Write a short note on Question Formation in English, giving examples where necessary. 

 Supply question tags to the following statements: 

 Anju and Rajni are good friends.

You won’t forget to give my message.

 Stop making that noise.

iHe is an athlete. v Rajeev and his friends hid my slippers.

 Complete the following sentences with appropriate subordinate clauses and state what type of clause each is – i.e. noun, adjective, or adverb clause. 5 i It is clear that……. ii If we run ……

 My English teacher, who …….

 The movie which …….

 I don’t know how …….

 Fill in the blanks with appropriate prepositions: 

Mother Teresa was born ………27th August, 1910……..Yugoslavia ...............the age of twelve she wanted to become a nun. When she was nineteen she arrived ……India. Some months later, she went… ......... Patna to do a course in nursing.

Say whether the following statements are True (T) or False (F). Correct the false statements briefly.

 All native speakers of English are mutually intelligible to each other.

Overt linguistic devices are not necessary to understand the meaning of a text.

English in India replaced Persian and other languages from the areas of education, administration, trade and business.

Like RP, Indian English has 11 pure vowels and 6 glides.

Accent and dialect are terms that can be synonymously used.

There are about 2 billion non-native speakers of English spread over different parts of the world.

Skimming and scanning help organize writing efficiently.

English utterances normally carried new information in the predicate.

Semantics is an independent branch within language study, which has one

Textual context or co-text is essential for meaningful discourse.

Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verb given in brackets:

Last week, Rahul and Rashid ……….(go) for a film. They ……….not ……(book) the tickets in advance and ............ (have) to face great difficulties. The film, however, ……….(be) good and they ................... (be) glad to have seen it.

Fill in the blanks with a/an or the:

This house is very nice. Has it got .............. garden?

It’s a beautiful day. Let’s sit in .............. garden.

 There isn’t… ....... airport near where I live.

..................... nearest airport is 70 kms away.

 I’m going away for ........... week in September.