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Grammar Exercises: Tense and Pronoun Changes

Sidda asked the man if he wanted a servant and provided details about himself when asked. The man's daughter said she liked Sidda and wanted to keep him. She enjoyed playing teacher with Sidda, though he struggled with writing, and she worked hard to teach him.

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Grammar Exercises: Tense and Pronoun Changes

Sidda asked the man if he wanted a servant and provided details about himself when asked. The man's daughter said she liked Sidda and wanted to keep him. She enjoyed playing teacher with Sidda, though he struggled with writing, and she worked hard to teach him.

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Leela’s Friend

GRAMMAR WORK:
NARRATION:
 Change of Tense, if necessary
 Change of Pronoun, if necessary
 Change of Adverbials (of Time), if necessary
 Subject before Verb
 Use of Linker. :- [** if / Given Wh-word >>> Question]
[** to / not to + Verb >>> Request / Order / Advise]
[** Use ‘that’ >>> In all other sentences]

1. “Sir, do you want a servant?” Sidda asked.


Ans. Sidda asked politely if he wanted a servant.
2. “Where were you before?” he asked.
Ans. He asked where he had been earlier.
3. “What is his name?” he asked.
Ans. He asked what his name was.
4. “I don’t know master” Sidda said. “He lives near the market.”
Ans. Sidda respectfully said that he didn’t know and added that he
lived near the market.
5. “Why did they send you away?” he asked.[ did + send = sent]
Ans. He asked why they had sent him away.
6. “They left the town, master” Sidda said.
7. She looked at Sidda and said, “He doesn’t seem to me worse than
the others we have had.”
8. “Oh father!” she said, “I like him. Don’t send him away. Let us
keep him in our house.” [Use: excitedly]
9. “Sidda, come and play! Leela would cry.
10. And then she said, “Now throw the ball into the sky”.
11. “Ah yes!” said Leela. “I see the moon, but is the moon very
wet?” [Use: exclaimed in wonder]
12. She said, “What is in the sky Sidda?”
13. She said, "If we stand on the roof and stretch our arms, can
we touch the sky?"
14. "Does the moon know you?" asked Leela.
15. He said, pointing, "You see the moon there, don’t you?".

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SPLITTING OF SENTENCES

 Separation of sentences.
 To split the given sentence into SIMPLE SENTENCES.
Simple Sentence = One Clause sentence OR
= One Subject + One Finite Verb
 To find out the number of Finite & Non-Finite Verbs in the sentence.
 To split the sentence according to TIME or LOGICAL sequence.

1. Sidda was hanging about the gate at a moment when Mr.


Sivasanker was standing in the front veranda of his house
brooding over the servant problem.

(i) Mr. Sivasankar was standing in the front veranda of his house.
(ii) He was brooding over the servant problem.
(iii) Sidda was hanging about the gate at that moment.

2. As Sidda opened the gate and came in, Mr Sivasankar subjected


him to a scrutiny.
3. He doesn’t seem to me worse than the others we have had.
4. Sidda was given two meals a day and four rupees a month, in
return for which he washed clothes, tended the garden, ran
errands, chopped wood and looked after Leela.
5. She had a box filled with catalogues, illustrated books and stumps
of pencils.
6. It gave her great joy to play the teacher to Sidda.
(i) She played the teacher to Sidda.
(ii) It gave her great joy.

7. She made him squat on the floor with a pencil between his fingers
and a catalogue in front of him.
8. But that good fellow, though an adept at controlling the moon, was
utterly incapable of plying the pencil.
9. She pitied him, and redoubled her efforts to teach him.
10. She insisted upon having his company all her waking hours.

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