English 1

Q1. Tick the correct answer:

a. The children are playing with ______:

(1) Toies (2) Toys (3) Toyes
b. The windows ______ broken:
(1) Is (2)Are (3) am
c. ____ umbrella saves us from rain and heat.
(1) An (2) A (3) The
d. I met ___ old woman in ____ street.
(1) A (2) an (3) the
e. I ________ to Lucknow tomorrow.
(1) Shall go (2) go (3) gone
f. I ______ very busy yesterday.
(1) Am (2) was (3) were
g. I always ____ my homework myself.
(1) Do (2) does (3) have
h. _____ you like to play cricket?
(1) Do (2) does (3) have
i. Look, the monkey _____ a long tail.
(1) Has (2) have (3) are
j. The noun Doctor is:
(1) Masculine (2) Feminine (3) Neuter

Q2. Fill in the blanks with correct number of nouns/pronouns:

a. The ____________ are playing in water. (elephant)

b. The ____________ are in the bag. ( tomato)
c. The __________ are under a tree. ( sheep)
d. The _________ are falling from the tree. (leaf)
e. The _________ are on the table. (knife)

Q3. Under line the verbs and write their tenses.

a. She never cries when she is hurt. _______________________

b. Run, or you will miss the train. _________________________
c. The thief ran very fast . _________________________
d. My parents will return after two days. ___________________
e. Mohan lost his watch yesterday. ______________________

Q4. Use “do” or does to fill in the blanks:

a. My father _______ the shopping and my mother ______ the cooking.

b. My sister _______ the washing of the dishes and I ______ the drying of the dishes.
c. My sister and I _____ the dusting of the house together.
d. Raju ______ not look happy.

Q5. Write the opposite gender:

a. Niece _____________
 b. Emperor
c. Hen
d. Lady
e. Shepherd

Q6. Match the following:

a. Interrogative sentence masculine

b. Bull has
c. Shall go plural
d. Singular noun/pronoun future tense
e. Number of noun is more than one question

Q7. Write true or false:

a. Adverb of sweet is sweetly. _________

b. Nouns that end with o form their plurals by adding ies. _________
c. Have is used with I and you and plural nouns/pronouns. _________
d. The pronouns I, me,you,us are of masculine gender. _________
e. There are 8 parts of speech. _________
f. Her is used as a pronoun for boys. _________
g. It is used for non-living things. _________
h. Past tense tells us what is happening now. _________
i. Letter ‘a’ is used before a noun when it begins with
a vowel. _________
j. We use ‘do’ with plural nouns and the pronouns
I, You, We and They. _________

Q8. Define the following (with examples) :

a. Plural numbers
b. Masculine gender
c. Present tense

Q9. Rewrite the sentences, changing the nouns from masculine to feminine:

a. My brother invited the gentleman to dinner.

b. The boy helped the old man to cross the street.
c. My nephew is going to London tomorrow.

Q10. Write the questions which must have been asked for the following answers:

a. There are a hundred paise in a rupee.

b. It is Wednesday today.
c. She paid fifteen rupees for the purse.

Q11. Correct the following sentences:

a. christmas comes in December

b. the prime minister lives in new delhi
c. john lives at 10 park street, lucknow
Q12. Turn the following into negative sentences:

a. Satish was present yesterday.

b. I shall go to Bombay tomorrow.
c. We can do this work easily.

Q13. Write the story ‘The fox and the crow’.

Q14. Read the passage and answer the question below:

A fox was hungry. He looked for food. He saw a bunch of grapes. He jumped to get them. But grapes
were very high. He could not reach them. At last he was tired. He said, ”these grapes are sour.”
Saying so he went away.

Questions and answers

1. Why did fox looked for food?

2. What did he see?
3. What did he do to get the grapes?
4. Could he get the grapes?
5. What did he say before he went away?