Grammar exercises- Grade 9
- Choose the correct option to fill the blanks:
Poetry ________ (related/relates) to whatever ________ (has given/gives) immediate pleasure or pain to the human mind. It is ______ (a/the/an) universal language which ________ (each/every) heart ________ (hold/holds). Wherever there is a sense of beauty or power or harmony, there is poetry.
2. Read the following dialogue and complete the passage:
Hardy: Have you read the latest book by J K Rowling?
Mary: Not yet but I have bought it.
Hardy: Could you lend me the book to read?
Mary: Yes but only after I’ve finished.
Hardy asked Mary __________________ by J K Rowling. Mary told him that she had not read it yet but _________________. Hardy then asked Mary ________________ to read. Mary replied in affirmative but added that ___________________.
3. The following passage has not been edited. Find the errors and write their corrections:
Incorrect Correct
Mr. Behrman was a man with good fortune, e.g. with of
which had retired to extraordinary sobriety _________ ________
and yet retain his usual cheerfulness. He was _________ ________
not a man of much words but a very weighty _________ ________
speaker and a patient observation. _________ ________
4. Place the jumbled words in correct order to make meaningful sentences:
a) departed/ after/ he/ king/ seeing/ the
b) difficult/ the/ was/ source/ the/ to/ discover/ Nile/ of
c) police/ the/ he/ in/ hindered/ the/ execution/ duty/ their/ of
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Answers:
- relates; gives; the; every; holds
- if she had read the latest book; she had bought it; if she could lend him the book; only after she had finished
- which-who; retain-retained; much-many; observation-observer
- he departed after seeing the king; the source of the Nile was difficult to discover; he hindered the police in the execution of their duty
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