Practice Set 1
(a) Write two compound words of your own.
(b) Pick out the gerund from the following sentence :
This attitude of taking destroys families.
(c) Punctuate the following sentence :
after all he doesnt pay me
(d) Form two present participle in which the last letter is doubled.
(e) Complete the following word chain of verbs :
Examine, e………………., …………….., …………………, ……………..
(a) handwash, moonlight.
(b) Gerund – taking.
(c) After all, he doesn’t pay me.
(d) cropping, robbing
(e) enter, rest, take, eat
Practice Set 2
(i) Make a meaningful sentence of your own using the following phrase:
“to look into”
(ii) Pick out the infinitive from the following sentence :
I just had to do it.
(iii) Punctuate the following sentence.
did you hear him he whispered
(iv) Find out two hidden words of minimum four letters from :
‘endurance’
(v) Spot the error in the following sentence and rewrite it:
The novel was publishing in 1952.
(i) to look into –
The teacher decided to look into the matter when students began to fight.
(ii) to do
(iii) “Did you hear him?” he whispered.
(iv) endure, dear, need, rude, deer, cane.
(v) The novel was published in 1952.
Practice Set 3
(1) Find out two hidden words of minimum four letters each from the word :
‘finger’
(2) Punctuate the following sentence :
the king said i have come to you wise hermit to ask you to answer three questions
(3) Pick out 2 present participles from the sentence :
Children are watching our inaction and questioning our actions.
(4) Identify the type of sentence :
How can I learn to do the right thing at the right time?
(5) Arrange the words in alphabetical order :
Professor, Peter, Pereira, President
(1) finger – fine, ring
(2) The king said, “I have come to you, wise hermit, to ask you to answer three questions.”
(3) watching, questioning
(4) Interrogative sentence
(5) Pereira, Peter, President, Professor
Practice Set 4
(1) Write two compound words of your own.
(2) Pick out the infinitive from the following sentence :
I just had to do it.
(3) Find out two hidden words of minimum four letters each from the word ‘heavily’.
(4) Form past participles of any two verbs in which the last letter is doubled.
(5) Arrange the words in alphabetical order :
inventions, interaction, inequality, institutions
(1) courtyard, blockhead
(2) to do
(3) heal, evil
(4) stopped, rotted
(5) inequality, institutions, interaction, inventions
Practice Set 5
(1) Pick out the gerund from the following sentence :
He just spat on his hand and resumed digging.
(2) Identify the type of sentence :
You can’t connect the dots looking forward.
(3) Spot the error and rewrite the correct sentence :
It was twenty years ago and I were living in Paris.
(4) Complete the word chain of base form of verbs :
sit → ……………… → ……………… → ……………… → ………………
(5) Form 2 present participles in which the last letter is doubled.
(1) gerund – digging
(2) Assertive, negative.
(3) It was twenty years ago and I was living in Paris.
(4) sit → think → know → write → eat
(5) sitting, swimming.
Practice Set 6
(1) Make a meaningful sentence of your own using the phrase :
‘to pick up speed’
(2) Pick out the infinitive from the sentence and use it in your own sentence :
There is no greater violence than to deny the dreams of our children.
(3) Identify the type of sentence :
What does science not do for us?
(4) Spot the error and rewrite the correct sentence :
I always thought that Mathematics were an easy subject.
(5) Complete the word chain of adjectives :
Pretty → ………… → ………… → ………… → …………
(1) The pilots decided to pick up speed only when the weather had cleared.
(2) He made several attempts to deny his guilt.
(3) Interrogative sentence.
(4) I always thought that Mathematics was an easy subject.
(5) Pretty → young → gentle → easy → yummy