Exercise-83
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 | ||
| A miser / a teacher how much | e.g. | miser | asked | a |
| he charge for teaching his son. | (a) | …… | …… | …… |
| The teacher replied that he would Rs. 500 | (b) | …… | …… | …… |
| The miser said that he could buy slave | (c) | …… | …… | …… |
| for less. The teacher told him he bought | (d) | …… | …… | …… |
| a slave and saved on the education his son | (e) | …… | …… | …… |
| he would two slaves. | (f) | …… | …… | …… |
Answers:-
| Before | Word | After | |
| (a) | he | would | charge |
| (b) | would | charge | Rs. 500 |
| (c) | buy | a | slave |
| (d) | him | if | he |
| (e) | education | of | his |
| (f) | would | get | two |
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Exercise-84
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 | ||
| My neighbour’s son / well-behaved. | e.g. | son | is | well |
| He goes a school that gives great importance | (a) | …… | …… | …… |
| to value education. He tells a lie. Once | (b) | …… | …… | …… |
| he told by his father to | (c) | …… | …… | …… |
| deny presence to the caller on telephone. | (d) | …… | …… | …… |
| The boy told caller that his father’s instructions | (e) | …… | …… | …… |
| were to deny his to a caller. | (f) | …… | …… | …… |
Answers:-
| Before | Word | After | |
| (a) | goes | to | a |
| (b) | He | never | tells |
| (c) | he | was | told |
| (d) | deny | his | presence |
| (e) | told | the | caller |
| (f) | his | presence | to |
