CBSE Class 9 English Grammar – Direct And Indirect Speech 1. Direct and Indirect Speech: 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 9 English Grammar – Subject-Verb Concord 1. Number: The basic principle of subject-verb agreement is that singular subjects need singular verbs. Plural subjects need plural verbs: 2. Person: The rules regarding the person are as follows: (i) The first person singular or plural takes a singular verb: I like this scenery. We like…
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CBSE Class 9 English Grammar – Active And Passive Voice 1. Voice: Voice is that form of the transitive verb that shows whether the subject of the sentence is the doer of the action or has the action done to it. For example: ‘Mohan played football.’—This sentence is said to be in the active voice.…
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CBSE Class 9 English Grammar – Modals Modal auxiliaries are verbs such as can, must, could, would, etc. which are used with main verbs to express such ideas as possibility, permission, necessity, obligation, etc. 1. Must and have to: Must is used for all persons in the present and future tenses. The negative is must…
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CBSE Class 9 English Grammar – Tenses 1. Time and Tense Time is universally divided into past, present, and future. Tense is a form of the verb that expresses time. For example, “she goes’ is the present tense and ‘she went’ is the past tense of the verb ‘to go’. Thus the verb changes its…
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CBSE Class 9 English Letter Writing – Story Writing A story writing is an art that requires a lot of communication skills. First of all it requires the art of narrating things in an interesting way. You will be given either the introductory lines or some hints given in the input or both. You have…
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CBSE Class 9 English Letter Writing – Articles II. ARTICLES The students will be asked to attempt a long piece of composition of minimum 100-120 words in length. The composition will be in the form of an article. The students may be provided with a verbal or visual input. They can take help from the…
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CBSE Class 9 English Letter Writing – Diary Entry Diary writing is one of the most personal and informal categories of writing. A diary writing can be based on an experience, a scene, a description or narration of certain event or any other thing or activity that the writer considers worth writing in his personal…
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CBSE Class 9 English Workbook Solutions Integrated Grammar Practice 7 Question 1. Edit the following magazine article about youth in sport. The Great National Sports Talent Search (a) consist of workshops and tournaments arranged in (b) any different parts of (c) a country. The talent scouts’ aim (d) are to look out for local talent…
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CBSE Class 9 English Workbook Solutions Unit 8 Prepositions Question 1. Read the following passage on New Zealand. New Zealand is a Mecca for nature lovers. Throughout most of New Zealand’s geological history, it was a bird’s paradise. The islands were once part of the southern super – continent Gondwana from which they broke off…
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