NAME:                                                      R.NO                                                     DATE : /08/2017

CLASS:  IX                                                WORKSHEET NO-04                        

SUBJECT: ENGLISH                                 TOPIC- GRAMMAR

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1.       Fill in the blanks with complete form of verb.

(a)    (guard) __________________ by policemen on all sides, we were put in a carriage and (b) (take) __________________ to the railway station where another carriage was (c) (wait) __________________.

2.   The following passage has not been edited. Identify the missing word and write it with the words before and after it.                                                                                                                                                       

                                                                                                                              

                                                                                                                                               Before            missing           after

A.     Pollution not a new problem nowadays.                                                   E.g. Pollution               is               not

In the middle ages, most towns dirty and diseases spread                         a. __________________________

quickly as water supplied foul and bacteria                                                   b. __________________________

ridden. Much been done to improve sanitation and public health.          c. __________________________

In modern industrial towns, the disposal of waste become                       d. __________________________

 quite complicated. As factories produce fertilizers, chemicals,                e. __________________________

solid waste thrown out in the form of rubbish.                                             f. ___________________________

These rubbish heaps an unpleasant sigh to                                                   g. ___________________________

watch. Getting rid of plastic particularly difficult.                                         h. __________________________

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B.      I scramble him and                                                                                            a. __________________________

        found unhurt though breathless,                                                                    b. __________________________

        then looked for good. We                                                                                c. __________________________

        found caught in the roots of a tree                                                                d. __________________________

C.      When you eat chocolate, a                                                                              a. __________________________

       chemical called serotonin released                                                                b. __________________________

       in brain, making you feel good.                                                                       c. __________________________

       According research, chocolates may                                                              d. __________________________

       also, be effective in relieving persistent cough

D.      Geography was the combination of two                                                      a.   _________________________

Greek words namely ‘Geo’ meaning the earth                                            b. __________________________

and ‘graphy’ means to write or describe.                                                     c___________________________

Thus, the literally meaning of Geography is                                                 d. __________________________

“to write on the earth including all that                                                        e. __________________________

appears upon it?”

3.       Complete the passage by filling the blanks with the appropriate determiners.

A.         President Abdul Kalam was born in (i) ___________ (a, an, the, some) middle class Tamil family in (ii) ___________ (a, an, the, many) island town of Rameswaram in (iii) ___________ (a, an, the much) city of Tamil Nadu. (iv) ___________ (his, her, the, an) father Jainulabdeen, had neither (v) ___________ (any, an, the, many) formal education nor               (vi) ___________ (any, some, few, a few) wealth, despite these disadvantages, he possessed great wisdom.

B.         India (i) ___________  (has, is, are, have)  know as a leader in entertainment.  It produces more films than Hollywood (ii) ___________ (in, on, at, to) a year. A number of films use animation along with live actors to make (iii) ___________ (a, an, the, during) seen more plausible.

4.       Fill in the blanks in the following sentences with appropriate options.

A.      I was waiting for (i) ___________ (my, mine, me) friends at (ii) ___________ (a, an, the) gate no. 8 of (iii) ___________ ( a, an ,the ) Hotel Samrat. But (iv) ___________ (none, no, never) of them arrived. I had booked (v) ___________ (a, an, the) table for five people. Surprisingly, only (vi) ___________ (a few, few, the few) people were present in               (vii) ___________ (a, an, the) hall. Suddenly, one of them turned up. But he had failed to see (viii) ___________                    (any, some, few) familiar face at (ix) ___________ (a, an, the) gate.

B.   Swami Vivekananda once speaking in America told (i) ___________ (off, on, about, in) a young man who came to a religious conference and said that he wanted to find God. The sage smiled and said (ii) ___________ (nothing, anything, more, much). The young man, turned time after time, ever repeating (iii) ___________ (his, her, their, our) desire, his longing to find God. After (iv) ___________ (many, each, some, all) days, the sage told him to accompany him as he went to the river (v) ___________ (off, in, on, to) take his morning bath and when (vi) ___________ (how, both, on, to) were in the river, the sage took hold of the young man, plunged him under the surface of water and held him there.

5.       In the following passage, there are certain errors of determiners. Spot the error and write it down along with the corrected one.                                                                                                                    Incorrect                        correct

A.      I don’t know how much chairs                                                                      a. _____________________________

were arranged in the row. I had                                                                   b. _____________________________

a few idea about the seating arrangements in                                          c. _____________________________

a hall. The stage boys had displayed                                                             d. _____________________________

the map of India in connection with                                                             e. _____________________________

the group song. We thought                                                                             f. _____________________________

any invitees would come to attend                                                              g. _____________________________

a show. We weren’t happy to see                                                                  h. _____________________________

few turnout.                                                                                                      i. _____________________________

Any of them had brought the invitation card                                             j. _____________________________

B.      Even through India has emerged                                                                 a. _____________________________

as a knowledge hub or a prime                                                                    b. _____________________________

destination towards research and development,                                     c. _____________________________

it is baffling that the same college and universities that                         d. _____________________________

produce many of the best brains                                                                 e. _____________________________

hardly find any place in international academic ranking .

C.      The quality of bananas were not good.                                                      a. _____________________________

Many of them was rotten.                                                                            b. _____________________________

Cause of worries was that the children                                                      c. _____________________________

would not know this fact.

The horse and carriage are ready to go.                                                    d. _____________________________

The house with its contents were insured.                                               e. ______________________________

A group of boys are standing near the gate.                                             f. ______________________________

None of those students are aware of                                                         g.______________________________

the consequences.

6.    Rearrange the following words to give meaningful sentences

a. yesterday / was / hospitalized / and / is / ill / my / mother

b. on/ should / reached / have / bus / the /stop / time / you