CBSE Class 10 English Grammar Sentence Transformation 1. Reported Speech (3 marks each) Q. 1. Read the conversation given below and complete the paragraph that follows: (3 marks) (Board 2014, Set PRE2N18) Principal : Why were you absent last week ? Student : I was absent because I was not well. Principal : What will…
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CBSE Class 10 English Grammar Sentence Reordering Q. 1. Rearrange the following jumbled words/phrases to make meaningful sentences: (3 marks) (Board 2014, Set QUD9VQW) (a) for many/on/relied/dogs/people have/generations (b) companionship/used/they/for hunting/have been/and (c) very/a dog’s/are/and ears/sensitive/nose Ans. (a) For many generations people have relied on dogs./People have relied on dogs for many generations. (b) They…
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Omission Exercises for Class 10 CBSE with Answers Q.1. In the following passage, one word has been omitted in each line. Write the missing word along with the word that comes before and after it. The first one has been done as an example. Ans. Q.2. The following paragraph has not been edited. There is…
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Editing Exercises for Class 10 CBSE with Answers Question 1. The following passage has not been edited. There is one error in each line. Write the incorrect word and the correction in your answer sheet against the correct question number. The first one has been done as an example. (4 Marks Each) (Board 2014, Set…
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Gap Filling Exercises for Class 10 CBSE With Answers Question 1. Read the passage given below. Fill in the blanks by choosing the most appropriate word/phrases from the given options. (3 marks) One of the (a)_____ problems facing the world today is global warming. Many scientists believe that our production of carbon dioxide and other…
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CBSE Class 10 English Grammar – Prepositions Preposition Definition and Examples A Preposition is a word which is placed before a noun (or a pronoun) to show the relation in which the person or thing denoted by the Noun stands to something else. Examples: The book is on the table. The pen is in the…
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CBSE Class 10 English Grammar – Determiners 1. Determiner: ‘Determiner’ is a word used before a norm to indicate which things or people we are talking about. The words ‘a’, ‘the’, ‘my’, ‘this’, ‘some’, ‘many’, etc. are called determiners: He is a good boy. The boy you met is my friend. This novel is very…
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CBSE Class 10 English Grammar – Clauses Noun Clauses, Adverb Clauses of Time and Condition and Relative Clauses 1. clause is a group of words that includes a subject and a verb. It may be a sentence or part of a sentence. 2. There are three kinds of clauses: Noun clause Adverbial clause Relative clause…
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CBSE Class 10 English Grammar – Direct And Indirect Speech (Statements, Commands, Requests, and Questions) The words spoken by a person can be reported in two ways—Direct and Indirect. When we quote the exact words spoken by a person, we call it Direct Speech. Sohan said to Mohan, “I am going to school.” The exact…
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CBSE Class 10 English Grammar – Subject-Verb Concord A verb must agree with its Number and Person. In other words, the Verb of a sentence agrees with the Number and Person of the Subject of that sentence. Error of Proximity Often, the ‘Verb’ is made to agree in number with a norm near it instead…
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