Which country has won the most Olympic titles?
A. USA
B. Russia
C. France
D. China
Which country has won the most Olympic titles?
A. USA
B. Russia
C. France
D. China
English is quite quirky at times!
‘I’m going home’- No prepositions!
I’m going to my friend’s house/place/pad.
I’m going to office/school/ airport/hospital/college.
Between home and all the other things/nouns mentioned, home is the only noun which isn’t preceded by the preposition ‘to’.
All the things listed above, other than home, are structures with a roof and walls- made of physical objects. They themselves are physical objects, which are tangible, concrete and solid. A home is not. A home is a place we call home. Home is rather an idea. Any place can be home to anyone. ‘He lived in a cardboard box. The box was his home. Rather the box was home to him’.
Or, let me put it this way. All the buildings or names of buildings mentioned above are nouns-only nouns. Just plain nouns. But home? It’s a noun, an adjective, an adverb and also a verb.
So we say ‘I’m going home’. But not ‘I’m going school’ or ‘I’m going airport’. I’m not saying these are the reasons why it’s so. I’m saying, that’s how English works!
The same goes with ‘I’m home’!! No prepositions! It means ‘I’ve reached back home’ or ‘can’t you see that I’m back (from work or a trip overseas ?”:)
‘I’m going home’.
‘Mom, I’m home’.
Which is considered as parliament of world ?
A. Cortes
B. National Assembly
C. Parliament
D. UN General Assembly
___________ function as multisensory hydraulic valve?
A. Lenticels
B. Guard cells
C. Hydathods
D. All of these
Stomatal transpiration is __________ of total transpiration
A. 90%
B. 91%
C. 93%
D. 95%
A pressure created by active secretion of salts and other solutes from other cells into xylem sap is called___________?
A. Transpiration pull
B. Root pressure
C. Osmotic pressure.
D. None of these
Pulling upward of water and dissolved minerals towards the leaves through the xylem tissue is called__________?
A. Transpiration pull
B. Root pressure
C. Ascent of sap.
D. All of these
Transport of minerals from soil to epidermal cells of roots via carrier protein molcules along their concentration gradient is called___________?
A. Diffusion.
B. Facilitated diffusion.
C. Passive transport.
D. Active transport.
Lenticels look like__________?
A. A big pore
B. Stoma
C. Sponge
D. Cars or small protusions
Aerating openings formed in the bark through which exchange of gases takes place and water is lost in the form of vapours are___________?
A. Hydathods
B. Stomata
C. Lenticels
D. None of these