Explain the importance of entrepreneurship in a developing country.
See Answer →Write polite forms for the following.
i. How much did these socks cost you.
ii. A has to put some additional chairs in his classroom. He wants some from B's room
iii. A is visiting B. B offers him some tea (makes an offer): Have some tea.
iv. A has a headache and B makes an offer of help (makes an offer): I will give you an aspirin.
v. A's bicycle tyres have very little air. He wants to use B's Bicycle pump (asks for permission).
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Explain Repetition as a Rhetorical Device. Discuss various patterns of repetition.
See Answer →Give the negative and question forms of the following sentences.
a. You called me.
b. I can borrow his scooter.
c. He will agree.
d. You had a good breakfast.
e. You used to be frightened of him.
See Answer →personification.
See Answer →metonymy
See Answer →syneodoche
See Answer →Metapphor
See Answer →Simile
See Answer →Point out the alliteration the following passages.
When the white feet of the baby beat across the grass. The
little white feet nod like white flowers
in a wind, They poise and run like puffs of wind
that pass, over water where the weeds are thinned.
(D.H. Lawrence: Baby Running Barefoot)
See Answer →What is 'alliteration'? Explain.
See Answer →Describe the metrical pattern in the following lines from Thomas Hardy's poem The Darkling Thrush.
I leaned upon a coppice gate
When frost was spectre-gray, And
Winter's dregs made desolate The
weakening eye of day.
See Answer →Make sentences bringing out the difference in meaning in these pairs of words.
i. fare and fair
ii. tyre and tire
iii. grease and Greece
iv. gait and gate
v. hew and hue
a. What is 'rhythm'? Explain.
See Answer →Make two phrasal verbs from each of these verbs by adding adverb or/and a preposition, and use them in meaningful sentences:
i. get
ii. bring
iii.show
iv. put
v. round
See Answer →What meaning do the italicized words convey. Each word has a generally used meaning and in what shade of meaning it is used here. Explain
i. You are acquitted of laziness.
ii. He was an assassin of all good virtues.
iii. It would be a crime to send the child out in the cold.
iv. The food was condemned as unfit for humans.
v. She was a victim of the mother-in-law's tyranny.
See Answer →Fill in the blanks in the following sentences with words from the list below
lame nestled Tell
beast experiments
wreathed hot
icy hand shadow
buried swallowed
i. I ____________________________________________ close to her.
11. The ________________________________________________ money. in a man may wake up, if he too much
111. His face was ____________________________________________ in smiles.
iv. 'My autobiography is really a story of my________________________________________(M.K. Gandhi: an Autobiography)
V. Youth is nimble, Age is is ____________________________________________Leveller') Youth and blood. (Shirley: 'Death the
vi. Death lays his ____________________________________________________ Leveller') ...on kings. (Shirley: 'Death and
vii. Napoleon, the pig, was ______________________________________________________ farmyard. ...by the other animals in the
viii. Life is but a walking ________________________________________________ (Shakespeare: Macbeth)
ix. Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone ________________________________________________________on Solitude') where I lie. (A. pope: Ode
X. The hungry river. ____________________________________________________ Living or Dead') down everything. (Tagore:
See Answer →Define functional distribution and distinguish it from personal distribution.
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How the various tools of government intervention are applied while determining the price?
See Answer →Write a short note on the claimed superiority of indifference curves analysis over utility analysis.
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