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c) What does the sound do?

Ans.

C) Answer the following

6) Match the lines in Column A with those in Column B.

Column A Column B

a) When all the birds are faint A) when the frost has
wrought a silence

b) The poetry of Earth B) in warmth increasing
ever

c) On a lone winter evening, C) with hot Sun

d) The cricket’s song, D) among some grassy hills

e) The grasshopper’s E) is never dead

P R Vocabulary
Q

Commonly confused words

There are a few words in the English language that can be easily confused to carry
the same meaning as another similar word. However, using one of the words in place
of the other may lead to a mistake. Let us look at a few examples of commonly
confused words.

Examples:

‘for’ and ‘since’

• ‘For’ shows duration or a period of time.

I lived in Goa for three years.

• ‘Since’ indicates a point in time when something began.

I have lived in Goa since 2015.

‘few’ and ‘a few’ + ‘little’ and ‘a little’

• ‘Few’ and ‘little’ indicate that there is ‘not as much as may be expected
or wanted’.

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