Grammar HSC 2017

(B) Grammar
Do as directed
(1) J.R.D. Tata was...... amazing personality. He always helped....
poor in the country.
(Fill in the blanks with appropriate articles.)
1) J.R.D. Tata was an amazing personality. He always helped the
poor in the country.
(2)They stood silence as a mark honour to her.
(Fill in the blanks with suitable prepositions.)
(2)They stood in silence as a mark of honour to her.
(3)"Where are you going?" he asked. "Pune, Sir, my husband is starting a company called Infosys and I'm shifting to Pune.-
(Change it into Indirect speech.)
He asked where she was going. She replied that she was going to Pune . She added that her husband was starting a company called Infosys and she was shifting to Pune.


Set B
Q. 5 Rewrite the following sentences in the ways instructed.
i. He was delighted to see the prosperity of his kingdom. (Rewrite as Rhetorical Question)
Ans : Wasn't he delighted to see the property of his kingdom?
ii. Summon people from all the walks of life to the court. (Begin with ‘Let……..)
Ans : Let the people from all the walks of life be summoned to the court.
iii. As soon as the king arrived in the court humming happy tune to himself, he cleared his throat. ( Rewrite using ‘No sooner…… than)
Ans: No sooner did the king arrive in the court humming happy tune to himself than he cleared his throat.

Set C
Q. 5 Rewrite the following sentences in the ways instructed.
We need many such organizations. ( Frame wh-question to get underlined part as an answer)
Ans: What do we need?

II. It reduces inequality. (Rewrite it using the Present Perfect Tense)
Ans: It has reduced inequality.
III. The air will be clean, as pollution levels will have dropped dramatically. (Rewrite it using ‘unless ‘. )
Ans : Unless the pollution levels will have dropped dramatically, the air will not be clean.

Set D
Que 1 A (5) Rewrite the following sentences in the ways instructed.
He goes for his morning walk at 1 pm. (Rewrite it in the Present Perfect Continuous Tense)
Ans: He has been going for his morning walk at 1 pm.
They live in different time zones. ( Make it a complex sentence. )
Ans: They live in such a zones which are different in time.
The man decides to take a day off from work. (Rewrite it using the noun form of the underlined word.)
Ans: The man takes the decision to take a day off from work.

Grammar HSC Feb 2018

Conversation 1

*Teacher 1*: Hey buddy , do    you want to learn French ?

*Teacher 2*: Yaa , I would like to . But how ?

*T 1* : Just think how we learn our mother tongue . We used to listen people around us .After a silent listening for a year , we started to utter .

*T 2* : But ,people around us     do not speak French . So how can we listen ?

*T 3*. Hey buddies , in this era of internet , you need not worry . Just go online find videos , audios , speeches and interviews and listen to them. If you read loudly , you can listen to yourself .

*T 2*: Thanks bro . It's a nice idea .

*T 1* : Thanks for the suggestion 

*T 3* : Good luck . Do you know I don't know French ? But I have learned English this way . So I am sure you can learn any language only beginning with listening .

*The conversation that takes place in my dream. I would like to share with you* .

Tense At A Glance

GK TEST 1

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Listening Skills

Narayan Surve's My Mother

When the stars go off
Tall chimney-sirens sound
Daily with fast steps
Marching to the mill
Who looked backwards
And told us so lovingly
"Do not fight with anyone"
Gave us two paise
On the day before Dasara
She went with five of us
To see the festival
We bantered in the lanes
What a great pleasure
Beyond words
We returned with balloons
And whistles and pipes
We became birds

What happened on one day
They brought her in a cart
Her eyes were open
Blood gushed from her mouth
Her partner saluted
Came near, caressed us and said 'Balu'
We saw mutely everything
We searched our umbrella
Our roof, our mother.

That night we five
Stuck closer and
Wrapped up to the coverlet
Taking it to be mother's affection
Already we had nothing
Now there was even no mother
We awake all night
letting tears
Now we became fully unattached.