Textual Grammar(Class xii of wbchse) The Poetry of Earth

              Textual Grammar
   
            The Poetry of Earth 
                                 John Keats (1795 -1821)
Do as Directed

1. He takes the lead in summer luxury. ( Change the voice)

Ans. The lead in summer luxury is taken by him.

2. The frost has wrought a silence.( Change the voice)

Ans. A silence has been wrought by the frost.

3. All the birds are faint with the hot sun. (Change the voice)

Ans. The hot sun faints all the birds.

4. The poetry of earth is never dead. (Change into affirmative)

Ans. The poetry of earth is always alive.

5. He takes the lead. (Make it negative)

Ans. He does not remain from taking the lead.

6. The poetry of earth is never dead. (Turn into a complex sentence)

Ans. The poetry that belongs to earth is never dead.

7. He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed. (Rewrite using the adjective form of the underlined word)

Ans. He rests an easefull manner beneath some weed.

8. He rests beneath some pleasant weed.(Make it Complex sentence)

Ans. He rests beneath some weed which is pleasant.

9. The poetry of earth is ceasing never. (Turn into an affirmative sentence)

Ans. The poetry of earth is always alive.

10. He has never done with his delights. (Change into interrogative form)

Ans. Has he ever done with his delights?

11. That is the Grasshopper who takes the lead in summer luxury.(Split the sentence into two Simple sentences)

Ans. That is the grasshopper. He takes the lead in summer luxury.

12. All the birds are faint with the hot sun. They hide in cooling trees. ( Join the sentences)

Ans.

 Complex: When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, they hide in cooling trees.

Simple: Being fainted with the hot sun, all the birds hide in cooling trees.

Compound: All the birds are faint with the hot sun and so they hide in cooling trees.

13. He rests at ease beneath some pleasant.(used adverb form of ease)

Ans. He rests easily beneath some pleasant weed.

14. The poetry of earth is never dead.(Turn into an interrogative sentence)

Ans. Is the poetry of earth ever dead?

15. Correct the error in the following sentence by replacing the underlined word with the right one from the options given below:    

1. The poetry of earth is never death.

Options: died / dead / dying

Ans. The poetry of earth is never dead.

2.He rests at easily beneath some pleasant weed.

Options: ease / easy / easiness

Ans. He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.

3. On a loneliness winter evening, when the frost has wrought a silence.

Options: alone / lonely / lone

Ans. On a lone winter evening, when the frost has wrought a silence.

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