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Miscellaneous Grammar exercises to banish your hesitation to write… Convert from Passive to Active. 1. Great danger is posed to civilians by unexploded land mines. 2. Due to the lurking danger of left-over landmines, refugees returning home have been advised by authorities in Kyiv to … Read more
Comprehension exercise.. Then, read the following paragraphs and answer the short questions … Last month, as bombs rained down on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv, Anna Horodetska locked up her rented apartment and fled to India, carrying just a couple of T-shirts and a coffee machine – … Read more
Common Flaws in English syntax –Their correction Some of the many writing flaws of students —young and old Flaw type 1 …..Excessive repetition of pronouns like ‘It’. ….. 1a. Read the following write-up, examine the defects and remove them by suitable modification. 1b. Faulty text … Read more
Joining and splitting (breaking) of sentences. 1. My closest friend’s father contracted Covid. He isolated himself in his small room. Answer .. On contracting Covid, my closest friend’s father isolated himself in his small room. 2. My closest friend’s father contracted Covid. He isolated himself … Read more
The many uses of the word ‘scale’ .. 1. (Noun)When we cut a fish, we remove the scales from its surface. We then cut to pieces to cook it. Un Odiya, it’s called ‘Kaati’. The Kaati is very rich in Calcium. In large fish processing … Read more
Rewrite the following sentences using the word ‘set’ as a noun, verb, or phrasal verb. 1. Harish has strong desire to become a software researcher, where as his sister, Namita, has a burning desire to be a playback singer. 2. The captain of the cruise … Read more
Sports bank helps Arunachal town kick the habit New facilities have weaned youth away from drugs in Miao The fight against drugs in a small town in the Changlang district of Arunachal Pradesh is riding on a bank of sports equipment. Soon after taking charge … Read more
Sentence breaking exercise with answer … (Source: NYT) Original sentence 1. Plans to expand lithium mining in Chile, the world’s second largest producer, hit political roadblocks this week, raising new questions about supplies of a metal that is in high demand as the world transitions … Read more
Error correction for school students… Correct the grammar mistakes in the following passage … The ship was loaded with a big consignment of tea for export to Russia. The ship had been docked in Kolkata Port for two days. The laborers had worked round the … Read more
Words / phrases with multiple uses.. Disuse … a. The singer was incarcerated for a long ten years because she had sung a song critical of the dictator in power. After her release she was horrified to find that she could no longer sing. Along … Read more