Exercises to improve your writing skills and Current Affairs. (Sourced from CNN’s Meanwhile in the Middle East)
Join the following small sentences to form a single sentence.
- Palestinian Alaa Al-Shawish is trying to fetch some clean water for her family. It’s very cold in Gaza due to the winter. She has gone to a water station in central Gaza. She stands there in bare foot. The place is very crowded. She carries a container in hand.
- Israel bombed parts of Gaza. As a result, her family members were displaced from Gaza city. They are now living in a makeshift tent in Deir Al-Balah.
- Severe cold weather has caused many deaths there. Among the dead, there are at least five babies. The UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has given a stern warning on Tuesday. It says that there will be more such deaths in coming days.
Convert the following Direct sentence to Indirect form.
“We’re dying from the cold. This is not life, this is not living – I pray every day that we die to be relieved from this life,” Alaa says as she fights back tears. “No food, no water, no life.”
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Model answers to the above questions ….
Sentence joining ..
Q1. Palestinian Alaa Al-Shawish is trying to fetch some clean water for her family. It’s very cold in Gaza due to the winter. She has gone to a water station in central Gaza. She stands there in bare foot. The place is very crowded. She carries a container in hand.
Ans 1. Standing barefoot in the mud with an empgty containder in hand at a crowded water stzation in central Gaza, Palestinian Alla Al-Shawish is fearing the winter weathder and looking for clean water for her family.
Q2. Israel bombed parts of Gaza. As a result, her family members were displaced from Gaza city. They are now living in a makeshift tent in Deir Al-Bal
Ans 2.. Her family are living in a makeshift tent in Deir Al-Balah, after being displaced from Gaza City amid heavy Israeli bombardment.
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Q3. Severe cold weather has caused many deaths there. Among the dead, there are at least five babies. The UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has given a stern warning on Tuesday. It says that there will be more such deaths in coming days.
Ans 3. Several Palestinians, including at least five babies, have died in recent days due to severe cold weather. The UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) warned on Tuesday that “more babies will likely die” in the coming days.
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Converting Direct to Indirect…
Question.. “We’re dying from the cold. This is not life, this is not living – I pray every day that we die to be relieved from this life,” Alaa says as she fights back tears. “No food, no water, no life.”
Answer … Allza, a Palestinian laments saying that they were dying from cold. For them it was not life, and it was not living. She prays everyday to die so that she are relieveisrom her life as she fights back her tears. She bursts out saying there is no food, no water, no life for them.
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