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Chapter 4: Unit 1 · English

A. Answer the following questions. . Who according to Gandhi, can fight against evil and how?

. What is Gandhiji’s ideal? . According to Tagore, when will India get the opportunity to win the gift of freedom?

. How does Tagore acknowledge Gandhi’s noble work? . Find words from the passage which mean the same as the following.

a) a malevolent desire for revenge (para ) b) tactful (para ) c) despise (para ) . Find words from the passage which are antonyms of the following. a) artificially (para ) b) strength (para ) Grammar We can narrate spoken words in two ways — Direct and Indirect speech. Direct speech repeats the exact words of the speaker.

Reported speech conveys something that has been said, without using the speaker's actual words. When the reporting verb is in the present tense, we don’t make changes in the tense. e.g. Uma says, “I like chocolates.” This can be reported as, Uma says that she likes chocolates.

Study the following table to learn how the tenses change when the reporting verb is in the past tense. (The word 'said' can be replaced by one which expresses a more precise shade of meaning: explained, declared, agreed, conveyed, told, argued etc.) -A-Prose-Dr. Arignar - - :

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