CBSE Class 6 English Grammar Active and Passive Voice 1. Consider the following sentences : Lata sings a song. A song is sung by Lata. There is practically no difference in the meanings of these two sentences. These are two different ways of presenting the same thing. But in the first sentence the Subject performs…
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CBSE Class 6 English Grammar Tenses 1. Read the following sentences carefully : (i) Birds fly in the air. (ii) My brother flew to England last week. (iii) I shall fly a kite on Sunday. In the first sentence the Verb fly’ refers to the Present time, in the sec¬ond sentence the Verb ‘flew’ refers…
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CBSE Class 6 English Grammar Verb 1. Verb. The verb is a word that expresses some action, feeling or exist¬ence. It tells us something about the subject; as Lions roar. (action) Boys fly kites. (action) I feel sorry. (feeling) Ashoka was a great king. (existence) 2. All the verbs (shown above in black) ‘roar’, ‘fly’,…
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CBSE Class 6 English Grammar Preposition A preposition is a word placed before a noun or pronoun to show its relation with some other word in the sentence. He works hard in the hope of standing first. We met at night. The book is on the table. We stay at home during the holidays.…
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CBSE Class 6 English Grammar Agreement of Verb and Subject Present Tense A verb must agree in number and person with its subject. (a) When the subject is third, person singular, most English verbs end in -s or -es but there is no -s or -es on third person plural. He goes to school. They…
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CBSE Class 6 English Grammar Adjectives (a) Read the following sentences : 1. Apporva is an intelligent boy. (What kind of boy?) 2. I don’t like that house. (Which house?) 3. I have five books. (How many books?) 4. There is little time left. (How much time?) In sentence 1, ‘intelligent’ shows what kind of…
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CBSE Class 6 English Grammar Pronouns and Possessive Adjectives (a) We may say— Sheela is absent because Sheela is ill. But it is better to avoid the repetition of the noun Sheela, and say Sheela is absent because she is ill. Definition. A word that is used to replace a noun is called pronoun.…
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CBSE Class 6 English Grammar Noun Definition. Noun is the name given to a thing, person, object (animate or inanimate) or feeling : e.g., Ram, man, dog, book, tree, light, love etc. Kinds of Noun : Noun can be of two kinds : A. Countable nouns like book, man etc. B. Uncountable nouns like light,…
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CBSE Class 6 English Grammar Articles Three words—a, an and the are called articles. They are divided in two groups. A. The Definite Article (The) 1. Use of Definite Article (a) Put the before the words which mean the inhabitants of a country. The English live in England and the Indians in India. But…
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CBSE Class 6 English Application Writing Question 1. Write an application to the Principal of your school for fee-concession. Answer: The Principal M.D. Higher Secondary School New Delhi 5.3.2007 Sir I beg to say that my father is a poor man. His monthly income is only three thousand rupees. We are six members in…
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