Sunday, September 17, 2017

English Grammar worksheet I

English Grammar worksheet I

1. Write 'y' words with long and short 'e' sounds, example given:
                      A                                                   B
    'y' words with long 'e' sound               'y' words with short 'e' sound 
    (1) penny                                           (2) fly

2. Write composition on 
(1) Good Manners
(2) An autobiography of an old bicycle
(3) A bus journey

3. Complete the verb chart:
          Present(v1)          Past(v2)           Past Participle(v3)      Present participle(v4)
    (1) ask
    (2) become
    (3) begin
    (4) bite
    (5) buy
    (6) come
    (7) cut
    (8) dig
    (9) do
  (10) cry
  (11) eat
  (12) fall
  (13) feel
  (14) find
  (15) get
  (16) give
  (17) go
  (18) hear
  (19) live
  (20) make

4. Define with examples:
(1) Adjective of quantity
(2) Adjective of number
(3) Subject and predicate
(4) Preposition
(5) Pronouns
(5) Compound words
(6) Antonyms

5. Paraphrase the following sentence:
(1) I went for a stroll to a nearby garden. 
(2) There were several flowers in the bouquet.
(3) An elephant is a powerful animal.
(4) Most people love to spend time in the garden.
(5) The girl was pretty.
(6) I went for a stroll with my father and mother.
(7) There were many colourful birds on the tree.
(8) The mongoose sniffed at the boy's ear.
(9) Rohit went out into the verandah and sat in the sunshine.
(10) Bill and Janie spent all day roaming about in the forest.

6. Write collective nouns.
(1)   a ____________ of chicks.
(2)   a ____________ of grapes or keys.
(3)   a ____________ of monkeys.
(4)   a ____________ of bees.
(5 )  a ____________ of ants.
(6)   a ___________ of elephants, zebras.
(7)   a ___________ of lions.
(8)   a ___________ of thieves.
(9)   a ___________ of sticks.
(10) a ___________ of stars.
(11) a ___________ of ships.
(12) a ___________ of books.
(13) a ___________ of wolves, cards.
(14) a ___________ of eggs.
(15) a ___________, ____________ of fish.
(16) a ___________ of flowers.
(17) a ___________ of people.
(18) a ___________ of students.
(19) a ___________ of soldiers.
(20) a ___________ of books.
(21) a ___________ of players.
(22) a ___________ of birds.
(23) a ___________ of shoes.
(24) a ___________ of puppies.
(25) a ___________ of musicians.

8. Identify the gender - masculine, feminine,neuter or common.
(1) actor (2) actress (3) bull (4) cock (5) hen (6) mountain (7) computer (8) man (9) lion
(10) nephew (11) lioness (12) niece (13) emperor (14) woman (15) empress (16) pupil
(17) servant (18) neighbor (19) infant (20) thief (21) cousin (22) clown (23) doctor
(24) teacher (25) table (26) chair (27) pencil (28) box (29) window (30) sofa (31) fan
(32) book (33) rock (34) bag (35) driver (36) father (37) daughter (38) gentleman
(39) lady (40) bookshop (41) toys (42) saint (43) maidservant (44) deer (45) peahen
(46) apple (47) driver (48) cardboard (49) dancer (50) child (51) parent


9. Complete the table:
    Person               Singular                  Plural
        I                           I                        ________
       II                   _________               you
      III                   He, She, It                 ________

10. Write plural forms of these pronouns:
(1) I (2) my (3) me (4) he (5) she (6) his (7) her (8) him (9) your (10) itself (11) you
(12) myself (13) yourself (14) herself


11. Write a story using the outline given. Also write the moral:
(1) Robbery in a rich merchant's house... thief one of the servants... Goes to  Birbal... Birbal goes to his house and asks who is the culprit... everybody denied... He thinks for a moment... gets sticks of equal length... gives them to all the servants... tells them that the stick of the real thief will become longer... asks them to bring their sticks next day... servant stick is shorter... Birbal finds it.
Moral.
(2) A fox invites a stork for dinner... gives nothing but soup in a shallow dish... The stork unable to drink... The fox licks up everything... The stork gets angry... One day the stork invites the fox... serves dinner in a jar with long, thin neck... this time the fox is unable to eat... The stork eats heartily... Moral.

12. Add a word from the box to each of the words to form a new word. Then, make sentences with the new words:
[hen, stick, leg, mark, end]
(1) fore + ____________ = __________________
 _________________________________________________________________
(2) week + ____________ = ___________________
__________________________________________________________________
(3) pea + ____________ = ___________________
__________________________________________________________________
(4) book + ____________  = ____________________
__________________________________________________________________
(5) broom + ____________ = _____________________
__________________________________________________________________

13. Match the words in the columns:
(1) black                          (a) and stars
(2) satin                           (b) and honey
(3) needle                        (c) and silk
(4) moon                          (d) and thread
(5) milk                             (e) and white

14. Write antonyms:
(1) idle (2) sad (3) untidy (4) proud (5) always (6) blunt (7) freeze (8) shallow (9) worst
(10) weak (11) friend (12) clean (13) polite (14) able (15) accept (16) arrival
(17) add (18) agree (19) clever (20) enter (21) honest (22) absent (23) sweet
(24) near (25) broad

15. Letter-writing:
(1) Write a letter to the principal asking permission to go home early.
(2) Write a letter to your friend telling him/ her about the new house you have shifted to.

 

 
                            

 

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