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Precis (Summary) Writing – 11 Creative Writing – 47 Passage A drop of water fell out of the cloud into the sea, and finding itself lost in such an immensity of fluid matter, broke out into the following reflection: ‘Alas! What an inconsiderable creature am …
Precis (Summary) Writing – 10 Creative Writing – 45 The following write-up has 202 words. Summarize it in a manner, so that the word count is between 70 to 75 words, and all the important facts are included. Passage First established as a state capital …
Precis (Summary) Writing – 9 Creative Writing – 41 Write a summary of this write-up by reducing it to approximately one third its word count, but not omitting any important fact or information at all. Your summary should not exceed 80 words. Passage taken from …
Precis (Summary) Writing – 8 Creative Writing – 39 Write a precis of the following write-up. You should reduce its word count to one third without omitting important points. Write-up [171 words] One of our most difficult problems is what we call discipline and it …
Precis (Summary) Writing – 7 Creative Writing – 37 Write the summary of the following passage An excerpt from ‘The Happy Prince’ by Oscar Wilde High above the city, on a tall column, stood the statue of the Happy Prince. He was gilded all over …
Precis (Summary) Writing – 6 Creative Writing – 34 Write the summary of the following passage. It has 177 words. Your summary’s word count must not exceed 60 words. Passage Munshi Khairat Ali Khan was the inspector of Sanitation and hundreds of sweeper women depended …
Precis (Summary) Writing – 5 Creative Writing – 33 Reduce the word count of the write-up to one third without missing out any important point Passage Raju welcomed the intrusion — something to relieve the loneli-ness of the place. The man stood gazing reverentially on …
Precis (Summary) Writing – 4 Creative Writing – 30 Reduce the word count of the write-up to one third without missing out any important point. Give a title to your precis. The passage [264 words] It is just the onset of summer and mercury is …
Precis (Summary) Writing – 3 Creative Writing – 25 Write the precis of the following passage The passage [253 words] For centuries, people have been playing kicking games with a ball. The game of soccer developed from some of these early games. The English probably …
Precis (Summary) Writing – 2 Creative Writing – 12 Write the summary of the following article Passage taken from the BBC India’s 100 million tribespeople are, in the words of a historian, its invisible and marginal minority. Despite affirmative action, most of them continue to …