(i) Now arrange the words given in the box under three headings.

Encourage dampen listen barren endanger soften fasten enclose weaken even enable enclave

(ii) Find new words in your textbook and put them under the same headings.

Use should, must, ought to appropriately in the following sentences :

(i) People who live in glass houses _______ not throw stones.

(ii) You _______ wipe your feet before coming into the house, especially during rains.

(iii) You _______ do what the teacher tells you.

(iv) The pupils were told that they _______ write more neatly.

(v) Sign in front of a park : You _______ not walk on the grass.

(vi) You _______ be ashamed of yourself having made such a remark.

(vii) He left home at 9 o’clock. He _______ be here any minute.

(viii) “Whatever happened to the chocolate cake?” How _______I know? I have just arrived.”

Divide each of the following sentences into its parts. Write meaningful parts. If necessary, supply a word or two to make each part meaningful.

(i) I went to the tool shed to see what I could find. (3 parts)

(ii) When I came back he was sitting on the ground. (2 parts)

(iii) We may as well see what’s the matter with it, now it is out. (3 parts)

(iv) He said he hoped we had got them all. (3 parts)

(v) I had to confess he was right. (2 parts)

Answer the following questions.

(i) Pick out the line that suggests that the child is afraid of snakes.

(ii) Which line shows a complete change of the child’s attitude towards snakes? Read it aloud.

(iii) “But mother says that kind is good …………” What is mother referring to?

Find the word that refers to the snake’s movements in the grass.