Category: Class 9 English

CBSE Class 9 English Grammar – Sentence Reordering and Sentence Transformation   I. SENTENCE REORDERING Look at the words and phrases given below. Rearrange them to form meaningful sentences. (a) respect/said that/demanded/it/but/is/given/that/is not (b) if/something/then/in return for/should be/it is so/it (c) self-respect/come out of/something/has/our/self/that/and/is/that (a) Oliver Twist/workhouse/in/was/born/a (b) knew/father/nobody/who/was/his (c) died/mother/his birth/his/soon/after (a) pillars/there/human life/man/of/woman/and/are/two…
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CBSE Class 9 English Grammar – Omission Question 1: The following passage has not been edited. One word is missing from each line. Identify the missing word and write it in your answer sheet. Remember to underline the missing word. The first one has been done as an example for you. (4 marks) Answer: Question…
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CBSE Class 9 English Grammar – Editing Task   I. ERROR CORRECTION TYPE – I The following passages have not been edited. There is one error in each line. Write the incorrect word and the correction against the correct question number. Remember to underline the word you have supplied.   ANSWERS TYPE-II Edit the letters…
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CBSE Class 9 English Grammar – Gap Filling   I. Study the given notes and complete the paragraph that follows by filling up the gaps with the most appropriate option from those given: 1. Notes: Rainy day Busy traffic Car collision with a speeding bus 5 badly injured, 1 died on the spot Injured taken…
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CBSE Class 9 English Grammar – Prepositions 1. A preposition may be defined as a word or group of words (e.g. at, in, out of, etc.) used before a noun, pronoun, gerund, etc. to show its relation with another word in a sentence. For example: They came here at 5 p.m. He was born in…
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CBSE Class 9 English Grammar – Determiners   1. Determiner: ‘Determiner’ is a word used before a noun 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…
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CBSE Class 9 English Grammar – Clauses   1. A clause is a group of words that includes a subject and a verb. It may be a sentence or the part of a sentence. 2. There are three kinds of clauses: Noun clause Adverbial clause Relative clause 3. Noun clause Read the following sentences: (a)…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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