoun if necessary.)
I drew them out, without a sound.
Ans. How did you draw them out?
(5) He was the most trusting person I had ever met. (Rewrite using ‘never’.)
Ans. I had never met a more trusting person than he is.
(6) I had not done anything in my line of work. (Rewrite without ‘not’)
Ans. I had yet to do something in my line of work.
(7) Rewrite the following sentences by adding the correct tail tag from those given in the brackets : ( does he?, didn’t he?, isn’t it?, wasn’t he?, doesn’t he?, is it? )
(1) Anil was sleeping peacefully.
(2) He doesn’t even notice he’s been robbed.
(3) It’s difficult to rob a careless man.
Ans. (1) Anil was sleeping peacefully, wasn’t he?
(2) He doesn’t even notice he’s been robbed, does he?
(3) it’s difficult to rob a careless man, isn’t it?
(8) Frame Wh-questions to get the underlined answers : (Change the first person pronoun to second person pronoun whenever necessary.)
(1) I had made a study of men’s faces.
(2) The poor man showed acceptance.
Ans.
(1) What had you made?
(2) Who showed acceptance?
(9) Rewrite the following sentences as
(a) compound sentences (b) simple sentences :
(i) When I reached the station I did not stop at the ticket office.
Ans.
(a) Compound sentence: I reached the station but did not stop at the ticket office.
(b) Simple sentence : I did not stop at the ticket office on reaching the station OR After reaching the station, I did not stop at the ticket office.
(ii) When the train had gone, I found myself standing alone on the deserted platform.
Ans.
(a) Compound sentence : The train had gone and I found myself standing alone on the deserted platform.
(b) Simple sentence : The train having gone, I found myself standing alone on the deserted platform.
(10) Frame a Wh-question to get the underlined answer : (Change the first person pronoun to second person pronoun if necessary)
(1) I hurried back to the room.
Ans. Where did you hurry back to?
(11) Rewrite using the modal auxiliary ‘might’.
(1) He would probably have given me two or three rupees to go to the cinema.
Ans. He might have given me two or three rupees to go to the cinema.
(2) Whole sentences, I knew, could one day bring me more than a few hundred rupees.
Ans. Whole sentences, I knew, might one day bring me more than a few hundred rupees.