REVISION ASSIGNMENT 1

21 April 2020

Dear students

You can see below the revision assignment 1

Please answer all the questions.

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PARK COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

HS 8251 TECHNICAL ENGLISH ASSIGNMENT 1

1. Define the following terms:

                a) Satellite          b) modem           c) capacitor         d) Library

Tip 1. (Reference to good English to English on line dictionary will help you to get the correct     answers or use Google search)

Tip 2.     Your definition should include: Term, Class, characteristics

2. Fill in the blanks with appropriate forms of verbs:

                a) One of my friends ……………( has/ have ) gone to Spain.

 (Clue: One of my friends is singular)

b)Arun, along with Anitha, ……………( hope/ hops) to avoid indigestion after eating these weird

 Clue: To identify the head noun, put the phrase,’ along with Anitha’ in the bracket

c) Oil and water …………….(do/ does) not mix.

(Clue: compound nouns take plural verb’

d) Either Ram or Naveen………… (are/ is) responsible for this.

(Clue: the verb agrees with the noun closer to it.

3. Change the following sentences into their passive forms:

                a) I would have kept your car here if you had left it with me.

                Tip:  I would have kept your car/ if you had left it with me

                       I is the subject; your cat is the object/ You is the subject; it is the object.

                b) They called of the meeting

4. Complete the following conditional sentences:

                a) If only he had attended the interview, …………………………………………………… .

                Tip:  Find whether the given if class falls in type1, type2, or type 3.

                b) ……………………………………………………………. you will get good marks in your examination

                Tip: Find from the given main class to which category the sentence falls: type1, type2, or type 3

5. Rewrite the following as numerical adjectives:

                a) Three barrels which can hold five litres each

                b) Storage space of 32 giga bytes

                c) An electric cable which is ten metres length

                d) Project lasting for two years

6. Match the words in column A with their meaning in column B

                Column A                                            Column B

                juvenile                                                 strict

                austere                                                   convincing

                ponderous                                              immature

                cogent                                                    unwieldy

7. Change the following dialogue into reported speech:

                Arun:     Do you know that Gokul had met with an accident and is in hospital?

                Anitha:   Oh! I don’t. Is he badly hurt? Which hospital is he in?

8. Choose the appropriate word from the given options and make a compound word for the following words:

                i) home

                                a) wash                   b) line                   c) made                                d) way

                ii) life

                                a) long                  b) hood                    c) loss                                 d) hand

                iii) key

                                a) cluster             b) made                      c) knife                                d) hole

                iv) under

                                a) lie                      b) level                     c) ground                           d) stuff

9. Choose the appropriate words and complete the following sentences:

                a) The movie……………. (when/ which) we saw last week has won three national awards.

                b) I want to borrow the book…………… ( when/ that) you bought last month.

                c) I visited my uncle ……………….( who/ that ) lives in Delhi.

                d) Most of the people………………. ( whose/ whom) she met were from Jalandhar.

10. Write purpose statements for the following:

                a) refrigerator

                b) Washing machine

                c) Aerial

                d) Catalyst