Complete the text with suitable prepositions.
Ours is a riverine country. Rivers are everywhere (a) --our life, literature, economy and culture. But are the rivers (b) --- good shape? Unfortunately, they are not. A few are already dead and several are going (c) --- the pangs of death. The river Buriganga is an example (d)--- a dying river. A report published in "The Daily Sun" describes what has happened (e) ---- the Buriganga and why. Its water is polluted and a perpetual stench fills the air (f)----it. Once it was a tributary (g) ---- Ganges and got the name Buriganga. It is (h)- present a dying river but once it flowed (i) ----- the river Dhaleswari. Gradually, it has lost its link (j) ----- the river.
a) in; b) in, c) through; d) of, e) to; f) around; g) of; h) at; i) through; j) with.
- If I knew the answer, ____tell you.
- the students have submitted the report today, which they ___ to bring yesterday.
- Sick people want to ___
- Enchanted with the whole scene, I (linger) on my voyage.
- Would you mind ________ the window?
- I'm very happy: my favorite singer___ to my town next October for a big concert.
- This is a good ___ for a picnic.
- Read the text and fill in the gaps with the correct form of verbs and subject-verb agreement as per context.When I was a child, I (a) _____ (be) afraid of the dark, and I always (b) _____ (go) to sleep with a light on. Even then, I feared that monsters (c) _____ (climb) in through my bedroom window and kill mE- And every sound I (d) _____ (hear) struck fear into mE- Often, I ran away from the room and (e) _____ (sleep) on the floor at the foot of my parent's bed. Now that I (f) _____ (be) almost twenty years old, I obviously do better than what I (g) _____ (do) as a child. However, I (h) _____ (be) still scared of bedtimE- I dislike (i) _____ (sleep) alone, and I still keep a tiny night light on. And before I go to bed, I double-check every door and every window to make sure that they (j) _____ (be) locked. Indeed, imaginary beings do not invade from outside, they exist in our superstitious beliefs.
- Complete the sentence with suitable verbs: Today's youngsters___themselves in___too much mobile contacts with their peers.
- Choose the correct form of verbs: He did not know that the earth (move) around the sun.
- By four o'clock, the staff_____the work.
- 'Much have I _____ in the ______ of gold'
- People lauded Mandela's humanity, kindnessand dignity'. In this sentence, the present formof the bold-faced word is-
- Use right form of verb: "I wish I(be) a bird."
- Choose the right form for the verb: It is many years since I (see) Obama.
- He_____ Dhaka on time. Choose the right word/ phrase for the gap.
- The patient is no ______ today.
- ___it help you in your studies?
- Read the text and fill in the gaps with the correct form of verbs as per subject and context.It has been over three hundred years since Emperor Shah Jahan of Delhi (a) _____ (build) the Taj Mahal as a tomb for his wife in Agra. Architecturally, it (b) _____ (be) one of the most beautiful buildings in the world. The building (c) _____ (make) of fine white marble with inlays of coloured marblE- It (d) _____ (have) eight sides and many open arches. It (e) _____ (rest) on a platform or terrace of red sandstonE- Four slender white towers (f) _____ (rise) from the corners of the terracE- A large dome (g) _____ (stand) above the centre of the building. Around this large dome there (h) _____ (be) four smaller domes. Just inside the outer walls, there is an open corridor from which the visitors (i) _____ (look) through carved marble screens into a central room. The bodies of Shah Jahan and his wife Mumtaz (j) _____ (lie) in two graves below this room.
- Choose the correct option to fill up the blank space in the sentence, "There is ....... on the roads today".