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Let’s Write

Imagine that you met the shoeshine boy this morning and you were deeply affected by a
number of things about him. Write few lines about the feelings that arose in you after
talking to the boy.

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Vocabulary

Feeling Words

Words like anger, fear, happiness, and sorrow express basic human emotions and feelings. There
are also other words like disgust, guilt, critical, exuberant, etc. that express different feelings.

Complete the words in the following sentences with feeling words.

1. She overcame the feeling of r ___ g ___ at the cruel words she said.

2. As it got dark, his ___ ea ___ and a ___ x ___ ___ t ___ increased.

3. She was not very o ___ ti ___ i ___ t ___ c about her results.
4. After her illness, Sonya felt tired and l ___ z ___.

5. The little boy felt quite h ___ l ___ ___ e ___ s when he saw the big bully approaching him.

Let’s Learn Grammar

Degrees of Comparison

Most adjectives that depict a quality can also tell us the degree of that quality.
Read these sentences.

Amit is taller than Anil, but not as tall as Sumit.
Sumit is the tallest boy.
The word tall has been used in three different ways: tall, taller, and tallest
These are the positive, comparative and superlative degrees of the adjective tall.

Note : Some adjectives such as popular, beautiful, awful, famous, expensive, horrible, and tired
use more and most for comparative and superlative forms.
For example: Rina is more popular than Manisha, but Sushma is the most popular girl in class.

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