DEGREE

DEGREE COMPULSORY ENGLISH FOR PASS AND HONOURS

EXERCISE-001

I. Correct the following sentences:

a)    He said that he will go there.

b)    The taste of the mangoes are sweet.

c)     Why you went there?

d)    Your cow is more beautiful than me.

e)     Unless you do not read, you will fail in the exam.

f)       He is a famous thief.

g)    I found the chicken cooking in the kitchen.

II. Change the following words as directed and make sentences with the changed word:

Difference(v); Attract(adv); Destroy (adj); Pure(v); Simple((n);Choice(adj) Hate(n).

III. Supply a suitable word to fill in the blank:

a)    She is the girl ____ father you met yesterday.

b)    There is a good friendship_____the three boys.

c)     I sat ___the umbrella.

d)    He could not succeed___he tried heart and soul.

e)     Please, tell me something ____ your father.

f)       We are living here ______ .

g)    Where are you coming____ ?

IV. Use the correct form of the verbs:

a)    If I saw you, I (tell) you everything.

b)    Everyman (love) his motherland.

c)     We found the child (cry) for help.

d)    The girl (cut) her finger.

e)     Fish (eat) raw in some countries.

f)       When I saw him, he (watch) television.

g)    Panta Ilish (be) my favourite food.

V. Give the antonyms of the following words and make sentences with them:

Cheap; Enemy; Strength; Accept; secret; success; far.

VI. Frame WH-questions from the following sentences:

a)    It rained last night.

b)    The train reached the station at 8:00 pm.

c)     The tiger killed his brother.

d)    The weather will be rough tonight.

e)     You should respect your parents.

f)       Dhaka stands on the river Buriganga.

g)    She was late due to her negligence.

VII. Rearrange the words to make sentences:

a)    Country in there our six are seasons.

b)    One them winter is of.

c)     Season it is mist the and of cold.

d)    Cold morning misty is so a winter and.

e)     Fog is there dense everywhere.

VIII. Punctuate and capitalize the following passage:

Shihab goes to a village primary school one day his uncle took him to dhaka shihab was surprised to see so many tall buildings he started counting the floors of a building the building had twenty floors he asked his uncle who live on so many floors.

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