Question
The year he visited, the river Wye was a sludgy polluted
stream and ugly iron foundries were ________ its banks. In the following sentences, given blanks are to be filled with the appropriate words. Four alternatives are suggested for each question. Choose the correct alternative and mark your answer:Solution
Marring – damage, injury, maiming, disfigurement. Aggrandizing – magnifying, glorifying, boasting, boosting. Rivulet – stream, brook, creek, gulley, gully, burn Prancing – dancing, capering, romping, revelling.
I will tell him that I don’t want to join the art classes.
Select the most appropriate direct form of the given sentence.
She says that she would like to be an ambassador to a foreign country when she grows up.
Select the option that expresses the given sentence in direct speech.
My grandfather wished that God should give me success in my new venture....
1. With such a passive attitude, the very
P. to one that is inferior you will begin to
Q. moment you pass from a superior environment
...Select the correct indirect form of the given sentence.
I said, “What a remarkable likeness between the two sisters!”
Hina said that she had been watering the plants when her parents arrived.
He said, "I am coming tomorrow."
Select the most appropriate indirect form of the given sentence.
Esha said, “Avika is not going to school today as she has fever.”
I said to the taxi driver, "You must be crazy to drive so fast."
Change into indirect form-
My teacher said to me, “Don’t talk to your parents like that.”