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A. Form adjec ves from the following abstract nouns. You may be able to
form more than one adjec ve from some nouns. Check your answers with a
dic onary.

1. happiness ________________ 2. love ________________

3. tolerance ________________ 4. hope ________________

5. honour ________________ 6. sorrow ________________

7. anger ________________ 8. wisdom ________________

9. compassion ________________ 10. humility ________________

B. Write sentences using the abstract nouns given in Exercise A and their
adjec ve forms.

Grammar

Past Con nuous Tense

Read the following sentence.

Prometheus and Epimetheus were feeling lonely.
A Greek hero was sailing over the mountain in a golden cup.

The verbs were feeling and was sailing refer to actions that were going on at a particular time
in the past. They are in the past continuous tense. The past continuous tense is formed by
combining the helping verbs was/were with the -ing form of the main verb.

was/were + -ing form of the main verb

We use the past continuous tense also to talk about an action that was in progress when
another action happened in the past. Look at the following sentence.

The children were doing their homework when I got home.

A. Use the past con nuous tense forms of the verbs given in brackets to fi ll in
the blanks.

1. Manan ______________________ his work. (do)

2. Shreya ______________________ her lunch. (eat)

3. Kapil and Kartik ______________________ with a ball. (play)

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