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   We use shall or will with the pronouns ‘I’ and ‘we’.
                  We use will with the pronouns ‘she’, ‘he’, ‘you’, ‘they’ and ‘it’.

                  We use will with both singular and plural nouns.


                 E.  1. Write four sentences about what you plan to do tomorrow.

                     2. Write four sentences about what your mother plans to do tomorrow.


               Word Wise                                                                                          •  Idioms



               Read this sentence.

               It rained like cats and dogs yesterday.
               The highlighted group of words is an idiom.

               An idiom is a group of words that, when taken together, has a completely different

               meaning from each word considered separately in the group.
               The above idiom means it rained ‘very heavily’.

               Let us go through some more idioms and their meanings.

               Examples:  1.  Let the cat out of the bag → give away a secret.

                             2.  Call it a day → stop working on something.

                 A.  Match the idioms given in Column A with their correct meanings in Column B.


                          Column A                                       Column B

                      1.  Hit the sack                               a.  Sick

                      2.  Miss the boat                              b.  It is not complicated

                      3.  Under the weather                           c.  Something  that  was  unfortunate  but
                                                                         results in something good later

                      4.  It is not rocket science                   d.  Go to sleep

                      5.  A piece of cake                             e.  Work hard for something you want

                      6.  No pain, no gain                            f.  It is too late

                      7.  A blessing in disguise                     g.  Something very expensive

                      8.  To cost an arm and a leg                   h.  Something is very easy


                 B.  Make sentences with any four idioms given above.





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