Unit 3 - 3.3 Stephen Hawking — English STD 10 — Question

Rewrite using the indirect form of narration:
(i) "Could you have done it?" said Einstein.
(ii) "You are not tone-deaf," he said to me.
(iii) "Sing that back," he ordered me.

Pick out the finite and non-finite verbs from the sentences:
(a) The king continued to dig.
(b) The sun began to sink.

He was the most important man. (Rewrite as a question.)

Do as directed:
(1) We are connected through high-speed internet.
(Frame a Wh-question to get the underlined part as the answer.)

Underline the verbs in the sentences below, and say whether they are Transitive (T) or Intransitive (I):
(1) One can witness and experience the beauty of Heaven.
(2) It leaves me in complete awe.
(3) Nature soothes and nurtures.
(4) It withers completely.
(5) The flower comes to life only for a day.
(6) It smiles and dances.

I was the most important person in the world. (Rewrite in the comparative and positive degree.)

Pick out the adverbs:
circumspectly, indiscriminately, inequity, gravity.

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

Use 'not only...but also' in the following sentence:
The Opera House in Australia and the Historic Center of Vienna in Austria are cultural sites of World Heritage.

By evening it falls and becomes one with the earth again. (Rewrite using the -ing' form of the underlined word.)