Worksheet:- Grammar
Grade: - XII Date:-
Name : - Subject:- English
General Instructions:
1. Topics Covered : Tense, Voice , Wh-Questions and Subject & Predicate
2. Write the answers in the notebook.
Q ] Do as directed.
1. The astrologer caught a glimpse of his face by the matchlight. (Rewrite in Future Perfect)
2. I will prepare some nice stuff for her. ( Rewrite in Future Perfect Continuous)
3. Arrest seemed now but an elusive dream. ( Rewrite in Simple Future Tense)
4. She saw herself like that. (Rewrite in Future continuous tense)
5. The yellow button moved out of the looking glass. (Rewrite in Past Perfect Tense)
6. We were at a junction. ( Rewrite in Simple Present Tense)
7. I went back to the spot. (Rewrite in Future Perfect tense)
8. We went around a blind turn. ( Rewrite in Past Continuous)
9. Shaaz has managed to collect precious footage.)
10. And we travel to fill the gaps left by tomorrow’s headlines. (Rewrite in Future Perfect)
11. I was in love.( Rewrite in Past Perfect tense)
12. I was feeling quite lonely and terrified in Mumbai. ( Rewrite in Simple Present Tense)
13. I never studied for scoring marks in any examination. ( Rewrite in Past Perfect Continuous
tense)
14. The consumption of milk in both urban and rural areas has risen sharply. (Rewrite in Past
perfect)
15. Floods have been far more destructive. (Rewrite in Simple Present)
16. Sarika arrives home by the time the children come home from school. (Rewrite in Simple
Past)
17. I sent you the information when I got it.
18. Jigar wants to become an airlines reservations agent. He enjoys working with public and he
has the necessary qualifications. (Rewrite the passage in Simple Past.)
19. This is our house. Our family ______________(live) in it for almost 70 years. My great
grandfather __________ (build) it when he ______________(is) still a young man.
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20. The receptionist welcomes the guests and asks them to fill in the form. (Rewrite in Simple
Past)
21. The car breaks down and we walk home. (Rewrite in Simple Past)
22. The boys swim but the girls sunbathe. (Rewrite in Past continuous)
23. My father comes in, looks around and tells me to tidy up my room. (Rewrite in Simple Past)
24. While one group prepares dinner, the others collect the wood for campfire. (Rewrite in Past
Continuous)
25. I think I start my new project tomorrow. (Rewrite in Simple Future)
26. They leave the classroom by the end of the hour. (Rewrite in Future Perfect)
27. The teacher probably assigns a test to the students next Monday. (Rewrite in Simple Future)
28. He will correct it by the end of the next week. ( Rewrite in Future Perfect)
29. My friend certainly gets a good remark. (Rewrite in Future Perfect Continuous)
Q.] Change the Voice entrepreneurs.
1. The place was lit up by shop lights. 13. People were attracted to him as bees are
2. The power of his eyes was considerably attracted to cosmos or Dahlia stalks.
enhanced by their position. 14. The other grumbled some reply vaguely.
3. We cannot get them back by invoking the 15. I may be as uncivil as I may please and the
law. law will protect me against violent
4. I know that stale od trick. retaliation.
5. A strong impulse moved him to battle with 16. The conjunction of Soapy’s receptive state
his desperate fact. of mind and the influences about the old
6. Big data has enabled smooth functioning of church brought a sudden and wonderful
these agencies and institutions. change in his soul.
7. She saw the truth. 17. She repeated them over and over again.
8. The area was surrounded by hillocks of dry 18. She would have deserved that.
deciduous tropical forest. 19. The behaviour of the Black Panther is
9. The forests have taught me many things. being documented.
10. Raju was amazed at my regular solitary 20. Few of us ever forget the connection
visits to Umbarzara. between ‘travel’ and ‘travail’.
11. Romantic poets inaugurated an era of 21. I did not fully understand their
travel. discussions in depth.
12. My book ‘ Boardroom’ on management 22. The surrounding were reminding me.
has created at least 20 successful 23. The boy caught the ball.
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24. Hari opened the door. 36. The leopard was chasing the deer.
25. The hunter shot the lion. 37. He equalled Sir Richard Hadlee’s world
26. Sohrab threw the ball. record.
27. The man feeds the horse everyday. 38. The gobar-gas obtained by processing
28. The doctor gave the patient some dung is used as fuel.
medicines. 39. Many rare birds like the Smew Duck
29. Some people cultivate sugarcane in Mallard, Nakta, Marbled Teal, and
Nagpur. Goliath Heron have also been spotted.
30. Chronic floods during monsoon affect 40. Co-education encourages familiarity.
more than 30 million Indians. 41) I found a bright red soil trail.
31. He painted it beautifully. 42) All the research on the animal has been
32. They built the tower in 2000. done through camera traps.
33. Shreya posted the letter.
34. Taran’s teacher praised him.
35. A stranger rescued Juhi.
Q] Frame Wh-questions to get the underlined part of the sentence as the answer.
1) He was born on the 14th of November.
2) She took the out to a nearby forest at night.
3) He heard the tinkle of cow bells.
4) She wrote to Otto Frank in Bursledon, Switzerland.
5) The Phoenix has become a symbol of a new beginning after a catastrophe.
6) People built their homes in Bay Roberts.
7) Jatra actors sing and speak in a strong voice.
8) One little bird broke its wing.
9) Baba was born in the interiors of Maharashtra.
10) The turning point in Raju’s life came one rainy evening.
11) Sheetal Mahajan has quite a few records in her sight.
12) I live in Mumbai.
13) Literature is my favourite subject.
14) I graduated in 2014.
15) She was crying because she lost her father.
16) My brother is fine.
17) A fur importer had once offered him a place as driver.
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18) She strained and strained to make herself see and all the other people there as flies.
19) He appeared spooked due to the alarm calls of the leopard.
20) Anyone witnessing this strange scene would have drawn the right conclusion.
21) Within 5 minutes he understood what was wrong.
22) We infect the world with our ill-humours.
23) He had set his silk umbrella by the door on entering.
24) He hurled the umbrella angrily into an excavation.
25) Video analytics help us to see each and every performance minutely.
26) She faced herself straight in the glass.
27) She would go to the London Library tomorrow.
28) The placements offer maps of the great temples of the city.
29) Travelling is a fool’s paradise.
30) Romantic poets inaugurated an era of travel because they were the great apostles of open eyes.
31) You can teach them what they have to celebrate.
32) Advertising helps to produce consistency of quality.
33) He decided to hide in his office.
34) The bus comes at midnight.
35) Seeta failed as she had been ill.
Q] Identify the Subject and Predicate in the following sentences.
1) The dew drops glitter in the sunshine.
2) It made funny hissing sounds.
3) The scorpion had bitten the woman.
4) She hid the baby in a basket to protect him.
5) Bapu paved the way to India’s freedom.
6) The class cheered as the winning team entered the school gates.
7) The flag was hoisted with full state honours.
8) The mango tree was laden with ripe golden mangoes.
9) The printer furiously printed documents.
10) The poor fly was absolutely shoved into the middle of the saucer.
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