Unit 15: War and Peace (Grade 11 Compulsory English Grammar Solutions)- New Course
Pressenza
Reading
A. Match the words on the left side with their meanings on the right.
a. proclaim i. generous or forgiving
b. unswerving ii. distress
c. magnanimous iii. dreadful
d. trample iv. steady or constant
e. tremendous v. declare
f. inevitable vi. upcoming
g. dire vii. huge
h. anguish viii. pitiless
i. impending ix. unavoidable
j. ruthless x. crush
Answer Key:
a. (V)- declare
b. (IV)- steady or constant
c. (I)- generous or forgiving
d. (X)- Crush
e. (VII)- Huge
f. (IX)- unavoidable
g. (III)- dreadful
h. (II)- distress
i. (VI)- upcoming
j. (VIII)- pitiless
B. Fill in the blanks with the suitable word from the list given.
appalling, sanguine, slaughter, absurdity, futility, reluctance, bestir
a. The soldiers suffer …… injuries during the attack.
b. She is …… about prospects for the economic development of the country.
c. Innocent people get unexpected …… in the war.
d. The crowd laughed at the …… of the singer’s behaviour.
e. The intellectuals should be worried about the horror and …… of war.
f. He sensed her …… to continue the work.
g. They …… themselves at the first light of morning.
Answer Key:
a. appalling
b. sanguine
c. slaughter
d. absurdity
e. futility
f. reluctance
g. bestir
Grammar
Sentence functions
A. Do you know the parts of a sentence? If not, look at this sentence.
The fat man painted the door green last week.
In this sentence, the fat man → Subject (S)
painted → Verb (V)
the door → Object (O)
green → Complement (C)
last week → Adverbial (A)
B. Divide the following sentences into different parts.
Example: The man will buy a pen next week.
The man – will buy – a pen – next week.
Subject + Verb + Object + Adverbial
a. The children are playing now.
b. Srijana will be reading a story.
c. Bimala is a very beautiful girl.
d. She usually wears glasses.
e. They elected him President.
f. Rabin is laughing.
g. He has a big house in Butwal.
h. The man who lives next door is a professor.
i. Her uncle has been living in Kathmandu for fifteen years.
j. The girl with long hair asked me a question last week.
Answer Key:
a. subject + verb + adverbial (adjunct)
b. subject + verb + object
c. subject + verb (be) + complement
d. subject + adverbial + verb + object
e. subject + verb + object + complement
f. subject + verb (be)
g. subject + complement + adverbial
h. subject + complement
i. subject + verb + adverbial + adverbial
j. subject + verb + object (indirect) + object(direct) +
adverbial
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