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CLASS: XI SUBJECT: ENGLISH LANGUAGE

TOPIC: GRAMMAR
STUDY DURATION: 40 MINUTES

Time: 40 minutes Full Marks: 20

Submit your work to your teacher as and when directed.

1. Rewrite each sentence as directed without changing its meaning: [10]

(i) Dennis ran across the rocky floor and leapt over the boulder.
(Begin: ‘Running …)
(ii) They must not eat the food served to them as it is contaminated.
(Begin: ‘Under no circumstances …)
(iii) As soon as the Chief Guest had taken his seat, the play began.
(Begin: ‘No sooner …)
(iv) They gave each of the students a book and a certificate.
(Begin: ‘A book …)
(v) The plane could not take off because of the fog.
(Begin: ‘It …)
(vi) He spoke just once.
(Begin: ‘Only …)
(vii) She speaks too fast to be understood.
(Begin: ‘She speaks so …)
(viii) Although she was invited, she did not attend the meeting.
(Begin: ‘Despite …)
(ix) He had a sore throat and was running a temperature.
(Begin: ‘Not only …)
(x) No one but the professor knew the secret formula.
(Begin: ‘The professor …)

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2. Fill in each blank with a suitable word: [5]
(i) Walking is a good exercise ____ those who lead a sedentary life.
(ii) You really must refrain ____ teasing your friends.
(iii) His friends persuaded him ____ come to the meeting.
(iv) Our new governess was not a person to be trifled ____.
(v) There was a dispute about the rent ____ the landlord and the tenant.
(vi) His first impulse was to break ____ a run and escape as quickly as possible.
(vii) My sister prefers teaching ____ working in an office.
(viii) Vinit stared ____ the strange man on the opposite footpath.
(ix) He is ____ leave today, and we do not know where you can reach him.
(x) She does not care much ____ Chinese food.

3. Fill in each numbered blank with the correct form of the word given in brackets
after the blank. Write only the numbers in the correct serial order, and against
each number, the correct form of the word you would use. [5]

I (1) ____ (realize) that I (2) ____ (know) one of the two men by sight, and I
(3) ____ (spend) a few seconds thinking why he (4) ____ (seek) me out on a
Sunday afternoon. During this pause, three small boys (5) ____ (walk) up the
passage from the house behind me, (6) ____ (thread) a way around me and the
two men outside and silently (7) ____ (climb) like cats up into a tree in the middle
of the lawn outside. There, the three figures (8) ____ (rest), (9) ____ (become)
immobile, (10) ____ (lie) on their stomachs, deep in a secret game.

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