Question

THINKING ABOUT LANGUAGE
1 study the sentences given below .
(a)They looked like black mountains.
(b) Inside the clouds,everything was suddenly black.
(c) In the black clouds near me,I saw another aeroplane.
(d) The strange black aeroplane was there.

The word ' black ' in sentences (a) and (c) refers to the very darkest colour. But in (b) and (d) ( here) it means without light .

'Black' has a variety of meanings in different contexts. For example:
(a) ' I prefer black tea ' means 'I prefer tea without Milk '.
(b) 'with increasing pollution the future of the world is black ' means 'with increasing pollution the future of the world is very depressing without hope '.

Now try to guess the meaning of the word ' black ' in the sentences given below. Find out whether you have guessed right.

1 Go and have a bath; your hands and face are absolutely black.__________________
2 The taxi - driver gave Ratan a black look as he crossed the road when the traffic light was green._____________
3 The bombardment of Hiroshima is one of the blackest crimes against humanity. _____________
4 very few people enjoy Harold pinter's black comedy______________
5 sometimes shopkeepers store essential goods to create false scarcity and then sell these in black ._________________
6 villagers had beaten the criminal black and blue. __________





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