REVISION WORKSHEET: GRAMMAR

CLASS X
1. The following passage has not been edited. Find the incorrect word and write it along
with the correct word in your answer sheet. (½ x 8 = 4 marks)
Incorrect word correct word
Contrary by the popular belief, the dreaded Aedes by to
i. mosquito, the carrier of the many feared Dengue ______ _____
ii. virus, striken between dawn and dusk. ______ _____
iii. Much conventional types strike usually at night. _______ _____
iv. The Aedes mosquito must breed anywhere near _______ _____
v. your home by tin cans, coconut shells, piles ______ _____
vi. of garbage or even in your flower vase. Which ______ _____
vii. is more important is that they breeds in fresh water _____ _____
viii. and they can be stop from breeding by keeping the _______ ______
surroundings of your house clean

2. Read the following conversation and complete the passage that follows: (1x3=3 marks)
Anish: Where are we going to have our dinner?
Reena: Shall we go to the Samarat Hotel?
Anish: I’m afraid, I haven’t got enough money to go to a five start hotel.

Anish and Reena were discussing their plan for dinner. Anish asked Reena (a)
________________________________. Reena suggested (b)___________________________. But
Anish hesitated saying (c) _____________________________________ to go to a five star
hotel.

3. Rearrange the following to make meaningful sentences: (1x3=3 marks)

(a) marshland/ ecosystem/ under/ urbanization/ Delhi’s/ threat/ last/ is/ from
_________________________________________________________________________
(b) dheerpur/ site/ north/ close/ located/ in/ the/ Delhi/ is/ Yamuna/ to/ the/ at
_________________________________________________________________________
(c) wetland/ aquatic/ and/ birds/ that/ marshland/ plants/ attract/ have
__________________________________________________________________________
4. There is a word missing in each line. Write the missing word along with the one that
comes before and after it. (½ x 8 = 4 marks)
Before Word After
i. The telephone there for your convenience, not ________________
ii. for convenience of your callers. Yet, as soon as ________________
iii. we hear the phone ring, we act if we are fire fighters ________________
iv. rushing to a fire- alarm fire. We run pick it up as if ________________
v. our lives depended on the call being answered once. ________________
I have seen people interrupt quiet family dinners,
vi. dedicated reading times meditation periods to answer ________________
vii. those seemingly urgent phone calls, many which turn out ________________
viii. to be ones could have been taken later. ________________

5. Read the following passage. Fill in the blanks with appropriate word. (3 marks)

Kathy has penned (a) _____ book titled ‘The Ashes of the Prey’, a thriller novel (b) _______ a
lawyer (c) _______ runs into piles of trouble after an accident.

6. Read the following passage. Fill in the blanks with appropriate word. (3 marks)

We all drink coffee (a) ____________ pleasure. It is an inspirational drink that has become
aspirational. Coffee (b) _______ us alert and therefore helps us perform (c) ____________
reduces stress.