Strong Roots (Textual Grammar) Answers

Strong Roots

Textual Grammar

Answers

Narration Change

1. He said that when he (the author) prayed, he transcended his body and became a part of the cosmos, which knew no division of wealth, age, caste or creed.

2. I asked my father why he did not say that to the people who came to him for help and advice.

3. The author’s father told the author that whenever human beings find themselves alone, as a natural reaction, they start looking for company.

4. The author’s father told the author that one must understand the difference between a fear ridden vision of destiny and the vision enables us to seek the enemy of fulfillment within ourselves.

5. The author says that he remembers his father starting his day at 4am by reading the namaz before dawn. 

Error Correction

1. Despite these disadvantages, he possessed great innate wisdom. (‘Of’ is omitted)

2. My parents were widely regarded as an ideal couple.

3. We lived in our ancestral house, which was built at the middle of the 19^th century.

4. It was a fairly large pucca house, made of limestone and brick.

5. For quite some time he said nothing. (‘a’ is omitted)

6. Whenever they are in trouble, they look at someone to help them.

7. I am but a go-between in their effort.

Synthesis of Sentences

1. Compound: My father had neither much formal education nor much wealth.

2. Complex: I do not recall the exact number of them whom my mother fed many people every day.

3. Simple: I normally ate with my mother sitting on the floor of the kitchen.

4. Complex: She would place a banana leaf on which she ladled rice and aromatic sambar.

5. Simple: We lived in our ancestral house, built in the middle of the 19^th century.

6. Complex: There was a Shiva Temple, which made Rameswaram so famous to pilgrims, was about a ten-minute walk from our house.

7. Complex: There was a very old mosque in our locality, where my father would take me there for evening prayers.

8. Complex: When I was then old enough to ask questions, I asked my father about the relevance of prayer.

9. Simple: Putting his hands on my shoulders, he looked straight into my eyes.

10. Simple: I remember my father starting his day at 4am.

Splitting

1. (i) Jainulabdeen was my father.

(ii) He had neither much formal education.

(iii) He did not have much wealth.

(iv) He had those disadvantages.

(v) However, he possessed great innate wisdom.  

(vi) He possessed a true generosity of spirit also.

2. (i) My mother’s lineage was the more distinguished.

(ii) One of her forebears had been bestowed a title  by the British.

(iii) It was the title of ‘Bahadur’.

3. (i) each of two men was in tradition attire.

(ii) They were discussing spiritual matters.

(iii) This is one of the most vivid memories of my early childhood.

4. (i) my father revealed to me the fundamental truths.

(ii) I have endeavored to understand them.

(iii) There exists a divine power.

(iv) It can lift one up from confusion, misery, melancholy and failure.

(v) It can guide one to one’s true place.

(vi) I feel convinced about this.

5. (i) my father came out of mosque after the prayer.

(ii) People of different religions would be sitting outside.

(iii) They would be waiting for him. 

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