Directorate of Education, GNCT of Delhi

Subject: ENGLISH Worksheet No. 05 Date: 16 JUL 2020

Class: X Name of the Student ________________Name of the class teacher_______________

1 2
Hi! Billu. What’s up?
1 Hi!2Pinki. See I am writing a story about flying.
What are you doing?
a young seagull is afraid to fly how does he conquer his
fear even when his brothers and his little sister whose
wings were far shorter than his own ran to brink
flapped their wings and flew away he failed to muster
3 up courage to take that plunge.

Wait, I am not able to understand what you are

writing. Why don’t you try writing the same thing by
punctuation marks
putting appropriate punctuation marks! 4
what are they

The System of using certain marks in written language to show pauses, and
to separate words, phrases, clauses and sentences, in order to clarify the
intended meaning, is called Punctuation. Please see the reference chart

Let’s insert the marks of punctuation that are missing in Billu’s text.

A young seagull is afraid to fly. How does he conquer his fear? Even when his brothers and his little
sister, whose wings were far shorter than his own, ran to brink, flapped their wings, and flew away. He
failed to muster up courage to take that plunge.

Let’s have some more practises. Some punctuation marks are missing in the short story given below. Correct
the story by adding appropriate punctuation using the reference chart given above.

morris the maritan was flying around the solar system one day when he saw a strange light in front of him

what is that he thought to himself morris was scared but he flew a little bit closer so that he could see it better
hello he called out there was no reply suddenly a creature appeared in front of the light

boo it shouted poor morris was really scared and he flew off to his home and hid under his bed