CBSE Class 10 English Grammar – Clauses Noun Clauses, Adverb Clauses of Time and Condition and Relative Clauses 1. clause is a group of words that includes a subject and a verb. It may be a sentence or part of a sentence. 2. There are three kinds of clauses: Noun clause Adverbial clause Relative clause…
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CBSE Class 10 English Grammar – Direct And Indirect Speech (Statements, Commands, Requests, and Questions) The words spoken by a person can be reported in two ways—Direct and Indirect. When we quote the exact words spoken by a person, we call it Direct Speech. Sohan said to Mohan, “I am going to school.” The exact…
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CBSE Class 10 English Grammar – Subject-Verb Concord A verb must agree with its Number and Person. In other words, the Verb of a sentence agrees with the Number and Person of the Subject of that sentence. Error of Proximity Often, the ‘Verb’ is made to agree in number with a norm near it instead…
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CBSE Class 10 English Grammar – Active And Passive Voice 1. Voice: Voice is that form of the transitive verb that shows whether the subject of the sentence is the doer of the action or has the action done to it. For example: ‘Mohan played football.’ – This sentence is said to be in the…
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CBSE Class 10 English Grammar – Modals Modals are auxiliary verbs used to form the tenses, moods, voices, etc. of other verbs. They are helping verbs that cannot be used on their own but to be used along with other main verbs mainly to express attitudes. 1. When something happens, they form a tense of…
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CBSE Class 10 English Grammar – Tenses I. How would you define the term ‘Tense’? The term ‘Tense’ denotes the form of a verb which shows the time at which an action happened. So, the tense shows two things : (i) the time of the action (iii) state expressed by the verb. Look at these…
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CBSE Class 10 English Story Writing Introduction: A Story is a narration of a set of fictions event used to convey a moral message. Format: • Context—use phrases like—’Once upon a time…………’Long long ago……….. • Introduction of characters through dialogue/narration. • Plot—description of an event/accident. • Climax—end of the story. Marking Scheme Content : 6…
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CBSE Class 10 English Article Writing Introduction: With a view to express their own views, opinions or arguments people take to write articles. There are issues that concern people in general. Process of writing an article is as follows : (i) Collect relevant matter (Content) (ii) Organise in a proper sequence • Introduction • Analyse…
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CBSE Class 10 English Letter Writing Introduction Letter to Editor : To know how to write a letter to the editor, just follow these steps: Properly write your postal address, e-mail address, phone number or any other contact information. Write a simple salutation. State the argument you are responding to, provide evidence and say what…
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Unseen Passage for Class 10 English Reading Skills Syllabus Qs. 1-2. This section will have two unseen passages of a total length of 700-750 words. The arrangement within the reading section is as follows : Q. 1. A Factual passage 300-350 words with eight very short answer type questions. (8 marks) Q. 2. A Discursive…
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