Chapter 6
Class 9 English
Mild the Mist upon the Hill
Textual Questions
EXERCISE – 1
Tick the correct answer from the given alternatives :
1. The mist was upon the
(a) grass [ ], (b) roof [ ], (c) hill [✔],(d) leaf [ ].
2. The sorrow of the day is described as –
(a) silent [✔ ],(b) terrible [ ],(c) overwhelming [ ],(d) little [ ].
3. The hall door mentioned in the poem is –
(a) new [ ], (b) large [ ], (c) broken [ ], (d) old [√].
4. The poet watches the cloudy –
(a) morning [ ], (b) evening [√], (c) afternoon [ ],(d) night [ ]
5. The colour of the mist is –
(a) grey [ ]
(b) yellow [ ], (c) blue [√].,(b) white [ ],
6. The damp stands on the –
(a) wall [ ], (b) floor [ ], (c) bush [ ], (d) grass [✔].
EXERCISE – 2
Answer the following questions withi within 25 words:
1. Where does the poet see herself when she thinks of her childhood?
Ans. The poet sees herself beneath her father’s sheltering roof, near the old hall door.
2. What did the poet watch on the ‘cloudy evening’?
Ans. On the cloudy evening the poet watched sweet and blue mists falling from the sky.
Grammar in use:
Exercise 3
Identify the following sentences as simple, compound and complex:
(i) He is too short to climb the well.
(ii) The sky was blue and the sun shoe bright.
(iii) The old man who lived in a village believed that the earth was flat.
(iv) Leaving a job midway is not a good practice.
(v) Last week met s friend who gave me a bag which is brown in colour.
Exercise 4
Do as directed:
i. The question was so easy that everyone could answer it.(Change into a simple sentence)
ii. A friend in need is a friend indeed.( Change into a complex sentence)
iii. Pollution is one of the most severe threats to our beautiful planet .( Change into a compound sentence)
iv. Do or die.( Change into a complex sentence)
v. He was confused and stopped working.( Change into a simple sentence)
Composition
EXERCISE – 5
Write a letter within 100 words to the Headmaster/Headmistress of your school seeking leave of two days for the purpose of attending the marriage ceremony of your elder sister.
To
The Headmaster,
Dinhata Soni Debi Jain High School
Dinhata, Cooch Behar.
Date-09/07/23
Sub: Application for 2 days leave.
Sir,
With due regard I wish to inform you that I am a student of class IX of your school. My elder sister’s marriage is fixed on 20/07/23. So I want two days leave on 20/7/23 and 21/7/23 so that I can attend my elder sister’s wedding ceremony.
Therefore, Sir, I request you to be kind enough to grant me those two days leave and oblige me.
Your obedient student
Saswata Barman
Class IX, section – A
Roll-09
EXERCISE – 6
Suppose you had bought a book from a bookstore. By mistake you left it there instead of bringing it with you. Providing details of the book and its author, write a letter within 100 words to the owner of the store to find the book and keep it until you come to collect it.
To
The Manager
Book House
College Street
Kolkata-9.
Date-5/5/23
Sub: Request to find out the lost book.
Sir,
I regret to inform you that I am a regular customer of your bookstore and I purchased a book from your store on the 4th of May, 2017 and unfortunately I forgot to bring the book with me when I left your shop. The name of the book is ‘World Atlas’, written by Dr. Amit Bhusan Nag. So I request you, Sir, to keep the book in your custody until I take it from you.
This is for your kind information and your doing the needful in this regard will be highly acknowledged.
Thanking you,
Sincerely yours
Rishav Barman,
Islampur, Uttar Dinajpur,
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