Kindly address your remarks to the Chair.

Fill in the blanks choosing the correct words from the list given below:

diary, dairy; quiet, quite; profit, prophet; patrol, petrol, desert, dessert

Cow’s milk is sold at this……………

He likes ……surroundings.

The company has made no ………….this year.

The price of …… …. has gone up.

………….was served soon after the dinner.

Make a sentence with the following words to bring out the difference between them:

friend, colleague, ally, acquaintance, associate

Write a note on repetition as a rhetorical device, giving at least five examples from prose, poetry or drama.

How is Amalkanti’s dream different from that of the other boys in the class? What does it tell us about him?

The words below have a literal as well as an extended meaning. Write the literal meaning of the words. Use the following words in sentences of your own using the ‘extended’ meaning.

angry, train, mouth, break and brain

Rewrite the following sentences using a polite structure. Context/situation is given in brackets:

Bring all documents to the office. (for the meeting)

I can’t come on time. (to the teacher)

Open the window. (to a stranger in the train).

Pass the salt. (to a guest)

Gift wrap this for me. (to the shopkeeper)

Send me mail on this. (to a junior colleague at work)

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Lend me your camera for a day. (to your friend)

Give me some notes on this topic. (to your teacher)

Buy me a drink. (to a colleague)

What’s your name? (to a new colleague)