ABTA Test paper madhyamik suggestion grammar part solution

A. Articles & Prepositions (Fill in the blanks)

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1.

A great deal has been written with much curiosity by people about gypsies. As a strange tribe they excited the people among whom they lived. They hawked small articles and sold them at fairs. They attracted a great many people with their magic shows. At one time, it was thought that they stole children from the enemies' view, training them in their ways of life.

2.

New Zealand Cricket captain Stephen Fleming expects a tough tour of India. He said that the 15-member New Zealand team, who arrived after a long and delayed air-flight from Christchurch with a stop over at Singapore, would benefit from their tour and that he was looking forward to playing here.

3.

There is no proper drainage system to drain out the area. The used water remains outside and the condition becomes worse during the rainy season. The water-logged roads turn into a breeding ground for mosquitoes and flies.

4.

Last year it was observed that he remains absent from his table at least an hour every day, especially from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.

✦ B. Correct Verb Forms

1.      I am in Kolkata for six weeks. I have been working very hard since I arrived.

2.      The three-storeyed building at the end of the blind street was built in the last century.
Today the hall room on its ground floor is owned by a students’ association.
It had been used as a seminar room when the building was bought by the mother organisation concerned around ten years ago.

✦ C. Phrasal Verbs — Meanings

Phrasal Verb	Meaning
bear with	tolerate
break down	stop functioning / lose control emotionally
break into	enter by force
break up	separate / end relationship
bring out	publish / produce
call for (3)	demand / require / ask for
call off (4)	cancel
call on	visit someone formally
call up (3)	ring someone / summon / recall memories
carry on (2)	continue / behave foolishly
carry out	perform or execute
come across (2)	meet accidentally / find by chance
come by	obtain / manage to get
come out	be published / become known
come round (2)	visit / recover consciousness
cover up	hide facts
cut down (2)	reduce / chop trees
cut off (2)	disconnect / isolate
back up	support
get over	recover from
give away	donate / reveal
give in	surrender
give off	emit, release (smell/heat)
give up (4)	stop trying / surrender / quit habit / abandon
go after	chase
go on	continue
go through	experience / examine carefully
go up	increase / rise
hold back	restrain / hide feelings
hold up	delay / rob
keep away	avoid
keep on	continue repeatedly
keep up	maintain progress
look after	take care of
look down upon	disrespect
look for	search
look into (2)	investigate / examine
look over	inspect briefly
make off	escape with stolen goods
make out (5)	understand / decipher / write / pretend / prove
make over	transfer ownership
make up	invent / compose / reconcile / apply cosmetics
pass away (2)	die / disappear gradually
put away	store, save
put off (2)	postpone / disinterest
put on	wear / stage (a show)
put up with (2)	tolerate / endure
run after	chase
set by	save for future
set in (2)	begin (weather) / establish
set out	start a journey / arrange
set up (2)	establish / arrange equipment
stand against	oppose
take after (6)	resemble / follow habits / imitate / inherit traits / behave like / copy
take back	withdraw words / return something
tell upon (2)	affect negatively / show impact
turn down (2)	reject / reduce intensity
turn up (2)	arrive / increase volume

✦ Change the Voice

1. Who has done the sums? → By whom have the sums been done?
2. The authority has not acknowledged the limitations of its system. → The limitations of its system have not been acknowledged by the authority.
3. Her behaviour often vexes the civilised citizens. → The civilised citizens are often vexed by her behaviour.
4. Do not deprive the marginalised of their rights. → Let not the marginalised be deprived of their rights.
5. History did not build Rome in a day. → Rome was not built in a day by history.
6. She encouraged her subordinates to steal public money. → Her subordinates were encouraged to steal public money by her.
7. She knew who we must be. → Who we must be was known to her.
8. Of course, Claude and I would have liked to have someone to play with us. → Of course, someone would have been liked by Claude and me to play with us.
9. Puffed rice feels light. → Puffed rice is felt light.

✦ Change the Narration

1. The horse-rider asked if there was anybody there.
2. She said that she had my secret inside her little bag.
3. The lady wanted to know how the protesters had entered there.
4. People exclaimed that she was a pathological liar.
5. India cried with sorrow that Vinesh had been deprived of her achievement.
6. Rehana said that she solved ten sums every day.
7. The Bishop advised people to take care of one’s own body, the temple of the living God.
8. She said that I was half an hour late.
9. He said that she had known who we must be.
10. She tells her sister not to trade her dignity for a few seconds of digital fame.

✦ Split into Simple Sentences

1. Trees are chopped down. We remain indifferent. We are callous about our future.
2. She knew it. We must be someone.
3. I do not know. That declaration makes me accommodative. I try to know the unknown.

✦ Join into Single Sentence

1. They had lost their only daughter, so their grief changed into the fight for justice.
2. In the procession of resistance, she came across a collegemate after a long time who could recognise his old comrade at once.
3. Last year I lent you a novel titled Home and the World which you have to return within the next week.
4. Some students' books have been stolen and the Headmistress knows the students.
5. Paris is called a city of culture and so the uncultured are not encouraged there.
6. A pride of lions is standing in front of the river while a school of fish is scared.
7. The leader having passed away, leadership has been shouldered by the young disciples.
8. The notice was served in the school WhatsApp group, yet many students could not know the matter.

✦ Transformation of Sentences

1. Is there anyone so base as to be a bondman only for a frugal monthly allowance?
2. He was one of the few progressive chief ministers in India, yet he never let his administration be anti-people.
3. K. R. Narayanan is not the only Indian to have been elected President while serving as Vice-President.
4. Changing of voice is easier than that of narration. (Comparative → Positive)
5. Though Shalku Oraon is poor, he is not the poorest boy in the class.
6. No Soviet cosmonaut but Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit Earth.
7. This type of recruitment scam must always be remembered.
8. Their enthronement in the hearts of a few followers was due to their empathy.
9. She was never a silent social worker → Silence was never her trait as a social worker.