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Goof-ups!
A. The conversations below contain mistakes. Spot them.
1. Billu: All these are my joke books.
They are a good laughing stock.
Don't
you
think so?
Rangu: Yes, Billu, you are so lucky!
you read the jokes, you must be
so bemused!
TULU
When
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2. Sulekha: To read books is my favourite
pastime.
Tripti: I don't feel like to read anything.
Answers
Answer:
He said, “I’m off to the games. Where are you going?”
(a) He said he would be off to the games and wanted to know where I was going.
(b) He said he was going off to the games and wanted to know where I was planning to go.
(c) He said he is going off to the games and asked me where I was planning to go
(d) He said that he was off to the games and wanted to know where I was going.
S1. Ans.(d)
Q2. I don’t know the way. Do you?” he asked.
(a) He said that he didn’t know the way and did I know it.
(b) He told that he was not knowing the way, but wondered if I knew.
(c) He said that he didn’t know the way and asked me if I did.
(d) He asked me if I knew the way which he didn’t.
S2. Ans.(c)
Q3. “How often do you go to the gym?” said Deepak to Amar.
(a) Deepak asked Amar that how often he goes to the gym.
(b) Deepak asked Amar that how often he has been going to the gym.
(c) Deepak asked Amar how often he went to the gym.
(d) Deepak asked Amar that how often he went to the gym.
S3. Ans.(c)
Q4. The client said