This is a model question paper covering the grammar questions of Tamil Nadu Board Class 10 English paper. Practice answering these questions to score good marks in your exam.

1. Which of the options given below will suit the following sentence?

If you quit smoking

(a) your health would improve

(b) your health will improve

(c) your health would have improved

2. Identify the pattern of the following sentence.

Our team won the championship.

(a) SVA (b) SVC (c) SVO

3. Choose the correct question tag for the following statement.

She works at a bank, ………………………………?

(a) does she (b) doesn’t she (c) didn’t she

4. Complete the sentence.

Rani is ………………………………….. Preeta.

(a) as intelligent as (b) the most intelligent (c) more intelligent

5. Choose the correct sentence which correctly conveys the meaning of the sentence given below.

Few people can speak a foreign language perfectly.

(a) Nobody can speak a foreign language perfectly.

(b) Some people can speak a foreign language perfectly

(c) A small number of people can speak a foreign language perfectly.

6. Complete the sentence with the correct prepositional phrase.

__________ his illness, he attends school regularly.

(a) In spite of (b) Even though (c) On account of

7. Choose the correct verb form to complete the sentence.

He was too tired ………………………. without help.

(a) walk (b) walking (c) to walk

8. Choose the correct phrase to complete the sentence.

You have never shown any concern …………………………

(a) for my health (b) on my health (c) with my health

9. Choose the appropriate article to complete the sentence.

I met ……………………………. European on the bus.

(a) an (b) a (c) the

10. Choose the appropriate preposition to complete the sentence.

The cat hid __________ the curtain.

(a) behind (b) under (c) over

PART – II

Answer all the following:

Rewrite as directed.

11. Combine the two sentences into a single sentence.

Raju is too poor. He cannot send his children to school.

12. Rewrite the sentence using the passive voice.

They sent the old man to senior care home.

13. Rewrite the sentence in reported speech.

The teacher said to the students, “You have to submit the assignment by Friday.”

14. From the context of the two sentences given below frame a single sentence using the ‘If’ clause.

You work hard. You will succeed.

15. Rewrite the following sentence using the comparative degree.

Kalidasa was the greatest playwright of his times.

PART – III

16. Punctuate the following sentence :

The soup is too hot cried little Einstein .

Answers

1. Which of the options given below will suit the following sentence?

If you quit smoking, your health will improve.

2. Identify the pattern of the following sentence.

Our team won the championship. (SVO)

3. Choose the correct question tag for the following statement.

She works at a bank, doesn’t she?

4. Complete the sentence.

Rani is as intelligent as Preeta.

5. Choose the correct sentence which correctly conveys the meaning of the sentence given below.

Few people can speak a foreign language perfectly.

 (c) A small number of people can speak a foreign language perfectly.

6. Complete the sentence with the correct prepositional phrase.

In spite of his illness, he attends school regularly.

7. Choose the correct verb form to complete the sentence.

He was too tired to walk without help.

8. Choose the correct phrase to complete the sentence.

You have never shown any concern for my health.

9. Choose the appropriate article to complete the sentence.

I met a European on the bus.

10. Choose the appropriate preposition to complete the sentence.

The cat hid behind the curtain.

PART – II

Answer all the following:

Rewrite as directed.

11. Combine the two sentences into a single sentence.

Raju is too poor to send his children to school.

12. Rewrite the sentence using the passive voice.

The old man was sent to a senior care home.

13. Rewrite the sentence in reported speech.

The teacher told the students that they had to submit the assignment by Friday.

14. From the context of the two sentences given below frame a single sentence using the ‘If’ clause.

If you work hard, you will succeed.

15. Rewrite the following sentence using the comparative degree.

No other playwright of his times was greater than Kalidasa.

PART – III

16. Punctuate the following sentence:

‘The soup is too hot!’ cried little Einstein.