PRINCESS ESIN JUNIOR COLLEGE

Purani Haveli , Hyderabad - 02 .

Intermediate Second Year

Work Sheet -1
I. Punctuate the following:
1] Will you show me the book
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2] How intelligent you are
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3] You like English, don’t you
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4] Stop the bus for me
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5] It is raining now
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6] What an idea
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7] Was the meal nourishing
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8] Hold me I am going to faint
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9] The dam burst Run for your life
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10] Watch out a car is coming.
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II. Read the following paragraph and use appropriate and proper

punctuation marks/question marks/exclamation marks/ whereever

necessary.

once upon a time, there lived a duck and a kangaroo They were
friends One day the duck asked the kangaroo, “Dear friend, how do
you jump” The kangaroo replied, “Ah, it is very easy Do you love
it” The duck said, “Oh, is it I would love to jump like you, then”
The kangaroo said, “Sit on my back I will take you round the world”
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1. Use appropriate Internal punctuation marks (semicolon / colon /

quotation marks / ellipses) in the following sentences.

1] The monsoon failed this year too and the country is in the grip of
a famine
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2] I wasnt just annoyed I was absolutely furious
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3] Sumit said where are you going?
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4] She worked hard she failed
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5] August 15 1947 It was the day on which we won independence
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6]The man said I wasn’t wounded
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7] He was not stupid just passive
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8] The Grand Tour usually included paris france vienna austria rome
and italy
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II. Read the following paragraph and use appropriate and proper
punctuation marks/question marks/exclamation marks/ were
necessary.
a teacher showed three toys to a student and asked Can you find out
the differences after keen observation the student said the first toy
has holes in the ears the second one has holes in the ear and the
mouth and the third toy has only one hole that is in one ear. The
teacher was amazed and asked what do they represent.
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1. Use appropriate word punctuation marks (apostrophe / Hyphen /

Capitals) in the following sentences.

19] this is my cousins car

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20] gandhiji led the nonviolent movement
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21]there are forty six boys in the class
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22]these are my father in laws clothes
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23] we have semi skilled workers
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24] i am a member of the officers club
25] he wants an up to date account
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26] they prefer sugar free sweet
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II. Read the following paragraph and use appropriate and proper

punctuation marks/question marks/exclamation marks/ were

necessary.

There was an old owl. Every day he used to see some incidents
happening around him. Yesterday he saw a boy helping his mother
in law today he saw him shouting at her the boys father in law was
kind and gentle. The boy shouted at his father in law too. The owls
curiosity grew more and more to know about the boy.
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III. Punctuate the following paragraph

Two weeks ago i was amused when a friend who couldn’t bear to
sleep alone, woke me up close to midnight at the hotel into which
we had checked in, can we hire a double room im totally spooked,
she said
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Rewrite the following sentences using punctuation marks, where
necessary.
1. Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women
have fewer teeth than men by the simple device of asking Mrs.
Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted
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2] If someone maintains that two and two are five or that iceland is
on the equator you feel pity rather than anger unless you know so
little of arithmetic or geography that his opinion shakes your own
contrary conviction
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3. When i was young I lived much outside my own country in

france germany italy and the united states
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4] mahatma gandhi deplores railways and steam boats and
machinery he would like to undo the whole of the Industrial
Revolution you may never have an opportunity of
actually meeting anyone who holds this opinion because in
western countries most people take advantage of modern
techniques for granted
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5] be very wary of opinions that flatter your self esteem both men
and women, nine times out of ten are firmly convinced of the
superior excellence of their own sex
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6] from the earliest days there had been many notable women in
indie poets scholars capable administrators and leaders of
religious movements
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7] women all over indie came forward defying all social taboos
sacrificing physical comforts and denying the validity of all
restrictions which had been enforced against them to take up
every kind of work connected with national movement
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8] It was a matter of surprise to the outside world that independent

India should have appointed women to the highest posts so freely
as members of the cabinet as governors of provinces as
ambassadors and as leaders of delegations to international
conferences for in an oriental country such as india women are
presumed to be held in subjection and therefore all this seemed to
be unnatural.
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9] originally he seems to have been uncertain of the response or at
least of the kind of work that women could do in the national
movement for though he was a passionate believer in the equality
of women he seems to have been doubtful whether the women of
india .
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10] what the gandhian movement did was to release women from
the social bondages that custom had imposed and conservatism
had upheld
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11] After the citys rain fed potholes the transition to smooth roads
within the campus of the thiagarajar college of engineering is
more than a treat the man behind the tar topped tracks is known as
Madurai’s Plastic Road Man.
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12] the day we met Dr vasudevan he was waving a special gazette

notification of the ministry of environment & forests dated 4th
February 2011 directing all municipal authorities across the
country to encourage use of plastic waste by adopting suitable
technology such as in road construction.
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13]Dr Kalams words proved prophetic with full support from the
college correspondent [Link] laid the first 60 feet long
plastic road within the campus

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14] the jamshedpur utilities and services company a tata enterprise

approached Dr. Vasudevan last november for using plastic waste
in laying roads in jamshedpur
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15] the view of this world which india has taken is summed up in
one compound sanskrit word sacchidananda the meaning is that
reality which is essentially one has three phases.
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16] The first is sat it is the simple fact that things are the fact which
relates us to all things through the relationship of common
existence The second is chit it is the fact that we know which
relates us to all things through the relation-ship of knowledge the
third is ananda it is the fact that we enjoy which unites us with all
things through the relationship of love The first is sat: it is the
simple fact that things are, the fact which relates us to all things
through the relationship of common existence. The second is chit:
it is the fact that we know, which relates us to all things through
the relationship of knowledge. The third is ananda: it is the fact
that we enjoy, which unites us with all things through the
relationship of love.
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17] In kalidasas drama shakuntala the hermitage which dominates

the play overshadowing the kings palace has the same idea
running through it – the recognition of the kinship of man with
conscious and unconscious creation alike
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18] In the western dramas human characters drown our atte-ntion in

the vortex of their passions nature occasionally peeps out but she
is almost always a trespasser who has to offer excuses or bow
apologetically and depart
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19] but in all our dramas which still retain their fame such as Mrit
Shakatika Shakuntala Uttara-ramacharita nature stands on her
own right proving that she has her great function to impart the
peace of the eternal to human emotions
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20]yes mrs moore (opens door and talks loudly) come right in
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21]yes it was months and months before he had any sort of a job i
worried a bit you know i was afraid he would get so discouraged he
would
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22] no firm is going to smile and say forget it my boy no they dont
do things that way these days
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23]Mr van king had brought it down to his office intending to have
it rest – and put it in his office safe and forgot it imagine forgetting a
diamond heirloom worth a fabulous fortune
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24]dont worry not a soul saw us wait ill get it.

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25] are you sure jim that you put it there oh oh… i see (laughs) you
have it
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26] yes but you keep out of this youll never get the diamond jim
poor larry wilson was sentenced to ten years in jail today… stealing.
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27]JIM: ma you dont think i stole that diamond

MA: what else am i to think
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28] just what are you going to do with the diamond no jim keep
quiet a moment mrs ryan what are you going to do with that
diamond
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29] I promise but jim i i (tries not to cry) ill never forget this night
never
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1] It is more difficult to deal with the self-esteem of man as a man
because we cannot argue out the matter with some non-human
[Link] only way i know of dealing with his general human
conceit is to remind ourselves that man is a brief episode in the
life of a small planet in a little corner of the universe and that for
aught we know other parts of the cosmos may contain beings as
superior to ourselves as we are to jellyfish .
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2] The brahmo samaj led the movement for emancipation the

ancient rules of purdah were broken and brahmo women moved
freely in the society :but this was but a false down as it was far in
advance of popular opinion .
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3] after a decade hard work and persistent efforts his simple
invention of a technology to use -plastic waste to lay roads
patented by TCE finally got a shot in the arm last month with the
centre approving its wider applica-tion.
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