SOLVED EXERCISES BASED ON TEXT BOOK

EXERCISE : 1

Make Nouns from :

Questions.
1. act
2. wise
3.employ
4. appear
5. obey
6. please
7. able
8. propose
9. enter
10.fertile.
Answers:
1. action
2. wisdom
3. employee
4. appearance
5. obedience
6. pleasure
7. ability
8. proposal
9. entry
10. fertility.

EXERCISE : 2

Make Nouns from :

Questions.
1. deliver
2. waste
3. deny
4. close
5. confirm
6. govern
7. educate
8. avoid
9. gentle
10. heavy.
Answers:
1. delivery
2. wastage
3. denial
4. closure
5. confirmation
6. government
7. education
8. avoidance
9. gentleness
10. heaviness.

EXERCISE : 3

Make Adjectives from :
Questions.
1. nation
2. origin
3. favour
4. value
5. thirst
6. hunger
7. storm
8. worth
9. blood
10. magic.
Answers:
1. national
2. original
3. favourable
4. valuable
5. thirsty
6. hungry
7. stormy
8. worthy
9. bloody
10. magical.

EXERCISE : 4

Make Verbs from :
Questions.
1. able
2. large
3. joy
4. fool
5. bitter
6. rich
7. power
8. friend
9. courage
10. little.

Answers:
1. enable
2. enlarge
3. enjoy
4. befool
5.embitter
6. enrich
7. empower
8. befriend
9. encourage
10. elittle.

EXERCISE : 5

Fill in the blanks with suitable compound forms of the words given in the brackets in the
following sentences :
(a)
Questions.
1. How can I do the……… (possible)?
2. Never be ………… (polite) to anyone, whoever it may be.
3. “Do you agree with me?” “No, I ………… (agree).”
4. His action is ……… (legal). He is sure to be prosecuted.
5. These apples are still ……… (ripe).
6. The bullock-cart has not ………. (live) its usefulness.
7. Never ……….. (estimate) the strength of an enemy.

8. This man claims to be able to ………. (tell) future events.
9. The Government …………. (consider) the orders and cancelled them.
10. Hoarders and smugglers are …………. (social) persons.
11. Is he ……….. (Australia) or British ?
12. A journal which is published twice a month is called a …………..(weekly).
13. The sub-inspector is …………. (power) to arrest a law-breaker.
14. His uncle’s influence ………. (able) him to get a job soon countries.
Answers:
1. impossible
2. impolite
3. disagree
4. illegal
5. unripe
6. outlived
7. underestimate
8. foretell
9. reconsidered
10. anti-social
11. non-Australian
12. bi-weekly
13. empowered
14. enabled.

(b)
Questions.
1. Mr. Sohanlal is one of the best …….. …….. (cricket) our state has produced.
2. My headmaster has known me since my ……… (boy).
3. Great sacrifices were made in the struggle for our ………….. (free).
4. The ……………… (inhabit) of that island are short and dark skinned.
5. .…….. (elect) to Parliament have been postponed.
6. People in many districts faced ……….. (starve) owing to the drought.
7. An ………….. (agree) was signed between the two parties yesterday.
8. He was very rich, but found no real …………….. (happy) in being wealthy.
9. We can calculate the time of eclipses with great …………… (accurate).
10. The …………… (post) for registration of letters has been increased recently.
11. The saying is that ……………….. (fail) is a stepping stone to success.
12. The story of the Ramayana has been ………………. (simple) in that book.
13. This road has been (wide) by cutting down the trees on both sides of it.
14. He received a lot of …………. (assist) from his uncle for his college education.
Answers:
1. cricketers
2. boyhood
3. freedom
4. inhabitants
5. elections
6. starvation
7. agreement
8. happiness
9. accuracy
10. postage
11. failure
12. simplified
13. widened
14. assistance.