Session 4: Writing Skills: Parts of Speech
Unit 1: Communication Skills
Textual Question-Answers
Check Your Progress
A. Multiple choice questions
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 all the basic punctuation marks
Ans: (b) A group of words that communicates a complete thought
2. Which of these sentences use uppercase letters 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 are 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 Abdul’s house.
Ans: (c) I am so happy to see you!
4. Underline the noun, pronoun, adjective, verb and adverb in thesesentences.
(a) Sanjay plays football every day.
Ans: Noun:Sanjay, Verb: plays, Noun: football, Adverb: every day.
(b) Divya gave him new books.
Ans: Noun: Divya, Verb: gave, Pronoun: him, Adjective: new, Noun: books.
(c) I opened the red box carefully.
Ans: Pronoun: I, Verb: opened, Adjective: the red, Noun: box. Adverb: carefully
B. Fill in the blanks
Fill correct nouns, and verbs from the box to fill in the blanksgiven below.:
girl, girls, milk, dog, skipping, riding, running, studying, drinking, barking
a. The …………….. is ……………..
Ans: The boy is skipping.
b. The …………….. is ……………..
Ans: The girl is riding.
c. The …………….. is ……………..
Ans: The boy is studing.
d. The …………….. are ……………..
Ans: The girls are running.
e. Raju …………….. is ……………..
Ans: Raju is drinking milk.
f. The …………….. is ……………..
Ans: The dog is barking.
C. Short answer questions
1. Identify the conjunctions and prepositions from the box givenbelow.
Under, And, In, At, Or, Up
Ans: Conjunction: And, Or
Preposition: Under, In, At, Up
