GRAMMAR WORKSHEET

SAMBAVIGA HR. SEC. SCHOOL. SIVAGANGA.                      

                                          ENGLISH -  GRAMMAR WORKSHEET.

I. Complete the sentences. 

1. Your choice is ________________ mine. 

a) better than .     b) the best         c) good

2. African Elephant is the ___________________ land animal. 

a) biggest     b) bigger     c) big

3. The crow is ______________ bird. 

a) more cunning than      b) as cunning as          c) the most cunning. 

4. No other district in tamilnadu is ______________ Tanjore. 

a) so fertile as       b) more fertile than        c) most fertile as

5. Ramani is ______________ girls in this group. 

a) one of the tallest        b) the tallest      c) as tall as any other

II. Choose the appropriate article to complete the sentence. 

1. This is not _______ easiest way to do it.                     

 a) a          b) an            c) the

2. Yesterday I met _______ University lecturer.           

 a) the       b) a              c) an

3. Our population is _______ second largest in the world.                          

a) a            b) the          c) an

4.  ________ Linesman working on contract was electrocuted.               

a) the         b) an           c) a

5. Hard work is _______ key to success. 

a) an           b) the         c) a

III. Choose the appropriate preposition to complete the sentence. 

1. Both ___________ us waited for the bus. 

a) for          b) of           c) in

2. His wedding is __________ 14th  June. 

a) on           b) since      c) in

3. The fire station is __________ police station    

a) along       b) across    c) near

4. The project will be completed __________ a month. 

a) by            b) on            c) within

5. There is not enough space __________ the desk and bench.    

a) beside     b) between  c) for

6. Arrange the things properly ___________ the classes commence. 

a) since       b) till             c) before 

7. The players have great confidence ______________ their coach. 

a) on           b) at               c) in

8. There is an over - bridge _____________ the main road. 

a) for          b) over          c) across 

9. Kannan has been living in London ____________ 1999.

a) for          b) since         c) in

10. We refer ___________ a dictionary. 

a) to           b) than           c) for. 

10 std poem figure of speech

1)SIMILE: 

Remember they have eyes like ours that wake–poem6

Beneath all uniforms, a single body breaths–poem6

2)METAPHOR:

She is a lioness,don’t mess with her–poem 3

Our hells of fire and dust outrage the innocence–poem 6

3)PERSONIFICATION:

We can pull and haul and push and lift and drive–poem 5

4)ANAPHORA:

They growl–poem 2

They grumble–poem 2

5)REPITITION:

Remember no men are strange,no countries foreign.–poem 6

Remember no men are foreign, no countries strange–poem 6

6)EPITHET: They live,it is said, on complaining street–poem 2

7)TRANSFERREDEPITHET:

They too aware of sun and air and water-poem 6

Are fed by peaceful harvests, by wars long winter starv’d–poem 6

8)IMAGERY:

We can see and hear and count and read and write–poem 5

9)HYPERBOLE:

We will serve you four and twenty hours a day–poem 5

10)ASSONANCE:

All we ask–poem 5

11)CONNOTATION:

Though our smoke may hide the Heaven from your eyes–poem 5

12)SYNECDOCHE:

Inside it has a ton of space–poem 7

13)PARADOX:

It just sits there, never getting small orever growing tall-poem 7

14)ONOMATOPOEIA:

Lights flicker on and off–poem 7

15)RHETORICALQUESTIONS:

How could this be–poem 7

What happened inside that house? - Poem 7

16)COUPLET:

With forward face and unreluctant soul

Not hurrying to,not turning from the goal–poem 1