13] Supply the missing letters in any eight of the following words [8×1/2=4]
1. Supply the missing letters in the following words. (Read page 189)
| Exercise 1 | Exercise 2 |
| 1) School | 1) Teacher |
| 2) Encouraging | 2) gloomy |
| 3) Appearance | 3) lesson |
| 4) Excellent | 4) respect |
| 5) Speak | 5) faithful |
| 6) Attention | 6) influence |
| 7) People / Purple | 7) letters/leaders |
| 8) knowledge | 8) pleasant |
| 9) Discipline | 9) suggest |
| 10) afford/accord | 10) simple |
| Exercise 3 | Exercise 4 |
| 1) Childhood | 1) guide / grade |
| 2) peace/piece | 2) manner/matter/master |
| 3) Frustration | 3) marbles / marries |
| 4) Happen | 4) fitting / filling / fibbing |
| 5) Grammar | 5) yellow |
| 6) colour | 6) healthy |
| 7) Anguish | 7) square |
| 8) Lighten | 8) laughed |
| 9) Obedient | 9) suspect |
| 10) Muscle/Muzzle | 10) highly |
| Exercise 5 | Exercise 6 |
| 1) hilltop | 1) sappling / Sampling |
| 2) banyan | 2) rupees |
| 3) routine | 3) husband |
| 4) conceive | 4) resources |
| 5) mountain/maintain | 5) source/scarce |
| 6) mission/million | 6) sufficient |
| 7) incredible | 7) massive |
| 8) monsoon | 8) village |
| 9) Carry | 9) initiative |
| 10) recognition | 10) approval |
| Exercise 7 | Exercise 8 |
| 1) pervade | 1) through |
| 2) flutter | 2) slightly |
| 3) prince | 3) ground |
| 4) explode | 4) worry / wooly |
| 5) attempt | 5) speed / spend |
| 6) breath | 6) anguish |
| 7) hundred | 7) previous |
| 8) passive | 8) might / midst |
| 9) collapse | 9) receive |
| 10) threaten | 10) peace / piece |
| Exercise 9 | Exercise 10 |
| 1) crossed | 1) appear |
| 2) emphatic | 2) wobble |
| 3) trouble / tremble | 3) tremble |
| 4) conscious | 4) contrary |
| 5) pleasant | 5) cream |
| 6) dreadful | 6) complain |
| 7) chimney | 7) fault |
| 8) purple / puzzle | 8) request |
| 9) increase | 9) encounter |
| 10) deprive / deceive | 10)acquaint |
2. Fill in the blanks with either “ei” or “ie”. (Page 187)
- Neither
- Brief
- Shield
- Cried
- Tried
- Friend
- Thief
- Grief
- Leisure
- Ceiling
- Seize
3. Correct the following misspelled words (Page 187)
- foregn = foreign
- Lugage= luggage
- liesure = leisure
- knowlege= knowledge
- twelth= twelfth
- tomorow= tomorrow
- guarante= guarantee
- momomto= memento
- ilegal= illegal
- restaurent= restaurant
4. Fill in the blanks with suitable words. (Page 187)
- Please wait for me [wait/weight] for me.
- I went to market to buy [buy/bye]a toothbrush.
- He may not lose [ loose/lose] the match.
- When the chief justice came to our state ,people from different walks of life went to meet [meat/meet]him.
- Ahmad cut the paper into many pieces [ piece/peace]
- The letters on the board cannot be seen [scene/seen]clearly.
- My friend has a stationery [stationery/stationary] shop.
- It was a pretty sight [ sight/site]