1.5 His First Flight Textual Grammar activities

18 June, 2020

Textual Grammar activities

Do as directed.

1. Since then nobody had come near

     him.

    ( Add question tag and rewrite.)

2. The Sun was now ascending the sky.

    ( Name the tense)

3. He felt certain that his wings would             never support him.

     ( Underline and name the subordinate            clause.)

4. His father was preening the feathers

     on his white back.

     (Rewrite the sentence beginning with 

       The feathers on ..........................)

5. He flapped his wings and soared                upwards.

    (Rewrite using not only...but also )

6. He saw his two brothers and sister

     flying around him.

      (Rewrite beginning with -

        His two brothers and sister...........)

7. Then the young seagull completely             forgot that he had not always been able

     to fly.

     ( Underline and name subordinate                  clause.)

8. He saw a vast green sea beneath him.

     (Rewrite beginning with  - 

      A vast green sea ........................)

9. They were beckoning to him.

     (Rewrite beginning with  He ............)

10. He had made his first flight.

       (Rewrte beginning  with - 

        His first flight..............................)

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24 June, 2020

1.  Since then nobody had come near               him, had they?

2.  Past Continuous Tense / Past                        Progressive Tense

3.   Subordinate Clause - that his wings

       would never support him.

       Noun Clause.

4.    The feathers on his white back were            being preened by his father.

5.     He not only flapped his wings but                also soared upwards.

6.    His two brothers and sister were                  seen  by him flying around him.

7.    Subordinate Clause - That he was not

       able to fly.

        Noun Clause

8.    A vast green sea was seen by him                beneath him.

9.     He was being beckoned to by them.

10.   His first flight had been made by                 him.

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                                   Purushottam Thoke

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