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English Skill Building – 122 Rewriting Sentences Break these three long sentences taken from a prominent newspaper to smaller and simpler sentences. Make sure you don’t change the meaning in any way. Sentence 1 – His win, which followed a slugfest of a campaign in …
English Skill Building – 119 Vocabulary Exercise Fill in the blanks of the following paragraphs. Remember, the same word will fit into all the blank places. Find out what was the word. Passage 1 My grandfather was reading the morning newspaper as usual, but, unlike …
English Skill Building – 118 Vocabulary Exercise Using the right word in the right place 1. I trembled in fear on seeing a man with a knife standing near my window. 2. The soldier shivered in cold in his outpost in Ladakh. 3. I collapsed …
English Skill Building – 117 Rewriting Sentences Join sentences, convert from active to passive and direct to indirect a. Join the following sentences to form a single sentence 1. I was weak in grammar. I used to lose marks in literature paper. This lowered my …
English Skill Building – 116 Vocabulary Word exercise to learn new useful words Fill in the blanks of the following paragraph selecting the right word from the list given at its end. A proposal was mooted in the village high school to take the final …
English Skill Building – 115 Vocabulary Words that sound similar Learn the use of these similar-sounding words Source as noun, Source as verb, Resource, Resourceful, Scare as noun, Scare as verb, Score as noun, Score as verb, To settle a score, Scarce, Scanty Source [Noun] …
English Skill Building – 114 Vocabulary Inserting the right word at the right place Fill in the blanks in the paragraph by selecting the right word from the list given at the end of the paragraph. My grandmother loved Indian classical music very much. In …
English Skill Building – 113 Grammar Miscellaneous Grammar exercises to banish your hesitation to write a. Convert from Passive to Active. 1. Great danger is posed to civilians by unexploded land mines. 2. Due to the lurking danger of left-over landmines, refugees returning home have …
English Skill Building – 112 Grammar and Vocabulary Active – Passive Conversion and Filling in the Blanks a. Convert from Passive to Active. 1. All my forays into the goal area of the rival side were thwarted by their two defenders. 2. My captain and …
English Skill Building – 111 Vocabulary Learn good English Vocabulary 1. A woman burst onto the set of Russian state TV’s flagship evening news program, chanting “stop the war” and denouncing government “propaganda” — a striking moment of public protest as the Kremlin cracks down …