Session 2: Parts of Speech
Unit 1: Communication Skills
Textual Question-Answers
Check Your Progress
A. Multiple choice questions
Read carefully the questions given below and choose the correctoption.
1. What is a sentence?
(a) A group of ideas that form a complete paragraph
(b) A group of words that communicates a complete thought
(c) A set of rules that we must follow to write correctly
(d) A set of words that contains basic punctuation marks
Ans: (b) A group of words that communicates a complete thought
2. Which of these sentences is capitalised correctly?
(a) I am Hungry.
(b) Divya and sunil are reading.
(c) The bucket is Full of water.
(d) She lives in Delhi.
Ans: (d) She lives in Delhi.
3. Which of these sentences is punctuated correctly?
(a) Where are you going.
(b) I have a pen a notebook and a pencil.
(c) I am so happy to see you!
(d) This is my house.
Ans: (c) I am so happy to see you!
B. Fill in the blanks
1. Fill in the correct nouns and verbs as given at the top of the tableto complete the following sentences.
Nouns: girl, girls, boy, milk, dog, student
Verbs: skipping, riding, running, studying, drinking, barking
(a) The ……… is ……… .
Ans: The girl is skipping.
(b) The ……… are ……… .
Ans: The girls are running.
(c) The ……… is ……… .
Ans: The boy is riding.
(d) Raju ……… is ……… .
Ans: Raju student is studying.
(e) The ……… is ……… .
Ans: The dog is barking.
(f) The ……… is ……… .
Ans: The milk is drinking.
C. Short answer question
1. Identify conjunctions and prepositions (remember, conjunctionsjoin two sentences, while prepositions help answer the words ‘where’,
‘when’, and ‘how’) from the list given below and write them in thefollowing columns.
Under, and, in, at, or, up
Ans: Prepositions: and, or Conjunctions: under, in, at, up
