Session 7: Writing Skills Parts of Speech
Unit 1: Communication Skills
Textual Question-Answers
Check Your Progress
A. Multiple choice questions
Read carefully all the options given below the question and choosethe correct option(s).
1. What is a sentence?
(a) A group of ideas that forms a complete paragraph.
(b) A group of words that communicates 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 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 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!
B. Write the following sentences in your notebook and mark thenouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs in these sentences.
(a) Sanjay plays football everyday.
Ans:
Noun: Sanjay, football
Verb: plays
Adverb: everyday
(b) Divya gave him new books.
Ans:
Noun: Divya, books
Pronoun: him
Adjective: new
Verb: gave
(c) I opened the red box carefully.
Ans:
Pronoun: I
Verb: opened
Adjective: red
Noun: box
Adverb: carefully
C. Fill in the blanks
1. Fill correct nouns and verbs from the table to complete the sentencein the table given below.
Nouns: girl, girls, boy, milk, dog
Verbs: skipping, cycling, running, studying, drinking, barkinga. The ….. is …..
Ans: The girl is skipping.
b. The ….. are …..
Ans: The girls are cycling.
c. The ….. is …..
Ans: The boy is running.
d. Raju ….. is …..
Ans: Raju is studying.
e. The ….. is …..
Ans: The dog is barking.
f. The ….. is …..
Ans: The milk is drinking.
C. Subjective question
1. Identify the conjunctions and prepositions (Remember, conjunctions join two sentences while prepositions help answer thewords ‘where’, ‘when’ and ‘how’).
Write the conjunctions and prepositions from the list given below inthe correct box.
Under, And, In, At, Or, Up
Ans:
Conjunction: And, Or
Preposition: Under, In, At, Up
