Read the following dialogue
Kala : You are very happy today. What is the matter?
Sheela : My father has planned to take us tos our village in Thanjavur.
Kala : But you can’t take leave from the school.
Sheela : We are not going now. We will be going to our village during the holidays.
Note that there is a full stop at the end of each sentence. The new sentence starts with a capital letter. Full stop and capital letter are a part of punctuation marks.
Read the following sentences:
1. I go to school at 8:00 a.m?
2. My father leaves his office at 6:00 p.m.
3. Our HM is a strict person.
4. The great Pyramid was built in 2600 B.C.
5. India will be a developed country in 2015 A.D.
The underlined letters are in short forms. We use these forms in daily conversation.
The expansion of the short forms are given below:
am - ante meridian (from midnight twelve o’clock to twelve noon)
pm - post meridian (from twelve noon to midnight twelve)
HM - Headmaster / Headmistress
BC - Before Christ
AD - Anno Domini (since the year of the birth of Christ)
The underlined words are compound words . They consist of two or more words
1. noun + noun
Example: school girl, text book
2. Adjective noun
Example: big bag, back seat
Match the words under A with their corresponding words under B.
A B
1. tea 1. pages
2. baby 2. room
3. yellow 3. sitter
4. gold 4. pot
5. class 5. smith
Kala : You are very happy today. What is the matter?
Sheela : My father has planned to take us tos our village in Thanjavur.
Kala : But you can’t take leave from the school.
Sheela : We are not going now. We will be going to our village during the holidays.
Note that there is a full stop at the end of each sentence. The new sentence starts with a capital letter. Full stop and capital letter are a part of punctuation marks.
Read the following sentences:
1. I go to school at 8:00 a.m?
2. My father leaves his office at 6:00 p.m.
3. Our HM is a strict person.
4. The great Pyramid was built in 2600 B.C.
5. India will be a developed country in 2015 A.D.
The underlined letters are in short forms. We use these forms in daily conversation.
The expansion of the short forms are given below:
am - ante meridian (from midnight twelve o’clock to twelve noon)
pm - post meridian (from twelve noon to midnight twelve)
HM - Headmaster / Headmistress
BC - Before Christ
AD - Anno Domini (since the year of the birth of Christ)
The underlined words are compound words . They consist of two or more words
1. noun + noun
Example: school girl, text book
2. Adjective noun
Example: big bag, back seat
Match the words under A with their corresponding words under B.
A B
1. tea 1. pages
2. baby 2. room
3. yellow 3. sitter
4. gold 4. pot
5. class 5. smith
