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Modals

🌈 MODALS 🌈 📚 Learn • Understand • Practise • Enjoy! 😊 ⭐ What are Modals? Modals are helping verbs used to express ability, permission, possibility, necessity, advice, request, duty and willingness . 💡 Golden Rule: A modal is followed by the base form (V1) of the verb. ✅ She can sing . ❌ She can sings. 🧩 Common Modals Can • Could • May • Might • Must • Should • Shall • Will • Would • Ought to 💙 1. CAN Uses: Ability • Permission • Possibility I can swim well. 🏊 She can speak English. 🗣️ We can solve this problem. 🧠 He can run very fast. 🏃 Birds can fly . 🐦 Can I come in? 🚪 Can I borrow your pen? ✏️ You can use my computer. 💻 Anyone can make mistakes. 🙂 We can finish the work today. ✅ 💜 2. COULD Uses: Past ability • Polite request • Possibility I could swim when I was six. 🏊 She could read at the age of five. 📖 He could run very fast when he was young. 🏃 We could see the mountains from our house. 🏔️ My grandfather...

Three Questions

  Three Questions Leo Tolstoy – Summary, Think It Out Answers & 20 MCQs 📖 Summary of “Three Questions” “Three Questions” is a famous short story by Leo Tolstoy . The story deals with three important questions about life and teaches us the value of living in the present and doing good to others. A King once thought that if he knew the answers to three important questions, he would never fail in any undertaking. His three questions were: What is the right time to begin everything? Who are the right people to listen to? What is the most important thing to do? The King offered a great reward to anyone who could provide satisfactory answers. Many learned men came to him, but they gave different answers. Some advised him to prepare a strict timetable, while others suggested that he should observe everything carefully. Some said that a council of wise men ...

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

  Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Robert Frost – Summary, Think It Out Answers & 20 MCQs 📖 Summary of “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” is a famous poem by Robert Frost . The poem describes a traveler who stops with his horse to watch the snow falling in a quiet wood on a winter evening. The speaker is attracted by the beauty and peacefulness of the woods. He describes them as “lovely, dark and deep.” The woods offer him a moment of silence and escape from the ordinary world. The speaker stops between the woods and a frozen lake. The owner of the woods lives in the village, so the speaker feels that the owner will not see him stopping there. The horse finds the stop unusual because there is no farmhouse nearby. It shakes its harness bells as if asking whether there is some mistake. Apart from the harne...

Standing Up for Yourself

  Standing Up for Yourself Summary, Think It Out Answers & 30 MCQs 📖 Summary of “Standing Up for Yourself” “Standing Up for Yourself” is an autobiographical excerpt by the Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko . The extract describes an important incident from his childhood in Moscow in 1941. After his parents' divorce, Yevtushenko lived alone in an empty flat. His father was in Kazakhstan with his new family, while his mother, who had been a geologist, was working as a singer and performing for troops at the front. As he was largely left without parental guidance, Yevtushenko says, “My education was left to the street.” The street taught him habits such as smoking and swearing and made him ready to defend himself. The street was ruled by a sixteen-year-old bully called Red . He was a big, broad-shouldered boy who frightened everyone. Red had a group of ...

Phrasal verbs 1

  100 Important Phrasal Verbs for Class 12 Students Phrasal verbs are combinations of a verb and one or more particles such as an adverb or preposition. 100 Important Phrasal Verbs No. Phrasal Verb Meaning Example Sentence 1 Abide by Follow or obey We must abide by the rules. 2 Account for Explain Can you account for your absence? 3 Ask for Request She asked for help. 4 Back out Withdraw He backed out of the agreement. 5 Break down Stop functioning My car broke down yesterday. 6 Break into Enter by force Thieves broke into the house. 7 Break out Start suddenly A fire broke out in the market. 8 Bring up Mention He brought up an important issue. 9 Call off Cancel The match was called off due to rain. 10 Carry on Continue Please carry on with your work. 11 Carry out Perform Scientists carried out experiments. 12 Catch up with Reach the same level He worked hard to catch up with others. 13 Come across Find by chance I came across an old...