Rhetorical Questions

Identify the relative clause(s) in the following sentences:

(a) Marcus Terentius Varro (116-27 B.C.) advised anyone who intended to build a farm house to avoid swampy land.

(b)Malaria, which means bad air in Italian, was assumed to be caused by minute animals that entered the body by way of mouth and nose.

(c)In 1980, the French physician, Laveran, who was working as a surgeon with the French army in Algeria, noticed a microscopic organism in the red-blood corpuscles of malaria patients.

Write all the Phonetic symbols of the English vowels and consonants, with their suitable examples.

What are the factors which led to the Indianisation of English?

Implicit Negation

Look at the following sentences and identify which basic sentence pattern they belong to – SVOA, SVOC or SVOO:

a) The whole nation called Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi ‘Mahatma’.

b) He kept his parents in the dark about his new friends.

c) Newspapers called the new law a shame for democracy.

d) Her parents may give her a simple gift this birthday.

e) This new idea will make our boss quite happy.

Given below are some answers. Form wh-questions corresponding to the italicized parts therein

 (i) January is the coldest month of the year.

 (ii) I am planning to go to Mumbai next month.

(iii) My brother is in New York these days.

 (iv) I have two brothers and one sister

. (v) I went to Lucknow to attend my friend's marriage.