Question

Write the precis of the follwing passage.

Among the manifold misfortunes that may befall humanity, the loss of health is one of the severest. All the joys which life can give cannot outweigh the sufferings of the sick. Give the sick man everything and leave him sufferings a d he will feel that half the world is lost to him. Lay him on a soft silken couch; he will nevertheless be under the pressure of his suffering while the miserable beggar, blessed with health, sleeps sweetly on the hard ground. Spend his table with dainty meals and choice drinks, and he will thrust back the hand that proffers them and every the poor man that thoroughly enjoys his dry crush Surround him with the pomp of kings, let his chair be a throne and his crutch a world saving scepter, he will look with contemptuous eye on marble, on gold and on purple and would deem himself happy, could he enjoy, even was it under a thatched roof, health of the meanest of his servants.

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Answer 1

Précis writing

According to the text, the loss of health is one of the manifold misfortunes that may befall humanity. It is applicable to both the conditions --- poverty or richness. The poors can enjoy the life with good health but not the rich with a bad health. The joys of life never can outweigh the sufferings of the sick. So health is wealth.

Note:

• To write a precise form of a long paragraph, we must understand the content and the context very clearly.

• Then with the subject and summary of the text, we write a smaller version that expresses the whole paragraph in short.

Answer 2

Precis writing is the activity of compressing the passage and giving all the essential points to understand the gist of the passage.

The precis of the given passage will be -

• Good health is a blessing
• The significant hardship a person can inevitably suffer from is the lack of apparent good health. Even the earthly delights cannot console and pacify an ill person.
• An ill person also goes through sleepless nights and gloomy days.  Everything, how nice and pleasant it may be, typically appears to them as dull and even tasteless.  
• He would voluntarily choose the humble lot of a poor yet good beggar instead of establishing the kingdom of the entire earth with a sick health.
• The gifts of health are so great all the wealth of the world pales before them into insignificance.