ইংরেজি ১ম পত্র

Re-ordering of Sentence 
প্রিয় ৯ম ও ১০ম শ্রেণির শিক্ষার্থী, আজ ইংরেজি ১ম পত্রের Re-ordering of sentences দেওয়া হলো।
Put the following parts of the story in correct order to rewrite the whole story.
2.a. The Sultan was unable to choose an honest man. So, he asked for a wise counselors advice.
b. The Sultan was sitting on his throne. The wise man was also sitting near him. As soon as the applicants were assembled before the throne, the Sultan said, ‘Gentleman, I’d like you to dance.’

c. When they arrived, they were told to go to the Sultan, one at a time, through a dark and empty corridor.
d. ‘Your Highness’, said the wise man, ‘I suggest that you should invite all the applicants to the palace. Then I’ll show you the honest person when I ask them to dance.’
e. He invited applications and a number of people applied for the job.
f. ‘I have here,’ he said to the wise man, ‘some applications for the post of tax-collector.’
g. A Sultan wanted to find an honest man to collect taxes in his kingdom. Could you tell me how I can find an honest officer?
h. So, the Sultan asked all the applicants to come to the palace.
Answer to the question no-2:
1. g, 2. e, 3. a, 4. f, 5. d, 6. h, 7. c, 8. b.

3.
a. ‘How interesting!’ said the English-woman. ‘Buckingham Palace in London was built in only two weeks.’
b. They went sight-seeing in a taxi.
c. The American was very proud of tall building in New York. He boasted to his friends, ‘Do you know that the Empire State Building was built in three months?’
d. At that moment the taxi passed a tall building. ‘What’s that?’ The English-women asked the driver who was a Mexican.
e. ‘I don’t know.’ answered the driver. ‘It wasn’t there yesterday.’
f. An American, a Frenchman and an English-women had been to Mexico City, the capital of Mexico.
g. ‘Really?’ replied the Frenchman. ‘The Eiffel Tower in Paris was built in only one month.’
h. The three tourists were admiring the tall buildings in the city.
Answer to the question no-3:
1. f, 2. b, 3. h, 4. c, 5. g, 6. a, 7. d, 8. e.

4.
a. Then one day, the fruit-seller said to the grocer, ‘I am going to the town to do some shopping. Please send your son with me to carry my things.’ The grocer sent his son with the fruit-seller.
b. ‘You liar, how can a crow carry away such a big boy?’ the grocer shouted angrily. ‘Just the same way as mice can eat away the balance and weights,’ said the fruit-seller.
c. The grocer said, ‘The mice ate away your balance and weights. So I can’t return them.’
d. The grocer understood the point and returned the balance and the weights.
e. One day, a grocer borrowed a balance and weights from a fruit-seller.
f. The lame excuse of the dishonest grocer made the fruit-seller very angry. But he checked his temper.
g. After a few days, the fruit-seller asked the grocer to return his balance and weights.
h. The next day the fruit-seller came back alone from the town. ‘Where is my son?’ asked the grocer. ‘A crow carried your son away,’ replied the fruit-seller.
Answer to the question no-4:
1. e, 2. g, 3. c, 4. f, 5. a, 6. h, 7. b, 8. d.
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