CBSE Class 9 - English Grammar - Tenses (Worksheet) (#cbseNotes)

Tenses

Worksheet (Holidays Homework)

Q Fill in the blanks in the following paragraphs with the most appropriate form of verbs.

1 My mother a)_______(do) a lot of work. She b)______(cook)food and c)________(clean) the house. Whenever I d)______(fallen) I'll, she looks after me well. She e)______(be) a religious person. She f) ______(narrate) many interesting stories from the Ramayana and the Mahabharata to us at bedtime. Right now, she is not at home.


2: I a)________. (run) for a bus when I b) ______ (hit) my foot on something on the pavement and c) _____ ( fall) over. I tried to get up but d)______( move ). I had terrible pain in my left foot. I e)_____( sprain) my ankle very badly. I was limping when some passers-by f)______(notice) me.




3: Cicero a)_____with truth that friendship b)_______ our happiness and c)________our sorrow. When we d)_______ well, it is delightful to have friends who e)_____ so proud of our success that they f)_________as much pleasure from it as we g)______ ourselves. For the friendless man, the attainment of wealth, power and honour h)_____ of little value.


4: Yesterday DaVit a)_____to my house to give me the happy news of her standing first in the board examination. I b)_____ overjoyed to know this. We c)_______our views regarding the latest trend in the paper setting. She also d)______ me that e)_______ she e)______ all the classes regularly. She never forgets f)_____ any class. This habit g)______ her a lot. Now she_______h) to go to the United Kingdom for higher studies.


5: Rishabh a)_____ feeling thrilled because he has passed his SSC examination with 90% marks. He b)_____ to join Shri Ram College of Commerce because he c)_____ to do B.Com(honours). However, he d)_____ for admission in other colleges too.


6: What kind of car a)______ we be driving in 2020? Rather a different front the type we know today, with the next twenty years bringing in more changes than in the past fifty. The people who are designing the models of tomorrow believe that environmental problems b)______ accelerate the pace of the car development. Today, there are a number of students in the transport design course at London's Royal College of Art researching this. Future cars c) ______pick up their fuel during journeys from a power source built into the road. Instead of sitting in rows, the 2020 car d)_______ have a versatile interior with adults and children all sitting in a circle.



Answers:
1: (a) does
(b) cooks
(c) cleans
(d) fall
(e) is
(f) narrates

2: (a) was running
(b) hit
(c) fell
(d) move
(e) sprained
(f) noticed

3: (a) came
(b) enhances
(c) decreases
(d) do / perform
(e) are
(f) feel
(g) feel
(h) is

4 (a) came
(b) became
(c) discussed
(d) told
(e) attended
(f) about
(g) portrays
(h) has decided

5: (a) is
(b) wants
(c) wishes
(d) has got


6: (a) shall
(b) will
(c) would
(d) would