GRAMMAR PRACTICE 2

GRAMMAR PRACTICE 2

Do as directed:

1)Write any 2 compound words:

2)Spot the error and rewrite the sentence.

   The cat as well as the kittens have had no milk this morning.

3)Complete the word chain of nouns:

   minute -, ......,......,......,......

4)Identify the type of           sentence(Assertive,Interrogative,Exclamatory,Imperative)

   The cricketer who excelled this season was felicitated.

5)Make a meaningful sentence using the phrase,

   'to make someone sick'

6)Pick out the non-finite verb from the sentence and identify its     type.Use the same in a sentence of your own:

   Jerry stooped to gain the piece of cheese.

7) Pick out the modal auxiliary and state its function and form a     sentence of your own using the same.

   We can do it.

8)Add a question tag:

    Let us globalise compassion.

9) Change the degree:

    Pixar is the world's most successful animation studio.

10) Change the voice:

     My doctor advised me to go home.

11)Rewrite in indirect speech:

    Mary Kom said,"I am good at cooking."

12)Change into exclamatory:

     My future is very bright.

13)Make a complex sentence:

     The people began to move towards the exit.

14)Pick up the dependent clause and explain it:

     The prayer,which she uttered endlessly,came unbidden to her     lips.

15)Pick out the subject and predicate:

     I invited her to a famous and expensive restaurant.

DETERMINERS

DETERMINERS

Read the following sentences:

1)"Don't make any mistake,Dell",he said.

2)My doctor advised me to go home.

3)Joey said to her,"You have not done your work."

4)The teacher said,"The earth revolves round the sun."

5)Whose book is lying on that desk?  

If you see carefully,you will find that a specific word has been used before the nouns.These words are called DETERMIMERS.

e.g. articles  -  a,an,the

       interrogative adjectives  -  which,what,whose

       demonstratives  -  this,that,these,those

       quantitative  -  many,much,all,none,any,several,no,one,two,first,second

       distributive adj.  -  each,every

       possessive adj.  -  my,our,your,his,her,their,such

*Let's solve some examples:

- Underline the determiners:

1.There are fifty students in this class.

2.Jim looked about the room curiously.

3.Her book is on the table.

4.Each day makes you special, if you think positively.

5.Which book do you like to read.

6.They are all our children.
7.It was a simple matter to steal.

8.He took me to a room which had a gramophone in it.

*Answer key

1.fifty,this  2.the  3.her,the  4.each  5.which  6.all,our  7.a  8.a,a