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Subject: English Grammar Grade: VIII Topic: Pronouns

Name: ___________________________ Date: _______________

I Read and circle if the sentences are True or False.

It is my birthday! It is sunny and hot. My parents didn’t go to work.

They are at home. We are having a party. My sister gave me a great

present. She gave me a new skateboard. My best friend is coming to

the party. He likes skateboarding too.

a. Today is my birthday. (True/False)

b. The weather is cloudy and cold. (True/False)

c. My parents are at work. (True/False)

d. My family is having a party. (True/False)

e. My sister gave me a new bike. (True/False)

In the above passage, the names of people and things (underlined) mentioned earlier have

been replaced with pronouns (in bold).

For Example:

My parents didn’t go to work. They are at home.

My sister gave me a great present. She gave me a new skateboard.

My best friend is coming to the party. He likes skateboarding too.

II Circle the correct answer to fill in the blanks.

a. ______ is sunny today. (He/She/It)

b. _______don’t like vegetables. (I/He/She)

c. What’s the time? _______ is 8 o’clock. (It/They/He)

d. Can you see that boy? _______ has won many awards. (They/We/He)

e. Ask your sister for help. _______ is very good at math. (You/She/We)

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f. Where are your parents? Are _______ at home? (they/them/their)

III Answer the following questions. Begin the answers with pronouns!

a. What’s the weather like today?

b. Where do you live?

c. What sport does your best friend like?

d. Which colour does your brother/sister like?

e. Which languages does your teacher speak?

f. Which place did your family visit last summer?

g. Where are your toys?

IV Complete the following sentences with the correct relative pronouns.

1. My father, ______ went on a tour of China, is coming back this evening.

2. Have you seen the teacher _______is on duty today?

3. The workers ________my father employed have been working on the project day and night.

4. The little kitten ________I picked up from the drain a few days ago has gone missing again.

5. These are the girls ________ books were stolen.

6. Can you tell me ________ pen this is?

7. Mary Ann, _______ can play the piano very well, has been awarded a scholarship to study

music in England.

8. This is the gentlemen _________ daughter scored the highest marks in the examination.

9. This tree, _________ is believed to be over 500 years old, is a national heritage.

10. Do you remember _______borrowed the book 'How to Succeed in an Examination'?

V Complete the following sentences with the correct indefinite pronouns.

1. Would you like __________to eat?

2. It was really dark and I couldn't see ____________.

3. Does _____________live in that house?

4. It doesn't matter where we go. We can go __________ we want to.

5. This is boring. There's ____________ to do.

6. The shop is closed. _______________ has gone home.

7. Has ______________done their homework?

8. The guidebook says there's a good hotel ________________ near here.

9.

VI Fill in the blanks with appropriate pronouns.

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1. (Talking about a book in your hand) How could you buy something like _______?

2. (With a bowl of cherries on your lap) ____________ cherries are delicious!

3. She cannot express _________ very well.

4. He _______ told me about it.

5. They ________ admitted that they were wrong.

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I. Choose a describing word to complete each sentence given below.

which those his either short some three

1. Bholu is . 2. The pigs

tricked the wolf.

3. Roy loves

colouring with

crayons.

4. I would like

cheese

in my pasta.

5. Look at beautiful

birds.

6. balloon do you

want?

7. We can take

route to reach the seaside.

As seen in the pictures, we have used different types of describing words or adjectives to describe

different kinds of nouns. Following are the seven types of adjectives with a few examples.

1. Adjective of quality : beautiful, cold, hot, short

2. Adjective of quantity: few, some, all, much

3. Adjective of numbers: third, four, ten, two

4. Distributive Adjective: neither, each, every, each

5. Possessive Adjective: their, my, her, his

6. Demonstrative Adjective: that, these, this, those

Topic: Adjectives

Date:

Grade: VIII Subject: English Grammar

Name:

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7. Interrogative Adjective: what, where, which, whose

II. Fill in the blanks with the type of adjectives mentioned in the brackets.

a. flight attendants work with an Italian airline.(demonstrative adjective)

b. pen do you want to buy? (interrogative adjective)

c. Could I have tea? (quantitative adjective)

d. bracelet is this? (interrogative adjective)

e. fruit do you like the most? (interrogative adjective)

f. The girl smiled. (adjective of quality)

g. birds sat on the wall. (adjective of numbers)

h. It is bag. (possessive adjective)

i. boy is a member of the club. (demonstrative adjective)

j. The pen has not ink left. (adjective of quantity)

k. school do you go? (interrogative adjective)

Study the following models and fill in the blanks given below:

Positive Degree Comparative Degree Superlative Degree

Very few boys in the class

are as tall as John.

John is taller than any

other boys in the class.

John is the tallest boy in the

class.

John is taller than most

other boys in the class.

John is one of the

tallest boys in the class.

1. degree denotes the mere existence of a quality.

2. degree is used to compare more than two people or things.

3. degree is used to compare two things having the same quality.

Hence, people or things can be compared with the help of these three degrees of

adjectives .

III. Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the given adjectives.

a. The yellow and red T-shirt is than the plain black one. (colourful)

b. Girls usually like clothes than boys. (bright)

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c. Radha is the sportsperson in school. (good)

d. Supriya’s handwriting is than Shivam’s. (neat)

e. Today I am the person alive. (happy)

f. Children think that jeans are than saris. (comfortable)

g. The test paper today was than yesterday’s paper. (lengthy)

h. Ramola is the girl in our dance class. (thin)

i. It was the film I had ever seen. (boring)

IV. Change the degree of adjectives in the following sentences as instructed.

a. The red dress was pretty. (comparative)

The red dress

b. He is wealthier than all other businessmen in our city. (superlative)

He is the

c. The Pacific is the largest of all oceans. (comparative)

No other ocean

d. The Himalayas are higher than the Andes. (change using ‘not’ with the positive degree

to show comparison)

The Andes are not

e. This test is difficult. The previous one was also difficult. (change to equal comparison)

The previous test was

f. She is not as friendly as I had thought. (change to comparative degree using ‘less’)

She is less

g. Naman is the best spin bowler in our team. (comparative degree)

Naman is better

h. I found the last sum in this exercise more difficult than the other sums. (superlative)

The last sum in this exercise

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i. Vinay scored higher than Ramesh. (Change using ‘not’ with positive degree to show

comparison.)

Ramesh did not score .

j. Mr Biswas is a respected member on the staff. (superlative)

Mr Biswas is the .

V. For each of the following sentences, choose the correct order of adjectives to fill in

the blank.

a. My brother adopted a __________________ bulldog.

i. white big beautiful

ii. beautiful white big

iii. beautiful big white

b. The mansion is _____________________.

i. white and large

ii. large and white

iii. white large

c. I like that _______________________________ tractor in the museum.

i. really big red antique old

ii. really big old red antique

iii. old red really big antique