FIRST LANGUAGE ENGLISH - KSEEB - CLASS 07 - COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS - A SOLDIER’S SON

Unit - 02

A SOLDIER’S SON

Shobha Ghosh

C. Take turns with your partner and ask or answer these questions. Explain to him or her why you think your answer is correct. Quote from the text where ever necessary. Write down your answers.

1) Explain in your own words how a pilot saved himself.
Ans: The plane was shot somewhere near the adversary discharge and the pilot dropped out of the plane before it slammed very quickly. A parachute, a white structure mushroomed and opened like a blossom in the sky and the pilot glided tenderly down with the breeze to the ground and this is the means by which the pilot safeguarded himself.

 

2) The boy saw the plane only after it had been shot (True/Not True)
Ans: True.

 

3) In English, nouns are commonly used as verbs also, Point out to your partner two such verbs in paragraphs 1 and 2.
Ans: Plane was veering and shuddering in the sky.

Man floated gently down with the wind.

Boy emerged from the clump of trees.

 

4)  Where was the pilot flying to when his plane was shot?
Ans: The pilot was flying to air-force station, Ambala when his plane was shot.

 

5) Why did the enemy shoot at the boy?
Ans: The enemy shot at the boy since they saw the pilot giving over a parcel to him. They additionally realized that the parcel contains some significant data about them.

 

6) The sentry had seen the plane crash (True / Not True)
Ans: Not True

 

7) Maqbool Butt was a patriot’s son (True / Not True)
Ans: True

 

8) “They can’t do a thing if our number is not written on the bullet”. Explain this statement to your partner.
Ans: The above sentence means that a soldier needs to battle till his last moment of death. A soldier ought not to flee from the adversary, in the event that he does so the fighter is certainly not a genuine officer.

 

9) The boy knew what the officer did not know (True/ Not True)
Ans: True.

 

10) The commanding officer said some-thing humorously.
Ans: At the point when the kid, Maqbool said genuinely that he needed to convey the order given by the pilot and he likewise said that he realized the enemy lines, he knew where the pilot fell, and furthermore he can control them to pass by an easy route and furthermore educated that the enemies went ahead foot so jeeps will have the option to encompass them and catch them. The directions given by the kid like a very much prepared fighter made the leader silly and the boss said smilingly, "Guidelines noted, Sir, move will be made".

 

11) How did the commanding officer and the Major tend the boy?
Ans:  The commanding officer and the Major tend the boy by telling that the boy is a soldier as of now and they have trust that some time or another boy will lead the Indian armed force with a similar brave and fortitude.

 

12) A distant voice came to the officer’s ears. Whose voice was that?
Ans: A distant voice came to officer’s ears was the voice of Maqbool’s father.

 

13) What was Maqbool’s ambition?
Ans: Maqbool’s ambition was to become a soldier.

 

D. Word Formation
Make Compound Nouns using the words given.
Example: post, postman, postmaster, postcard, post-office, postmark, postpaid.

а) Life:       life – b u o y;         life – s e c u r e
life – g u a r d;      life – j a c k e t
life – l i n e;          life – l o n g
life – s i z e;          life – t i m e

 

E. Grammar: The Noun Clause.

Seven examples of the noun clause are given below. Study them and know the grammatical functions Noun Clauses do.

 

1. He will never come here again. He told me so.

(These are simple sentences)

He told me that he would never come here again. 

(This is a complex sentence. The italicized clause is a Noun Clause. It is the object of the verb phrase ‘told me’)

 

2. Where did I put my necklace? I don’t remember.

I don’t remember where I put my necklace.
(Object of the verb “remember”)

 

3. She told me that. It was not true.
What she told me was not true.

(Subject of the verb “was”)

 

4. He is going to say something now.
Everything depends on it.
Everything depends on what he is going to say.
(Object of the preposition “on”)

 

5. The girl saved the child from drowning.
This was how she did it.
This was how the girl saved the child from drowning.
(Complement of the verb “was”)

 

6. “Increase our wages. This is our demand,” we said.
It was accepted by the management.
Our demand that our wages should be increased was accepted by the management.
(In apposition to the noun “demand”)

 

7. “My son will win a medal,” he said. He was certain about that.
He was certain that his son would win a medal. 

(Complement of the adjective “certain”)

We sometimes say things in (simple) short sentences and sometimes in long (complex) sentences. This is what these seven people are doing here.

 

The Italicized parts in the long sentences are called noun clauses in grammar.

 

Exercise 1: Look at these pairs of sentences. Rewrite as complex sentences, underline the noun clause.

 

A. I remember where I have left my bicycle.
B. This is how they caught the thief with the jewels.
C. Everything depends on what he is going to do.
D. I was listening about his troubles.
E. She was certain that her son would win a prize in high jump event.

 

Exercise 2.
The Noun clause begins with “that” or what we may call “Wh Words” Fill in the blanks with appropriate words given in the brackets.

(why; that; whether; where; how; when)

Newspaper Reporter: Why have your people become factory workers?

Devaiah       : We lost our fields. This is the place where we used to grow Ragi.

Krishnappa  : They said that we should sell our fields, and we had to sell them.

Rajanna       : That is when we lost our fields.

Krishnappa  : That is how this factory came up here.

Devaiah       : That is why we have become factory workers.

Rajanna       : We don’t know whether our children will ever become farmers again.