8th std grammar
Q1. Arrange the following set of words in the alphabetical order in your notebook.
(ship, small, successful, scoldings, stone, saving, someone, stood, streets, still,
screamed, sat, seemed, saint, share.)
Q2. Remove the Affixes (Prefix and Suffix) and write the Root-word.
(1) successful____________
(2) immediately__________
(3) retrace______________
(4) mouser______________
(5) unfriendly____________
(6) fallen________________
(7) unkind_______________
(8) wooden_______________
(9) luckily_______________
(10) belonging____________
Q3. Find from the story one word for the following.
a. a small room just below a sloping roof__________________
b. a very narrow passage between buildings _______________
c. the highest - ranking officer in the Municipality of a city/town ______________________
d. the highest ranking official who commands a ship____ _______________
e. any animal that catches mice __________________
f. a low constant sound made by cats ______________
Q4. Make sentences of your own using the following expressions.
(1) overcome : __________
(2) put up with : __________
(3) bargain :__________
Answers
Answer:
The media is the single most powerful entity on Earth today, they have the power to create and change public opinion with ease, armies are not needed anymore, the media is far more powerful than any army could ever be, they control public discussion, they create opinions, they change opinions, they create sentiments, they create realities. The media has the power to literally change societies if they wanted to. How is it being used? It’s used as a propaganda machine, and an instrument to persuade people into believing your selfish ideas. There are two types of journalism - advocacy journalism and informative journalism. Advocacy journalists have the objective to persuade you into believing their narrative and their view, they are not concerned with informing you of the whole picture, they want to persuade you to believe the narrative that they believe, everything they say can be 100% true and fact, but they selectively omit certain information and craftily construct an information which serves their own purpose of advancing and pushing forward their views. Informative journalists on the other hand are there to inform you, they don’t selectively report only certain information, they report everything without picking or selecting parts only, they give you the full pictures