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If you are trying to make a strong impression on your audience, you cannot do so by being understated, tentative or restrained. The passage is about a jackal that falls in blue paint and convinces other animals it is the king by using hyperbolic statements. However, the other animals start to become indifferent to its tall stories. One day it hears other jackals and reveals its true nature by crying out, unable to restrain itself. To make a strong impression, one needs to avoid being understated, tentative or restrained in their communication.
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Nouns are words that name people, places, things, ideas, actions or qualities. There are two main types of nouns - proper nouns, which refer to specific individual names, and common nouns, which can be further divided into abstract, collective, concrete countable, concrete uncountable, compound, and verbal nouns. Common nouns describe general categories while proper nouns are specific names.Modalverbs 1
Modalverbs 1saraswathi tenneti
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The document defines and provides examples of auxiliary verbs in English. It explains that auxiliary verbs help form tenses, voices, and moods of other verbs. The main auxiliary verbs discussed are forms of be, have, do, will, shall, can, may, must, ought, dare and modal verbs. Examples are provided to illustrate the usage of each auxiliary verb in different contexts like making requests, expressing obligations, possibilities and more. Common mistakes in usage are also highlighted. Phrasal Verbs
Phrasal Verbssaraswathi tenneti
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The document describes various phrasal verbs and their meanings:
- Act smart means to imagine you are smart
- Act big means to imagine you are great
- Act funny means to behave in a silly manner
- Aim high means to set a high goal
- Attend on means to look after
- Attend to means to take care ofAd
GATE 2011 CS (GA)
- 1. GATE 2011 CS GENERAL APTITUDE
- 2. Q. Choose the most appropriate word from the options given below to complete the following sentence. If you are trying to make a strong impression on your audience, you cannot do so by being understated, tentative or-----------. A) hyperbolic B) restrained C) argumentative D) indifferent
- 3. Once a jackal fell into a bucket of blue paint It was dyed in blue. It got a fantastic idea. It convinced the other animals that it was the king of all animals.
- 4. The jackal was often very argumentative
- 5. The jackal was used to being very hyperbolic in its statements.
- 6. The other animals started becoming indifferent to the tall stories being told by the jackal.
- 7. One day it heard the shout of the jackals. It could not restrain itself from crying out. Its true nature was thus revealed.
- 8. If you are trying to make a strong impression on your audience, you cannot do so by being understated, tentative or restrained.