1. Choose the correct option to fill the blanks:

Poetry ________ (related/relates) to whatever ________ (has given/gives) immediate pleasure or pain to the human mind. It is ______ (a/the/an) universal language which ________ (each/every) heart ________ (hold/holds). Wherever there is a sense of beauty or power or harmony, there is poetry.

2. Read the following dialogue and complete the passage:

Hardy: Have you read the latest book by J K Rowling?

Mary: Not yet but I have bought it.

Hardy: Could you lend me the book to read?

Mary: Yes but only after I’ve finished.

Hardy asked Mary __________________ by J K Rowling. Mary told him that she had not read it yet but _________________. Hardy then asked Mary ________________ to read. Mary replied in affirmative but added that ___________________.

3. The following passage has not been edited. Find the errors and write their corrections:

Incorrect    Correct

Mr. Behrman was a man with good fortune,           e.g.  with         of

which had retired to extraordinary sobriety          _________        ________

and yet retain his usual cheerfulness. He was        _________        ________

not a man of much words but a very weighty         _________        ________

speaker and a patient observation.                            _________        ________

4. Place the jumbled words in correct order to make meaningful sentences:

a) departed/ after/ he/ king/ seeing/ the

b) difficult/ the/ was/ source/ the/ to/ discover/ Nile/ of

c) police/ the/ he/ in/ hindered/ the/ execution/ duty/ their/ of

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Answers:

1. relates; gives; the; every; holds
2. if she had read the latest book; she had bought it; if she could lend him the book; only after she had finished
3. which-who; retain-retained; much-many; observation-observer
4. he departed after seeing the king; the source of the Nile was difficult to discover; he hindered the police in the execution of their duty