Why this counts as a prayer
It asks. It does not describe.
May, and let me. Nobody uses those words to report what happened. They belong to somebody asking for something, which is what makes the poem a prayer.
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A Friend's Prayer · Class 6 English · Poorvi
English 3 topics 87 leveled MCQs 45 flashcards 5 games Free
Shared by a Veda teacher · Generated with Veda AI · Oct 2026
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Wish, hope and prayer
Three sentences, one prayer.
I wish my friend brings idli is for you. I hope we win is about how things turn out. May my friend get well asks for somebody else's good, and only that is a prayer.
What blessed means here
Grateful, not lucky.
She does not mean she has had good fortune. She means she is deeply thankful, which is why thankful and grateful sit closer to it than excited does.
Which words sit near blessed
Grateful and thankful, not excited.
Both are about being glad for what somebody gave you. Excited is about energy and relaxed is about calm, so neither is a neighbour at all.
Close is not identical
Same street, different house.
Synonyms overlap and can often swap places. If two words meant exactly the same in every sentence, English would quietly lose one of them.
Shades of meaning
Three sizes of happy.
Pleased, delighted, overjoyed. All three describe the same feeling at different strengths, and choosing the wrong size is how a correct sentence sounds odd.
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1
The Poem: A Friend's Prayer
Twelve lines in which a speaker asks for something. Notice who she is asking to change, because it is not her friends.
- The poem is twelve lines long, arranged in three stanzas of four, and every pair of lines rhymes.
- It is a prayer, so the speaker is asking rather than describing, and the asking words are may and let me.
- A wish is usually for yourself and a hope is about what might happen. A prayer here asks for somebody else's good.
~30 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
2
Words at Work: Close in Meaning, and Words for a Person
Why two words can be near neighbours without being the same, and the small set of words English keeps for describing what somebody is actually like.
- Words that sit close together in meaning are called synonyms, and English has a great many of them.
- Close is not the same as identical. Grateful and thankful are near neighbours; excited and relaxed are not neighbours of either.
- Blessed in this poem is about gratitude, which is why thankful fits it and lucky does not.
~30 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
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Speak, Listen and Write about How a Friendship Began
What keeps a conversation going rather than letting it stop, and how to fit the story of a friendship into eighty words with a title on top.
- A conversation needs both people working. If one only answers, it stops as soon as the questions run out.
- The simplest way to keep it alive is to answer and then ask something back.
- A closed question can be finished with yes or no. An open question needs a real answer, so it opens more talk.
~30 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
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87 questions laddered from warm-up to topper-level, each with an explanation. A taste:
Which pair of words shows that the poem is asking rather than describing?
Beginner
A May, and let me
B Friends, and care
C Best, and true
D Heart, and see
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May, and let me
Nobody uses may or let me to report what happened.
Which sentence is closest to a prayer?
Intermediate
A I wish my friend would bring idli tomorrow
B I hope the two of us win the race
C May my friend get well again soon
D I think my friend will do well this year
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May my friend get well again soon
It asks for somebody else's good rather than for a result.
In this poem, blessed means ____.
Beginner
A excited
B deeply grateful
C relaxed
D surprised
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deeply grateful
Thankful sits much closer to it than lucky does.
What does the first stanza ask for?
Intermediate
A That her friends should always agree with her
B That she should make a great many new friends
C That her friends should give her their best
D That friendship stay the thing she values most
Show answer & explanation
That friendship stay the thing she values most
Not one friendship in particular, but having friends at all.
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