Class (6 - 12) English Grammar - KINDS OF SENTENCES (Part 1)(#eduvictors)(#englishgrammar)

KINDS OF SENTENCES (Part 1)

Sentences based on functions are categorised as follows:

1. Assertive Sentences
2. Interrogative Sentences
3. Imperative Sentences
4. Optative Sentences
5. Exclamatory Sentences

Assertive Sentences

These sentences merely assert an incident or a fact.
e.g.
The sun is a big star. (Affirmative)
The Taj is a beautiful monument.         (Affirmative)
He is not in Delhi. (Negative)
It does not glow at night.         (Negative)

Sentences that affirm one or the other fact are called affirmative sentences. First two sentences listed above are affirmative ones.

Sentences that negate a fact are called negative sentences. The last two sentences listed above are negative sentences.

Exercise:
Convert the following affirmative sentences into negative sentences by giving negative meaning also.

1. I like him.
2. Banana is a sweet fruit.
3. They play for Delhi Soccer club.
4. We sing a song.
5. He gets up early.


Answers:
1. I do not like him.
2. Banana is not a sweet fruit.
3. They do not play for Delhi Soccer club.
4. We do not sing a song.
5. He does not get up early.

CBSE Class 9 -12: English Grammar Quiz

ENGLISH GRAMMAR QUIZ

[Questions from SSC Exam Paper 2014]
Q (1 - 5) In these questions some part of the sentences have errors and some are correct.Find out which part of the sentence has error and mark that part (A), (B) or (C). If a sentence is free from error, then mark (D) as your answer.


Q1: In his book (A)/ Churchill describes (B)/ that historical first meeting with Roosevelt (C)/ No error (D).

Q2: The ant who was nearby (A) / walked forward and bit the hunter (B)/ sharply in the ankle (C) / No error (D).


Q3: They can promise you (A) / an experience (B) / you won't never forget (C)/ No error (D)


Q4: The dress that the (A) / girl wore was (B)/ more attractive than the other girls (C)/ No error (D)


Q5: Fifty years has passed (A)/ since man first ventured (B)/ in outer space (C)/ No error (D).


Directions (6 - 10): Fill up the blanks with approproate word(s) in the sentences. Four options are given, choose the correct one. 


Q6: I can ______ him without qualifications.

(a) recommend
(b) commend
(c) praise
(d) suggest


Q7: She let her horse ________ in the field.

(a) loosen
(b) loose
(c) loosely
(d) lose

CBSE Class 10 - English(Comm.)- SA2- Sample Question Paper (2016)

CBSE Class 10 - English(Comm.)- SA2- Sample Question Paper (2016) 

CBSE Class 10 - English(Comm)- SA2- Sample Question Paper and Marking Scheme(2016)

CBSE Class 10 - English(Comm)- SA2- Sample Question Paper and Marking Scheme(2016) 

CBSE Class 9/10 - English - Reading Comprehension Passage (Set-7)

 Reading Comprehension Passage

From CBSE Class 10 Sample Question Paper

When my maternal uncle was alive, his only son quietly made plans to settle in Germany with his wife. Without informing his father or sister he bought tickets ‘and sold all movable things at home. A week before he left, everyone was informed of his plans. People criticised him for abandoning his father. The married daughter who was settled in Bhopal, shifted to Delhi to look after her father. A year later the father was admitted to a private hospital and died. The son came from Germany, paid the bills and performed all the death ceremonies.

People now said that after all, he had come all the way so he was not a bad son. No word about how he had neglected his father or how his sister had to disrupt her personal life to take care of old Dad.
This is what life teaches every daughter. That our society values a son more because he has the religious sanction to perform death ceremonies and grant them liberation - (Mukti). A daughter may have given them love, care, sensitivity, time, service, but the son gets preference because he carries forward the family name and performs shraadh. He may be uncaring, arrogant and indifferent but for parents, a son is their treasure.

Two years back in our neighbourhood a man died without leaving a will. His only son sold the bungalow and took away his sick mother without informing his three sisters who then approached the courts for a share of the property. Is this the family structure we boast of to the world? Where do love and laughter vanish when siblings become adults? Are we right in blaming a newlywed for poisoning a son’s brain? Love for a daughter has to come from within. Saints repeatedly clarify that death ceremonies need not be performed only by one’s own son. And what guarantee is there that a son will perform the shraadh? If parents do not reciprocate a daughter’s love, won’t Heaven, which claims to be just and fair, reproaches them for their insensitivity?


Questions

CBSE Class 9/10/11/12 - Cloze Test -2 (English Grammar)

Cloze Test 

Fill in the blanks from the choices given below:

The League of Nations was (1) in 1919. It became ineffective and the UNO began to (2)  from October 24, 1945. The Second World War (3) in 1939. It caused great (4) to human lives and properly. As a (5) of use of atom bombs, many people were (6) and many became (7). The world leaders feared that another world war would (8) the entire world. It was a question of the (9) of mankind. To ensure peace and (10) the world leaders established world organisation, the UNO.



1. (A) created
   (B) formed
   (C) made
   (D) opened

2. (A) start
    (B) operate
   (C) function
   (D) commence


3. (A) broke in
   (B) broke out
   (C) broke into
   (D) broke up


4. (A) wastage
   (B) calamity
   (C) loss
   (D) disturbance

CBSE Class 10 - English (Comm.)- SA2- Sample Question Paper (2015)

CBSE Class 10 - English (Comm.)- SA2- Sample Question Paper (2015) 

CBSE Class 6 - 12: English Grammar - Confusing Sentences

Confusing Sentences

1. To go to school - to get education.
    e.g. Sheila is going to school. (It means Sheila is studying there).

    To go to the school - to go for other purpose
    e.g. Sheila's father is going to the school. (It means Sheila's father is visiting school for some purpose, may be inquiring about his daughter's progress.)


2.  To go to play - to take part in games

     To go to the play - to go to a theatre.


3. A black and white dog - One dog which is partly black and partly white.

    A black and a white dog - two different dogs - one black in colour while the other is white in colour.


4. Tell me briefly - Tell me in a short time.

    Tell me shortly - Tell me in short.

CBSE Class 10 - English- SA1- Sample Question Paper (2015-16)

CBSE Class 10 - English- SA1- Sample Question Paper (2015-16)

CBSE Class 9/10 - Editing Exercise-3

Editing Exercise

Following sentences are incorrect. Identify the errors and write the correct sentences

1. Mohan is the tallest of all the other boys.

2. This pen is superior than that.

3. He was sent with a verbal message to the head master.

4. He does not know to behave in the society.

5. He has a strong headache.

6. The train has arrived immediately.

7. She copied the draft word by word.

8. It is long since I have seen him.

CBSE Class 10 - English (Comm) SA1 Question Paper (2014-15)

ENGLISH COMMUNICATIVE - Class 10

Summative Assessment-I (September 2014)

	Time allowed: 3 hours
	The Question paper is divided into three sections: Section A-                                            Reading 20 Marks Section B-                                            Writing & Grammar 25 Marks Section C –                                           Literature 25 Marks General Instructions: (i) All questions are compulsory. (ii) You may attempt any section at time. (iii) All questions of that particular section must be attempted in the correct order.
	SECTION A – READING	20 Marks
Q1:	Read the passage given below and answer the questions/complete the sentences that follow: Sniffer dog Tucker uses his nose to help researchers find out why a killer whale population off the northwest coast of the United States is on the decline. He searches for whale faeces floating on the surface of the water, which are them collected for examination. He is one of the elite team of detection dogs used by scientists studying a number of species including right whales and killer whales. Conservation Canines are fast becoming indispensable tools for biologists according to Aimee Hurt, associate director and co-founder of Working Dogs for Conservation, based in Three Forks, Montana. Over the last few years, though, so many new conservation dog projects have sprung up that Hurt can no longer keep track of them all. Her organization’s dogs and their handlers are fully booked to assist field researchers into 2012. “Dogs have such a phenomenal sense of smell,” explained Sam Wasser, director of the Center for Conservation Biology at the University of Washington in Seattle. He has worked with scat-detection dogs since 1997. Scientists have been using Conservation Canines in their research since 1997. These dogs have enabled them to non-invasively access vast amount of genetic and physiological information which is used to tackle conservation problems around the world. Such information has proved vital for determining the causes and consequences of human disturbances on wildlife as well as the actions needed to mitigate such impacts. The ideal detection dog is extremely energetic with an excessive play drive. These dogs will happily work all day long, motivated by the expectation of a ball game as reward for sample detection. The obsessive, high energy personalities of detection dogs also make them difficult to maintain as pets. As a result, they frequently find themselves abandoned to animal shelters, facing euthanasia. The programme rescues these dogs and offers them a satisfying career in conversation research. (a) According to the text there are a few ................detection dogs like Tucker. (b) Tucker sniffs for whale................ . (c) The dogs are special because they assist in research without ........... . (d) The ideal detection dog ........... . (e) The dogs expect ............... as a reward of their hardwork. (f) ............ of these dogs make it difficult to keep them as pets. (g) These dogs find a career in ............ . (h) The word ‘ euthanasia means .............. .	8

Class 9/10 - English Vocabulary - Ten Foreign Words Used in English You must Know

Ten Foreign Words Used in English 

You must Know

English language has adopted a many foreign words from other languages. Here is a list of ten such words of foreign words that are used most frequently.

addendum (origin: Latin)

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: An additional chapter or section added to a document after printing or publishing.

Example: The latest edition of Class 9 Maths NCERT book includes an addendum on mathematical models.


adios (origin: Spanish)

Part of Speech: interjection

Meaning: ‘See you tomorrow’, a Spanish farewell.

Example: It’s almost 11 pm, time to go home. Adios, my friends.

CBSE Class 8/9/10 - Reading Comprehension (Set-6)

 Reading Comprehension

Read the following passages carefully and mark out the correct answers from among the alternatives given below each question in every passage:

PASSAGE - 1

Discussions on drug addiction should also be concerned with the vast, majority of people who are not addicts. Their homes and lives are insecure because our narcotics laws drive such people to crime. The drug addict is almost never dangerous when he is under the influence of drugs. What makes him dangerous is the desperate need for money to buy the next dose. Drugs are available only in an illegal black market. The costs are stupendous, and this is what drives the addict to steal, rob and even kill.

Q1: According to the author, discussions of drug addiction are generally concerned with

(a) addicts
(b) non-addicts
(c) criminals
(d) black marketers

Q2: Addicts take to criminal acts because 

(a) drugs make them lose self-control

(b) the habit of robbing and stealing is hard to break

(c) they need large sums of money to buy drugs

(d) law is powerless against them

Q3: The author seems to criticize the narcotics laws for

(a) being too lenient

(b) being too complicated

(c) being ineffective

(d) driving addicts to crime

CBSE Class 9/10 - English Grammar - Cloze Test (PSA Quiz)

CLOZE TEST

Directions : In Question Nos. 1 to 10 you have following a brief passage with 10 questions.
Read the passages carefulIy and fill in the blanks with, out of the four alternatives given.

Passage 

Without water __1__ animal can survive. In desert regions, the greatest  ____2____ to life is drying up. But many creatures are able to make use of ___3___  little water that exists in arid areas. One of nature’s  masterpieces ___4___ creatures equipped to ___5____ with desert life is the hardy camel. There are several stories describing the ___6___ endurance of these animals.  It is said that camels can ___7___ a distance of about 800 miles in eight days through continuous travel ___8___ an intake of a single drop of water. The popular ___9___ in a way is  ___10___. Water is indeed stored there but in the form of fat.


Questions:

CBSE Class 8/9/10 - Reading Comprehension (Set-5)

 Reading Comprehension

Read the following passages carefully and mark out the correct answers from among the alternatives given below each question in every passage:

PASSAGE - 1

The load was very heavy for the old camel. He tried his best to carry it as far as the next village. There his master would be able to get another camel to carry this heavy load. But he was so tired and exhausted that he could not go any further. His master took off the load from the camel’s back and put it on the back of another camel and went his way. A tiger was passing by at this time. He had been hurt by the tusk of an elephant. As the tiger was in pain, he found it difficult to walk. So he lay down by the side of the camel. The camel began licking the tiger’s wound with his long tongue and offered him food that his master had left behind. In a few days, the tiger and the camel recovered. As the tiger was very hungry the old camel told him to kill him and eat his meat. The tiger could not think of killing his friend.
At that time a deer came running towards them. A hunter had shot at him with an arrow. He lay down by the side of the tiger. He told the tiger to kill him and eat his flesh as he did not want the wicked hunter to take him away. The tiger did as he was told. Just then the hunter came on the spot. The angry tiger jumped on him and killed him also. Another young deer was in the bag that the hunter was carrying. The tiger set it free. The tiger and the camel lived happily ever after in the forest.

Q1: The camel began to lick the tiger’s wound because of the

(a) tiger was in pain
(b) tiger was tired
(c) tiger could not walk
(d) the camel was hungry
(e) camel’s tongue is long.

CBSE Class 9/10 - PSA Quiz (English)

 PSA Quiz

Q1: In the following there are six sentences marked as A, B, P, Q, R, S. Positions of A and B are fixed. You are requested to choose one of the four alternatives which would be the most logical sequence of sentences in the passage.

A) The similarity between the human body and a machine is rather superficial.
B) The points of difference far outweigh the points of resemblance.
P) Beyond that comparison fails.
Q) No machine grows in size; no machine sees , hears  or feels.
R) It can be summed up in the statement  that both require  fuel and oxygen  and obtain energy.
S) No machine thinks.

(a) SQPR
(b) RPQS
(c) RPSQ
(d) QSPR

Directions: (Q2 - Q6): Identify the word whose spelling is correct.

Q2:
(a) Profesional
(b) Proffessional
(c) Proffesional
(d) Professional


Q3:
(a) Schdule
(b) Shidule
(c) Schdulle
(d) Schdule

Q4:
(a) Intelligence
(b) Intilligence
(c) Intalligence
(d) Intelligance

Q5:
(a) asshaimed
(b) ashamid
(c) ashimed
(d) ashamed

CBSE Class 10 - KVS - SA1 - English- Question Paper-2012-13

CBSE Class 10 - KVS - SA1 - English- Question Paper-2012-13 

CBSE Class 10 - English(Communication) - CH 13 - THE DEAR DEPARTED

THE DEAR DEPARTED

Q & A

Question 1:  What are the reasons for the old people being "abused, harassed and abandoned" in India?

Answer : The old people feel very lonely and ignored. They often feel depressed. They feel that they have nobody to care for them. They cannot share their problems with anybody. Lives in metropolitan cities have left no time with members of the family to spend with each other.

Question 2: Given below are the main incidents in the play. They are in a jumbled order.
Arrange them in the sequence in which they occur in the play.

1. Victoria is asked to fetch the bunch of keys to the bureau to look for the insurance receipt.
2. Mrs. Slater instructs Victoria to put her white frock on with a black sash.
3. Mrs Slater discovers that grandfather is 'dead'.
4. The Slaters fetch the bureau and the clock from upstairs.
5. The family sits down to have tea.
6. Henry wears the new slippers of grandfather's
7. Grandfather comes to know how his daughters were in a hurry to divide his things between them.
8. Grandfather announces his intention to change his will and to marry Mrs. Shorrocks.
9. Grandfather comes down and is surprised to find the Jordans.
10. They discuss the obituary announcement in the papers and the insurance premium payment.
11. The Jordans arrive and learn the details of grandfather's 'demise' from the Slaters.

Answer:
3. Mrs Slater discovers that grandfather is 'dead'.
2. Mrs. Slater instructs Victoria to put her white frock on with a black sash.
6. Henry wears the new slippers of grandfather's
4. The Slaters fetch the bureau and the clock from upstairs.
11. The Jordans arrive and learn the details of grandfather's 'demise'from the Slaters.
5. The family sits down to have tea.
10. They discuss the obituary announcement in the papers and the insurance premium payment.
1. Victoria is asked to fetch the bunch of keys to the bureau to look for the insurance receipt.
9. Grandfather comes down and is surprised to find the Jordans.
7. Grandfather comes to know how his daughters were in a hurry to divide his things between them.
8. Grandfather announces his intention to change his will and to marry Mrs. Shorrocks.


Question 3: How does Mrs. Slater plan to outshine the Jordans? What does it reveal about her character?

CBSE Class 8/9/10/11/12 CTET - English Grammar - Reading Comprehension

Reading Comprehension

Directions: Read the following short passages. After each passage, you will find several questions based on what is stated or implied in the passages. Answer the questions that follow each passage.

 Passage -1 

Vehicles do not move about the roads for mysterious reasons of their Own. They move only because people want them to move in connection with the activities which the people are engaged in. Traffic is therefore a ‘function of activities’, and because, in towns, activities mainly take place in buildings, traffic in towns is a ‘function of buildings’, The implications of this line of reasoning are inescapable.

Q1: Line 1 of the passage means that vehicles move on the roads

(a) for reasons difficult to understand.
(b) to serve specific purposes of people.
(c) in a haphazard fashion.
(d) in ways beyond our control.


Q2: The author says that traffic is a ‘function of  activities’. He means that

(a) human activities are taking place.
(b) human activities are dependent on traffic.
(c) traffic is not dependent on human activities.
(d) traffic is connected with human activities.

Q3: The author suggests by his argument that

CBSE Class 10 - English - Unseen Passage

ENGLISH UNSEEN PASSAGE

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(From CBSE Examination Paper)

Q: Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow: 

1. In the history of mankind,dance as an artistic form of expression is extremely old. Evidence of dance as a creative form is available in ancient library texts,paintings and sculpture from prehistoric times to the medieval period.

2. There are now seven classical dance styles - Bharatnatyam originated from Tamil Nadu, Kathakali from Kerala, Kuchipudi from Andhra Pradesh, Odissi from Orissa, Manipuri from Manipur, Kathak from Northern region and Satriya from Assam.

3. Most of these classical dances trace their roots to the grammar and techniques of movement codified in the Natya Shastra compiled by Bharat Muni,sometime between 2nd centuary BC and 2nd centuary AD.

4. Dance according to Bharat is classified into two main aspects: Nritta and Nritya. Nritta in the broadest sense is pure abstract dance which basically does not interpret or communicate any specific theme. It is the movement of limbs and body to the accompaniment of percussion instrument playing a specific rhythemic cycle of tala.

5.Nritya is the aspect of dance which is expressive and which communicates the meaning or theme of a song through gestures of hands(hastas), facial expressions and body movements.

6.Stylized interpretation when conveyed through body movements and facial and hand gestures is known as Angika Abhinaya,through words,as Vachika Abhinaya and through costumes and make up as Aharya Abhinaya.


QUESTIONS:
Q1: How do we come to know that dance is a creative form of art?