Question

His parents and his brothers and sister had landed on this green flooring ahead of him. They were beckoning to him,
calling shrilly. He dropped his legs to stand on the green sea. His legs sank into it. He screamed with fright and
attempted to rise again flapping his wings. But he was tired and weak with hunger and he could not rise, exhausted
by the strange exercise. His feet sank into the green sea, and then his belly touched it and he sank no farther. He was
floating on it, and around him his family was screaming, praising him and their beaks were offering him scraps of
dog-fish.
Q.6. Answer the following questions:
i) What is the tense of this paragraph?
ii) What do you mean by “scraps of dog-fish”.
iii) What is the first form of the word “Sank”.
iv) Replace the word scream with its synonym.​

Answer 1

Answer: a) Past Perfect Tense

b) Dogfish is a shark

c) sink

d) synonym of the word scream is shout