Exercise1

Look at the words and phrases below. Rearrange them to form meaningful sentences to make
readable passage. Write the correct sentences in the space provided.

(a)love / of others / good manners / and / win the / respect

(b) when / best / they can / one is / be learnt / young

(c)saves us / turns away / soft answer / anger and / a / a pitfall / from many

(d)who is / stranger / respectful / a person / even / like

(e) sure / in life / they / passport / are a / for success

Ex-2
(a) in / we / of / science / the age / live

(b) and space / conquered / air time / we have / help of / with the / scientific inventions

(c) inventions / armed / which are / has / miracles / science / man with / not less than

(d) deadly weapons / but / science has / of warfare / also given / man

Ex-3
Rearrange the following words and phrases to from meaningful sentence. The first one has been
done as an example

Example: using/sharpened tool/drawing/or/ pictures/the /of making/is /a pointed

Drawing is the making of pictures using a pointed or sharpened tool.

(a) have/making/humans/heed/times/ pre-historic/the drawings/since

(b) earliest/were/the/pointed/drawing tools/ sticks/stones/or

(c) Today/variety/have/wide/we/a/of/ colours/pencils/and/pens

(d) an/is/drawing/activity/artistic
Exercise-4

Look at the words and phrases below. Rearrange them to form meaningful sentences to make
readable passage. Write the correct sentences in the space provided.

(a) one of / friends / a / best / good / our / is / book

(b) the same / and it / it is / change / will never / today that / it always was

(c) most patient / companions / cheerful of / it / and / is the

(d) turn its / in times / it does / of adversity / back upon / or distress / not / us

Exercise-5

(a) progressive / Delhi / a / town / is

(b)big business / is a / It / centre / and / educational

(c)is scarcity / and thousands / there / of houses / in the neighbouring / of people live / cities

(d)parks / and / may / there are / gardens which / be said / lungs of / to be the / this populous city
EX-1
Answer (a) Good manners win the love and respect of others.

(b) They can be learnt best when one is young.

(c) A soft answer turns away anger and saves us from many a pitfall.

(d) Even strangers like a person who is respectful.

Answer2

(a) We live in the age of science.

(b) We have conquered air, time and space with the help of scientific inventions.

(c) Science has armed man with inventions which are not less than miracles.

(d) But science has also given man deadly weapons of warfare.

Answers:3

(a) Humans have been making the drawings since pre-historic times.

(b) Pointed sticks or stones were the earliest drawing tools

(c) Today, we have a wide variety of pencils, pens and colours.

(d) Drawing is an artistic activity.

Answer 4

(a) A good book is one of our best friends.

(b) It is the same today that it always was and it will never change.

(c) It is the most patient and cheerful of companions.

(d) It does not turn its back upon us in times of adversity or distress.

Answer5

(a) Delhi is a progressive town.

(b) It is a big business and educational centre.

(d) There are parks and gardens which may be said to be the lungs of this populous city.

7. Rearrange the given words and Phrases into meaningful sentences.

Look at the words and phrases below. Rearrange them to form meaningful sentences to make
readable passage. Write the correct sentences in the space provided.

(a) progressive / Delhi / a / town / is

(b)big business / is a / It / centre / and / educational

(c)is scarcity / and thousands / there / of houses / in the neighbouring / of people live / cities

(d)parks / and / may / there are / gardens which / be said / lungs of / to be the / this populous city

Answer

(a) Delhi is a progressive town.

(b) It is a big business and educational centre.

(c) There is scarcity of houses and thousands of people live in the neighbouring cities.

(d) There are parks and gardens which may be said to be the lungs of this populous city.

6. Read the following passage carefully. There is a one error in each line. Write the
incorrect word and the correction against the correct blank number as given in the
example. (½x 8=4)
Incorrect Correct
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table manner. Some people (a) _________ _________
talk two much while they eat. (b) _________ _________
This is a unhealthy practice. (c) _________ _________
some people also makes too (d) _________ _________
much sound though they take (e) _________ _________
their food. It amount to bad (f) _________ _________
manners. The food may be
chewed without make too much (g) _________ _________
noise. Remember to rinse our mouth well after the meal. (h) _________ ______