Grade 12 English Unit 16: Fantasy (with Grammar Solutions)- Language Development

Fantasy

Reading

The Romance of a Busy Broker 

Working with words

A. Match the following words with their definitions.

a. snappy i. a lady whose job is to take care of a building such as a school or a block of flats

b. discretion ii. happening only for short periods

c. radiant iii. irritable and inclined to speak sharply

d. irresolute iv. a very small spot

e. brusque v. a quiet period between times of activity

f. fitful vi. the ability to behave without causing embarrassment or attracting too much attention

g. harlequin vii. showing great happiness, love, or health

h. lull viii. not able to decide what to do

i. janitress ix. a humorous character in some traditional plays

j. speck x. using very few words and sounding rude

B. Consult a dictionary or search over the internet and write definitions of the following terminologies used in the stock market.

a. Liquidity: a high volume of activity in a market.

b. IPO: An initial public offering (IPO) refers to the process of offering shares of a private corporation to the public in a new stock issuance.

c. NEPSE: The Nepal Stock Exchange Limited (abbreviated as NEPSE) is the only Stock Exchange of Nepal. NEPSE index indicates the increase or decrease of the total market capitalization of companies’ transactions that are listed on the Nepal Stock Exchange.

d. index: a sign or measure of something.

e. portfolio: a range of investments held by a person or organization.

f. dividend: a sum of money paid regularly (typically annually) by a company to its shareholders out of its profits (or reserves).

g. turn over: (of a business) have a turnover of a specified amount.

h. margin: a sum deposited with a broker to cover the risk of loss on a transaction or account.

Grammar

Relative clause

A. Study the following sentences and underline the relative clauses.

a. I snatched a minute when things had slackened a minute.

b. Instead of going straight into the adjoining room, where her desk was, she

lingered slightly irresolute in the outer office.

c. She was beautiful in a way that was decidedly stenographic.

B. Fill in the blanks with suitable relative pronouns: who, which, that, whom, whose, where, why, how, what, or when.

a. There is a lady ……….wallet has been stolen.

b. Do you know the man ……..sold these glasses?

c. The knife …………you cut the bread with is very sharp.

d. Why do you blame him for everything ………goes wrong?

e. A cemetery is a place…………..dead bodies are buried.

f. This school is for those children……….mother tongue is not Nepali.

g. I don’t know the name of the person……………I spoke over the telephone.

h. I came to Kathmandu on the day…………….the devastating earthquake took place.

i. In the application form she wrote…………..she needed a good payment.

j. The pilot explained ………….he made forced landing on the road.

C. Join the following pairs of sentences using who, which, that, whose, whom, where, when or what.

a. The building was destroyed in the fire. It has now been rebuilt.

b. A new cricket stadium is being made in Chitwan. It can accommodate one hundred thousand people.

c. Shanghai is the most populated city in the world. I stayed there for five years.

d. This is the man. I gave some money to him this morning.

e. Do know the man? His son was awarded in the school yesterday.

f. His stepmother was not very kind to him. He had been staying with her.

g. He can never forget Nakkhu Jail. He had spent 14 years there.

h. He showed me his new tab. He had paid a hundred thousand rupees for it.

i. Nelson Mandela joined ANC in the 1930s. He was a student then.

j. She forgot to buy the things. Her mother had told her to buy them.