Exercise-65
In the following passage one word is missing in each line. Write the omitted word along with the preceding and succeeding word in your answer sheet. The first one has been solved as an example.
| Before | Word | After | ||
| The holy man / to Rama | ||||
| spoke for a while. He to Rama’s mother | (a) | ……… | ……… | ……… |
| that her son prayed sincerely | (b) | ……… | ……… | ……… |
| to Kali village goddess | (c) | ……… | ……… | ……… |
| he be blessed by her. | (d) | ……… | ……… | ……… |
| This would his fortune and | (e) | ……… | ……… | ……… |
| she would be free from worries. | (f) | ……… | ……… | ……… |
Answers:-
| Before | Word | After | |
| (a) | He | said | to |
| (b) | that | if | her |
| (c) | kali | the | village |
| (d) | he | would | be |
| (e) | would | change | his |
| (f) | from | her | worries |
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Exercise-66
In the following passage, one word is missing in each line. Write the omitted word along with the preceding and succeeding word in your answer sheet. The first one has been solved as an example.
| Before | Word | After | ||
| Within each / the dialect areas, there is considerable | (a) | …….. | …….. | …….. |
| variation in speech according education | (b) | …….. | …….. | …….. |
| and social standing. There is important polarity | ||||
| of uneducated and educated speech in | (c) | …….. | …….. | …….. |
| which former can be identified with | (d) | …….. | …….. | …….. |
| the regional dialect most completely later moves | (e) | …….. | …….. | …….. |
| away from dialect usage a form of English | (f) | …….. | …….. | …….. |
| Cats across dialectical boundaries, so | (g) | …….. | …….. | …….. |
| do features of uneducated use ; a | (h) | …….. | …….. | …….. |
| prominent example the double negative | (a) | …….. | …….. | …….. |
| as in I don’t want no cake. |
Answers:
| Before | Word | After | |
| (a) | according | to | education |
| (b) | is | an | important |
| (c) | which | the | former |
| (d) | completely | as | latter |
| (e) | usage | to | a |
| (f) | English | that | cuts |
| (g) | do | the | features |
| (h) | example | of | the |
