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.

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.

What is meant by context which the language occurs in?

Identify the tense and the aspect of the verb phrases in the following sentences:

a) She was driving her car along a hilly road.

b) Some guests have arrived early in taxis.

c) You could have asked for our advice.

d) These questions have been asked so many times by the media.

e) The striking workers were shifted to a different venue.

f) Who can explain the meaning of this strange word?

g) None of the students was given a chance to speak.

h) We are looking forward to our vacations so eagerly!

i) The car has run out of fuel.

j) The final plan is still lying on his table for approval.

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.

Transcribe the following words.

(a) Essential

(b)Territory

(c) Solution

(d) Furnishes

(e) Pressure

(f) Pollute

(g)Nuisance

(h)Burden

(i) Atomic

(j) Naughty

Complete the sentences with an appropriate relative clause-

(a) I don’t like stories that ……

(b)An architect is someone who…..

(c) Earth is the only planet which …..

(d)The house which …..