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CONTENTS
1. The Sentence 3
2. Questions 4
3. Nouns 6
4. Pronouns 8
5. Adjectives 10
6. Comparison of Adjectives 12
7. Determiners 14
8. Verbs 16
9. Present Tenses 17
10. Past Tenses 20
11. Future Tenses 22
12. Verbs - Non-finite Forms 24
13. Modal Verbs 25
14. Phrasal Verbs 27
15. Active and Passive Voice 29
16. Direct and Indirect Speech 31
17. Adverbs 33
18. Comparison of Adverbs 35
19. Phrases 35
20. Clauses 37
21. Sentences - Simple, Compound and Complex 39
22. Prepositions 41
23. Conjunctions 43
24. Comprehension - Passages 45
25. Composition - Brochure Writing 49
26. Writing Letters 49
27. Writing Stories 50
28. Writing Essays 51
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2. Questions
Exercise Were the children singing as they sat
A. Change the following statements into in the bus?
yes or no questions. The first one is done 9. There is something wrong with my
for you. computer.
Ans. 1. Mayank has got a new bike. Is there something wrong with my
Has Mayank got a new bike? computer?
2. The teacher told the children a story. 10. DadwillhelpAyushwith his homework.
Did the teacher tell the children a Will Dad help Ayush with his home-
story? work?
3. The boys want to come with us to the B. Form tag questions with the following
fair. statements.
Do the boys want to come with us to Ans. 1. Your dog won't bite, will it?
the fair? 2. These people are very helpful, aren’t
4. She was a close friend of my mother. they?
Was she a close friend of my mother? 3. These watches can't chime, can these?
5. He is coming round to see us tomorrow 4. Those hawkers were shouting,
night. weren’t those?
Is he coming round to see us tomorrow 5. Farmers work very hard, don’t they?
night? 6. The coast guards caught the enemy
6. My father works in a multinational ship, don’t they?
company. 7. We forgot to pay the waiter, didn’t we?
Does my father work in a multi- 8. Those people shouldn't complain,
national company? should those?
7. We must leave at once. 9. The firecrackers went off with a big
Must we leave at once? bang, didn’t they?
8. The children were singing as they sat 10. The elderly wouldn't know the way,
in the bus. would they?
3. Nouns
Exercise Ans. The circus had come to town. The troupe
A. Underline the common nouns in these of entertainers had been invited to the town
sentences. Write each under the correct by the town council. The councillors
heading in the following tables. wanted people to have entertainment they
Ans. 1. Football is not an easy game. could enjoy as families. The circus artists
2. The refugees lived in fear of being were happy to perform in the town. They
caught. knew that their audience would be mostly
3. The people were waiting patiently in children and teenagers, but these young
the queue. people would appreciate their skills. They
4. The scenery of the lake attracts many would be thrilled by their menagerie of
tourists. trained animals.
5. The old lady cried on hearing the bad However, the circus folk were not happy.
news. They were looted by a gang of hungry
6. My sister is studying medicine at the thieves. The thieves stole all their cases of
university. canned drinks, all the packets of biscuits
7. The man has both money and fame. and the jars of jam.
They even took away the bales of hay. The
8. Our teacher has darkeyes and blackhair.
poor horses will have to go hungry for a
9. The doctor advised his patient to eat
while. They were left with bottles of
more fruit and vegetables.
mineral water and few bars of chocolate.
10. John's handwriting is illegible. 'Don't worry,' said the Mayor. 'We'll take
Singular Plural Uncountable care of your food. All you need to do is to
Countable Countable Nouns
Nouns Nouns entertain people.'
queue refugees game C. Insert the correct plural forms of the
lake news fame nouns in brackets.
lady people hair Ans. 1. In London some of the big street
sister money handwriting junctions are called circus. (circus)
university tourists
man eyes 2. Are you scared of mice? (mouse)
teacher fruit 3. How many times do you brush your
doctor vegetables teeth? (tooth)
patient 4. How many feet does a centipede have?
scenery (foot)
B. Fill in the blanks with the most suitable 5. What language do people in China
collective nouns from the box. Use each speak? (person)
noun only once. 6. What will you like to eat, cherries or
troupe, bars, cases, bales, menagerie, strawberries? (Cherry, strawberry)
bottles, jars, packets, gang, audience, 7. May I borrow your scissors? (scissor)
council, families 8. Do you like roast potatoes? (potato)
4. Pronouns
Exercise 12. I told Shreya the good news but she did
A. Fill in the blanks with correct personal not believe it.
pronouns. B. Fill in the blanks with the correct
Ans. 1. Julie is my cousin and she is older than I. pronouns.
2. Priya bought a puppy last week. It is a Ans. Mrs Sonam put her packets on the ground.
Chihuahua. She opened her handbag. To her surprise,
3. John and I are members of the school She could not find her keys.
team. We have practice once a week. 'My God, how do I get in now?' she cried.
4. Mr and Mrs Garg are teachers. They 'What are you doing, Mrs Sonam?' asked
teach in the same school. Mr John, her neighbour.
5. The children are in the bedroom. They 'I have forgotten my keys. I must have left
are sound asleep. it on the dressing table,' replied Mrs
6. My sister and I were at Nisha's birthday Sonam.
party. We gave her a book as a present. 'Why don't you phone your husband and
7. Raj's dog is sick. He must take it to see ask him to bring his keys?' suggested Mr
the vet. John
8. Mrs Julie said to Ahmad, 'you must 'It's all right. I'll call him.'
come and visit us again.' C. Fill in each blank with the correct
9. The teacher pointed to the bags and reflexive or emphatic pronoun.
said, 'Move them to the back of the Ans. 1. The tourists enjoyed themselves so
classroom, please.' much that they would like to visit Delhi
10. 'May I sitnextto you?' askedthestranger. again.
11. My mother loves her plants. She looks 2. The lady sewed these lovely curtains
after them very carefully. herself.
5. Adjectives
Exercise B. Fill in the blanks with the correct adjective
A. Choose a suffix from the box to form an formed from the word in brackets.
adjective from the nouns in the bold. Ans. 1. The most enjoyable (enjoy) movies, in
able, al, ar, any, ed, en, ful, ible, ic, my opinion, are those with a thrilling
ing, ish, ive, less, ly, ous, some, y (thrill) story.
2. The other day I went to the cinema and
Ans. 1. It was a beautiful (beauty) day with a
saw a very entertaining (entertain)
cloudy (cloud) sky.
adventure movie. It was about a
2. Priya had a fever (fever) cold with a
courageous (courage) man who was
troublesome (trouble) cough.
given a risky (risk) mission.
3. Our charming (charm) hosts made
3. He had to deliver some secret files to
our stay most enjoyable (enjoy).
an experimental (experiment) centre.
4. The coastal (coast) climate was
4. There were some frightening (frighten)
considered very healthy (health).
villains in the movie who were trying
5. Julie had two attractive (attract) but to get hold of the secret files.
very mischievous (mischief) children.
5. An amazing (amaze) car chase took
6. My teacher was quite complimented place, ending in an accidental (accident)
(compliment) about my artistic (artist) crash for the villains.
efforts.
6. Eventually, the adventurer (adventure)
7. Wooden (wood) structures are highly hero managed to deliver the files safely.
combustible (combust).
7. His boss was very satisfied (satisfy)
8. We took a lesiured (leisure) evening with his work.
walk under the stary (star) sky.
C. Fill in the adjectives that the first
9. Traffic is banned from the crowded statement suggests. The first is done for
(crowd) streets. you.
10. That wrestler has massive (mass) Ans. 1. We cannot rely on this report. It is
shoulders and huge, muscular (muscle) unreliable.
arms.
8. Verbs
Exercise 3. Our sarees are weaved from the finest
A. Rewrite the sentences putting the direct silk and worn by the elegant ladies.
object before the indirect object. (weave, wear)
Ans. 1. She lent me her necklace. 4. I had not told my parents that I'd leave
She lent her necklace to me. school. (tell, leave)
2. They posted their friends greeting cards. 5. Some of the last night's audience
They posted greeting cards to their actually wept when she sang the song.
friends. (weep, sing)
3. My mother gave her a FM radio. D. Fill in the blanks with the suitable verbs
My mother gave a FM radio to her. from the box. The meaning of the verb is
4. Mr John teaches us English grammar. given in brackets.
Mr John teaches English grammar creamed, sniffed, grinned, frowned,
to us. sighed, nodded, chuckled, scowled,
5. The shopkeeper sold him a pair of jeans. cheered, gasped, winked, groaned
The shopkeeper sold a pair of jeans
Ans. 1. When our team scored again, we
to him.
cheered enthusiastically. (made loud
6. I promised her my support.
noise to show approval)
I promised my support to her.
2. When the girl was asked whether she
B. Fill in the blanks with suitable object
wanted to play, she nodded. (moved
complements from the box.
her head quickly down and up to mean
healthy, asleep, honest, monitor, 'yes')
dead, guilty 3. The old man chuckled to himself as he
Ans. 1. The jury found the accused guilty. looked at the photos taken when he was
2. Regular exercise makes one healthy. a baby. (laughed quietly)
3. The pupils chose Sumit their monitor. 4. The woman saw the cockroach and
4. The mother found her baby asleep . screamed. (made a loud cry, being
5. Abus struck the scooterist dead. frightened)
6. My master considers me honest. 5. The detective frowned at the gangster
C. Use the correct forms of the verbs in but said nothing. (showed annoyance
brackets to fill in the blanks. by knitting his eye brows)
Ans. 1. Tunnel under the walls was another 6. John scowled at his friends because
method of escaping from the prison. none of them wanted to play with him.
(tunnel, escape) (looked angry)
2. I've bought lot of books from the 7. The teacher sighed, 'You've made the
Book Fair and spent my entire same mistake again.' (made a long, low
monthly income. (buy, spend) sound to show unhappiness)
9. Present Tenses
Exercise 4. Most people travel (travel) by local
A. Complete the sentences below, filling in trains in Mumbai.
each blank with a verb in simple present 5. Children's Day falls (fall) on a Friday
tense from the box. this year.
floats, helps, boils, does, need, 6. Mr and Mrs Saxena own (own) two
sleep, snores, feed, changes, earns, cars. They drive (drive) them to work
organises, expand, cause in different offices.
7. Shubham's brother plans (plan) to go
Ans. 1. Plants need light and water.
to the USAfor further studies.
2. Bats sleep during the day and feed at
8. Leaves change (change) their colour
night.
in autumn and fall (fall) off the trees
3. The computer helps us in our studies late in the season.
and work.
9. Mary prefers (prefer) to be alone
4. Metals expand when they are heated. when she studies (study) for weakly
5. Wood floats on water, so does cork. tests.
6. When water boils,itchanges into steam. 10. Everybody wants (want) to congratulate
7. Locusts cause great damage to crops. Dhoni for the exciting victory over
8. Ms Lily snores during sleep whenever SouthAfrica.
she had a tiring day. 11. An adjective describes (describe) a
9. Our society organises Clean City person, place or thing named by a noun,
Campaign once a month. and an adverb adds (add) information
10. A labourer earns about sixty rupees a to that given by a verb or an adjective.
day. C. Choose the correct verbs in brackets to
B. Complete the following sentences with complete the sentences.
the verbs in brackets in the simple
Ans. 1. 'I have (has, have) a headache and my
present tense.
wife has (has, have) a stomach-ache.'
Ans. 1. My neighbour washes (wash) his car said Mr Sharma. ‘Can you tell what is
once a weak. (am, is, are) wrong with us, Doctor?’
2. We all like (like) to be healthy, wealthy 2. 'My husband does (do, does) all the
and wise. work when I am (am, is, are) ill,' says
3. Every year Prerna trains (train) hard Mrs Garg.
for national badminton tournament.
17. Adverbs
Exercise 5. My family and I eat dinner together
A. Choose a suitable adverbial from the always.
two lists in the box to complete each of 6. We have Maths lessons daily.
the following sentences. 7. Each Maths lesson lasts for half an
Adverbials of Place Adverbials of Time hour.
8. We go to the library regularly.
round the huge castle at 8.00 p.m.
C. Read the recount below and fill in the
on the top shelf from June toAugust
blanks using suitable adverbs from the
in the park in the afternoon box. The first one is done for you.
Ans. 1. The show starts punctually at 8.00 p.m. eventually, now, soon, yesterday, yet,
2. In Delhi, it usually rains from June to long, immediately, early, afterwards,
August. then
3. The tourists walked round the huge
castle. Ans. Yesterday was a special day for me. It was
4. I arranged all the books neatly on the my birthday. I woke up quite early, I
top shelf. noticed a packet lying on the table. I
5. Sometimes Grandpa takes a nap in the jumped out of bed immediately , picked
afternoon. up the packet and tore the wrapper.
6. Riya and her friends often walk in the Soon there was wrapping all over the floor.
park. Then, however I uncovered a small box.
B. Complete the sentences by adding Inside was a great present. I had wanted a
adverbs or adverbials that tell you 'how watch since I was a tittle child and now I
often' or 'how long.' The first one is done had one. My parents weren't up yet, so I
for you. had to wait to thank them.
Ans. 1. I brush my teeth twice a day. I did not have to wait long, though, for they
2. Our summer vacation lasted for two were eager to see my reaction. They came
months. to the room to wish me happy birthday and
3. I talk to my best friend on telephone I thanked them with all my heart. We
daily. afterwards had breakfast together.
4. My neighbours have been to Colombo Eventually I went to my friend's house to
for forever. show him my present.
19. Phrases
Exercise 6. I found some pretty shells on the beach
A. Underline the noun phrases in the and added them to my large collection.
following sentences. There may be more 7. Put your maths textbooks away,
than one in some sentences. please.
Ans. 1. I am giving you some grammar 8. Ritu examined the curious blue
exercises for your English homework. envelope carefully before opening it.
2. Priya, my cousin from Mumbai, is 9. Look at these splendid red tomatoes
visiting us soon. that I bought at the local supermarket.
3. Raj gave his last coin to a poor child. 10. We are performing Meghdoot, one of
4. Yesterday I met Ravi, an old friend of Kalidasa's plays.
mine. B. Circle the verb and underline the noun
5. There are two good reasons why I can't phrase. The first one is done for you.
play in Sunday's match.
22. Prepositions
Exercise home at twelve, so Dad asked me to call
A. Complete the sentences with suitable him then, so that he would not worry. I did
prepositions of place from the box. as I was told, hoping that the car would be
near, to, in, out of, on, off, at repaired by evening. We were going out
Ans. Last night, while fast asleep in my bed. for dinner that night.
I rolled in and crashed on the floor. C. Each box contains two lists of pre-
I woke up in fright at the foot of my bed positions that are opposite in meaning.
And found my teddy bear flung at the door. Draw lines to join the pairs of opposites.
I sat up, and rubbing the bumb on my head. Then read the following recount. Choose
I wondered, 'What caused me to fall off the a preposition from the boxes to fill in
bed?' each blank that is opposite in meaning
B. Complete the recount with suitable to the one printed in colour.
prepositions of time from the box. You
need to use one of the preposition twice. above behind
towards underneath
after, during, since, by, at in front of with
Ans. On Sunday morning at about nine o'clock, after away from
just after breakfast, the phone rang. It was without alongside
my father. He said that his car had broken on above
beneath out of
down during the drive to Grandpa's house
outside off
and he had been waiting since eight
upon inside
o'clock for the mechanic to come and into below
repair it. Grandpa was only going to be
Yours obediently,
XYZ
Monitor of Class VIIA