SUMMARY AND QUESTIONS -ANSWERS OF THE POEM " MY OWN TRUE FAMILY"

 

Summary of The Poem “My Own True Family” By Ted Hughes

Class 10

 

The poem, My "Own True Family " is commentary by the poet on the importance of afforestation. Here the poet talks about the vision of his childhood. In the poem, the poet plays the role of a child.

The poet tells that he searches a stag by entering in the oak wood. There he comes across an old woman with a stick and a rag in her hand. She puts him under the magic spell and tells him the secret which is her inside the bag. When she opens her little bag the poet discovers himself to be tied to a stake and surrounded by the tribes. Here tribes are the symbol oak trees.

The tribes of oak trees dictate that they are their own true family of human kinds. The trees complain to the poet against the mankind that they are chopped down and torn up by the human race. Here the poet as if a representative of human mankind. The trees tell that the mankind wastes them without blink an eye. Now, the oak trees make a condition that the poet should make sure when an oak tree is felled, human being should take an oath to plant two trees. The oak trees threat the poet if he does not do so he will be died. Besides, the poet displays to us unless he does not make sure to do such he will be wrinkled over by the oak trees.

At last, the poet claims that all this is a vision under the boughs of oak trees. So, the poet compels to say that he has totally been changed by this dream. He discovers that when comes back to the human world coming out of the oak wood, he realizes his own walk is like a human child but surprisingly heart is just like a tree. So, the poet feels sorry for the life of oak trees inspite of being a human being. Here the love for nature of the poet is expressed.

 

 

Short Questions And Answers Of The Poem “My Own True Family” :

 

Q1.When did the poet come twice awake?

Ans : The poet came twice awake when the old woman opened her little bag by saying his little secret had in the bag.

Q2. What is the main theme of the poem?

Ans : the main theme of the poem is to to uphold the importance of afforestation.

Q3. What would happen if the poet fail to make the promise?

Ans : If the poet fail to make a promise to plant two trees after cutting one oak tree, the oak bark will wrinkle over him and root him among the trees.

Q4. Why did the old woman begin to cackle?

Ans : the old woman began to cackle because she was successful in capturing the poet in her trap.

Q4. Who introduced themselves as a poet’s own true family?

Ans : The oak trees introduced themselves as the poet’s own true family.

Q5. How was the poet blamed by the oak trees?

Ans : The tribes of the oak trees  blamed the poet by saying that the people mercilessly chopped down and torn up them.

Q6. What promise did the poet have to make?

Ans : The poet had to make a promise to plant two plants after cutting one oak tree.

Q7. What does the phrase “you were born but never grow” mean?

Ans : Like other men who inspite of being a part of nature, neglects his duty to preserve it, the poet also never care to save the oak trees. This is why the oak trees said that through the poet was born but he never grew up psychologically.

Q8. What is that altered the poet?

Ans :The dream which he saw under the trees altered he poet.

Q9. What did the poet realise after coming out of the oak wood?

Ans : The poet realised after coming out of the oak wood that he had become a changed man who had a soft corner for the trees in his heart.

Q10. What message the oak trees give us?

Ans : The oak trees convey us how essential to protect our natural environment for the welfare to mankind.

Q11.What does the” old woman” stand for?

Ans : The “old woman” stands for Mother Nature whose beauty is getting damaged due to the human beings.

 

Grammar From The Text :

Voice Change

1. I was looking for a stag.

2. I met an old woman.

3. She opened up her little bag.

4. We are chopped down.

5. We are torn up.

6. You do not blink an eye.

6. Unless you make a promise.

7. The black bark will wrinkle over you.

8. You will plant two.

Narration Change

1. They said, “ we are the oak trees.”

2. She said, “I have your secret here inside my little bag.”

Joining Into Complex

1.  I met an old woman there.

2. She opened up her little bag.

3. This was my dream beneath the boughs.

4. You make a promise otherwise you are going to die.

ESSAY

A Complete Guidelines to Prepare Any Exam or Entrance Test

 

Preparation of the exam is just similar to the rehearsal of a drama. Students usually appear in the exam in order to justify their knowledge of how much they have gathered by attending the classes throughout the academic session. They should not have only a notion to appear in exam or entrance but they must have to occupy a secure rank. We know making preparation is a vital part of academic life. For this, before the exam pupils should take provisions like the actors. So the pupils should follow the procedures of preparation for exam which help them to score high and handsome as without proper preparation one can’t reach his or her covetable position.        

Students must have to make a plan for managing the time to ensure success. Usually, students set in preparation of exam from the very beginning. Everyone has a need of drawing a time table to complete the chapters and serious topics in time. One has to make a division the lessons calculating the time. Making time table helps the pupils to utilize the time properly to finish studies before exam. Without time table the syllabus may not be completed properly as much as needed to focus on study.

Regular study is one of the most effective ways to crack any exam. Students should have to make a habit of reading regularly by studying newspapers, novels, magazine, etc. If you miss the lecture classes or theory classes, you must have to follow the rules of self study in order to overcome the lessons which you have missed. Continued and self-study enables to learn the subject matter and to improve the study hours properly. This habituation saves time to enact the entire syllabus. The most vital point of the continued study is that one can link a new topic with the previous easily. For these amenities you have to be habituated in self study and regular study because persistence is a disposition of a successful man.

Good study materials are vital documents for the preparation of exam. From the study notes, one can rearrange the important points in a sequence manner. But the reading of study materials only for one time is not sufficient. Students should give revision the lessons as much as possible during the preparation session because the revision of subject matter helps to learn topics deeply. Even it enables the students to save the knowledge in memory for a long time to produce the words during the exam. Besides, one student must keep in mind that each and every topic of a subject is equally essential. If they skip any topic considering them as unimportant and hard, it would be wrong. So, students should give similar importance and try to work out the difficult lessons with effort by not skipping them. It does not lead one to success. You have to keep in your memory the question paper is not set from a particular topic or chapter.

Anyway there is no other perfect and prominent way except practice before exam for a long term period. We should call up the speech “Practice Makes a Man Perfect” by Swami Vivekananda. None can achieve a healthy score without practice. If the pupils seem that they would write directly in their exam hall but the words may come in a halting manner. So, students concentrate on only the practice of sample and previous years question papers respectively to be aware about the pattern of the exam paper. It exhibits that what kind of questions may be asked whether short questions, long questions or MCQ type questions. They have to increase the growth of practice by solving the question answers chapter by chapter so that they can prepare themselves accordingly with the exam pattern. Simple and important feedback of it is to get the confidence back. But they should not be over confidence about the exam.

The students should not leave the study matter specially the hard topic until it is restored in their memory properly. If you can’t store it after giving a lot of endeavor, you should leave it and try to complete after some time. Try to highlight the left important topic so that you can focus on it easily. Maximum students think that maximum hours study is the best way for preparation but it can be counterproductive for preparation. So, they should have to take a short term regular break after a definite period. Regular break is helpful to free your mind from irksome.

Pupils must make sure the atmosphere of reading whether you have sufficient light, air and comfort in their study room. For instance some students can’t read without complete silence. On the other side others are able to read smoothly with background sound or music. Having individuality of everyone they have their own style and time of reading. You have to choose the right time whether you are more productive at night time or day time. So, you should make assure what situation is handy to complete the courses in a perfect way. Besides, get rid of all dispersions and focus on topic as much as possible. If you can’t get confidence by self-reading, you can explain your answers to the questions with your family members and friends by making a group discussion. It is not one and only way to ready the answers, you may guess yourself as a teacher and try to tell the matter to the things which are around of you in your study room. Another most important thing is time management in the exam hall. This is why, you have to check yourself if you can complete the questions paper within ascertained time. By practicing the model sets. These methods are very auxiliary to pass the exam with great credit.

After the preparation all the students have to appear in the exam. So, nervousness is the main fact of the students before the commencement of exam. Therefore, you should avoid pressure by doing something which you like to do. Don’t increase your study time rather you should carry on normal study like the other days. It would be negative point if you think how much you will score or what will happen in the exam. Result may be whatever you have to keep faith on yourself and try to level best. You need to take a challenge. It supports a lot in getting favorable marks.

Only study plan and strategies may not be the process for cracking the exam. All the students should be careful about health. Healthy mind and healthy body assist like study for better performance in the exam. For this avoid junk foods and try to focus on such foods which help to keep your energy level strong. You must have to choose the nutritious foods which impact on memory and firm concentration. Drink plenty of water as much as possible so that your brain works smoothly through the preparation session and on the exam days. Students must have to remember that you should not read more times at night. Rather, you should go to bed and wake up in time because well sleep is inevitable for fresh mind and health respectively. Without spick and span mind you can’t concentrate on your study in a felicitous way.

Now students have to keep in mind that they can’t catch their goal not only with continual well study and study materials. So, they should maintain a blending of good health and unremitting study for better preparation to crack any exam.

SUMMARY AND QUESTIONS-ANSWERS OF THE POEM "SEA FEVER"

Summary Of The Poem "Sea Fever" By John Edward Masefield

Class 10

In the poem "Sea Fever" the poet John Masefield expresses his strong desire to go down to the sea again. The poem portrays the eternal thirst of human beings to explore the unknown world and nature's beauty. The poet wants to go to the sea but he demands something which is essential for sailing on the sea.

In the first stanza, the poet emphasizes on his desire to go to the lonely sea and sky. He asks to have a tall ship and a pole star to steer the ship and to direct it. Besides, the poet demands for a windy song to shake the white sail. At the breaking of dawn, he wants to see the grey mist on the sea's face.

In the second stanza, The poet draws attention to nature. He realizes that the call of the running tide of the wild and clear sea. It seems to the poet this call can not be denied. So, the call of nature is unavoidable. He also likes a strong wind making the white clouds fly. The poet wants spreading water, foamy waves and to listen to the cry of a seagull.

In the final stanza, the poet denotes the life of solitary. Here the poet wishes to be like a wandering gypsy. The poet wants to follow the way of the seagull and the whale where the wind is like a whetted knife. Though the poet demands for a lonely life, he likes to be amused during the sea voyage. Therefore, he would love to listen to merry tales from his laughing fellow sailors. At last, the poet wishes to have a quiet sleep and a sweet dream after the long trick.

Short Questions and Answers of 2 Marks Each:-

Q1.Where does the poet want to go and why?

Ans : the poet wants to go to the lonely sea and sky because he has a strong desire to feel the life seafarer.

Q2.Why has the poet used the word again in the poem?

Ans : The word "again' has been used in the poem because this is not first-time sea voyage for the poet. Before he was a sailor and spent the splendid days on the sea. Therefore, the poet felt a deep desire to go back to sea again in order to have the past days again back.

Q3. Why does the poet want a tall ship and a star?

Ans : The poet wants a tall ship because of protecting him from the sea waves and other dangers. He also wants to have a star to steer the ship in the proper direction on the vast sea. Even it will act as a guide to the poet.

Q4. What does the poet want to see on the sea's face?

Ans : The poet wants to see grey mist and grey dawn breaking on the sea's face respectively.

Q5. How does the poet present the "call of running tide"?

Ans : The poet realizes the call of " the running tide" is just a call of nature. The " call of running tide of the sea is wild and clear this call is irresistible to him.

Q6.What does the poet prefer to listen to?

Ans: The poet prefers to listen to a windy song and the cry of a seagull during the sea journey.

Q7.How does the poet describe the sea?

Ans : The poet describes the sea as turbulent. It is full of rolling waves. Waves spray water as it breaks down the foams on its surface.

Q8.Why does the poet desire for the life of gypsy and vagabond?

Ans : The poet longs for an adventures and free life. He dies not anyone to stop and disturb him at the time of his voyage. Hence, the poet desires to have a gypsy and vagabond life.

Q9.What does the poet prefer to hear from a fellow rover?

Ans :  The poet prefers to hear merry tales from the laughing fellow rover to get the entertainment during the sea journey.

Q10.What does the line "the wind's like a whetted knife" signify?

Ans:   The line "the wind's like a whetted knife" indicates a comparison between wind and a knife. The poet compared here sharpness of a knife to the coldness of wind.

Q11.What does the poet long for a long journey?

Ans : The poet longs for a good sleep and a sweet dream after the long journey on the sea.

Q12.What do "quiet sleep" and "sweet dream" suggest?

Ans :  "Quiet sleep" and "sweet dream" suggest death or the end of his life. There will be none to disturb him.

Q13.What things does the poet need for sailing?

Ans : The poet needs a tall ship, a star, white sail, grey mist, windy day, cry of a seagull, merry yarn from a fellow rover for sailing.

Q14.What do you mean by Sea Fever?

 

Ans :  Sea fever means a great desire for a long journey on the sea. This kind of desire is very wild and can not resist one to stay at home.

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VOICE CHANGE

 

 

1.  Behold her single in the field.

2.  She sings a melancholy strain.

3.  Alone she cuts and binds the grain.

4.  The teachers shared the common life with the boys.

5.  He had told the poor old dear some gallant lies.

6.  Then her face was bowed.

7.  She folded up the letter.

8.  You cannot miss that inn.

9.  They will not keep you standing at the door.

10. May not the darkness hide it from my face?

11. Shall I meet other way farers at night?

12. I put the things back one by one.

13. It made them nervous and excited.

14. They should discuss the subject.

15.Johnny would know next to nothing of the events of 1066.

16. Leave a space.

17. I didn’t catch the last piece.

18. Stop interrupting my lesson.

19. When the law was being hotly debated, many meetings were arranged by us.

20. Such incidents are often published in newspapers today.

21. Many women lead lives of anguish.

22. The girls cook the dinner for the boys.

23. I brought these children around me.

24. The mind should find its freedom in every respect.

25. The atmosphere had provided the students with a natural impulse.

26. I knew the children’s mind.

27. Everything is managed by mutual help.

28. They would have to give the bridegroom costly gifts.

29. Will no one tell me  what she sings?

30. Stand outside the room.

31. My repose was salted and sobered by the bird’s Voice.

32. I found that I had packed my tooth-brush in the bag.

33. No, we shall not pay dowry anymore.

34. Well, fill it.

35.The law prohibiting such practice had been passed much earlier in the Lok Sabha.

36. Be quiet.

37. An atmosphere was created.

38. They knew when I was employed in writing.

39. I dream that I have not packed it.

40. Neither society nor government can protect their honour or their lives.

41.Gently its touch awoke him once

42. Something needs to be done and has to be done soon.”

43. You need a shave.

44.Birds filled the air with their cries.

45.We had earned the reputation.

46.They will sell this water drop by drop in their villages.

47.He is to put to sleep by an anesthetist.

48.A minority of car owners cause massive pollution.

49.They raised the school to the status of a Middle School.

50. I’ll cover myself.

51.Always it woke him, even in France.

52. Miss Smith, will you conduct this gentleman to the Soaping Room?

53. Give me the keys.

54.I had to dispose of the salt-cellars.

55.In rural areas environmental degradation has often defeated the gains of economic development.

56.He cast a sly look at Swaminathan.

57.She finds no object worth her constancy.

58. The patient is put to sleep by an anesthetist.

59.My men and I did not spend all our time at Mokameh Ghat working and sleeping.

60.We observed no Hindu or Mohammedan holidays at Mokameh Ghat.

61.Caste prejudices were the first snag we ran up against.

62.This pleased Mani greatly.

63.All that will be attended to in its place.

64.Sweets were then distributed to the children.

65.Environmental degradation plays a major role.

66. Could it be postponed for a day or so more?

67.A fond mother when the day is over, leads by the hand her little child to bed.

68.Where the mind is led forward by thee.

69.The consultant waved the question aside with dignity.

70.Perhaps, Dr. Scrape can arrange something for you.

71.They gave me a devil in its place.

72. I make my diagnosis and I pass you on to expert hands.

73. He is put to sleep by an anaesthetist and operated on by an operating surgeon.

74. His work was cheerfully performed by his companions.

75. Because it gave me an opportunity of indulging in one of my hobbies.

76. I am going to bring Rajam here, bundle him up.

77.They took away my name, they took away my soul and they gave me a devil in its place.

78. The world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls.

79. The mind is led forward by thee into even-widening thought and action.

80. Into that heaven of freedom, let my country awake.

81. In many cases environmental plunder is an infringement of distributive justice. (Voice change / verb of  ‘infringement’) 

82.He shook his head.                                                                                                   

83. I only do the left foot.                                                                                         

84. Perhaps, Dr.Scrape can arrange something for you.    

(End:…by Dr.Scrape.)

 

 

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NARRATION CHANGE

 

 

1. “Stop here, or gently pass.”

2. “Will no one tell me what she sings?”

3. “Behold her single in the field.”

4. The mother said, “Jack fell as he’d have wished.”

5.  The mother said, “We mothers are so proud of our dead soldiers.”

6. “The Colonel writes so nicely” the mother said.

7. The wayfarers said, “Does the road wind uphill all the way?”

8. The wayfarer said, “Shall I meet other wayfarers at night?”

9.   “Aren’t you going to put the boots in?” said Harris.

10. “I saw you do it myself not minute ago.” said Harris.

11. I said I’d pack.

12. “I ‘ll take my oath I put it down on that chair.” said  George.

13. “So mysterious!” said Harris.

14. “Most extraordinary thing I ever heard of” said George.

15. The teacher said, “Sit down and get your exercise books out.”

16. Teacher said, “Can you back that up, John.?”

17. Teacher  said, “What is it Smith?”

18. “Be quiet, or you’ll have to stay behind tonight.” said teacher.

19. The writer said, “After all, how many could be like Snehalata ?”

20. R.N. Tagore said, “It was like a nest which students themselves co-operated in building up with their own.

21. They could not say, “No, we shall not pay dowry anymore.

22. The teacher said, “ Today I’ll dictate.”

23. They could not gather courage to state, “No, we shall not pay dowry any more.”

24. Johnny: Sir, my pen has no ink.

     Teacher: Well, fill it.

25. Teacher    : Good morning      Class     : Good morning

26. Teacher :  What’s your view, Elizabeth.

27. “Why, here it is all the time.” he exclaimed indingnantly.

28. Yhe poet said, “And salted was my food.”

29. “Downhill I came, hungry and yet not starved” the poet said.

30. Tagore observed, “Mind has its hunger for the ministration of nature.”

31. R.N. Tagore said to us, “I always try to get foreign lecturers fo my school.”

32  He said, “We have started some night schools for the primitive people and our boys go there and teach them.”

33.  The writer said, “ The co-education system has been working perfectly. We have had no cause of  complaint.

34. He said, “It was his my method.”

35. He said, “People did not have any confidence in a poet.”

36. “Where?” cried  Harris spinning round.

37. “Stand still, cann’t you?” roared George flying after him.

38. When I had finished, George asked if the soap was in. (Direct)

39. Class: Oh, not again!

40. Teacher: Has anyone any views on the subject? 

41. “Into that heaven of freedom, let my country awake”.

42. “Could it be postponed for a day or so more?” He asked the expert.

43. “Stand up on the bench!” roared the teacher.

44. “What is Lisbon famous for?” asked the teacher.

45. Persome : Marie, isn’t the soup boiling yet?

46. “What have I done to offend you?” asked Rajam.

47. Convict : Do you know what I am?

48. “All right”, said the patient. ‘I’ll have a specialist”.  

49. “Could it be postponed for a day or two?” he asked

50. The mind is led forward by thee into ever widening

51.“Have you the courage to prove that you are a man ?” asked  Mani.

52. “And now,” added the expert more genially, “at the end of all of it, shall we say- a shine?”    

53. He suddenly asked, “Did you bring the thing that I wanted?

54. Sergeant : Your friend, monseigneur ! Holy virgin! Well!

55.The specialist murmured, “It seems that we have no soapist  available for at least an hour or so.”

56. “Why, no?” said the patient; “can’t  Dr. what’s his name do that too?”

57.“Dr. Follicle will see you now”, said the young lady attendant.

58. All right; he said “if I must I must After all, the sooner it’s done, the sooner it’s over. Go right ahead and shave me”.

59. Perhaps Dr. Scrape can arrange something for you.

60. Miss. Smith, He said to the entering secretary,  “please fill out a card for this gentleman for the Shaving Room”.

61. “Art thou pale of weariness of climbing heaven?”

62. “Let us start” I said, at the right and work round the deck.

63. “What is Lisbon famous for?” asked the teacher.

64. “If this is all the cause of your anger, forget,” Rajam  said to Mani.

65. Persome said to Marie, “Did Monseigneur , the Bishop leave any message for me?

66. And Mani voiced another doubt, “If anything happens to you, will you promise to keep it out of your father’s knowledge?”

67. Marie : Madam,  the soup is boiling!

Persome : Then pour it out fool and don’t chatter. No, no not like that here, let me do it and do you put the salt cellars on the table the silver ones!

68. “Which foot?” asked the boy.

69. The patient hummed and hawed a little. “What about the fee?” he asked.

70. “Swaminathan, stand up,” said the teacher.

71. “Let them go on making a noise and they would get a clean, big zero in the examination,” the teacher said to himself.

72. The authors say, “ Something needs to be done and has to be done soon.”

73. “How’s that? Said the man, “Oh, it doesn’t matter^___ here, take the right.”

74. Marie: The silvers ones, madam?

75. “Pray do not trouble about that”, he said, “all that will be attended to in its place.”

76. He said to me, “Who is the man who is sitting on the bench near us?”

77. Bishop: Here, Marie, take my comforter.

78. ‘That’s unfortunate’, murmured the specialist, “It seems that we have no soapist available for at least an hour or so.”

79. “So may expect you at the river tomorrow.” said he.

80. ‘All right’ he said, “if I must, I must. After all the sooner it’s done, the sooner it’s over.”

81. “ Oh what made fatuous sunbeams toil to break earth’s sleep at all?” said the poet.

82. Persome: Did he tell you where he was going?

83. Persome: Marie, isn’t the soup boiling yet?

84. The teacher fired a second question,  “What do you know about the Indian climate?”

85. “To see if you can break my head,” said Mani.

86. “My dear sir,” he said, “I don’t shave you myself.”

 

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NEGATIVE AND AFFIRMATIVE

 

 

1.  That was very interesting. (Make it Negative)

2.  No  one seemed to care. (Affirmative)

3.  You cannot miss that inn. (Affirmative)

4.  I’m not like that.  (Affirmative)

5. These days however, the number of Snehalatas are gradually increasing. (Make it Negative)

6.  The atmosphere should be less formal. (Negative)

7.  My pen has no ink.  (Affirmative)

8.  We shall not pay dowry anymore. (Affirmative)

9.  The condition of the women was pathetic.  (Negative)

10. I had only five or six students at that time. (Negative)                                                                                

11. Alone  she cuts and binds the grain.  (Omit ‘Alone’)

12. It is always difficult to get rid of these.     (Negative)                                                                        

13. I didn’t say anything. (Affirmative)

14. It was like a nest.   (Negative)                                                                        

15. It was not like a cage.  (Affirmative)

16. Neither society nor Government is unable to protect  their  honour or their lives. (Affirmative)

17. The name of this practice is dowry. (Affirmative)

18. She sings a melancholy strain. (Negative)

19. I’m not like that.       (Negative)

20.  Education should be a part of life.  (Make it Negative)

 

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JOINING & TRANSFORMATION

 

 

1.  Be  quiet or you’ll have to stay behind.      (Begin with ‘If’)

2.  This was hardly what I intended.               (Make it Simple)

3.  Stop here, or gently pass.                       (Make it Complex)

4.  I shall find comfort, travel-sore and weak. (Make it Compound)

5.  The mother read the letter. She folded it up. (Make it Simple)

6.  Jack fell as he’d have wished(Turn into a Simple Sentence)

7.  I made no comment. I only waited.   (Make it Simple)

8.  There will be beds for all who seek.      (Turn into Simple Sentence)

9.  I saw her singing at her work.     (Make it Complex)

10. And salted was my food, and my repose. (Begin with ‘Both’)

11. They  lay under the  stars.They  were unable to rejoice. (Make it Single)

12. Downhill I came, hungry  and yet not starved.   (Noun form of ‘hungry’)

13. I rather pride myself on my packing. (Use ‘pride’ as an Adjective)

14. I rather pride myself on my packing.  (Use ‘pride’ as a Noun)

15. This was hardly what I intended. (Turn into Simple Sentence)

16. Has anyone any views on the subject? (Make it an Interrogative Sentence)

18. She had no worth in society’s eyes.   (Use ‘worth’ as an Adjective)

19. The name of this practice is dowry.   (Change the voice/ Use ‘name’ as a Verb)

20. That was very interesting.       (Change into Interrogative)

22. If Britain is to hold her own in the world of tomorrow, she must educate her children thoroughly.    (Use: ‘in order to’ and omit ‘if’)

 

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DEGREE

 

1.  Rest seemed the sweetest thing under a roof.  (Make it Positive)

2.  Rest seemed the sweetest thing under a roof. (Make it Comparative)

3.  George is the worst packer in the world.(Make it Positive)

4.  Harris will be the worst packer in this world.   (Make it Positive)

5.  Harris will be the worst packer in this world.   (Make it Comparative)

6.  Their subconscious mind is more active than the conscious  one.                 (Change the degree of comparison)

7.  I selected the most beautiful spot in the village. (Make it Positive)

8.  No Nightingale sings as sweetly as the reaper.      (Make it Comparative)

9.  The owl’s cry was the most melancholy cry.    (Make it Comparative)

10. George is the worst packer in the world. (Use ‘worse than’)

11. No Nightingale sings as sweetly as the reaper.    (Use ‘more sweetly’)

12. Rest seemed the sweetest thing under a roof.   (Change the degree of comparison)

13. The atmosphere should be less formal. (Use ‘more’ instead of ‘less’)

14. The best way is to accomplish this is to allow the children to take more part in the lesson.           (Comparative)

15.  The owl’s cry was the most melancholy cry.  (Make it Comparative)

 

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1. George put on a pipe  and spread himself over the easy chair, and Harris cocked his legs on the table and lit a cigar.

2. I repack and forget it, have to rush upstairs for it at the last moment and carry it to the railway station, wrapped up in my pocket-handkerchief.

3. They did it scrape it out at last, and put it down on a chair, and Harris sat on it, and it stuck to him and they went looking for it all over the room.

4. I want to get up and superintend, and walk round with my hands, and tell him what to do.

5. I dream that I haven’t packed it, and hunt for it.

6. I rummaged the things up into much the same state that they must have been before the world was created, and when chaos reigned.

7. He pretended that the lemons were rats, and got into the hamper and killed three of them before Harris land him with the frying pan.

8. Finding his way blocked by the front door, he sank into a paving stone and announced to the whole neighbourhood, ‘I ATE S C O O W.’

9. I should think that a vast majority of today’s school children would prefer to be taught in a school using the second method, but will probably not get the chance.

10. The Hindu Code Law was duly passed but it did not provide beleaguered women respite from the violence that grieved their lives.

11. When the law was hotly debated, we too  arranged many meetings and gatherings among women and collected many signatures in its supports.

12. If women themselves do not stand up against such men, then neither society nor government can protect their honour or their lives.

13. If the parents could not satisfy his claims even by installments, the daughter came back to her parent’s home.

14. I knew that the mind has its hunger for the ministrations on nature, mother nature, and  so I selected this spot where the sky is unobstructed to the verge of the horizon.

15. My idea was that education should be a part of life itself and must not be detatched from it and be made into something abstract.

16. They knew when I was employed in writing some drama and they took an intense interest as it went on and developed.

17. I had some of the very great artists of our land and while they went on with their work, the boys could watch them and saw day by day how those works developed.

18. It was not like a cage in which the birds are fed from the outside, but it was like a nest.

19. And it was always difficult to get rid of those when we grow up and even it is sedulously cultivated in our school-books.

20. Burdened with this insult and shedding tears at the thought of the bankrupt father, the girl would have to sit on the bridal piri or stool.

21. They knew when I was employed in writing some drama and they took an intense interest as it went on and developed.

22. I had some of the very great artists of our land and while they went on with their work, the boys could watch them and saw day by day how those works developed.

23. It was not like a cage in which the birds are fed from the outside, but it was like a nest.

24.. The music in my heart I bore/Long after it was heard no more.

25. Downhill I came, hungry ; and yet not starved.

26. My tooth-brush is a thing that haunts me when I’m travelling, and makes my life a misery.