Osmania UG Sem 3 Eng Syllabus& Model paper with answers

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previous paper
Dec 2023/ Jan 2024


Answers to the questions from previous paper
Dec 2023/ Jan 2024


Answer any four of the following


Answer as directed.


(a) Give a word with the monophthong sound /i/

Ans:- bin, tin, in


(b) Wait (Identify the diphthong sound)

Ans:-/eɪ/ /weɪt/


(c) Use the sound  ˈθ in the initial position 

Ans:- Thing

[ˈθɪŋ]


(d) Yellow -/ - elau/ (Fill in the blank with consonant sound)

Ans:- /j/

(e) The English Language has —--- monophthong sounds

Ans:- 12

2. Answer as directed.


(a) The short, sharp sound made by s small birds. (Onomatopoeic words)

Ans:- Chirp

(b) Give the origin of the word icon. (Language origin)

Ans:- Greek

(c) Injustice makes my blood boil (spot the cliché) 

Ans:- makes my blood boil

(d) Checkmate (Origin of meaning)

Ans:- Persian (from "shah mat," meaning "the king is dead")

(e) The tiger—----to scare the jackals away. (purred/roared)

Ans:- roared

3. Answer as directed.


(a) rabindranath tagore was a great Indian poet. (Punctuate)

Ans:- Rabindranath Tagore was a great Indian poet.

(b) The boys—-table  tennis. (play - past continuous)

Ans:- The boys were playing table tennis.

(c) Neither of my brothers —--any children. (be - simple present)

Ans:- Neither of my brothers has any children

 (d) The dried leaves —----under our feet. (clinked/crunched)

Ans:- crunched

(e) I will meet you at the station. (Identify the prepositional phrase)

Ans:- at the station

4 Answer as directed.


(a) —----is à long speech by a single speaker.

Ans:-Monologue


(b) The news —--me very happy. (make/makes)

Ans:-makes



(c) Where----your spectacles? (is/are)

Ans:- are


(d) A word of Italian origin whose meaning is "bad air". (quarantine / malaria)


Ans:-malaria

(e) may i come in Sir (Punctuate)

Ans:-May I come in, Sir?

5. What are the features of a good paragraph?




 



Government Degree College, Malkajgiri
BA/B.Com/BSc  Semester III
English- Internal exam 1 2024


Time :- 1 hour           Marks: 20                   


Answer the following multiple-choice questions   10×1/2= 5 


1. What does the "ship" in the poem symbolize? (     )

    A) A literal sailing ship  B) The country and its journey through the Civil War  

   C) A voyage to a distant land     D) A personal journey of the speaker  


2. Who does the "Captain" represent in the poem? (     )

   A) A fictional character    B) A close friend of the speaker  

   C) Abraham Lincoln    D) A famous sea captain


3. What is the mood of the poem "O Captain! My Captain!"? (     )

   A) Joyful and celebratory   B) Calm and peaceful  C) Solemn and mournful   D) Angry 


4. What event is being celebrated in the poem, despite the underlying sadness? (     )

   A) The end of a long voyage   B) The victory in a battle     C) The abolition of slavery  

 D) The end of the Civil War  


5. How does the speaker feel at the end of the poem? (     )

   A) Triumphant and proud    B) Relieved and content     C) Devastated by the Captain's death  

   D) Indifferent to the outcome  

6.Wow! That's excellent! (     )

  1. question mark  B) Exclamation   C) Both A&B    D) None

7.Mallika Srinivasan was born —-- city. (     )

  1.  Hyderabad   B) Kolkata  C) Chennai   D) None.

 8.The first letter of a sentence should be (     )

  1.  Captalized  B) in lower case   C) No rule   D) None

9.Identify correctly punctuated sentence (     )

  1. i speak telugu english and hindi   B) I speak telugu, English and hindi

C)i speak Telugu, english and hindi  D ) I speak Telugu, English and Hindi.

10) a low, steady, continuous sound; or, to sing with closed lips  (     )

      A) hoot   B) Chirp  C )croak    D)hum

II. Fill in the blanks with suitable answers   10×1/2=   5 


1.O Captain! My Captain poem is an elegy written on the death of —------

2.  A semicolon is use to link two or more _______________clauses that are connected to each other.

3.The poem “ O Captain! My Captain “ written by —---------


4.Mallika Srinivasan is CEO of —------


5.--------------------------title is given by media to Mallika Srinivasan.


6.You can hear the -------of sparrows from my window. (bleating/chirping) xx

 

7.Mallika studied her MBA from-------School of University. 


8.-----------------------------—---- company is taken over by TAFE


9.The butterfly----------over the flowers. (fluttered/buzzed)


10..We heard the------------------of owls all through at night. (croaking/hooting)


III.     Answer the questions in one or two lines. 5x 1 = 5 


1.  Is the speaker in the poem ‘O Captain, My Captain ‘ happy or sad?

Ans:-

2. What are Onomatopoeic words?


Ans:-


3. What is a Colon (:) and when do you use it?


Ans:-


4. A long /s/ sound, like that made by a snake is called__________


5. When do you use capital letters in a sentence?


Ans:-


  IV. Assignment                                5 marks. 

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