Grammar Revision Exercise

1.Change the following sentences into Reported Speech. a. John said to the teacher, I am late because my mother is ill. b. Neeta said, How beautiful this pen is! c .Ravi said to Mohan, I will leave this place by tomorrow. d. The father said to his son, Do you wish to become a scientist?

2.Fill in the blanks with the correct degree of comparison of the adjectives. a. Raghu is _______ than Rafi.(short) b. This has been the _______ day of my life.(bad) c. Shipra is the _______ girl in the class.(intelligent) d. Preeti is _______ than her mother.(pretty)

3.Underline the adverb in these sentences.Write what type of adverb each one is---manner,place,time,degree,number,interrogative a. He couldnt see this ant anywhere. b. Where could she be? c. She climbed rapidly out of the anthill. d. The little ant worked industriously, all day and all night.

4.Rearrange the words and phrases to form meaningful sentences. a. loaded/with/stolen/they/food/it b. very sad/Tom/lonely/and/was

5. In the paragraph given below one word is missing from each sentence. Write the missing word along with the word that comes before and the word that comes after it in your answer sheet against the correct blank number. Ensure that the word that forms your answer is underlined.

eg. Last night one uncle works works

a. uncle who

Last night one uncle works in the same office where father works visited house. He gave me toffees which I distributed among friends. This uncle was a good story teller. and told a beautiful story was about a beautiful princess.

a._______________________ b._______________________ C._______________________ d._______________________ e._______________________

f._______________________ g._______________________

6.Identify the voice and change the verbs accordinglyactive to passive or Passive to active a. The robbers were caught by the police b . Pranay gave Sam a present. c. Tea is drunk by everyone in the evening. d. Tanuja and Suman are cooking the dinner today.