Look at the sentences below and identify which basic sentence pattern they belong to – SV, SVA, SVC or SVO:

a) Some people don’t like the food sold on streets.

b) The officer appeared tired after the meeting.

c) The posters were everywhere, all over the town.

d) The mother was feeling quite sad for the baby.

e) No passengers were inside the train at that time.

Possessive Pronouns

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 the comparative and superlative forms of the following words :

 (i) good

(ii) wise

(iii) ugly

 (iv) expensive

 (v) graceful

Implicit Negation

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.

What is meant by context which the language occurs in?