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NCERT Solutions Poorvi Chapter 3 Neem Baba — Let us learn

Book page 81 to 83 Updated on2026-09-05

Q1.
Study these words from the text: something, neem oil, cleanliness-parting, well known, grandmother, seed powder, childhood, well trained, thought-provoking. Put the compound words given above in their trees. (Open compound words / Closed compound words / Hyphenated compound words). You may add some more words.
Answer

Sort the nine words by what comes between the two words — a space, nothing, or a hyphen.

Open compound words
(a space between)		Closed compound words
(no space)		Hyphenated compound words
(a hyphen between)
neem oilsomethingcleanliness-parting
well knowngrandmotherthought-provoking
seed powderchildhood—
well trained——

You may add some more words:

OpenClosedHyphenated
school bag, post office, ice cream, high schoolnotebook, rainbow, sunflower, football, blackboardwell-being, mother-in-law, ten-year-old, self-respect
How to be sure: A compound word is two smaller words joined to make one new meaning — grand + mother, seed + powder. Read the word aloud and look at the printing: space → open, joined → closed, hyphen → hyphenated. Nothing else decides it.
Q2.
Words that tell us what a person is doing are called verbs. In the table given below, match the verbs in the first column showing action in the present to verbs in the second column showing action in the past. Make a sentence with any one form of the verb. One has been done for you. (1. become — (iv) became — 'I want to become a teacher when I grow up.')
Answer

All six of these are irregular verbs — their past form is not made by adding -ed, except discover.

PresentPastAnswerSentence
1. become(iv) became1. (iv)I want to become a teacher when I grow up. (given)
2. find(v) found2. (v)Amber found many facts about the neem tree.
3. make(i) made3. (i)My grandmother made a kajal from neem flowers.
4. discover(vi) discovered4. (vi)Scientists have not yet discovered all the qualities of neem.
5. tell(iii) told5. (iii)The doctor told us to put neem leaves on the bed.
6. give(ii) gave6. (ii)The Iranians gave the tree its name ‘Neem’.
Tip: Learn irregular verbs in pairs by saying them aloud — become/became, find/found, make/made, tell/told, give/gave. Only discover follows the ordinary rule: discover + ed.
Q3.
Amber speaks to Neem Baba as if speaking to a person. This figure of speech is called personification. Let us look at some more examples: • The leaves whispered in the wind. • The flowers danced merrily in the breeze. Now, discuss it with your classmates and teacher.
Answer

Personification is the figure of speech in which a thing, an animal or an idea is given the qualities of a human being — it speaks, thinks, feels or acts like a person.

In the two given examples, leaves cannot whisper and flowers cannot dance; only people can. The poet gives them these human actions so that we can picture the scene and feel it.

In this lesson the whole text is built on personification: the tree is called ‘Baba’, it says “I was born…”, it blesses Amber — “Bless you, my child!” Even the opening line uses it: “She felt that the tree was whispering to her.”

SentenceWhich human quality is given
The sun smiled down on the wet fields.smiling
The old door groaned when I pushed it.groaning in pain
The river ran happily to meet the sea.happiness
Opportunity knocked at his door.knocking
Why writers use it: Personification makes nature feel alive and close to us. Once the neem tree can speak, we listen to it as we would to a grandfather — and that is exactly what this lesson wants: for us to treat a tree as a living friend, not a piece of wood.
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