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Sentence Dictation
10) Listen to your teacher and write the sentences.
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Language Game
Inversion
The Cricket’s song, in warmth increasing ever,
And seems to one in drowsiness half lost,
Read the lines of the poem given above. The words in bold do not make logical sense
because they are not put together in regular sentences. They do not follow the rules
of grammar. However, arranging words in this fashion enhances the musicality of the
poem. This reversal of the normal order of words for effect is called inversion.
Examples:
• ‘My pleasant things in ashes lie’ instead of ‘My pleasant things lie in ashes’
• ‘In fell the fox’ instead of ‘The fox fell in’
• ‘Tender is the night’ instead of ‘The night is tender’
• ‘Down fell Bhiku Bhai!’ instead of ‘Bhiku Bhai fell down’
Here are a few inverted lines. Get into pairs and rearrange the words so that they are
phrased correctly. The pair that finishes first wins.
a) To take over the world is his real plan.
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