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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 …
Creative Writing – 144 Comprehension exercise Writing in your words Read the following paragraphs and answer the short questions the follow Last month, as bombs rained down on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv, Anna Horodetska locked up her rented apartment and fled to India, carrying just a …
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 …
English Skill Building – 110 Vocabulary Learning good English from Hindu dt. March 14, 2022 Sports Page Shreyas, Pant’s [knocks] leave Lanka with [near-impossible chase]. Former’s 67 and the latter’s [blistering] 50 help India set a [mammoth] target of 447; Bumrah’s first five-for at home …
English Skill Building – 109 Common English Errors Common Flaws in English syntax and their correction Flaw type 1 – Excessive repetition of pronouns like ‘It’ Read the following write-up, examine the defects and remove them by suitable modification. Faulty text – When I was …
Creative Writing – 143 Comprehension Exercise Shale gas – Basic info – America’s readiness to sell it to India Shale gas, is the last god-given life line to the human race before the we equip itself to switch to renewable sources of energy in large …
English Skill Building – 108 Rewriting sentences Exercise – 1 Join the following question sentences in any way you prefer. 1. My closest friend’s father contracted Covid. He isolated himself in his small room. 2. My closest friend’s father contracted Covid. He isolated himself in …
Creative Writing – 142 Comprehension Questions Conviction rate in human trafficking cases declining (Source: The Hindu dated Feb 18) Activists call for robust inter-State investigations Twice every week, two women from Basanti in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas, visit a local non-governmental organisation at the …
English Skill Building – 107 Vocabulary Learn the word ‘Scale’ comprehensively The many uses of the word ‘scale’ As Noun 1. When we cut a fish, we remove the scales from its surface. We then cut to pieces to cook it. In Odiya, it’s called …