Tenses 6

Tenses 6 1. Read the following sentences carefully : (i) Birds fly in the air. (ii) My brother flew to England last week. (iii) I shall fly a kite on Sunday. In the first sentence the Verb fly’ refers to the Present time, in the sec¬ond sentence the Verb ‘flew’ refers...

Reported Speech 6

Reported Speech 6 1. There are two different ways in which we can report the words of a speaker : (a) Direct Speech or Direct Narration. (b) Indirect Speech or Indirect Narration. 2. (a) Direct Speech contains the actual words of the speaker ; as— Sarla said, “My...

Rearrangement of Words (Jumbled Words) 6

Rearrangement of Words (Jumbled Words) 6 Re-arrange the following words/phrases to make meaningful sentences: (a) control/over/self-control/is/exercised/self/one’s (b) power/it/having/emotions/one’s/mind/and/control/under/is/the/of...

Pronouns and Possessive Adjectives 6

Pronouns and Possessive Adjectives 6 (a) We may say— Sheela is absent because Sheela is ill. But it is better to avoid the repetition of the noun Sheela, and say Sheela is absent because she is ill. Definition. A word that is used to replace a noun is called...

Preposition 6

Preposition 6 A preposition is a word placed before a noun or pronoun to show its relation with some other word in the sentence. He works hard in the hope of standing first. We met at night. The book is on the table. We stay at home during the holidays. I will be...
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