The Selfish Giant 8th Class NCERT CBSE English ‘It So Happened’ Chapter 3 Question: Was the Giant happy or sad over the state of the garden? Answer: The Giant was sad over the state of his garden. He could not understand why spring was so late in coming. Question: What effect did …

भारत में आज ‘एक अनार सौ बीमार‘ कहावत चरितार्थ हो रही है। एक रिक्त स्थान के लिए सौ से अधिक प्रार्थनापत्र भेजे जाते हैं, एक पद के लिए सैकड़ों प्रत्याशी ‘क्यू’ लगाकर साक्षात्कार के लिए खड़े अपनी बारी की प्रतीक्षा करते देखे जाते हैं। यह सब बेरोजगारी के ही लक्ष्ण …

बच्चा भगवान का प्रतिरूप होता, बच्चा भगवान की देन है, ‘child is the father of man‘ आदि उक्तियाँ बच्चों का महत्त्व बताती है; उसका गुणगान करती हैं। वस्तुतः बच्चे का भोलापन, नटखटपन, बाल-सुलभ चेष्टाएँ, बाल-क्रीड़ाएँ सबको मुग्ध कर देती हैं और मानव बच्चे के प्रति ममत्व अनुभव करने लगता है, …

बहुत पुराने जमाने में गुलाम-प्रथा अर्थात् आदमी को बेचने-खरीदने का रिवाज था। इसके अन्तर्गत सम्पन्न व्यक्ति पुरुषों को परिश्रम के लिए तथा स्त्रियों को अपनी वासना-पूर्ति के लिए कुछ धन देकर जीवन-भर के लिए अपना दास बना लेता था। समय के साथ जागरूकता, मानवता, मनुष्य को मनुष्य होने के नाते …

Whoever finds English an exciting language to learn, will be familiar with the word ‘Oxymoron’. Oxymoron is a figure of speech in which two contradictory or inappropriate terms are either put together or appear side by side. The origin of the word ‘oxymoron’ can be traced back to two Greek …

A noun can be defined as something that describes a name, place or thing. There are several types of nouns such as common, proper, compound, predicate and so on. Of all these, an abstract noun is one that cannot be perceived by our five senses, i.e., touch, smell, sound, sight …

English is a strange language – some words are spelled as they are sound, some derive their spellings from an origin and some are, simply, exceptions to every rule! Commonly misspelled words are often referred to as interchanging or leaving letters out of a certain word, in writing. As it …

A verb is a part of speech that describes an action, occurrence or indicates a state of being. A verb can be defined by what it does more than by what it is. It is the most important part of a sentence as it asserts something about the subject, linking …

People often ignore punctuation unaware of the fact that the absence of proper punctuation might just kill the essence or the depth of a sentence. The comma was initially introduced with the intention of providing breath or halt, while reciting a particular fragment or a complete text; and it continues …

‘Those are the shirts which I intended to buy’! Have you ever considered the significance of the word ‘those’ in such sentences? It is known as demonstrative adjective and is common not only in English, but also in Spanish and French. We know that adjectives are those ‘parts of speech’ …