Make tag questions of these statements
1. (a) Success cannot be achieved without efforts, —?
(b) Everybody knows it, —?
(c) The successful people are very industrious, —?
(d) Everything glorious is gained through hard labour, —?
(e) So, industry is the key to success, —?
2. (a) Telling lies is a great sin, —?
(b) One lie begets hundred lies,—?
(c) None believes a liar, —?
(d) He has to lead a miserable life, —?
(e) So, all of us ought to refrain from telling lies, —?
3. (a) Hello, Rumi. You saw the programme on arsenic pollution in the ATN yesterday, —?
(b) Oh! Rajib. It has already become a serious problem in our country, —?
(c) Yes, it enters into our body when we take arsenic contaminated water, —?
(d) It can cause different diseases, —?
(e) You are right, Rumi. Everyone must be careful about taking water, —?
4. (a) Shapna has little knowledge about computer, —?
(b) But she can improve herself if she is interested in it, —?
(c) I think she has no interest in it, —?
(d) She should be motivated at all, —?
(e) Let’s talk to her, ———?
5. (a) I need a pen, —?
(b) I must write a letter to my friend, —?
(c) I have not written any letter to him for a long time, —?
(d) As we are friends, I think, we should keep in touch, —?
(e) I am irregular in writing but my friend is always regular in writing, —?
6. (a) The wind blows gently in the spring,—?
(b) Let them do the work, —?
(c) How nice the flowers are, —?
(d) Everything looks beautiful in a moonlit night, —?
(e) Work hard to succeed, —?
7. (a) Your letter gave me much pleasure, —?
(b) I am glad to inform you about our sports day, —?
(c) We decorated the school campus colorfully, —?
(d) Among the events, sack race and three leg race were interesting,
—?
(e) None could resist laughter watching these events, —?
8. (a) We see that Masum has little knowledge about games and sports, —?
(b) Let’s talk to him,
—?
(c) We think, he doesn’t know how to play tennis, —?
(d) Everybody praises an all rounder, —?
(e) Though he is a good student, he is lazy, —?
9. (a) Most of the students who fail in English don’t have strong foundation over grammar, —?
(b) They read only to pass the examination, —?
(c) Teachers should motivate them to learn the basic thing, —?
(d) They can’t help learning grammar, —?
(e) Moreover, practice is essential too, —?
10. (a) Nobody believes a cheat, —?
(b) Everybody hates him,
—?
(c) He has to drag a miserable life, —?
(d) He can hardly succeed in life, —?
(e) Let us always speak the truth, —?
Answer
1. (a) can it?
(b) don’t they?
(c) aren’t they?
(d) isn’t it?
(e) isn’t it?
2. (a) isn’t it?
(b) doesn’t it?
(c) do they?
(d) hasn’t he?/doesn’t he?
(e) oughtn’t we?
3. (a) didn’t you?
(b) hasn’t it?
(c) doesn’t it?
(d) can’t it?
(e) mustn’t they?
4. (a) has she?
(b) can’t she?
(c) has she?
(d) shouldn’t she?
(e) shall we?
5. (a) don’t I?
(b) mustn’t I?
(c) have I?
(d) shouldn’t we?
(e) isn’t he?/ain’t I
6. (a) doesn’t it?
(b) will you?
(c) aren’t they?
(d) doesn’t it?
(e) will you?
7. (a) didn’t it?
(b) aren’t I?
(c) didn’t we?
(d) weren’t they?
(e) could they?
8. (a) has he?
(b) shall we?
(c) does he?
(d) don’t they?
(e) isn’t he?
9. (a) do they?
(b) don’t they?
(c) shouldn’t they?
(d) can they?
(e) isn’t it?
10. (a) do they?
(b) don’t they?
(c) doesn’t he?
(d) can he?
(e) shall we
Complete the text adding suffixes, prefixes or the both with the root words given in the parenthesis
1. Load-shedding is one of the most common problems of Bangladesh. Lives of our citizens are (a) — (serious) hampered for load-shedding. Students feel (b) — (difficult) in reading during load-shedding. (c) — (industry) activities are also hampered. We should use electricity (d) — (honest) and (e) — (frugal) and should create (f) — (aware) among people to solve this g nation problem. Besides, government should take (h) —(effect) steps to (i) — (grade) our power stations to mitigate the (j) — (advantages) of our people.
2. Those who live a (a) — (luxury) life are always (b) — (different) to the miseries of the poor. They enjoy life in (c) — (amuse) and (d) —(merry). They are (e) — (centered) people. They have little (f) — (realize) of the (g) — (bounded) sufferings of the poor. They remain (h) — (different) to their sufferings. They feel (i) — (comfort) to work for their (j) — (better).
3. Smoking is a (a) — (danger) bad habit. It is (b) — (harm) to health. It is also (c) — (cost). A (d) — (smoke) should not smoke (e) —(public). Smoking creates (f) — (pollute). Smoking causes many (g) — (curable) disease. It causes (h) — (comfort) to others. It causes irritation in the eye and (i) — (settle) the mind. But there are many people who are (j) — (aware) at the bad effect of smoking.
Answer
1. (a) seriously
(b) difficulty
(c) industrial
(d) honestly
(e) frugally
(f) awareness
(g) national/nationwide (h) effective
(i) upgrade
(j) disadvantages
2. (a) luxurious
(b) indifferent
(c) amusement
(d) merriment
(e) self-centered
(f) realization
(g) unbound
(h) indifferent
(i) comfortable
(j) betterment
3. (a) dangerously/ dangerous
(b) harmful
(c) costly
(d) smoker
(e) publicly
(f) pollution
(g) incurable
(h) discomfort
(i) unsettles
(j) unaware
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