CBSE SOLUTIONS-2025-26
CLASS-10
UNIT-I COMMUNICATION SKILLS-II
CHAPTER-5 WRITING SKILLS
A. Answer the following questions:
1. Briefly describe the parts of a sentence.
Answer: A sentence is a group of words arranged in a manner which conveys a complete meaning.
A sentence consists of two parts i.e. Subject and Predicate.
Subject: The Subject of a sentence is a noun or pronoun and it is that part of a sentence about which something is said or told.
For example: Rajesh is a good boy.
Rajesh is a Subject in this sentence.
Predicate: The predicate is that part of a sentence which says or tells something about the subject. The predicate consists of the verb and the object or complement.
For example: Rajesh is a good boy.
"is a good boy"- is a predicate.
2. What is a phrase? Give two example.
Answer: A phrase is a group of words which forms a part of a sentence. It is a group that contains no finite verb. Therefore, it is cannot stand by its own and convey a complete meaning. We can say that a phrase adds to the meaning of a sentence.
For example:
1. I forget to carry my lunch box.
"to carry my lunch box." is Noun phrase
2. Following your advice, I took the medicine.
" Following your advice" is a Adjective phrase.
3. List the eight parts of speech.
Answer: There are 8 parts of speech in the English language: noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, interjection, and conjunction.
Noun: A noun is the name of a person, place, idea or thing. Examples: Ram, House, Tajmahal etc. Nouns are of five main types- proper, common, collective, material and abstract noun.
Pronoun: A pronoun can be defined as a word used in place of noun. Example: Shaan is good singer. He also acts very well. ‘He’ in the 2nd sentence is a pronoun used in place of Shaan .
Verb: The verb in a sentence is a word that expresses the action being performed. Example: She can dance. ‘dance’ is the main verb and can is the helping verb.
Adverb: An adverb is a word that qualifies a verb in a sentence. Example: Seema is standing near the tree. The word near qualifies the verb standing and hence is an adverb.
Adjective: An adjective is a word that qualifies a noun or a pronoun in a sentence. Example: The lychees are red. The word red qualifies the noun Lychee and hence is an adjective.
Preposition: A preposition is a word that establishes the relationship between the subject and the object in a sentence. Example: Seema has brought some apples from the market. The word from is a preposition.
Conjunction: A conjunction is a word that joins two sentences, clause or phrases into a complete sentence. Example: He is a singer and an doctor. The word and is a conjunction.
Interjection: An interjection is a word in a sentence that expresses some feeling, surprise or sudden joy or sorrow. A sentence with an interjection always ends with an exclamation mark.
4. Explain with example the correct use of articles.
Answer: Articles (a, an, the) are words used before nouns to indicate whether a noun is specific or general. The definite article "the" identifies a specific noun while the indefinite articles "a" and "an" are used for general or unspecified nouns.
"A" is used before words starting with consonant sounds, and "an" is used before words starting with vowel sounds.
Example:
Specific:
* I want the apple. (A specific, identified apple)
General:
* I want an apple. (Any apple, unspecified)
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