NEB Grade XI Compulsory English Note | Language Development | Unit-2 Freewriting (Peter Elbow) Part 1

Unit: 2

Communication

Freewriting

Ways with words

A. The words in the crossword puzzle are from the text. Find them in the text to solve the puzzle based on the clues given below.

Down:

1. to be preoccupied with a single topic or emotion

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Answer:
obsessed

3. to move slowly and quietly in a particular direction

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Answer:
creep

4. orderly, logical and Consistent

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Answer:
coherent

Across:

2. to utter rapidly or unintelligibly

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Answer:
babble

5. to insert something between other things

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Answer:
interpose

6. an unreadable handwriting

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Answer:
squiggle

B. Use the following words in sentences of your own.

massive

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Answer:
massive- The explosion has made a massive hole in the ground.

consciousness

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Answer:
consciousness- There has always been a strong social consciousness in the city.

catch-as-catch-can

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Answer:
They don't have enough textbooks for all of the students, so it'll be catch-as-catch-can.

give up

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Answer:
give up- She gave up her job after she had the baby.

abandon

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Answer:
abandon- My sister abandoned her teaching career in favor of politics.

lousy

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Answer:
lousy- I’ve got a cold and I feel lousy.

editing

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Answer:
I have time to do quick editing of my essay before handing it in.

C. Word formation: Adjectives and Adverbs

We can form adverbs by adding the suffix ‘-ly’ to an adjective, and adjective by adding the suffix ‘-y’ to a noun. Note that adding the suffix ‘-ly’ to the noun makes that noun an adjective (e.g. friend – friendly, love – lovely, beast – beastly, scholar – scholarly, month –monthly, etc.).

b. Write the following words in the right columns. Change the adjectives into adverbs and nouns into adjectives.

[rain, careful, bush, spice, perfect, automatic, snow, blood, certain, cloud, fair, general, heavy, bag, proud, rapid, mood, noise, proper, air, final, common, beautiful, frequent, hungry, cream, dust, ease, ice, oil, fun, hand, greed, health, hill]

Adjectives	Adverbs	Nouns	Adjectives
careful	carefully	rain	rainy
perfect	perfectly	bush	bushy
automatic	automatically	spice	spicy
certain	certainly	snow	snowy
fair	fairly	blood	bloody
general	generally	cloud	cloudy
proud	proudly	bag	baggy
rapid	rapidly	mood	moody
proper	properly	noise	noisy
final	finally	air	airy
common	commonly	cream	creamy
beautiful	beautifully	dust	dusty
frequent	frequently	ice	icy
heavy	heavily	fun	funny
hungry	hungrily	ease	easy
-	-	hand	handy
-	-	oil	oily
-	-	greed	greedy
-	-	health	healthy
-	-	hill	hilly

c. Fill in the gaps with the appropriate adjective or adverb.

i. Pramila is playing …… (quiet/quietly).

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Answer:
quietly

ii. Hari speaks very …… (loud/loudly).

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Answer:
loudly

iii. Mukesh is a …… (careful/carefully) driver.

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Answer:
careful

iv. The test was …… (easy/easily) and we finished in time.

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Answer:
easy

v. He is fitting the …… (automatic/automatically) door in my house.

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Answer:
automatic

vi. My uncle speaks …… (perfect/perfectly) Chinese.

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Answer:
perfect

vii. It was raining very …… (heavy/heavily).

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Answer:
heavily

viii. She looked very …… (calm/calmly), but I am sure she was feeling very nervous.

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Answer:
calm

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