UNIT 4

ASSIGNMENT
1. is; 2. are; 3. is; 4. is; 5. was;
6. has; 7. have; 8. is; 9. is; 10. has;
11. is; 12. was; 13. was; 14. have; 15. Is;

PREPOSITIONS ASSIGNMENT
1. off 2. down 3. up 4. into 5. into
6. off 7. across 8. by 9. out 10. in
11. off 12. up 13. on 14. up 15. off
16. out 17. up 18. out 19. off 20. up

SPECIMEN PAPER - 4
Question 3
(i)
(a) It has been over two months since Ramesh last went to school.
(b) He is too short to be a soldier.
(c) Rohan requested Rajiv to bring his Maths books to school the next day.
(d) As soon as we saw a flash of light in the sky, we heard a loud explosion.
(e) The boys ate some of the cakes before the party began.

(ii)
(a) to (b) for (c) around (d) up (e) up
(f) away (g) over (h) with (i) over (j) up

(iii)
1. lying 2. Afflicted 3. was covered 4. had been forced
5. might 6. spread 7. to give 8. taking
9. offered 10. Applied

Question 4
(i) (a)
(1) besieged (line 4) (2) ambush (line 5) (3) transitory (line 10)

(b) (1) (A) (2) (C) (3) (A).

(ii)
(a) The Begging-Letter Writer is a persistent pest. He has flooded the narrator with
requests at all times of the day; he has laid traps to catch the narrator in a moment of
weakness, he has hounded the narrator wherever the latter went. The Begging Letter
Writer has come up with different reasons, both regular and extraordinary, to beg the
narrator.
(b) The messenger said that the bereaved mourner had gone out begging someone else
and the mourners wife was not dead at all. In fact she was in the pink of her health.
(c) The Begging-Letter Writer makes his occupation so lucrative that his children as well
as his messengers—all become independent Begging-Letter Writers. The number of
 writers increase exponentially as if Begging-Letter Writing were a contagious
disease.

(iii)
The Begging-Letter Writer had written many entreating letters to the narrator, the last being
of his losing his wife. The narrator got angry when he came to know that the writer was a
beggar and his wife was alive and well. He went to the London Police-Office to lodge a
complaint. The Magistrate was impressed with the penmanship of the writer. He genuinely
felt sorry for the latter and acquitted him of all the narrator’s charges against him
after complimenting him on the quality of his writing. The narrator, the victim of the
fraud was regarded as a monster.