Composed Upon Westminster Bridge Textual Grammar | XI 1st Semester WBCHSE
Composed Upon Westminster Bridge Textual Grammar : Tense
1. I never felt a calm so deep! [Simple Future Tense]
(a) I will never feel a calm so deep!
(b) I had never felt a calm so deep!
(c) I will have never felt a calm so deep!
(d) I have never felt a calm so deep!
2. The river glides at his own sweet will. [Past Perfect Tense]
(a) The river had glided at his own sweet will.
(b) The river glided at his own sweet will.
(c) The river had been gliding at his own sweet will.
(d) The river has glided at his own sweet will.
3. The very houses seem asleep. [Simple Past Tense]
(a) The very houses is seeming asleep.
(b) The very houses had seemed asleep.
(c) The very houses seemed asleep.
(d) The very houses will seem asleep.
4. That mighty heart is lying still. [Past Continuous Tense]
(a) That mighty heart lies still.
(b) That mighty heart lied still.
(c) That mighty heart was lying still.
(d) That mighty heart was being lied still.
Composed Upon Westminster Bridge Textual Grammar : Tense
1. The City now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning.
(a) Simple present tense
(b) Present perfect tense
(c) Past perfect continuous tense
(d) Present continuous tense.
2. Never did sun more beautifully steep in his first splendour.
(a) Present perfect tense
(b) Past perfect tense
(c) Past indefinite tense
(d) Future continuous tense.
3. I, never felt, a calm so deep!
(a) Present perfect continuous tense
(b) Future perfect tense
(c) Past indefinite tense
(d) Future continuous tense.
4. The very houses seem asleep.
(a) Future indefinite tense
(b) Present perfect tense
(c) Past perfect tense
(d) Present indefinite tense.
5. All that mighty heart is lying still
(a) Present continuous tense
(b) Present perfect continuous tense
(c) Past continuous tense
(d) Future perfect tense.
Composed Upon Westminster Bridge Textual Grammar : Change of Voice
1. Earth has not anything to show more fair.
(a) There is anything to be shown more fair by the earth.
(b) There is not anything to be shown more fair by the earth.
(c) The earth has not anything to be shown more fair.
(d) There has not been anything to be shown
2. more fair by the earth.m The city wears the beauty of the morning.
(a) The beauty of the morning is worn by the city.
(b) The beauty of the morning has been worn by the city.
(c) The beauty of the morning was worn by the city.
(d) The beauty of the morning had been worn by the city.
3. Never saw I, never felt, a calm so deep.
(a) A calm so deep was never see or feel by me.
(b) A calm so deep had never been seen or felt by me.
(c) A calm so deep was never seen or felt by me.
(d) A calm so deep was ever seen or felt by me.
Composed Upon Westminster Bridge Textual Grammar : Change of Narration
1. The poets says, “The river glides at his own sweet will.”
(a) The poet says that the river glides at his own sweet will.
(b) The poet said that the river glides at his own sweet will.
(c) The poet says that the river glided at his own sweet will.
(d) The poet said that the river glided at its own sweet will.
2. The poet said, “I never felt a calm so deep.”
(a) The poet said that he never feels a calm so deep.
(b) The poet said that he had never felt a calm so deep.
(c) The poet said that he would never feel a calm so deep.
(d) The poet says that he never felt a calm so deep.
3. The poet said, “That mighty heart is lying still!”
(a) The poet exclaimed that mighty heart is lying still.
(b) The poet said that a mighty heart had been lying still.
(c) The poet told that mighty heart had been lying still.
(d) The poet exclaimed that that mighty heart was lying still.
Composed Upon Westminster Bridge Textual Grammar : Clause
1. Earth has not anything which it can show more fair.
(a) Noun Clause
(b) Adjective Clause
(c) Adverb Clause
(d) Prepositional Clause
2. Dull would he be of soul who could pass by.
(a) Adjective Clause
(b) Prepositional Clause
(c) Adverb Clause
(d) Noun Clause
3. Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples which are silent, bare, lie open unto the fields.
(a) Prepositional Clause
(b) Adverb Clause
(c) Noun Clause
(d) Adjective Clause
Composed Upon Westminster Bridge Textual Grammar : Clause
1. One could pass by such a sight. He would be dull of soul. [Adjective Clause]
(a) One who could pass by such a sight would be dull of soul.
(b) Though he would be dull of soul he could pass by such a sight.
(c) As he would be dull of soul, he could pass by such a sight.
(d) Being dull of soul, he could pass by such a sight.
2. A man cannot pass by this sight. The sight is so touching. [Adjective Clause]
(a) A man cannot pass by this sight which is so touching.
(b) A man cannot pass by this sight as it is so touching.
(c) A man cannot pass by this sight because it is so touching.
(d) This sight is so touching since a man cannot pass by it.
3. The city wears the beauty of the morning. It is like a garment. [Adjective Clause]
(a) The city wears the beauty of the morning which is like a garment. said
(b) The city wears the beauty of the morning though it is like a garment.
(c) The city which is like a garment wears the
beauty of the morning. (d) The city wears the beauty of the morning as it is like a garment.
4. The river glides. It does so according to its wish. [Adverb Clause]
(a) The river glides as it wishes.
(b) The river glides as it wants.
(c) According to its wish, the river glides.
(d) As the river glides, it does so at its sweet will.
Composed Upon Westminster Bridge Textual Grammar : Participle
1. Earth has not anything to show more fair.- Rewrite the sentence using a participle.
(a) Earth has not anything that shows more fair.
(b) Earth having not anything that shows more fair.
(c) Earth has not anything showing more fair.
(d) Earth has not anything to showing more fair.
2. Dull would he be of soul who could pass by a sight so touching in its majesty. Here ‘touching’ is a
(a) participle adjective
(b) gerund
(c) adverb
(d) adverb.new
3. All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.- Here ‘glittering’ is a
(a) participle adjective
(b) gerund
(c) form of a verb in present continuous tense
(d) adverb.
4. Never saw I ne’er felt a calm so deep. Here ‘felt ‘is a
(a) participle adjective
(b) gerund
(c) form of a verb in simple past tense
(d) adverb.
5 And all that mighty heart is lying still! Here ‘lying’ is a
(a) participle adjective
(b) gerund
(c) form of a verb in present continuous tense
(d) adverb.
Composed Upon Westminster Bridge Textual Grammar : Transformation of sentence
1. Earth has not anything to show more fair. [Make it interrogative]
(a) Does earth have anything to show more fair?
(b) Earth has nothing to show more fair.
(c) Earth has everything to show more fair.
(d) Earth is to show anything more fair.
2. Dear God! The very houses seem asleep. [Make it assertive]
(a) The very houses seem asleep, God.
(b) God makes the very houses asleep.
(c) We do not know that the very houses seem asleep.
(d) It is surprising that the very houses seem asleep.
3. The river glideth at his own sweet will. [Replace the adverbial phrase ‘at his own sweet will’ and rewrite the sentence]
(a) The river glideth for ever.
(b) The river glideth smoothly.
(c) The river glideth whimsically.
(d) The river glideth willingly.
4. All that mighty heart is lying still. [Make it a wh-question]
(a) Where is all that mighty heart lying?
(b) When is all that mighty heart lying?
(c) How is all that mighty heart lying?
(d) Why is all that mighty heart lying?
5. All that mighty heart is lying still. [Make it complex]
(a) All that heart that is mighty is lying still.
(b) All that mighty heart and is lying still.
(c) The heart is lying still which is mighty.
(d) Mighty heart all that is lying still.
6. Never saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! [Rewrite the sentence using ‘neither…nor’]
(a) Neither saw nor I felt a calm so deep.W
(b) A calm so deep saw I neither nor felt.
(c) I did not see neither nor feel a calm so deep.
(d) I neither saw nor felt a calm so deep.
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