Essential English grammar - basic level 5

Rearrange the scrambled sentence in each set (A&B) to form meaningful paragraphs. Do not copy the actual sentences in your answer-book. Write only the letters corresponding to the sentences in the proper order.

1

1. Following a complaint by Kalpana, Nagarjuna was arrested on charge of dowry harassment.
2. A man who spend six months in jail committed suicide on Sunday.
3. Nagarjuna was married Kalpana one and a half years ago.
4. Nagarjuna was in depression since his release.
5. Nagarjuna, a daily wage earner was released on bail.

1. When Jinnah was a young man, his parents sent him to London to gain business experience.
2. After his studies, he returned to India and began to practice law in Bombay.
3. At that time the city was part of India.
4. Mohammed Ali Jinnah was born in Karachi in 1876.
5. Instead he studied law an learned about the British system of government.

2

1. She died on the spot.
2. A woman died on October 8 at Film Nagar.
3. She slipped and fell off form the vehicle.
4. A vehicle coming from behind hit her.
5. The accident happened when her husband applied the brakes to prevent hitting a buffalo.

1. Ray started work on the film in 1952.
2. Because Ray had so little money, his film crew worked for free.
3. Ray was interested in making a film of Pather Panchali.
4. This seemed all right, since one of the crew had never worked on a film before.
5. And a famous French director, Jean Renoir, encouraged him.

3

1. His popularity is going day by day.
2. Sheik Mira Saheb has been performing Hindu rituals and pujas for past ten years.
3. A Muslim presides over the Ma Durga temple in Visakhapatnam.
4. What’s even more astonishing is that he chants the mantras in Sanskrit with flawless intonation and pronunciation.
5. Interestingly, his wife Mira Bi attends Christian prayers an sometimes goes to the church although she is a practicing Muslim.

1. The mixture can be shaped into ladoos.
2. Heat a non-stick pan, and the khoa mixture and stir continuously.
3. Grate the khoa and add the sugar.
4. Take 500 grams of soft whit khoa and 250 gram of icing sugar.
5. You can also paint your ladoos using diluted food colours for extra effects.

4

1. Home Minister said that family of each dead person will be given rupees one lakh as compensation.
2. Nearly 100 bodies were retrieved from the bogies.
3. Seven bogies and the engine of the train fell into the river.
4. State’s worst disaster took place on Sunday when a fast passenger train to Secunderabad fell into a river.
5. Help lines were set up at Valigonda and Secunderabad to provide information regarding the victims.

1. The official tool was pegged at 20.
2. Hyderabad collector Arvind Kumar said that families living downstream of the lake will be evacuated.
3. Heavy rains continued to play havoc in several parts of the state on Saturday.
4. Residents of localities downstream of Hussain Sagar which reached its full tank on Saturday were put on alert.
5. The toll in rain related incidents in the last two days rose to 41.

5

1. Advertising has come a long way.
2. Companies today are not allowed to make false claims for their products.
3. Naturally, it was not always the truth.
4. When advertising was young, its simple aim was to provide you with information.
5. So, the advertisers of today use other tricks to make us part with our money.

1. But not many people know that it was in India that finger-prints were first used for catching criminals.
2. He was Edward Henry, an Inspector-general of the Indian Police.
3. It is a very important aid in fighting crime.
4. Today, we are all familiar with the use of finger – printing.
5. This method was first develop in the 1890’s by an Englishman.

6

1. He learnt to use a toilet an loved to watch TV and drink coffee and beer with his owners.
2. No other chimpanzee has been studied as extensively as Oliver.
3. He also helped in Household chores like feeding the dog.
4. His ears and jaw-line were somewhat different from other chimps, and above all, he walked upright like a man.
5. Capture in the jungles of the Congo at a young age 1970s, he stood out from among the other chimps because of his appearance and behaviour.

1. The flight frequency was once a week.
2. It landed on the creek in 1937.
3. The fee for each landing and take-ff was just Rs.5!
4. To land in Dubai, British Imperial Airways paid Rs. 440.
5. The first aircraft to land in Dubai was a flying boat of the British Imperial Airways.

7

1. He then founded Anandwan, ‘the forest of joy’ a township near Nagpur, in 1950.
2. Baba Amte gave up legal practice in 1949 and decided to work for the lepers.
3. He took training in Calcutta in the treatment of leprosy.
4. There was now new hope for the leprosy patients.
5. From just a few patients in 1950 the number here has gradually raised to over two thousand.

1. ‘O God’ said the man, ‘how foolish you are to give such small nuts to this big tree and such big fruit to this thin plant! Now if pumpkins were growing on this big tree and nuts on the pumpkin plant. I’d have admired your wisdom!
2. One day a dissatisfied man was sitting under a walnut tree, and his eyes fell on a great pumpkin growing nearby.
3. ‘Great is your wisdom and you goodness’.
4. Even as he finished saying this, a walnut fell on the man’s head and startled him.
5. ‘O God’, he continued you are right after all. If a pumpkin had fallen on me from such a height I would surely have been killed’.

8

1. They wanted the government to do the most trifling jobs.
2. The king decided to teach them a lesson.
3. They were so lazy that they would do nothing for themselves.
4. The King of Arund was fed up with his people.
5. He ordered that a large stone be placed in the centre o the city at night.

A hologram checking machine will be used to check the tickets and passes.

The cricket match between India and New Zealand is being played today.

In the last 30 years, I have never seen such a situation.

There was a riot near the ticket counter and the police was called.

Chances of non-ticket holders of entering the stadium are nil.

9

1. But the professors who thought they understood science said that Pasteur was wrong.
2. In the middle of the 19^th century, people laughed at Pasteur when he said that microbes are man’s worst enemies.
3. It was being, therefore, to protect human beings, milk, wine and so on, from microbes.
4. They said that microbes were produced naturally by old milk (or wine) , and did not come from outside.
5. Pasteur said that al microbes come from the air.

1. Mum once went to give a lecture and left Dad in charge of the house.
2. He said that everything was fine except that one of the children had been spanked because he had been troublesome.
3. When she returned, she asked him if everything had run smoothly.
4. When he pointed at the child that he had been punished. Mum looked at him and said, “That’s not one of our, dear. He belongs next door”.
5. Another time, Dad told us this joke.

10

1. This, it was believed, would give him good health and strength for many long years.
2. Some people even used onion bulbs in their marriage ceremonies.
3. Centuries were to pass before man stopped believing in the magical powers of the onion.
4. For instance, a Thracian, among other gifts, received a barrelful of onions on his wedding day.
5. By the 12^th century the onion was growing in just about every country of Europe, and today it is grown all over the world.

1. Close behind her was a man, who appeared to be gaining at every step.
2. “The last one to get home has to wash the supper dishes”.
3. “Oh, no, thanks”, she said. My husband and I always race each other home from the cinema theatre.”
4. Driving through a sleepy village one evening, a motorist saw a woman running for dear life.
5. Screeching to a halt, the motorist leaped out and asked the woman if she needed help.

11

1. The cold deserts have hot days and cold nights in summer, while in winder, the days are cold and nights even colder.
2. In the desert it gets hot very quickly and reaches over 58^o even in the shade.
3. But when the Sun sets, the dry ground quickly loses heat and the nights are cold.
4. There are great differences between day and night temperatures an summer and winter temperatures in deserts.
5. Since there is little water vapour in the air, and no could, the rays of the sun strike the ground with fierce heat.

1. This is because there are not many places left where they can live and hunt freely.
2. But now only a small number of these are left.
3. There are villages in what used to be open wolf country, ad there are not too many small animals left for them to hunt.
4. But the main reason why it is not difficult to protect this animal is that people fear it and hate it, and are only too willing to kill it.
5. In 1928, an Englishman, R.G.Burton, wrote that the wolf, along with the fox and the Jackal, was found throughout India.

12

1. A diamond is truly unconquerable.
2. The unequalled beauty and brightness of the diamond is the result of its ability to reflect light.
3. Nothing in the world can cut it– except another diamond.
4. In fact, the word ‘diamond’ come from the Greek work adamas which means ‘unconquerable’.
5. The diamond is also the hardest material known to man.

1. Nana was happy and liked the young man, but he wanted to test him first.
2. He talked at length of his love of duty, his sincerity, and his loyalty to the Poorna Court.
3. One a man came to see Nana Phadnavis, and begged him to give him a job in the Peshwa durbar.
4. It was always a hard test, but one Nana was satisfied, it would be smooth sailing for the man.
5. He always did this with a new candidate.

13

1. The Olympic Games we started again because of the efforts of a French man called Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
2. The Olympic Games are international athletic competitions held every four years.
3. There are records of the Olympic Games held from 776 B.C. to 393 A.D. after which they were stopped by a Roman Emperor.
4. The first modern Olympic Games held in Athens in 1893, and the Olympic motto was born “Swifter, Higher, Stronger”.
5. They were first held on the plains of Olympia in Greece for honouring Greek Gods.

1. They seemed very anxious about her comfort.
2. As they said their good-byes the train pulled out of the station.
3. I had the compartment to myself up to Rohana, an then a girl got in.
4. The woman gave the girl detailed instructions as to were to keep her things when not to lean out of the windows, and how to avoid speaking to strangers.
5. The couple who saw her off were probably her parents.

14

1. For days before it starts on a journey, a camel does nothing but eat and drink.

2. So the camel’s hump is a storage place for fat, which the camel’s body will use up during the journey.

3. Where other animals would die for lack of food and water, and camel gets along nicely, because it carries its food and water with it.

4. It eats so much that a lump of fat, may be weighing as much 100 pounds, rises on its back.

5. The camel is called ‘the ship of the desert’, and there is good reason for it.

1. The next day the came and picked up the baby lying next to my mother, and to his great surprise, he saw that the baby did not have the hole on the left earlobe.
2. The mix-up had happened after the babies had been given their bath.
3. It seems that Nan-Kaka, (as I call him) , had come to see me in hospital the day I was born, and noticed a little hole near the top of my left earlobe.
4. I have today become a cricketer, and al of you have heard of me, only because of my uncle, Narayan Masurekar, noticed little things.
5. At once everyone started searching all over the hospital and at last I was found sleeping quietly next to a fisher woman, not knowing anything about the trouble I had caused.