1st PUC ENGLISH WORKBOOK ANSWERS ARTICULATION DICTIONARY USE

 

1st PUC ENGLISH WORKBOOK ANSWERS ARTICULATION DICTIONARY USE

 

UNIT – C

REFERENCE SKILLS

 

9. DICTIONARY USE

 

Primary uses of a dictionary

Dictionary: Spelling, pronunciation, grammatical function, meaning.

 

How to refer a word?

·        Alphabetical Arrangement

·        Guide Words

 

ALPHABETICAL ARRANGEMENT

·        Note that all entries are arranged in alphabetical order. Words are arranged according to their first letter. Words beginning with the same letter are arranged according to their second letter.

Example: able, action

 

·        On the top of every page, you will find two words in bold type. The word on the left is found as the first word on the page. The word on the right is the last word on the page. These two words are called ‘Guide Words’. They guide you to the word you are looking for.

 

·        Each word defined in a dictionary is called an entry word. The entry word is printed in dark type.

 

·        The spelling of the word comes right after the entry. This special spelling shows the word’s pronunciation, or how to say it aloud.

 

·        The letter or letters after the pronunciation tell the part of speech. Most dictionaries use abbreviations.

 

·        The definition tells the meaning of the word. When a word has more than one meaning, the definitions are numbered.

 

·        Some dictionaries show the infected forms of the word.

 

·        Some definitions have an example sentence that shows how the word is used.

 

REARRANGE THE FOLLOWING WORDS AS THEY WOULD APPEAR IN A DICTIONARY.

(starvation, fatty, calories, vegetarian, nutrition, dairy, protein, pumpkin, preserve, pepper, peel, potato)

 

 Ans: calories, dairy, fatty, nutrition, peel, pepper, potato, preserve, protein, pumpkin, starvation, vegetarian.

 

(a) Find the guide words which will help you to look up each of the following words. You can refer to any dictionary.

Word	Guide Words
buffalo	brow	bugbear
element	electrode	eloquence
forest	forego	forsake
language	landgrave	laser
persuade	periwinkle	pertain

 

b) Write the full form of the following abbreviations used in the dictionary.

1) pl            2) pp           3) ∼               4) fm l         5) v             6) adj

7) N [U]      8) N [C]      9) prep        10) sth         11) sb                   12) Adv

 

Ans:

1) pI — plural

2) pp — past partIciple

3) ∼ — replaces the headword of an entry

4) fmI — formal

5) v — verb

6) adj — adjective

7) N [U] — Noun uncountable

8) N [C] — Noun countable

9) prep — preposition

10) sth — something

11) sb — somebody

12) Adv — Adverb

 

(c) Read the following sentences and use the dictionary entry on the word “collapse” in different contexts and complete the table below.

 

1. All the buildings in the town collapsed in the earthquake.

2. He had pneumonia and one of his lungs collapsed.

3. The terrorists caused a collapse of communications in the fishing village.

4. The children collapsed with laughter as they watched the clown’s antics.

5. The collapse of the rupee caused an economic crisis in the country.

 

 

Sentence No.	Part of Speech for ‘collapse’	The sentence talks about	Dictionary meaning and number for collapse
1)	Verb	buildings	to fall down or fall in suddenly (1)
2)	Verb	lungs	to fall in and become flat (7)
3)	Noun	communication	failure (1)
4)	Verb	children	started laughing uncontrollably, (no meaning given in the list is suitable)
5)	Noun	rupee (currency)	a sudden fall in value (4)