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Time to think and answer

1. In most of the story, Nakul has been portrayed as having overwhelming emotions. Have you
ever experienced this surge of emotional overdrive? How did you deal with it?
life skill self-awareness life skill managing emotions
2. Akash was always positive in his approach to life. Do you think it is possible to stay positive
all the time? Give reasons for your answer. life skill emotional regulation

3. According to you, which factors might have contributed towards the pessimistic outlook of
Nakul towards life? 21 c critical thinking
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Time to study language

You have learnt about the articles, a, an and the.

A and an are called indefinite articles because they do not refer to any specific person or thing.
The article the is called a definite article because it refers to a specific person or thing.

Sometimes we don’t use articles before some nouns. Let us study about the instances when we

omit the articles.
We don’t use articles:

before names of people and cities Mathura is a historic city.
I met Akash at the hostel.

before names of languages and nationalities Nakul is learning Spanish.
Akash is Indian.

before meals Let’s go out for lunch today.

before names of sports Tarun is playing football.

before names of subjects I am good at Science.

when we refer to all members of a group Tigers are endangered.

before abstract nouns Honesty is the best policy.

before plural countable nouns, when used in a Rivers overflow in India in the monsoon

general sense season.

before uncountable nouns, when used in a Silver jewellery is in trend nowadays.
general sense

before expressions such as all night, by air, by Some people do not prefer travelling by sea.
sea, all day, by train, by bus

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