Course Code: EN1811501 QP Code: U22034

B.A./B.Sc./B.C.A/B.Com DEGREE (CBCSS) SUPPLEMENTARY

EXAMINATIONS, NOVEMBER 2021
(2018 Admissions)

First Semester
COMMON COURSE: FINE-TUNE YOUR ENGLISH
Time: Three hours Maximum Marks: 80
Section A
Answer all questions (10 x 1 = 10 marks)
(Each question carries 1 mark)

1. Write a sentence with the adverbs of place, manner,

time in correct order.
2. Combine the given sentences into a complex sentence
containing an adverb clause of concession:
The farmer worked hard. The yield was not good.
3. Mention the important meals of the day.
4. When the present perfect tense is used with ‘Just’,
what does it show?
5. What is meant by a reference in a letter?
6. Which are the two parts of a sentence?
7. Give some of the verbs that require reflexive
pronouns.
8. Write a note on the auxiliary verbs which can act as
full verb as well as auxiliary verbs. Substantiate it
with suitable examples.
9. Find out the sub-ordinate clause and state whether it
is non-defining relative clause or defining relative
clause.
 a. The Indian chieftains, who were divided into a
number of warring groups, were never able to
unite against the English.
b. The boy who is sitting in the corner is my nephew.
10. Give one word for the following:
a. A person who overeats.
b. The meal you have in the middle of the day.

Section B
Answer any eight questions (8 x 2 = 16 marks)
(Each question carries 2 marks)
11. Fill in the blanks with appropriate articles.
a. The Principal was successful in bringing the two
parties to ____understanding.
b. My sister is_____ bright student. She sets
_____constant example before her class mates.
c. She created ____interest in her students regarding
music.
d. My father’s word is _____ultimate in our house.
e. He went to Hospital as ____patient. The next day
several people came to visit ____patient.
12. Using the conjunctions ‘because and wherever’ write
two complex sentences and indicate what type of
subordinate clauses occur in the sentences
13. Explain the meaning of the given idioms and make
use of it in sentences.
a. Swan Song c. pride of place
b. at a snail’s pace d. a lion’s share
14. When is it necessary to use the passive voice?
15. Briefly explain the idea of the salutation in a letter.
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16. See if you can identify all the adjectives in these 12
sentences

a. Grandma's room I regarded as a dark den of

primitive rites and practices.
b. She had two wobbly old candlesticks.
c. Grandma lit the white candles and waved her
hands over the flames.
d. Grandma kept her room clean and tidy.
e. She had a very impressive hope chest covered with
a shawl, and on her dresser a hairbrush and
comb.
f. There was a plain rocking chair under a lamp so
she could read her prayer book.
g. And on an end table beside the chair was a flat
box packed with a medicinal leaf that was
shredded like tobacco.
h. This was the centerpiece of her most consistent
and mysterious ritual.
i. She removed the lid from this blue box and turned
it on its back and used it to burn a pinch of the
leaf.
j. It made tiny pops and hisses as it burned.
k. She turned her chair toward it and sat inhaling
the thin wisps of smoke.
l. The smell was pungent, as if from the underworld.
17. Write a note on finite and non-finite verbs with
suitable examples.

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18. Give examples for conditionals using ‘Unless’.
19. Imagine a person giving vent to anger. What dos
he/she say? How does he/she look? Write a short
paragraph.
20. How do the past perfect and the past perfect
continuous differ in use? Give any one instance.
21. List out the educational qualifications that can be
part of the resume of a person applying for the job of
a school teacher. The list should have at least
fourentries.
22. Complete the following sentences using appropriate
interrogative pronouns.
a. ————————- will he say?
b. ———————– did you see?
c. About ———————– are you speaking?
d. ———————– came here in the morning?
e. By ———————– was this book written?

Section C
Answer any six questions (6× 4 = 24 marks)
(Each question carries 4 marks)

23. What is an adverb phrase? Give examples.

24. State any four uses of a noun clause.
25. Write five sentences describing the sounds that you
hear at the seashore.
26. What are the different steps for passivisation?
27. With examples, bring out the idea of the heading,
salutation and complementary close in letters.
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28. Give the meanings of the following phrasal verbs and
make sentences using the same:
a. Used up e. Ran out
b. Put off f. Ran down
c. Move forward g. Took in
d. Went off h. Called on

29. Supply the correct prepositions:

a. I hope you can give me the answer ______my
question of yesterday.
b. Do what you want. This is your property ___ right.
c. She is suffering______ severe cold and fever.
d. When Gandhiji became weak, he needed someone
____support both his left and his right.
e. My necklace is studded _____diamonds _____a
superior quality.
f. Martin Luther King dreamt ____a time when the
blacks would walk hand in hand ____the whites.
g. Do not give ____brothers and sisters. Life will teach
you several lessons. Learn ____them.
h. Get ____the horse. It is behaving strangely.
30. Fill in the blanks using appropriate verbs:
a. Neither cereal nor milk ______ available in the
grocery store.
b. Actors in the 1950s and 1960s such as Marlon
Brando _______ known for their use of ‘method
acting.’
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 c. Half of the money ____ already been spent.
d. Physics _____ a course I want to take before I leave
school.
31. With examples, bring out the idea of the heading,
inside address and Attention line in letters.

Section D
Answer any two questions (2 × 15 = 30 marks)
(Each question carries 15 marks)

32. Use the right form of tense in the following passage:

There _____ (be) a small village by the river. Everyone
________ (live) happily and ______ (offer) regular
prayers at the village temple. Once during the
monsoon season, it rained heavily. The river ______
(start) overflowing and ______ (flood) the village.
Everyone ________ (start) to evacuate their homes and
set out to go to a safe shelter.
One man ______ (run) to the temple. He quickly _____
(go) to the priest’s room and ______ (tell) him, “the
flood water ______ (enter) our homes and it ______
(rise) quickly. And water _____ also ________ (start) to
enter the temple. We must leave the village as in no
time it _______ (sink) under the water! Everyone
_______ (set) out to go to the safer place and you must
come along”. The priest _____ (tell) the man, “I am not
an atheist like you all and I have a full faith in God. I
_____ (trust) God that he _______ (come) to save me. I
_______ (not leave) the temple, You may go!” So, the
man _____ (leave).

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33. Write a review of a movie that you watched recently in
the prescribed format.
34. Explain the purpose of using cue words in essays,
giving examples.
35. Explain the various parts of a letter, and prepare an
informal letter written to one’s parents, informing
them of an interview that you attended and the
possibility of a promotion in career.

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