Unit 2: Communication (Grade 11 Compulsory English Grammar Solutions)- New Course

 

A. The words in the crossword puzzle are from the text. Find them in the text to solve the puzzle based on the clues given below.

Down:

1. to be preoccupied with a single topic or emotion

3. to move slowly and quietly in a particular direction

4. orderly, logical and consistent

Across:

2. to utter rapidly or unintelligibly

5. to insert something between other things

6. an unreadable handwriting

Answer Key:

Down 1.obsess 3. Creep 4. Coherent

Across 2.babble 5. interpose 6. squiggle 

C. Word formation: Adjectives and Adverbs

a. Read the following sentences from the text and notice the words that are underlined.

i. Do freewriting exercises regularly.

ii. Go quickly without rushing.

iii. No wonder the producer gets nervous, jumpy, inhibited, and finally can’t be coherent.

iv. You can throw away lousy beginnings and make new ones.

The underlined words in (a) and (b) are adverbs, and in (c) and (d) are adjectives. Notice that we can form adverbs by adding the suffix ‘-ly’ to an adjective, and adjective by adding the suffix ‘-y’ to a noun.

Note that adding the suffix ‘-ly’ to the noun makes that noun an adjective (e.g. friend – friendly, love – lovely, beast – beastly, scholar – scholarly, month –monthly, etc.).

b. Write the following words in the right columns. Change the adjectives into adverbs and nouns into adjectives, as shown in the example.

rain, careful, bush, spice, perfect, automatic, snow, blood, certain, cloud, fair, general, heavy, bag, proud, rapid, mood, noise, proper, air, final, common, beautiful, frequent, snow, hungry, cream, dust, ease, ice, oil, spice fun, hand, greed, health, hill

Adjectives	Adverbs	Nouns	Adjectives
Careful	Carefully	Rain	Rainy
Perfect	Perfectly	Bush	Bushy
Automatic	Automatically	Spice	Spicy
Certain	Certainly	Snow	Snowy
Fair	Fairly	Blood	Bloody
General	Generally	Cloud	Cloudy
Proud	Proudly	Bag	Baggy
Rapid	Rapidly	Mood	Moody
Proper	Properly	Noise	Noisy
Final	Finally	Air	Airy
Common	Commonly	Cream	Creamy
Beautiful	Beautifully	Dust	Dusty
Frequent	Frequently	Ice	Icy
Heavy	Heavily	Fun	Funny
Hungry	Hungrily	Ease	Easy
		Hand	Handy
		Oil	Oily
		Greed	Greedy
		Health	Healthy
		Hill	Hilly

c. Fill in the gaps with the appropriate adjective or adverb.

i. Pramila is playing …… (quiet/quietly).

ii. Hari speaks very …… (loud/loudly).

iii. Mukesh is a …… (careful/carefully) driver.

iv. The test was …… (easy/easily) and we finished in time.

v. He is fitting the …… (automatic/automatically) door in my house.

vi. My uncle speaks …… (perfect/perfectly) Chinese.

vii. It was raining very …… (heavy/heavily).

viii. She looked very …… (calm/calmly), but I am sure she was feeling very nervous.

Answer Key: 

i. quietly

ii. loudly

iii. careful

iv. easy

v. automatic

vi. perfect

vii. heavily

viii. calm

Grammar

Position of adverbs

A. Study these sentences.

a. Perhaps she is not coming to the party.

b. I sometimes visit him in the supermarket.

c. He drove the car carefully.

Here the words in bold are adverbs. Adverbs can be placed at the front, in the middle or at the end position of a clause or sentence.

B. Rewrite the following sentences with the adverbs in the appropriate place.

a. I watch television. (often)

b. Have you been to Janakpur? (ever)

c. They play football on Saturdays. (sometimes)

d. The weather is bad in November. (always)

e. We have fish for dinner. (seldom)

f. Pritam doesn't get up before seven. (usually)

g. I was very tired and I was hungry. (also)

h. Did you enjoy the flight? (both)

Answer Key: 

a. I often watch television

b. Have you ever been to Janakpur?

c. They sometimes play football on Saturdays.

d. The weather is always bad in November.

e. We seldom have fish for dinner.

f. Pritam doesn't usually get up before seven.

g. I was very tired and I was also hungry.

h. Did you both enjoy the flight?

C. Rewrite the following sentences placing the underlined words in the right position.

a. I never have understood her.

b. We are often invited to parties.

c. We all were tired, so we all fell asleep.

d. Rajan drives always to work.

e. Pradip hardly ever watches television, but he reads newspapers a lot.

f. We enjoyed it very much the party.

g. My brother speaks fluently English.

Answer Key: 

a. I have never understood her.

b. We are often invited to parties.

c. We were all tired, so we fell all asleep.

d. Rajan always drives to work.

e. Pradip hardly ever watches television, but he reads newspapers a lot.

f. We enjoyed the party very much.

g. My brother speaks English fluently.