English Std IV Grammar and Writing skills 1

Grammar and Writing skills 1 


1. What is a sentence?

2. Describe the sentence checking strategy BEM with examples.

3. Check the sentences using BEM strategy and correct the wrong ones.
1) Radha ball plays yesterday.
2) I'll go to market today evening.
3) Swati is riding her bicycle.

4. Define these verbs with examples.
1) Main verbs   2) Helping verbs   3) Linking verbs

5.Identify the types from the underlined verbs in the following sentences.
1) Rahul is a brave boy.
2) Radha is reading a novel.
3) We are the students of class IV.
4) The boys were playing football.
5) That garden is full of beautiful flowers.
6) Soham ate an apple.
7) Those children are so cute.

6. Define following types of sentences with examples.
1) Declarative sentence
2) Interrogative sentence
3) Imperative sentence
4) Exclamatory sentence

7. State the kind of sentence in each of the following.
1) Neeru is packing things for picnic.
2) How excited they must be about the surprise!
3) What are the stars made up of?
4) Throw the ball.
5) Are you planning to go?
6) One must study well.
7) How delicate the flower is?
8) She was very happy to see the new gift.
9) Keep your dog under control.
10) What a lovely garden you have!
11) Boys, don't play with fire works.
12) Spoken words have great power.
13) Have you finished your work?
14) Please let me come in.
15) What would you like to eat?
16) Stop teasing the boy.
17) What a beautiful sight!

8. Describe the sentence writing strategies "PEN' and "MARK' with examples.

7. Write the PEN strategy and MARK strategy for following sentences.
1) Isha is reading a book.
2) Sudha and Naveen went to school.
3) Smita is going to market.

9. Define:
1) Subject
2) Predicate

10. Circle the subject and underline the predicate from the following sentences.
1) Goa has many beaches.
2) The library closes by six.
3) Please keep quiet.
4) Rita grew very thoughtful.
5) Do not throw stones at the animals.
6) We are free now.
7) The earth goes around the sun.
8) Radha dances very well.
9) My parents are going to Kanpur.
10) You are too much thin.
11) The old man shouted at us.
12) Crowd has gathered outside the stadium.
13) Geeta is a holy book.

11. Mention different types of nouns.

12. Define following nouns with examples.
1) Common noun  2) Proper noun   3) Collective noun   4) Material noun   5) Abstract noun
6) countable / uncountable noun 7) personal pronoun

13. Mention different parts of speech.

14. Define:
1) noun   2) pronoun   3) verb  4) adverb  5) adjective   6) interjection    7) preposition
7) conjunction

15. Write a composition on
1) 'Dams'

2) 'Why do people travel?'

3) 'How I spent my summer vacation'

16. Write the collective nouns for the following.
1) an _____________ of photographs
2) a _____________ of flats
3) a _____________ of bananas or grapes.
4) a _____________ of birds
5) a _____________ of stars
6) a _____________ of trees
7) a _____________ of roses
8) a _____________ of keys
9) a _____________ of events
10) an _____________ of people
11) a _____________ of fishes
12) a _____________ of ships/cars
13) a _____________ of sheep
14) a _____________ of goats
15) a _____________ of judges
16) a _____________ of rooms
17) a _____________ of monkeys
18) a _____________ of pigs
19) a _____________ of arrows
20) a _____________ of ants

17. Form abstract nouns from the following words.
1) good  2) happy  3) sad  4) large  5) citizen  6) kind  7) coward  8) friend  9) member
10) owner  11) private  12) free  13) able  14) urgent  15) host  16) intelligent  17) king
18) girl  19) mental  20) absent


19.Underline the abstract noun and circle the collective noun. 
1) The people shouted that they want justice.
2) My childhood was very good.
3) Kindness is a great quality.
4) Tigers are the biggest attraction in the zoo.
5) He was very active in his boyhood.
6) Somal was famous for his wisdom.
7)  The crowd has no discipline.
8) You must watch the fleet.
9) Without health there is no happiness.
10) I bought a new pair of shoes.
11) He gave me a bunch of grapes.
12) Poverty is a curse.
13) I purchased a set of books yesterday.
14) The soldiers were rewarded for their bravery.
15) I have good memories of my childhood.

20. Mention 3 main tenses and their sub-types with examples of each.

21. Mention the functions of the following tenses and give 3 sentences of each tense.
1) Simple present tense  2) Present continuous tense  3) Simple past tense
4) Past continuous tense  5) Simple future tense  6) Future continuous tense

22. Complete the verb chart:
      Verb                   Past tense           Past participle
1)   go
2)   eat
3)   walk
4)   fall
5)   dance
6)   talk
7)   work
8)   accept
9)   hurt
10) know
11) sell
12) speak
13) write
14) take
15) tie
16) wake
17) beg
18) address
19) educate
20) learn
21) spend
22) keep
23) burn
24) spoil
25) smell
26) throw
27) beat
28) drive
29) ring
30) see

23. Identify the tenses and their kinds.
1) Arun is a good boy.
2) Marco's father and uncle were jewel merchants.
3) My best friend gave me this book.
4) Frank was fishing on the river bank.
5) Fishes were gathered around.
6) The dog barked.
7) My parents are in Kanpur.
8) We will go to Kerala.
9) Venice was an important port.
10) I am leaving to China.

24. Fill in the blanks with correct tense of verbs from the brackets.
1) I _________ at a bank. (work/works)
2) She ____________ with her parents. (live/lives)
3) Cows ____________ on grass. (feed/feeds)
4) He _________ a good salary. (earn/earns)
5) Sophia ___________ English very well. (speak/speaks)
6) Rohit ____________ a book. ( bought/buy)
7) The teacher __________ the boy. (punish/punished)
8) They ___________ it. (know/knew)
9) They ___________ us to the party. (invite/invited)
10) In two days, I will ____________ my result. (know/knew)
11) I will ___________. (go/went)
12) Kind words will ____________ others joy. (give/gave)
13) You will never ____________ this puzzle on your own. (understand, understood)
14) I'll _____________ this. (permitted/permit)

24. Fill in the blanks with verbs in present continuous tense.
1) They ______________ to movie. (go)
2) Siya ______________ on the chair. (sit)
3) Kiran ______________ on the bank. (fish)
4) My mother ______________ a cake. (bake)
5) Rohan ______________ kite. (fly)

25. Fill in the blanks with verbs in past continuous tense.
1) They ______________ to movie. (go)
2) Siya ______________ on the chair. (sit)
3) Kiran ______________ on the bank. (fish)
4) My mother ______________ a cake. (bake)
5) Rohan ______________ kite. (fly)

26. Fill in the blanks with verbs in future continuous tense.
1) We _______________ to temple tomorrow. (go)
2) Kavita _______________ a new lesson. (study)
3) My grandmother _______________ home. (come)
4) My teacher ________________ tenses next week. (teach)
5) Roma ________________ to dance class. (go)

27. Arrange in alphabetical order.
1) dog, door, dear, done
2) bark, book, boss, base
3) king, kite, knife, kitchen
4) flower, fabulous, floor, flight

28. Underline the common noun and circle the proper noun.
1) They have good books.
2) The river flowed gently.
3) Geeta regularly goes to gym.
4) I have a dog.
5) Taj Mahal is a famous monument.

29. Underline the countable and circle the uncountable noun.
1) I have one blue pen.
2) Ram wants some rice.
3) Kavita gave three apples.
4) Please give me some food to eat.
5) Tina ate two sandwiches.
6) Many people were dancing.
7) There was lot of noise in the classroom.

30. Fill in the blanks with personal pronoun choosing from the brackets.
1) Riya is a good girl. _________ goes to school daily. (she/it)
2) I bought a gift for _________. (she/her)
3) The horse broke __________ leg. (you/its)