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HALL OF FAME - I
Part II English Semester I
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Key to Questions
Part II English Semester I
For all UG Courses

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Mr. K. Md. Suhail, M.A., M.Phil.,
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Key to Questions

Unit I - Prose
1. The Curse of Untouchability - Mahatma Gandhi
Exercise
Read the following passage from the text and identify the
nouns and adjectives in it.
Nouns: Swaraj, term, India, subjection, fruits, culture,
aid, god, movement, creatures, rights, humanity, throne,
deliverance, inhumanity, others
Adjectives: meaningless, perpetual, national, great,
purifying, deserving, inhuman

2. My Lost Dollar - Stephen Leacock

Exercise
Read the following passage from the text and identify the verbs
and adverbs in it.
Verbs: meet, met, talking, said, would, pay,(you) would,
think, would, have reminded, would(n’t), did(n’t), seem
Adverbs: very, frequently, only, apparently, never,
(would)n’t, (did)n’t

3. India and Democracy - Dr. B. R. Ambedkar

Exercise
Read the following passage from the text and identify the
pronouns in it.
Pronouns: she, it, I, it, its, it, its
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4. The Ant and the Grasshopper - Somerset Maugham
Exercise
Read the following passage from the text and identify the
prepositions in it.
Preposition: in, on, in, in, from, from, of, than

Unit-II Poetry
1. La Belle Dame Sans Merci - John Keats
Exercise
Read the following lines from the poem and identify the articles
in it.
Articles: a Lady, the Meads, a faery’s child, A faery’s
song.
2. Ozymandias - P. B. Shelley
Exercise
Read the following lines from the poem and identify the
common nouns and proper nouns in it.
Common Nouns: name, king, works, remains, decay,
wreck, sands, nothing (pronoun)
Proper Nouns: Ozymandias, King, Mighty, Wreck,

3. All the World’s a Stage - William Shakespeare

Exercise
Read the following lines from the poem and identify the link
words in it.
Link words: And shining, And then a lover, Then a
soldier
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4. A River - A. K. Ramanujan
Exercise
Read the following lines from the poem and identify the definite
articles in it.
Definite articles: the bridges, the wet stones, the dry ones,
the sun, The poets, of the floods, had the floods

Unit-V Grammar
Lexical Skills
WORDS
Exercise
I. Make this word plural.
Supplies, aunties, days, stories, wages, horses, branches,
negroes, potatoes, masses, inches, losses, mobs, boxes
II. Add ‘ing’ to the following words.
reaping, ripping, lasting, bending, boiling, permitting,
loving, hopping, using, facing, smiling, continuing, latter(no
–ing), entering, beginning, aging, losing, shipping
III. Write the comparative and superlative forms of the following
words.
Positive Comparative Superlative
Big Bigger Biggest
Fit Fitter Fittest
Hot Hotter Hottest
Heavy Heavier Heaviest
Strange Stranger Strangest
Lovely Lovelier Loveliest
Fat Fatter Fattest
Wide Wider Widest
Pretty Prettier Prettiest
Lazy Lazier Laziest
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IV. Add ei/ie to spell each word correctly.
1. Counterfeit
2. received, achievement
3. neither, scientist, received
4. chief, conceived
Synonyms And Antonyms
Exercise
I. Write a synonym of each of the following words.
1. industrious – hardworking; diligent
2. arrogant – haughty; scornful
3. severe – harsh; serious; cruel
4. massive – large; huge; enormous
5. malign – slander, defame; hurtful, hostile
6. jeopardy – danger; trouble
7. retard – obstruct; stunted
8. reconcile – resolve; make peace
9. reliable – trustworthy; dependable
10. reckless – daring; rash
II. In each of the following sentence, a word is underlined and
four alternatives are given as its synonyms. You are to choose one
word which would fit in as its best synonyms and if it were to be a
substitute for the underlined word, it would not alter the meaning of
the original sentence.
1. a) Changes
2. d) pass through
3. c) pillars
4. d) curious
5. b) thought(ful)
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Homophones And Homonyms
Exercise
I. Choose the correct word.
1. heal 6. hare 11. break
2. seed 7. one 12. tail
3. grate 8. wait 13. patients
4. wood 9. fair 14. ceiling
5. manner 10. Peace 15. cord

III. Find the meaning for the following homonyms and make
sentences on your own.
1. address (location) – address (speech)
2. bear – bare
3. light (of lesser weight) – light (visibility, illumination)
4. rose (a flower) – rose (past tense of rise)
5. mean (rude) – mean (intended connotation)
6. match (a competition) – match (something/someone
suitable or equal)
7. fair (just) – fair (light-complexioned) – fare (fee)
8. current – currant
9. band – banned
10. tender (gentle, soft) – tender (a formal offer)
11. pound (strike or hit) – pound (British currency)
12. lie (falsehood) – lie (be in a horizontal or resting
position on a supporting surface)
13. bark (cry of an animal) – bark (the tough protective
outer sheath of a tree trunk)
14. kind (considerate, friendly) – kind (a category or
type)
15. pole (a long, slender, rounded piece of wood or
metal) – pole (either of the two points at which the
axis of a circle cuts the surface of a sphere; extreme
ends)
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Words Often Confused
Exercise
Complete each of the following sentences choosing the correct word
from the brackets.
1. lamp 6. storey 11. herd
2. throne 7. hung 12. affect
3. reins 8. cannons 13. intelligible
4. goats 9. heir 14. role
5. house 10. founded 15. latest

Descriptive Grammar
Parts of Speech
Exercise
I. Identify the part of speech of the underlined words.
(Underlined word to be of the teacher’s choice.)

The Phrases And The Clauses

Exercise
I. Combine the following pairs of sentences using the words given
in brackets.
1. When I went to his house, he was making a telephone
call.
2. As he was getting off the bus, he slipped and fell.
3. Some people staged a dharna outside, while the
meeting was going on.
4. Although she hated going out, she agreed to come with
me.
5. You will not get your hall ticket, unless you return the
books.
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II. Pick out the subordinate clauses from the above passage and
say what type each one is.
When my school closed for vacation – adjectival clause
who is a thorough city-bred – adjectival clause
As I lay awake – adjectival clause
Before I returned home – adverbial clause

III. Complete the following dialogue by filling in the blanks

appropriately.
Iniyan : Hello Parthiban! How are you?
Parthiban : I am fine. And you.
Iniyan : How fantastic/ great you look!
Parthiban : Yes, I do feel fresh and energetic.
Iniyan : What, did you do something special?
Parthiban : That’s a secret.
Iniyan : Are you taking any supplements?
Parthiban : Yes.
Iniyan : Please, tell me what it is.
Parthiban : Will you keep it as a secret?
Iniyan : Yes, of course.
Parthiban : Spirulina.
Iniyan : So, I just have to take Spirulina tablets?
Parthiban : Yes, one a day keeps you fresh throughout
the day.

IV. Identify the fragments in the following conversation and write

down the full sentences they stand for.
Kavitha : Sangeetha, did you attend Kumar’s wedding?
Sangeetha : No, I did not attend his wedding.
Kavitha : Why didn’t you? Was it on a working day?
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Sangeetha : No, it was not on a working day.
Kavitha : Was it on a Sunday?
Sangeetha : Yes. It was on a Saturday.
Kavitha : Then, why didn’t you attend the wedding?
Sangeetha : I’m ashamed to admit. I overslept.

Nouns
Exercise
Pick out the nouns in the following sentences and say which kind
each of them is.
1. earth- common or proper noun ; sky- proper or
common noun ; horizon- proper noun
2. Chinese – proper noun ; champions- common/collective
noun; game- common noun ; table tennis- common noun
3. Doors- common noun ; wood- material noun; glass-
material noun; houses- common noun; country- common
noun
4. Satish- proper noun; pen- common noun; paper-
common (or material) noun; letter- common noun
5. Greed- usually abstract noun, but here personified, so
proper noun; cause- abstract noun; evils- abstract noun

• Nouns-Number
Exercise
Rewrite the following sentences in the plural.
1. Oxen are useful animals.
2. Babies drink milk.
3. Children go to school every morning.
4. Mice eat a lot of grain.
5. His teeth were removed by women dentists.
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• Nouns-Gender
Exercise
Fill in the blanks in the following sentences with the feminine form
of the nouns in brackets.
1. headmistress
2. heroine
3. niece
4. lioness
5. bride

Traditional Grammar
Tenses
Exercise
1. went
2. will complete
3. have been living/ have lived
4. go; went
5. have been studying
6. has been learning
7. claims; has seen
8. goes; has been going
9. started; has been growing
10. tells/told; won

Voice Of The Verb

Active and Passive Voices
Exercise
Change the following sentences into passive voice.
1. The cow is fed by Ramu every morning.
2. A party is being given in her honour.
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3. Both the flasks have been kept by him.
4. Gandhiji was assasinated by Godse.
5. The building was being repaired last night.
6. It was abandoned (by people) as useless.
7. The champion will be honoured at a meeting.
8. He is called Big Mouth (by people).
9. Give your pen to me, please.
10. The telegram has been sent by whom?
11. Where was the dead body cremated?
12. When were the thieves arrested?
13. Why was the building damaged by the people?
14. How was this pillar taken to the top of the fort?
15. He may be punished severely.