The Queen's Language

  Adjectives and Adverbs An adjective is a word or set of words that modifies (i.e., describes) a noun or pronoun. Adjectives may come before the word they modify. Examples: That is a cute puppy. She likes a high school senior. Adjectives may also follow the word they modify: Examples: That puppy looks cute. The technology is state-of-the-art. An adverb is a word or set of words that modifies verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs. Examples: He speaks slowly (modifies the verb speaks) He is especially clever (modifies the adjective clever) He speaks all too slowly (modifies the adverb slowly) An adverb answers how, when, where, or to what extent—how often or how much (e.g., daily, completely). Examples: He speaks slowly (answers the question how) He speaks very slowly (answers the question how slowly) Rule 1. Many adverbs end in -ly, but many do not. Generally, if a word can have -ly added to its adjective form, place it there to form an adverb. Examples: She thinks quick/quickly. How doe

  Comprehension  POEMS   Read the given poem and answer the the questions that follow: BIRCHES   When I see birches bend to left and right   Across the lines of straighter darker trees,  I like to think some boy’s been swinging them.  But swinging doesn’t bend them down to stay.   Ice-storms do that. Often you must have seen them  Loaded with ice a sunny winter morning After a rain.  They click upon themselves  As the breeze rises, and turn many-colored  As the stir cracks and crazes their enamel.  Soon the sun’s warmth makes them shed crystal shells   Shattering and avalanching on the snow-crust   Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away   You’d think the inner dome of heaven had fallen . (From Birches by Robert Frost)   i. What happens to them after an ice storm?   ii. What is the effect of the sun on the ice-laden birch trees?   iii. Pick two words that denote or evoke the sense of sound in the above lines?   iv. To what has the poet compared the dome of heaven?  v. Pick the line th

  1.Please give him _ sugar. 2.We know how to protect _ freedom. 3.What is _ equator? 4.Silver is _ best conductor of electricity. 5.He had it up _ sleeve. 6.We must always strive for _honest living. 7.She is trained for _adventurous mission. 8.The gorillas were standing on _feet. 9.Violence is no solution to _ problem. 10 Within a _ years ,he moved to London. 11.Even in_life time,Shakespeare was England's leading dramatist. 12.We all have signalled _ support. 13'The doctor will ask him _ questions. 14.Have you completed_ work? 15 How_time will you take to make it?

       From dawn to dusk And dusk to dawn He separates grain from husk Or weeds and mows the lawn The master locks him in, when he goes out He sits in the balcony ,silent and alone But I can hear his silent shouts His face is sweet.. but the smile... The smile .... moans The Child labours,while the paper work goes on He works from dusk to dawn He labours on.......and...on..

  Save the girl child Save the girl child I heard the slogans In the womb. I was glad That this time I will get a chance to be born Last time,I was aborted...it was traumatic... But this time ...I hoped to see the dawn... Happily I waited To see a glimpse of my mother.. And was eager to meet my tiny brother Soon I was born ... Born in this world...where.. 'Save the girl child'was written every where My beautiful mother.. Wrapped me in a pink sheet.. And left me near a shop.......... I was soon picked up by a cop.. Next day ,I made Headlines.. 'Found an abandoned ..one day old girl child...' Cheer up reader,I won't give up! Will grow strong and upright Will fight for justice And for the girl child's rights!!!!!!!

        The gardener did not Plant a sapling in the broken flower pot Left it unwatered ,unattended,unkempt and unwanted Yet the weeds that grew in it Had the greenest leaves The tiniest and the prettiest flowers Some yellow Some pink Some indigo and white!

  The Ring at Caster bridge  1 Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow :  1. The Ring at Caster bridge was merely the local name of one of the  finest Roman amphitheaters, if not the very finest remaining in Britain.  Caster bridge announced old Rome in every street, alley, and precinct. It  looked Roman, bespoke the art of Rome, concealed dead men of Rome. It was impossible to dig more than a foot or two deep about the town fields and gardens without coming upon some tall soldier or other of the Empire, who had laid there in his silent unobtrusive rest for a space of fifteen hundred years. 2. Imaginative inhabitants, who would have felt an unpleasantness at the discovery of a comparatively modern skeleton in their gardens, were quite unmoved by these hoary shapes. They had lived so long ago, their time was so unlike the present, their hopes and motives were so widely removed from ours, that between them and the living there seemed to stretch a gulf too wide

    Read the following poem and answer the questions that follows: Animal Liberation Human Liberation  By Kenneth Cassar  The parallel is obvious for those with eyes to see  For all feel the same suffering, all the same misery  The segregation of privileged from those considered tools  The state miseducation that makes all citizens fools  Taught that dogs and cats should be treated well as pets  While in the cold laboratories same animals meet their deaths With painful experimentation for more products to consume A cheap way to make profits sends animals to their doom  Consider factory farms with the animals crammed inside  With no access to daylight, from human eyes they hide  No real animal welfare, this would increase the costs  They’re treated as a commodity, as just profit or loss  Consider circus animals or animals in the zoo  Slaves for your entertainment, suffer just to please you  In solitude they stay in their prison cage for months  With violence they are trained to perform

  The Christmas tree   It stands in a huge flower pot For the whole year round Every time, whenever I cross it I can feel the joy and thrill a bit   It always effuses a joyful thought How since childhood sharing it has taught Hence for the whole year planning goes on What gifts I will hang on it, when the Lord’s born pairs of socks ,stars and chocolate bars Pens, pencils, notebooks and fairy tales So that all can thank Santa who never fails Never fails to brighten each home Even if ,through out the year, He has to roam.