Choose: 1 (She / Her) helped me. 2 I spoke to (he / him). 3 Ravi and I read together. (We / Us) enjoy stories. Rewrite clearly: 4 Nila met Mala. She lent her a pen. Choose who lends the pen and use that name.
1 She. 2 him. 3 We. 4 One possible repair: Nila met Mala. Nila lent Mala a pen. Or choose Mala as the lender and name both people clearly. The original does not tell us for certain who lent the pen.
A subject pronoun usually names who performs an action: I, we, he, she, it, they and you. An object pronoun receives or follows the action: me, us, him, her, it, them and you. ‘She helped me’ places she before the action and me after it. The words do different jobs even though both refer to people. ‘Ravi saw Nila. He waved to her.’ He refers to Ravi as the subject; her refers to Nila after to. The reader must know each reference.
Find the action and ask who does it, then ask who or what receives it. After a preposition such as to or with, an object form is usually needed. Use a name again if two possible people make the reference unclear. Check whole sentences rather than choosing pronouns only from their position on a word list.
වැඩි විස්තර අවශ්ය විට පමණක් මෙම කොටස කියවන්න.
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Choose: 1 Our class (have / has) a garden. 2 Those children (have / has) books. Correct: 3 a my pencil. Complete with this or these: 4 ___ shelves. Ask a question: 5 She has a pen.
ගැළපෙන have හෝ has තෝරා, වැරදි පද පෙළ නිවැරදි කර, shelves සඳහා ගැළපෙන පදය සහ අවසාන ප්රශ්නය ලියන්න.
Check a possible answer / පිළිතුර බලන්න
1 has. 2 have. 3 my pencil. 4 these shelves. 5 Does she have a pen? Class is singular here, children is plural, and does is followed by have.
class එක කණ්ඩායමක් නිසා has ද children බහු වචනය නිසා have ද යෙදේ; does පසු have තබන්න.
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Have and has can describe possessions or features. I, you, we and they take have; he, she, it and singular names take has. Determiners before nouns add information about number, identity or belonging. Compare ‘a book’, ‘this book’, ‘my book’ and ‘some books’. Each phrase points to a different relationship with the noun. ‘Our class has a reading corner. These shelves have some storybooks.’ The subject decides have or has, while the determiner helps the reader understand which things are meant.
Build the noun phrase first, then check how it fits the sentence. A or an introduces one countable item; some can introduce a plural or an amount. This/that match singular meanings, and these/those match plural meanings. Do not use an article and a possessive together in an ordinary phrase such as ‘my bag’.
වැඩි විස්තර අවශ්ය විට පමණක් මෙම කොටස කියවන්න.
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Synonyms have similar meanings in a particular context, while antonyms have opposite meanings.
Begin and start can often replace each other, but two similar words do not always fit every sentence.
A prefix can change meaning: unkind means not kind, and rewrite means write again.
See it. Say it. Understand it.
Easy / Start here
Begin / start.
Moderate / Add a little
Careful → carefully.
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Synonyms have similar meanings in a particular context, while antonyms have opposite meanings. Begin and start can often replace each other, but two similar words do not always fit every sentence. A prefix can change meaning: unkind means not kind, and rewrite means write again. A suffix may change a word’s class, such as kindness from kind. ‘A careful driver drives carefully’ shows adjective and adverb forms doing different jobs. The spelling and sentence position help explain the difference.
Record a new word in a useful phrase rather than alone. Check its meaning, spelling and grammatical job. When replacing a word, read the whole sentence to make sure the new choice sounds natural and keeps the intended meaning. Word parts are useful clues, but a learner’s dictionary can confirm a meaning when the pattern is unfamiliar.
වැඩි විස්තර අවශ්ය විට පමණක් මෙම කොටස කියවන්න.
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