Vyaakaran: Present Progressive, Adverb aur Vaakya ke Prakaar
Class 6 English · Chapter 3: Rama to the Rescue · NCERT Poorvi section pp. 28–32
Seekho
Present progressive tense: dekho "I am feeling sleepy", "What are you looking at?", "Somebody is trying to get in." Har ek abhi chal raha kaam batata hai, bolte samay. Ye am / is / are + verb-ing se banta hai: I → am; he, she, it, ek insaan → is; we, you, they → are.
-ing ki spelling: zyaadatar verbs mein bas -ing (play → playing, read → reading). Silent e wale verb use hataate hain (write → writing, dance → dancing). Ek swar + ek vyanjan par khatm chhote verbs aakhri akshar double karte hain (sit → sitting, run → running, swim → swimming).
Adverb kriya ke baare mein aur batata hai: kaise, kab ya kahan. "I'd better listen closely." (Kaise sunta hai? closely) "I'll call out softly… then very loudly." Kai adverb -ly par khatm: quickly, smoothly, beautifully, gracefully, slowly, sweetly, peacefully.
Vaakya ke prakaar: tez bhaav dikhaane wale vaakya exclamatory hain aur exclamation mark (!) par khatm: "Oh, hum! What a hard day it has been!" Poochhne wale vaakya interrogative hain aur question mark (?) par khatm: "What should we name our child?" Saadha kathan full stop (.) par khatm hota hai.
Explore: exclamatory, interrogative ya kathan?
- Har vaakya sort karo.
Yaad rakho
- Present progressive (am/is/are + verb-ing) abhi ho raha kaam dikhaata hai.
- Adverb kaise, kab, kahan batate; exclamatory ! par, interrogative ? par khatm.
Quick check
Present progressive chuno: "My mother ____ food in the kitchen."
- is cooking
- are cooking
- cooked
- cook
Answer
is cooking. Ek insaan → is; cook + ing → cooking.
Socho
Aas-paas dekho aur log abhi kya kar rahe hain, us par teen present progressive vaakya likho.
Ek answer
Jaise: "My brother is reading a comic. The fan is spinning slowly. Birds are chirping outside." (Adverb "slowly" dekho!)
Practice
Teen levels (easy, medium, hard) ke naye sawaalon se practice karo, kuch hands-on, hints aur hal ke saath. Topic poora karne ke liye pichhle 5 mein se 4 sahi karo.