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- Fill in the blank with the most suitable prepositions.(Solved)
Fill in the blank with the most suitable prepositions.
a. John is fond __________________________________ his daughter.
b. He is very bossy. He loves ordering people_______________________________
c. She inherited the house ........................ her grandmother.
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- Rewrite the following sentences as instructed.
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Rewrite the following sentences as instructed.
i. He understood why people had been laughing after he realized the ugliness of his headgear. (Rewrite using present participle)
ii. Malenge did not bother to campaign .he was convinced that he was the students’ favorite for the post of a school captain. (Rewrite using Past Participle)
iii. I have been studying in this school complained the student but I have never scored a hundred percent in any subject. (Punctuate correctly)
iv. The watchman spotted the student sneaking from school(Rewrite to remove the gender bias)
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- Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.(Solved)
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.
One of the oldest forms of recreation known to human kind, sports are the one arena in which many of the society’s
traditional strictures about masculinity are often loosened ,allowing boys to experience parts of themselves they reared experience elsewhere. At their best, sports provide boys with an opportunity for play in a free atmosphere so that they can be themselves and express a full range of emotions-from the exhilaration of a last minute goal to the acute disappointment of being defeated by the opposing team, from the joy of being the one to pull of unexpected play to the embarrassment of fumbling the ball in the last quarter of the game
Sports provide boys with the theater for the unfettered expressions of their feelings, a place where it is OK to be spirited, a motive and passionate. As twelve- year- old Max told me,”During school we have to be quiet, and raise our hands to talk. It is boring and sometimes I feel like there is nobody to talk to. I love doing sports after school because we can all be
together. We to run fast, shout out things, scream, whatever. It lets me be me.”
For many boys, sports can be a form of intimacy and a way to be honest. By temporarily freeing boys from the Boy Code — especially from the rules that say boys shouldn’t express feelings, show, and affection or expose their yarning for connection -sports can become one of the most important activities through which our sons, as their genuine selves, can relate closely with girls and other boys.
But just as much as they can offer a break from the Boy Code, a chance for openness, expressions and intimacy, sports can also push back loneliness, shame and vicious competition. “It’s rough out there” one high school football player recently told me. “Some guys play hard just the way they should. But other guys just seem like they are out to get you-you know, they try to demolish you”. Thus sports can also be a place where boys show unbridled aggression, let out inappropriate feelings of anger and frustrations, and actually hurt other boys.
And then sports can thrust boys into a cult of competition, the goal of winning at any cost, a quest for narcissistic glory at the expense of others. They cause some boys- especially those who are not interested in sports or who are not skilled at playing them —to feel left out unworthy, a shamed.
I firmly believe that the positive benefits to boys dim when sports cease to be play. D.W. Winnicott, to distinguished English pyschoanalist observed that for children, play is at the heart of health integrated development. His words were especially pertinent to boys whole inner selves are too often suppressed. “Playing shows that the child is capable of developing a personal way of life and eventually becoming a whole being... welcomed by the world at large.”
Sheer competition among ooysreareiyouna character and does little to bring boys closer to one another.
But sports, when they are played, can be a tremendously good thing for boys. The late commissioner of baseball and Renaissance scholar Giamatti A.BatletGiamati spoke of sports as, “that aspiration out of the self-for a moment in touch-with a joy free of all constraints. It is a sensation not of winning, but of fully playing “. When sports are kept in proper perspective — when we see sports primarily as a chance for boys come together for joyful, spirited high energy play-they can help boys discover new competencies, buttress their feelings of self-worth and reunite them with their authentic voices, enabling them to express the deepest stirrings of emotions in their hearts, widening their cycles of connection.
QUESTIONS.
1. In your own words, write the point that the author makes in the first sentence of this passage.
2. What is Max’s attitude towards school?
Re write the following sentences following the instructions given after each. Do not change the
meaning.
(a) Some guys play hard just the way they should,” said the student. (Rewrite in reported speech)
(b) During school we have to be quiet .(Add a question tag)
4. When do sports cease to be play according to the author?
5. What do you think the author means by Boy Code?
6. In not more than sixty words, summarize the disadvantages of sports as portrayed in the
passage
Rough Copy
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Fair Copy
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7.Give the meaning of the following words as used in the passage
(a) Unfettered
(b) Pertinent
(c) Buttress
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- Add question tags to the following statements. (Solved)
Add question tags to the following statements.
(i) William is such a talented guitarist.________________________________________
(ii) Mwombe dared the mob to attack him. _____________________________________
(iii) Let’s respond to the distress call. __________________________________________
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- For each of the following sentences, write the tense of the verb in brackets according to the instruction given.
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For each of the following sentences, write the tense of the verb in brackets according to the instruction given.
(i) The canoe ends (taper) to make the craft glide through the marsh.
(Present continuous tense)
(ii) The plants, called blushes, (provide) both new and replacement coverings for summer
lodges. (Future tense)
(iii) The Kalispel women (follow) this way of life for many years. (Past tense)
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- In the following sentences, insert the word in brackets into the correct position.(Solved)
In the following sentences, insert the word in brackets into the correct position.
i) They had a political argument. (absurd)
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ii)(ii) She sold her house. (comfortable, wooden)
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- Rewrite the following sentences using the words in brackets.
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Rewrite the following sentences using the words in brackets.
(i) We will give the winner a prize. (whoever)
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(ii) “Goodness always conquers evil,” is my favourite life saying. (me)
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Choose the correct form of words in brackets to complete each of the sentences below.
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Choose the correct form of words in brackets to complete each of the sentences below.
(i) Who broke the handle (off, of) this cup?
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(ii) Choose (among, between) these sick.
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- Use the comparative form of the word in brackets at the end of each sentence to fill the blank space correctly.
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Use the comparative form of the word in brackets at the end of each sentence to fill the blank space correctly.
i) Grace could not have been _________________ about our plans. (happy)
(ii) The cake has a ______________ flavor than the one you made last week. (rich)
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- Join the following sentences into the passive voice . ...(Solved)
Join the following sentences into the passive voice .
i) The farmer breeds such many animals
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ii) The police are seeking the criminals .................................................
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- Rewrite the following sentences supplying appropriate question tags . ...(Solved)
Rewrite the following sentences supplying appropriate question tags
i) Let us go away ...................................
ii) You can’t be serious about going to the party this late.........................
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- Fill in the blank spaces in the following sentences with appropriate prepositions .(Solved)
Fill in the blank spaces in the following sentences with appropriate prepositions.
i) We prohibited …………………….. parking our bicycles at the gate.
ii) The carcass weighed …………………. five hundred kilograms
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- Rewrite the following sentences following the instructions given without changing the meaning. ...(Solved)
Rewrite the following sentences following the instructions given without changing the meaning.
i) Joshua would not fail his exams under any circumstances. Begin: Under no.......
ii) The students had hardly got out of class when the rain started. Begin: Hardly .......
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- Read the story below and then answer the questions that follows: There was once a man who had a wife who was barren after giving birth to an only boy. After (Solved)
Read the story below and then answer the questions that follows.
There was once a man who had a wife who was barren after giving birth to an only boy. After consulting a witch doctor, he went in search of an ogre’s tail as he had been instructed. After a long and hazardous journey through unknown lands he came into a country of the ogres. That day the ogres were celebrating the installation of a new chief. He joined in their beer party and the ogres welcomed him through they had difficulty in restraining their cannibalistic nature. When all ogres went to bed, the man with his knife in his hand stealthily crept to the bed chamber of the new chief. Overcome with too much beer, the chief was sleeping too heavily to notice that his tail was being slashed off. When he woke up the following morning, he found the other ogres dancing and singing:
Omwamikenyalile The chief has urinated
Khaneomwamikenyalanga So the chief urinates
He looked about him and saw blood, then he noticed that his tail was missing. The visitor was also missing!
The chief then changed himself into a beautiful woman. After a long journey she came upon herds of boys playing lifundo with a ball made out of banana leaves. The beautiful woman asked each boy in turn what great thing his father had done. One said, “My father killed an elephant.” Another said that his father had killed a company of ten Teso warriors. The third said, “My father cut off the tail of an ogre.” The woman rejoiced and asked the boy to take
her to his father’s home. The man, struck by her great beauty, made her his wife the same day.
That night the woman tried to change into an ogre but the man’s two dogs, Kutubi and Mulikho, barked at her fiercely and she gave up the attempt. The following day she told the man that she wanted some firewood from the forest. She told him to tie the dogs in heavy chains. She then led him deep into the forest, and then asked him to climb one of the trees that were dry. “I will hand the axe to you when you are up,” she said.
But as soon as the man was up the tree, she turned into an ogre, “Now I have got you,” the ogre said and started cutting down the tree. The man started calling for his dogs:
“Asa, asa, mbwa change KutubinaMulikho.” (“Come, come, my dogs Kutubi and Mulikho.”)
Each time the tree showed signs of falling, a dove on a nearby tree said, “KurrMurongorokwaseyililisia.” (“Kurr, my tree. Regain your former state.”) The ogre in a fury chased away the dove, which returned almost immediately.
In the meantime, the dogs after the struggle had cut their chains and came at breakneck speed as their master kept calling. When they arrived, the ogre threw away the axe, turned into the same beautiful woman and begged for mercy. But the dogs did not stop their onslaught until she was completely dead.
QUESTIONS
a) State two characteristics of ogre stories evident in the above narrative.
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b) Identify any three social activities mentioned in the passage.
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c) From the story, do you think the wife was cured of her illness? Explain your answer.
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d) Identify and illustrate two character traits of the man?
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f) State features of oral narrative evident in the above narrative
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g) State any two functions of the song used in the narrative
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h) What moral lesson do you learn from the above narrative?
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- Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow.(Solved)
Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow.
The act of giving and helping people in need is fast dying. Occasionally, we talk about a Good Samaritan having come out of the blue and helped us in our hour of need. It is not clear whether it is because people have become more egocentric or it is because of the diminishing culture of communal living.
If we found someone dying beside the road, we are unlikely to help because we first of all think of how helping them would make us late. We would walk away hoping that the next person will not be as busy as we are, and will therefore rescue the person. Whether it is modern life that has made us busier than before is really debatable.
Have you ever noticed that people are always running around, immersed in deep thought with drooping shoulders and with premature wrinkles etched on their foreheads? The common explanation for this is that we are so busy that we do not have time for ourselves, let alone others.
One writer said that people, who claim to be busy, are not really busy. Being busy he said, was a euphemism for an insatiable craving for money, power, status and overwhelming desire to have more and more material possessions. What this culture of being busy does is that it makes us lose some of the essential human values such as loving others, taking care of the sick and meeting other people’s needs through generosity.
Let us take the example of hunger and starvation. The two kill many people, especially children and the elderly. It is easy to say that hunger and starvation are as a result of a fall in the supply of rain. We can say that this is all an issue of climate. This is true to an extent. When rains fail, people’s crops fail and they lose their sole source of food. For those who depend on livestock, their livestock die or become too famished to fetch enough money in the market to enable them buy food. The spiraling cost of foodstuffs does not lessen the pain and suffering of those faced with starvation.
However, the culture of being good Samaritans need not die. If we stopped being too busy and set aside time for our children, we would have time to watch them grow and understand their value system. We can then inculcate the culture of generosity; starting highlighting small ways in which children can be generous. For example, a child can be encouraged to share food with another who does not have or who has come to school without. They can also be encouraged to donate clothes and shoes to a children’s home. This gesture will go a long way in clothing another less fortunate child. Later in life, they can find bigger ways of reaching out to those in need. Through small ways, we would have taught generosity to our children, created the good Samaritans that we all wish for when in need and ensured the act of giving lives on generations.
QUESTIONS
(a) According to the author, why is the act of giving dying?
(b) What is the main consequence of being too busy?
(c) Why does the writer believe that people die of hunger due to our selfishness?
(d) In what two ways can generosity be inculcated among children?
(e) The writer of passage is a parent; support this
(f) What are the benefits of teaching children to share?
(g) In note form, state the characteristics of busy people
(h) Write an appropriate title for this passage
(i) Explain the meaning of the following phrases as used in the passage
i) Out of the blue ………………………………………………………………………………………
ii)Reaching out …………………………………………………………………………………………
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- Explain the difference in meaning between the sentences that follow.(Solved)
Explain the difference in meaning between the sentences that follow.
i) I bought three pens for thirty shillings.
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ii) I bought three pens at thirty shillings.
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- Fill in the most suitable preposition.(Solved)
Fill in the most suitable preposition.
i) Jomo Kenyatta was exempted ………………………. doing hard labour during his term in jail.
ii) I shouted atJoseph who was engrossed ……………… watching TV.
iii) They acquainted Phoebe ………………….. French cuisine.
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- Choose the more appropriate pronoun to fill in the blank space.(Solved)
Choose the more appropriate pronoun to fill in the blank space.
(i) I can’t believe that they never found out about Emilly and ……………………...(he, him)
(ii) You can’t do this work without Joel or …………………………..! (them, they)
(iii) ………………………. Kenyans have a dark skin. (us, we)
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- Rewrite the sentence according to the instruction given without changing its meaning(Solved)
Rewrite the sentence according to the instruction given without changing its meaning
(i) The girl said, "I have done my homework."
Rewrite without using the speech marks(“..”)
(ii) She told him, "Don't drive so fast!"
Write in a reported speech
(iii) I think Muna is funnier than Amos.
End: …Muna.
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- Use the most suitable form of the word in brackets to fill in the blank space.(Solved)
Use the most suitable form of the word in brackets to fill in the blank space.
(i) My lawn ……………………………………..(cut) once a week.
(ii) We …………………………………………………(ask) by the teacher tomorrow.
(iii) The fire brigade …………………………………………………….(phone) by neighbours soon after fire had broken out.
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