Complete each sentence using the right form of the adjective given in brackets.
(i) My friend has one of the .............cars on the road.(fast)
(ii) This is the ............. story I have ever read. (interesting)
(iii) What you are doing now is .............than what you did yesterday. (easy)
(iv) Ramesh and his wife are both .............. (short)
(v) He arrived ............. as usual. Even the chief guest came ............. than he did. (late, early)
Use all or both in the blanks. Tell your partner why you chose one or the other.
(i) He has two brothers. .............. are lawyers.
(ii) More than ten persons called. .............. of them wanted to see you.
(iii) They .............. cheered the team.
(iv) .............. her parents are teachers.
(v) How much have you got? Give me .............. of it.
Fill in the blanks in the sentences below using the appropriate forms of the words given in the following box.
guide , succeed ,chair , travel , pale ,draw , true
(i) I met a.......... from an antique land.
(ii) I need special .......... in mathematics. I can't count the number of times I have failed in the subject
. (iii) The guide called Stephen Hawking a worthy ..........to Isaac Newton.
(iv) His other problems .......... into insignificance beside this unforeseen mishap.
(v) The meeting was .......... by the youngest member of the board.
(vi) Some people say 'yours..........' when they informally refer to themselves.
(vii) I wish it had been a .......... match. We would have been spared the noise of celebrations, at least.
Complete the following sentences taking their appropriate parts from both the boxes below.
(i) There was his assistant on the line ...
(ii) You get fed up with people asking you to be brave, ...
(iii) There he was, ...
(iv) You look at his eyes which can speak, ...
(v) It doesn't do much good to know ...
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B
The writer expresses his great gratitude to Stephen Hawking. What is the gratitude for?