Unit 2 - 2.6 Science and Spirituality — English STD 10 — Question

Choose the appropriate Adverb or Adjective
form to fill in the gaps :
(1) They gave him whatever made him _______. (happy/happily)
(2) He ran very _____. (fast/fastly)
(3) He would become a ________ sitarist some day. (great/greatly)
(4) Smita accepted the suggestion ________. (grateful/gratefully)

His first assignment on being commissioned was to fly Westland Wapiti biplanes in the North- Western Frontier Province. (Rewrite as a complex sentence.)

Academic brilliance is no different from the brilliance of a mirror.

Complete the following sentences with the help of the given sentences:
(1) The biggest challenge knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.
(a) No other challenge knocking ________________________________________________.
(b) Fear and intolerance are bigger ______________________________________________.

Write what the underlined auxiliaries indicate :
(a) What can I give?
(b) We have to replace this attitude...

Hawking spoke against the idea. (Rewrite using 'did not.)

Add appropriate question tags:
(1) I just had to do it.............?
(2) I am still pretty,............?
(3) She had the habit of saying a little silent
prayer.............?

Rewrite the sentences as directed:
(1) I challenge the passivity and pessimism surrounding our children.
(2) Children are questioning our inaction and watching our actions.

Find sentences from the passage that contain infinitives:
(1) The Nobel Committee has generously invited me _________ a lecture.
(2) I am unable _______ that.
(3) I have come here only ________ the voices and dreams of our children.
(4)...instead of forcing me ________ a gun....
(5)......forced ________ his friends....