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 Class 5 Grammar Question Bank 

• What are the kinds of sentences? 

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1. Statements or Assertive Sentences (I am writing a letter.) 

1.1 {Note: It is always followed by period i.e. full stop (.)}

2. Commands or Imperative Sentences (Please help me.)

3. Questions or Interrogative Sentences (Are you going to school?)

4. Optative Sentences (May you live long!)

4.1 (Note: Every Optative Sentence ends with a Mark of Exclamation (!).

5. Exclamations or Exclamatory Sentences (Hello! What are you doing there?)

5.1 (Note: A Mark of Exclamation (!) is used at the end of an exclamatory word sentence.)

• What Are The Parts Of A Sentence?

Ans- A sentence has two parts:

1. The subject and

2. The predicate.

• What Are The Parts Of A Sentence? What Do You Mean By Subject Of A Sentence? Give An Example.

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Subject: The first part of a sentence which shows the person or the thing is called the subject.

Example:

Tarun is a businessman.

In this sentence “Tarun” is the subject of sentence.

• What Do You Mean By Predicate Of A Sentence? Give An Example.

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Predicate: What we speak about the subject is called a predicate. This is the remaining part of the sentence after the subject.

Examples:

Raman is playing hockey.

In this sentence “is playing hockey” is the predicate of a sentence.

• What Is An Assertive Sentence?

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Assertive Sentences: An assertive sentence is a sentence that makes a statement or an assertion.

My name is Kusum.

• Explain An Imperative Sentence With Example.

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 Imperative Sentences: The sentences which make a request, express an order, a command, expression, or advice are known as Imperative sentences.

1. Be quiet! (a command)

2. Please be quiet. (a request)

• Define Optative Sentence With Example.

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Optative Sentences: The sentences which make a prayer, a wish, or a desire are called Optative sentences.

examples:

1. Wish you all the best. (wish)

2. May God help you! (prayer)

• What Is Part Of Speech?

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A sentence has different parts like noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, etc. these called parts of speech.

Examples: Noun, Pronoun, Verb, Adverb, adjective, conjunction, etc.

• Define Noun With The Help Of Examples.

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A Noun is the name of a person, place, animal, thing, or emotion. The word thing includes Those things that we can see, feel, taste, touch, and hear; Those things that we can simply think of, but cannot see or touch. That is our emotions.

1. Delhi is the capital of India.

2. Ganga is a sacred river.

In these sentences word, Delhi and Ganga are nouns.

• What Do You Mean By Adjective?

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Any member of a class of words that modify nouns and pronouns, primarily by describing a particular quality of the word.

1. Rana Pratap was a great warrior.

2. Mt. Everest is the highest range in the world.

In these sentences word, great and highest are describing the quality of nouns.

• What Do You Mean By Conjunction?

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A Conjunction is a word that is used to join words or sentences.

1. Two and two make four.

2. Kiran is beautiful but cruel.

In these sentences, word and, but are establishing a relation between two words.

• How Many Kind Of Nouns Are There?

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There are five kinds of nouns:

1. Proper Noun

2. Common Noun

3. Collective Noun

4. Abstract Noun

5. Material Noun

• What Do You Mean By Common Noun?

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A common noun is a name given in common to persons, places, or things.

Examples: book, house, pen, boy, city. The above words refer to all books, houses

• Define Abstract Nouns?

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Abstract Nouns are the names of something which we can neither see nor touch, but can think of them. They are the names given to some quality, feeling, state or action.

Examples: beauty, courage, kindness, strength. etc.

• What Do You Mean By Gender? How Many Types Of Gender Are?

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Gender indicates whether a person or animal is male or female. It may also be neither male nor female.

Examples:

1. Swati has a dog.

2. Little Jack Horner sat in a corner.

Thus, there are four genders in the English Language.

1. Masculine

2. Feminine

3. Common

4. Neuter

•  What Is The Masculine Gender? Give Example.

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The noun that refers to a male is known as masculine gender. All living males come under the category of masculine gender.

1. Tiger is a ferocious animal.

2. King Gyanendra is on a visit to India.

• Define Common Gender.

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The noun that refers to both male and female is known as common gender. Both males and females come under this category.

Examples: The noun that refers to both male and female is known as common gender. Both males and females come under this category.

• What Is Pronoun?

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We know that a pronoun is a word used in place of a noun. This is used to avoid the repetition of the noun. It can be singular or plural. I, he, she, you, him, me, and it are common pronouns.

• How Many Kinds Of Pronoun Are?

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KINDS OF PRONOUN

There are eight kinds of pronouns:

1. Personal Pronoun

2. Reflexive Pronoun

3. Demonstrative Pronoun

4. Relative Pronoun

5. Interrogative Pronoun

6. Indefinite Pronoun

7. Emphatic Pronoun

8. Reciprocal Pronoun

• What Do You Mean By Personal Pronoun?

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A personal pronoun is a short word we use as a simple substitute for the proper name of a person. personal pronouns show us the grammatical person, gender, number, and case of the noun it replaces. I, you, he, she, it, we, they, me, him, her, us, and them are all personal pronouns.

• What Is A Tense? How Many Types Of Tense?

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The tense of a verb tells us when an action happens, has happened or will happen.

forms of tenses:

1. Past Tense (Then)

2. Present Tense (Now)

3. Future Tense (To come)

• Define Present Indefinite Tense.

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The present indefinite tense, also known as simple present tense, denotes a stative or habitual or eternally true action.

Examples:

1. He will go to school.

2. He will write a letter.

• Define Future Tense With Example.

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When the action denoted by the verb refers to the future time, the verb is said to be in the Future Tense. The Future Tense talks of what is going to happen in the future.

Examples:

1. He will go to school.

2. He will write a letter.

• Explain The Rule For Affirmative Sentence In Case Of Present Perfect Continuous Tense.

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Present Perfect Continuous Tense: The present perfect continuous tense (also known as the present perfect progressive tense) shows that something started in the past and is continuing at the present time. The present perfect continuous is formed using the construction has/have been + the present participle.

Rules:

Affirmative Sentences:

Subject + Has/Have + been + Verb I + ing + Object + for? since + time.

Examples:

1. I have been playing since morning.

2. She has been writing a letter since evening.

• What Is An Adjective? Explain With The Help Of Example.

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An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun by adding something. It is used to describe a noun or pronoun and tells about them.

examples:

What kind of girl is Priya?

Priya is a beautiful girl.

In this sentence, beautiful is an adjective that shows the quality of Priya.

• How Many Types Of Adjective Are There?

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Adjectives are of six kinds:

1. Adjective of quality

2. Demonstrative adjective

3. Adjective of number

4. Adjective of quantity

5. Adjective of interrogation

6. Adjective of possession

• What Do You Mean By Adjective Of Possession?

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When an adjective describes the belonging of an object.

This is my car.

• What Is The Degree Of Adjective?

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Degrees of adjectives: Adjectives are used to describe, identify, modify or quantify nouns or pronouns. Adjectives have three degrees that compare one thing to another. The three degrees of adjectives are: 1. positive,

2. comparative

3. superlative.

• Write All Three Forms Of Words Brave And Bright

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Positive Comparative Superlative

Brave braver bravest

Bright brighter brightest

• Give Some Examples Of Words Which Comparative And Superlative Degree Is Not Formed By Positive.

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Some Adjectives are compared irregularly i.e., their Comparatives and Superlatives are not formed from the Positives.

Positive Comparative Superlative

Good better best

Well better best

Bad worse worst

• What Do You Mean By Article?

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The articles are generally used to point out people or things. They are used before a noun. The words ‘a’, ‘an’, and ‘the’ are called articles.

Example:

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

In this sentence ‘a’, ‘an’ and ‘the’ are articles

• How Many Types Of Article Are There?

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We can classify articles into two types:

1. Indefinite articles

2. Definite articles

• What Is A Definite Article? Give An Example.

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‘The’ is called a definite article and it refers to a particular person, place, or thing. It can be used with singular and plural nouns.

The sun, the moon, the earth

The richest, the strongest

• What Is An Adverb?

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An adverb is a word that modifies the meaning of a verb, an adjective, or another adverb. An adverb tells how, when, where, how often, or why an action takes place.

examples:

1. The teacher is speaking loudly.

2. The old man walks slowly.

• Define Adverb Of Maaner.

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When an adverb tells us how an action has been performed, it is known as Adverb of Manner.

Examples:

(a) Nightingale sings sweetly.

(b) Soldiers fight bravely.

• Define Adverb Of Reason.

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When an adverb shows why an action is performed, it is known as an Adverb of reason.

Examples:

(a) Malini, therefore, left him.

(b) He is hence unable to survive.

• What Do You Mean By Modals?

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There are some words which when used with main verbs, express the mode and attitude of the speaker, these are known as models. A modal expresses the mode of a verb. In fact, modals are auxiliary or helping verbs that do not indicate any action.

Examples:

1. You may go for the game.

2. Could you give me your pen?

• What Is The Difference Between Can And Could Modals?

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‘Could’ is the past form of can. ‘Could’ is used in the following context:

Can

1. Only the Principal can grant him leave.

2. Ability to do a job or work: I can do this sum.

Could

1. Anita could top the class.

2. could you help me?

• Complete Sentence With Correct Modals Given In The Brackets.

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1. He (can, ought) type the letter.

2. (Could, Might) I smoke in the room?

3. (May, Could) god help you!

• What Is Preposition? Explain With Example.

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A preposition is a word placed before a noun (or a pronoun) that shows the relation in which one person or thing stands to another person or thing.

Examples:

1. The apples are in the plate.

2. The book is on the table.

• Complete Sentence With The Right Preposition At The Right Place. 

1. I Will Go A Walk You (With, For). 

2. He Stays London Crescent Road (In, At).

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1. I will go for a walk with you.

2. he stays in London at Crescent road.

• Fill In The Blanks With The Correct Prepositions From The Bracket. 

1. Amit Has Two Other Cars……….. This (Beside/Besides). 

2. Beauty Does Not Last ……….Ever (For/From).

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1. Amit has two other cars besides this.

2. Beauty does not last forever.

• What Do You Mean By Conjunction?

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A conjunction is a word used to connect words, clauses, or sentences. A conjunction is a joining word and is also known as a linker.

1. Kriti is honest and kind.

2. I trust him because he speaks the truth.

• How Many Types Of Conjunction Are There? Give One Example For Each.

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There are two kinds of conjunction:

1. Co-ordinate Conjunctions

Ex.: You can go by bus or train.

2. Subordinate Conjunctions

She did not come to school because she was ill.

• Define Subordinate Conjunction.

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A subordinating Conjunction joins one subordinate clause to another main clause for its full meaning. It joins two clauses or statements of unequal rank/importance and position. The main subordinate conjunctions are after, as, because, although, before, then, though, if, until, that, while, etc.

1. You will pass if you work hard.

2. Do not go away until I return.

• What Do You Mean By An Interjection?

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An interjection is a word that expresses some sudden feelings or emotions. Interjections are used to express some sudden feelings or emotions.

1. Hurrah! We have won the match.

2. Ah! What a relief.

• How Many Types Of Interjection Are There?

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Here are the basic kinds of interjection words and phrases:

Interjections for Greeting.

Interjections for Joy.

Interjections for Approval and Praise.

Interjections for Surprise.

Interjections for Grief/Pain.

Interjections for Bidding Farwell.

Interjections for Expressing Doubt or Hesitation.