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The following passage has not been edited. There is an error in each line against which a blank has been given. Write the incorrect word and the correction in your answer sheet against the correct blank number as given in the example. Remember to underline the word that you have supplied.

a. Incorrect: with

Correct: without


‘With’ is the incorrect form of the preposition to be used in the sentence. ‘Without’ is used because the sentence is expressing a contrast that Disasters do come but without warning.


b. Incorrect: causes


Correct: cause


‘Causes’ is the incorrect form of the verb to be used in the sentence. Instead ‘cause’ is used. This is because the plural verb is needed in this sentence to make it grammatically and contextually correct.


c. Incorrect: which


Correct: who


‘Who’ should be used instead of ‘which’ to make the sentence grammatically and contextually correct, this is because ‘which’ is used for non-living objects and ‘who’ is used for living beings.


d. Incorrect: because


Correct: so


‘Because’ is the incorrect form of the conjunction to be used in the sentence. Instead ‘so’ should be used to make the sentence grammatically and contextually correct. This is because ‘so’ is the correct form of connector to connect it logically.


e. Incorrect: who


Correct: which


‘Which’ should be used instead of ‘who’ to make the sentence grammatically and contextually correct, this is because ‘which’ is used for non-living objects and ‘who’ is used for living beings.


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Complete the story in about 150 -200 words -----

My mother asked me to go to the market in the evening. Initially first I wanted to avoid but then thinking she needed milk for my little brother I left home reluctantly. I reached the market and was about to pay money for the milk, when suddenly I saw a ----------------------------------.

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Read the passage given below and fill in the blanks by choosing the most appropriate word.

I was touched (e.g.) when I saw my neighbours sending off their son. I could understand their pain (a) -------------- their only son leaving home. It is always a difficult time for parents (b) -----------it is also inevitable. How long can you keep the birds in cages (c) ----------- their wings are strong and they are ready to fly.

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Rearrange the following words or phrases into meaningful sentences. One has been done for you as an example.

E.g. Red Cross day / an / become /day / the / in /important /world /of / history /has


Red Cross day has become an/important day in the history of the world


a. Celebrated /plays /annually /it / role / is / big /the /saving /to /in /lives /


b. Due / war / aims/ human beings / it / relief /distress / to /provide /the/in/to


c. This day/Various/ to celebrate are / held /programmes /in the schools

 8

Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow.

The leaves strain towards the glass


Small twigs stiff with exertion


Long cramped boughs shuffling under the roof


Like newly discharged patients


Half dazed, moving


To the clinic doors


Questions:


a. Why are leaves and boughs tired?


b. Why the poet does compare the boughs with the patients?


c. Identify the figures of speech used in these lines.


OR


An elderly woman came and sat beside her


.”Are you all alone dear?” she asked Valli as the bus started again.


Valli found the woman absolutely repulsive-such big holes in her ear lobes, and such ugly earrings in them! And she could smell the betel nut the woman was chewing and see the betel juice that was threatening to spill over her lips at any moment


Ugh!-who could be sociable with such a person?


“Yes I am travelling alone, “she answered curtly, “and I’ve got a ticket too.”


“Yes, she’s on her way to town.” said the conductor. “With a thirty paise ticket”


“Oh, why don't you mind your own business?”


Questions:


i. Why did the elderly woman come to sit near Valli?


ii. Valli’s dislike the elderly woman? Briefly explain.


iii. Conductor makes fun of Valli. Give reason