Link English Grammar

  

Link English

1. Put the following words in alphabetical order.
a) Phone, picture, piece, picnic, phrase, pirate

b) misery, missing, mistake, miserable, missionary, mishap, mislead, missing.

c) Choir, Choice, Chocolate, Cholera, Chock, Chop.

d) Neutralize, Notorious, narcotic, Nebula, Neutral

2. Quarter of dictionary

(a) First quarter: A – D.
(b) Second quarter: E – L.
(c) Third quarter: M – R.
(d) Fourth quarter: S – Z.

3. In which quarter of the dictionary will you find the following words?
(i) justice (ii) profession (iii) beautiful (iv) kitchen (v) weather

 (i) fast (ii) monkey (iii) x-ray (iv) ant

i) irony ii) negotiation iii) badger iv) trip

4. Different between British & American spelling.
British                       American
centre                        center
labour                        labor
programme               program
colour                       color
traveller                     traveler
skilful                      skillful
fulfil                         fulfill
a licence                  a license
to practise               to practice

7. Put the words below into correct order to make sensible sentences.

 (a) years/she/ English/four/was/for/compulsory/studying.
(b) official/he/a/to/wanted/government/become.
(c) a/she/hospital/in/doctor/become/wants/a/to.
(d) of/he/tea/her/him/cup /asked/give/a/to.
(e) his/he/to/had/dinner/started/just/eat.

(f) like/as/you/long/stay/as/can/you.

(g) being/are/the/looked/them/by/children/after.
(h) cars/both/to/decided/we/the/sell.

(i) wearing/she/a/be/dress/will/white.
(j) English/he/an/to/wanted/teacher/be/
(k) cricket/they/fond/playing/of/are.

(l) does/her/have/what/she/hand/in?
(m) what/do/she/not/have/I/wants.

 9.Word Formation
We can form a new word by adding prefix or suffix ahead or behind a word. It may have similar meaning to the old word or may have quite different from its old world.
Prefix: By adding un-, en-, im-, in-, dis etc.
happy — unhappy
possible — impossible
like — dislike

Suffix: By adding –ment, – able, – er, -est, -less,-ness etc.
large — larger
develop — development
replace — replaceable

10. Add appropriate prefix or suffix in the following words:
(i) usual (ii)satisfied (iii)child (iv) do (v) happy (vi) loyal 

Answers:
(i) unusual (ii) unsatisfied (iii) children (iv) undo (v) happiness (iv) loyalist

ii)Add dis-or un – as appropriate to the following he words.
common, please, interested, popular, healthy, qualify, close, loyal, connect, conditional.

11. Choose the guide words for each head word.

civil ——- guard/ guidance | guide/gull
guild ——-chief/circular | desert/ desk
desire —– dermatitis/ desert | citizen/ civilized.

(1)               Answers
civil = citizen/ civilized.
guild = guide/gull
desire = desert/ desk

13. Choose the guide words for each head word.
rebel ——- canal/canopy | manufacturer/margin
carpet ——– caricature/ cart | Occasion/ odd
march ———– ecology/ edit | readiness/ reality
education ———edition/effort | reasonably/recede
realistic ———–hateful/head | three/ through