Complete Sentence: Most days were spent lounging around the pool।

• lounging (verb)

  • English Meaning: to sit, lie, or stand in a relaxed or lazy way

  • Bangla Meaning: আরাম করে বসা বা শুয়ে থাকা

• আরাম করে শুয়ে থাকা বা বসা বোঝাতে lounging-এর সাথে সাধারণত preposition হিসেবে ‘by’ বা ‘around’ ব্যবহার করা হয়

  • এখানে ‘around’ ব্যবহার করা হয়েছে, যা বোঝায় পুলের আশেপাশে বা পার্শ্বে আরাম করা

• Correct Answer: গ) around

• Example Sentences:

  • On summer afternoons, we love lounging around the pool with cold drinks.

  • They spent the weekend lounging around the garden, enjoying the sun.

Among the options S.T. Coleridge belongs to the romantic period in English literature.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- তিনি একজন English lyrical poet, critic এবং philosopher.
- তাকে Poet of Supernaturalism বলা হয়।
- His Lyrical Ballads, written with William Wordsworth, heralded the English Romantic movement, and his Biographia Literaria (1817) is the most significant work of general literary criticism produced in the English Romantic period.

• Notable Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge:
- Biographia Literaria; (Literary criticism/autobiography)
- Christabel; ( long narrative ballad)
- Dejection: An Ode;
- Frost at Midnight;
- Kubla Khan;
- Lyrical Ballads;
- On the Constitution of the Church and State;
- The Rime of the Ancient Marine.

• অন্যদিকে,
ক) A. Tennyson - belongs to the victorian period.
খ) Alexander Pope - belongs to the Augustan age/ The Neo-classical period.
গ) John Dryden - belongs to the Restoration/ The Neo-classical period.

Source: Encyclopedia Britannica and An ABC of English Literature by Dr M Mofizar Rahman.

Correct spelling: খ) Questionnaire

Questionnaire (noun)

• English Meaning: A set of questions for obtaining statistically useful or personal information from individuals.

• Bangla Meaning: প্রশ্নাবলি; মতামত জরিপে ব্যবহৃত প্রশ্নমালা।

Example sentences:

• The point of the questionnaire was not to achieve a balance of opinion.

• Those who completed and returned the informed consent document received the questionnaire.

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