English Workbook Class 10 Solutions Integrated Grammar Practice 3
CBSE Class 10 English Workbook Solutions Integrated Grammar Practice 3
Question 1.
Read this telephone conversation between two friends and complete the passage given below.
Sunil : Where have you been ? I’ve called you six times.
Rajeev : I was cleaning my room.
Sunil : You couldn’t stop cleaning to answer your phone ?
Rajeev : I was cleaning my room so I could find the phone !
Sunil telephoned his friend Rajeev and inquired (a) __________ (b) __________. Rajeev replied that (c) __________. An angry Sunil wanted to know if (d) __________ to which Rajeev replied that (e) __________.
Answers:
(a) where he had been
(b) he had called him six times
(c) he had been cleaning his room
(d) he couldn’t stop cleaning to answer his phone
(e) he had been cleaning his room so he could find the phone
Question 2.
Edit the Notice given below by choosing the appropriate options from the list given. Write the correct answer in the answer sheet against the correct blank number.
Modern public school, kochi
16th March 20 – –
Notice
Cleanliness Drive
The Social Service Club of the school (a) __________ clean the surroundings near the school (b) __________. This will include (c) __________ through talks and skits. Students of senior wing (d) __________ may give their names to the undersigned during Break today in Room No. 102. For details contact
Akanksha
Head Girl
(a) (i) is launching a Cleanliness Drive to
(ii) is launched a Cleanliness Drive for
(iii) was launching a Cleanliness Drive to
(iv) has launched a Cleanliness Drive for
(b) (i) for a fortnight from 19th March
(ii) within a fortnight on 19th March
(iii) in a fortnight from 19th March
(iv) for a fortnight on 19th March
(c) (i) to clean the area and to start an awareness campaign
(ii) cleaning the area and starting an awareness campaign
(iii) cleaning the area and to start an awareness campaign
(iv) to cleaning the area and for starting an awareness campaign
(d) (i) who are wishing to participating in the drive
(ii) who wishes to participate in the drive
(iii) who wish to participate in the drive
(iv) that wish to participated in the drive
Answers:
(a) (i) is launching a Cleanliness Drive to
(b) (i) for a fortnight from 19th March
(c) (ii) cleaning the area and starting an awareness campaign
(d) (iii) who wish to participate in the drive
Question 3.
Rearrange the following words and phrases to form meaningful sentences as shown.
lavish tombs/pyramids/Egyptians/only/other/for royalty/high-ranking/and/people/built/and Egyptians built lavish tombs and pyramids only for royalty and other high-ranking people
- only if/that/Egyptians/could/were preserved/believed/the spirits of dead people/live on/their bodies/the ancient The ancient Egyptians believed that the spirits of dead people could live on only if their bodies were preserved.
- making them/preserved/dead bodies/so/they/by/into mummies/ the So, they preserved the dead bodies by making them into mummies.
- dried-out bodies/wrapped/in linen bandages/were Dried-out bodies were wrapped in linen bandages.
- Egyptians/the ancient/securely/inside pyramids/the mummies/buried The ancient Egyptians buried the mummies securely inside pyramids.
Question 4.
The following passage has not been edited. There is one error in each of the lines. Write the incorrect word and the correction in the space provided. Remember to underline the word that you have supplied as shown.
Question 5.
Complete the passage hy choosing the correct options from those given below.
With (a) _________ traffic and poor facilities, pedestrians (b) _________ to be the most vulnerable to fatal accidents (c) _________ road users. Even though in the last six years the number of pedestrian subways in the city (d) _________ almost doubled. most of them are neither well maintained (e) _________ well designed. As a result pedestrians avoid (f) _________ them. (g) _________ the police say this should not be a reason (h) _________. people to avoid subways.
(a) (i) increasing
(ii) increase
(iii) are increasing
(iv) to increase
(b) (i) seems
(ii) are seeming
(iii) seem
(iv) seemed
(c) (i) between
(ii) amongst
(iii) in between
(iv) beside
(d) (i) have
(ii) has been
(iii) have been
(iv) has
(e) (i) or not
(ii) nor
(iii) and
(iv) none
(f) (i) uses
(ii) to use
(iii) used
(iv) using
(g) (i) Nonetheless
(ii) Therefore
(iii) Hence
(iv) Similarly
(h) (i) for
(ii) of
(iii) about
(iv) with
Answers:
(a) — (i) increasing
(b) — (iii) seem
(c) — (ii) amongst
(d) — (ii) has been
(e) — (ii) nor
(f) — (iv) using
(g) — (i) Nonetheless
(h) — (i) for
Question 6.
In the passage given below, one word has been omitted in each line. In your answer sheet write the missing word along with the word that comes before and the word that comes after it against the correct blank number. Ensure that the word that forms your answer is underlined.
When the Class IX examinations over, the Deputy (a) examinations were over
Commissioner asked his son he had done his (b) son if he
English paper well. The boy told him that was easy (c) that it was
and that for one question had written that his (d) question he had
father was washerman. The boy’s father shouted (e) was a washerman
angrily but son replied, “I did not know the (f) but the son
spelling Deputy Commissioner and I did not want (g) spelling of Deputy
to one mark.” (h) to lose one
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