A Child's Beauty:Lesson-7: Class-vii(Assam)

You have probably seen many beautiful children in your family and neighborhood. In pairs, tell each other about a child who you think is beautiful. why is the child beautiful?

Here is a story about a beautiful child who lived during the reign of Emperor Akbar. Let us read now Birbal, Emperor Akbar's famous minister, helps the Emperor learn more about the beauty of children.

The story 'A Child's Beauty' brings to attention the fact that all children are beautiful. This story is one depicting Birbal's ready wit and presence of mind through which he intelligently made Akbar accept the fact that all parents find their children beautiful.

Now, I will discuss, how to can write easily all questions answer. I will try to give all questions reply, and I hope you will get more benefits from this article'A Child's Beauty'.

How to write an answer?

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Question no-1.

Match the following facts about the story you just read.

(a)    Akbar--------------------was Salim's son.

(b)    Salim--------------------was a minister in the court of Akbar.

(c)    Birbal--------------------was the Emperor.

(d)    The young prince------was Akbar's son.

Answer:-

(a)    Akbar--------------------was the Emperor.

(b)    Salim--------------------was Akbar's son.

(c)    Birbal--------------------was a minister in the court of Akbar.

(d)    The young prince------was Salim's son.

Question no-2.

Do you remember the story? Rearrange the sentences as they happened in the story to see how well you remember what happened.

(a)  Each minister brought a child to judge who was the most beautiful child.

(b)  Birbal said that all parents found their children very beautiful.

(c)  Akbar said that no child was more beautiful than his grandson.

(d)  The mother did not let Birbal bring the child to the court.

(e)  Akbar with his minister went in disguise to see the child.

(f)  The mother got angry when she heard Akbar's words.

(g)  They found a child playing on a heap of sand.

(h)  Akbar said he had never seen a child uglier than this.

(i)  Akbar agreed with Birbal that all parents find their own children beautiful.

(j)  The mother took the baby inside and shut the door.

Question no-3.

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Read the lesson once again and find answers to the following questions. Work with a partner. Discuss the answers with your partner and share them with the class.

(a)  Why was Akbar happy?

(b)  Who used to say, "There is no child more beautiful than my grandson."

(c)  Why did each minister bring a child to the court?

(d)  Why did not Birbal bring any child?

(e)  Why did Akbar and the ministers go in disguise to the child that Birbal could not bring to could?

(f)  Why did the mother of the child scream at Akbar?

(g)  What did Akbar realize?

Answer:-

(a)  Emperor Akbar was very happy as his son Salim had a son.

(b)  Emperor Akbar

(c)  Each minister brings a child to the court because they want to compare who's the child is more beautiful.

(d)  Birbal did not bring any child, because the mother is refusing to let him bring the child to the court.

(e)  Birbal has found a child who is the most beautiful child in the entire country, but the mother refused to bring it to the court. Because she does not want strangers to cast an evil eye on her child, so Akbar and the minister disguised themselves and went to see the child. 

(f)  When Akbar said to Birbal,'I have never seen an uglier child in my life'.At that time, the child's mother overheard Akbar. She was very angry, and she picked up the child and screamed at Akbar.

(g)  When the child's mother said to Akbar, he is the most beautiful child-god could have given me. She wiped her child's face and kissed him. Taking the child inside, she closed the door. At finally Akbar realized the fact that all parents find their children the beauty and agreed with Birbal.

Questions no-4.

Find out from the lesson who said the following sentences. Write the name of the person next to each sentence.

(a)  "I have found a child who is the most beautiful child in the entire country."-----

(b)  "If this is so, we can go and see the child in disguise."-------

(c)  "He is the most beautiful child-god could have given me."------

(d)  "Then we can judge for ourselves."------

Answer:-

(a)  Birbal

(b)  Akbar

(c)  The child's mother

(d)  One minister

Question no 6.

(a)  In the story, you came across the words happy, angry, and beautiful. Each of these words tells us something about the related noun e.g. a beautiful child. Here the word beautiful describes the quality of the child. Such words that describe the quality of something or someone are called adjectives.

Note that adjectives have three degrees of comparison: positive, comparative, and superlative.

(i)  Positive degree:  Tomorrow each of us will bring a child whom we find beautiful.

In this sentence, the adjective describes the quality of one person.

(ii)  Comparative degree:  There is no child more beautiful than my grandson.

In this sentence, the adjective is used to compare one child with another.

(iii)  Superlative degree:  I have found a child who is the most beautiful child in the entire village.

The adjective in this sentence compares one child with all the other children. We can arrange adjectives in their degrees as shown in the columns below:

Positive                           Comparative                              Superlative

beautiful                        more beautiful                             most beautiful

happy                            happier                                         happiest

When the adjective has more than two syllables (i.e.when the word is longer) we use more + adjective in the comparative and most + adjective in the superlative degrees.
When the adjective is a short word we add 'er' in the comparative and est in the superlative degrees.
Note that when the adjective ends in 'y' we change it to 'i' before adding 'er'.There are a very small number of adjective outside this rule.

Question-6(b)

Let's practice using adjectives of degree and see how much you remember.
Fill the columns below with the correct forms of the adjectives:

    Positive                  Comparative                Superlative

(i)    ugly                      ----------                    --------

(ii)    -------                   -----------                   angriest

(iii)  --------                   dirtier                        -------

(iv)  big                         -----------                   ---------

(v)   important              -----------                   ----------

Answer:

   Positive                     Comparative               Superlative

(i)   ugly                         uglier                            ugliest

(ii)  angry                       angrier                          angriest

(iii) dirty                         dirtier                           dirtiest

(iv)  big                           bigger                           biggest

(v)   important                 more important             most important

Question no-7.

Let's come back to clauses.  You have learned that a clause is a group of words that contains a verb that shows tense. The verb which shows tense is called a finite verb.

(a)  Look at the following sentences:

(i)  The child's mother overheard Akbar.

(ii) Akbar became angry when he heard this.

Notice that the whole sentence in (i) has been underlined as a group of words whereas sentence(ii) has been underlined as two groups of words. The underlined parts are called clauses.

Question no-7(c)

Underline the clauses in the following sentences.

(i)    Whoever came to this house was chased by that dog.

(ii)   After the man came, the boy closed the library door.

(iii)  Swimming is my favorite summertime activity.

(iv)   The bananas look ripe but they are not ready to be eaten.

(v)    She ate an apple from the basket.

Answer:-

(i)    Whoever came to this house was chased by that dog.

(ii)   After the man came, the boy closed the library door.

(iii)  Swimming is my favorite summertime activity.

(iv)   The bananas look ripe but they are not ready to be eaten.

(v)    She ate an apple from the basket.