FUNCTIONAL ENGLISH TIME: 3 HRS

MARKS: 100

SECTION A

1.Attempt five questions in all. THREE from Section A. and TWO from SectionB.

2.Over attempt will altogether be ignored.

3.Do not start the next/new question, unless you have solved the running/present question, with all
its parts,a,b, and c. Violation of these rules will deprive you of your due credit.

Q1.(a) Give short answers of the following questions with examples (10)

i) Adverb of manner ii) Adjective of quality iii) Phrase iv) Gerund

v) Pronoun

b) Do as directed (10)

They helped you. (change into negative)

ii) He plays hockey in the evening. (change into interrogative )

i) He received a gift. (Point out verb)

iii) Neither he nor his friend are at fault.(correct the sentence)

iv) happy (give its second and third degrees)

Q. 02

a) Change the number (5)

i) Bench, ii) Box, iii) curry, iv) watch, v)baby
b) Change the gender (5)
i)bitch, ii) husband iii)landlord, iv) bull,v) hen

c) Give Nouns of given words.(5)

Live , run, happy, true , high

d.Insert article (5)

i.------Ravi flows the whole year.

ii.He loves to live--------an empty house
iii.He is -----------boy who met me last night
ivI like ------------apple and ----------orange
Q.3

a) Insert preposition (5)

He is fond -------playing.

He is not eligible ----------this post.

I am not proud --------------this act

He is looking -------------a job in Dubai.

It is adequate ----------- this illness.

b.Put suitable word in the blank. (5)

This is ----------- time now. Right or write

He wears ------------clothes.course or coarse

I am ------------for this post. Eligible or illegible

He will ------------soon. Heal or heel

Her --------------is charming and elegant. Gate or gait

C)Use Right form of verb (5)

i.They --------- me daily after prayer. (meet)

ii.Where-----you been since last week?(be)
iii.I wish if I ----------there. (Was, were)
iv.If you -----------there ,he would have met you. (go)
v.---------you go Lahore yesterday? ( be)

d)Give one word for these words (5)

i.Having all sorts of power

ii.murder of self
iii.general forgiveness
iv.Occuring once in a year
v.A place where birds are kept

Q. 04

a) Change the voice(10)

I.He helps me in difficulty.

II. He did not teach me.

 III. You will not change your ideas
IV. Who is solving it?
V. Open the door .

b)Change the narration. (10)

i.She says. “I am ill.”

ii.The captain said to the soldier,”Take your position.”

iii.My mother said to me,”Trust in Allah Allmighty”.

iv.They said , alas! “We have lost the match.”

v.You say to me,”Where do you live?”

Q. 05

a) Use the idioms in your sentences (10)

i) Dead letter
ii) Burning questions
iii) Carry the day
iv) At sixes and sevens
v) Die in harness

b) Name the parts of speech in the following sentence. (5)

He wasarrested bypolice

c.Give antonyms . (5)

Low slow proper slavery poverty

SECTION B

Q6. Define précis. What are the qualities of a good precis? (20)

Q7. Read the passage and answer the questions given at the end.

3+3+3+11=20

With the spread of literacy and universal education libraries have become as necessary as food supply or
transport. Public instruction is making rapid progress everywhere in Pakistan. It is no more the privilege
of the will-to-do only to acquire knowledge as it was in the past. Now there are schools, colleges and
universities in every nook and corner of the county. Naturally, when there is thirst of knowledge there is
also an ever increasing demand for books and magazines: Everybody does not have the means to buy all
sorts of books. Mass education program is bound to suffer adversely if there is no free library for
students. Libraries obviously play an important in creating a general love of books and interest in current
affairs. (Their reading rooms promote a spirit of discipline, research and fellowship. Libraries with a
variety of attractive titles have a healthy and beneficial effect on the eager, minds of students.

Questions:

(i) What was the privilege of rich in the past?

(ii) What effect libraries can have on the student?
(iii) Give this paragraph a suitable title.
(iv) Make a precis of the above passage.

Q8.Write an essay on any one of the following topics. (20)

i. Banking System ii. Cash Crops iii. Effects of Terrorism