Questions and answers from "The North Ship" by Philip Larkin.

Exercise 1:-

Tick the correct answer from the given alternatives:

1) The number of ships sailing by were-------

2) The wind carried the third ship to a-------

3) The second ship turned towards the-------

4) The decks of the third ship shone --------

5) The northern sky rose over the------

6) The third ship was rigged for a-------

Exercise 2:-

Answer the following questions within twenty-five words:

a) What did the wind do to the second ship?

b) Give any two points of difference between the journey of the third ship and the other two ships.

Exercise 3:-

Replace the underlined words with suitable phrasal verbs given in the list below. Change the form if necessary. There are two extra phrasal verbs: 

( List of phrasal verbs: bring out, set up, put up, run after, give up, look down upon, take after)

Exercise 4:-

Do as directed:

a) The Man was so weak that he could not walk. (Rewrite using 'too')

b) Titir is one of the (most intelligent) girls in the class. (Rewrite using the positive degree of the bracketed adjective)

c) As soon as he reached home, it started raining heavily. (Change into a negative sentence)

d) Why cry over spilt milk? (change into an assertive sentence)

e) Blood is thicker than water. (Change into an Interrogative sentence)

f) He told a lie intentionally.(rewrite using the noun form of "intentionally")

g) Run fast or you will be late. ( Change into a complex sentence)

h) The reporter made the news public. (Rewrite using the verb form of "public")