Personal Pronoun, Possessive Noun, Possessive Pronoun

* Personal pronouns stand for specific people or things. They change according to person, gender and number. Some of the personal pronouns are ‘ I, you, he, she, we, they, it’

For example : I went to the temple with them.

* Possessive pronouns stand in place of a proper noun. Some of the possessive pronouns are ‘ my, her, his, their’

For example : My book is on the table.   (‘My’ is a possessive pronoun standing in place of the persons name)

Home Weekend Task 8

Home Weekend Task 8

Fill in the blanks with is, am or are:

1. Manish is taking his dog for a walk.

2. Supriya and Mohana are helping their mother.

3. The lions are roaming freely on the plains of Africa.

4. I am a good sportsman but a struggling artist.

5. There are not many children who take tuitions in our school.

Present Continuous Tense

Present Continuous Tense

Present continuous tense is used to show an action that is continuing or going on. It is made of a helping verb which is in the present tense like ‘am / is / are’ and the main verb is in the ‘-ing’ form to make it continuous.

For example:

1. I am eating a burger for lunch.

2. The barber is cutting his hair.

Weekend home Task 7

  

Weekend home Task 7

I  Underline the subjects in these sentences and mark on the right verb to show correct subject verb agreement. 

(Answers are marked in red)

a. Sheetal and her brothers (is / are) at school.

b. Mercury and Venus (has / have) no moons.

c. Punita and Sharda (doesn’t / don’t) mind collecting the photographs.

d. Either the chair on the table (is / are) always full of dust.

e. Ratna (fight / fights) with her neighbours everyday.

II   Ask questions to get the given statements as answers.

e.g. He bought a bag. (past tense)

        Did he buy a bag?

1.   She liked the movie.

      Did she like the movie?

2.   She closed that door.

       Did she close that door?

3.   The girl fell down from the top of the stairs.

Did the girl fall from the top of the stairs?

4.   The thief stole our car yesterday.

   Did the thief steal our car yesterday?

5.   They know our aunt.

        Do they know our aunt?

6.   She wants to play tennis.  

        Does she want to play tennis?

Helping verb

                     

* Revision of Simple and Compound verbs:

a) A simple verb is a one verb word. Eg- ran

b) A compound verb has more than one word. 

Eg - to run

A compound verb has the main verb, in this case it is ‘run’. The helping verb here is ‘to’.

* A verb that helps another verb is called a ‘helping verb’. The helping verb is found in the first part of a compound verb. We underline the whole verb in a sentence, that is the helping verb and the main verb.

* The helping verb example for ‘go’ –

will go, is going, was going, will be going, has gone, had gone, has been going, had been going, etc. 

                

Weekend home Task 6

Weekend home Task 6

a) Mark the words that go with the underlined nouns to make phrases.

The happy adventurous teenager went on a skiing trip to the cold peaks of the blue mountains with his group of sporty friends.

B) Change the verbs in the passage given below to the present tense.

Begin : Chunnilal goes to the shop….

Chunnilal goes to the shop and brings some chips to eat. When Chunnilal reaches home he finds a cockroach in the bag. So Chunnilal goes back to the shop and returns it. The shopkeeper gives him a new bag of chips but Chunnilal refuses it. The shopkeeper gives him back his money.