Introduction
Noun is a naming word. It can be the name of a person, place, animal, things etc. 4,
John is talking to Mr. Bush.
The tiger is a wild animal.
Girls are playing in the field.
The radio is very costly.
Put the key on the table.
Analysis
in the above given sentences, John and Mr. Bush are the names of persons, tiger is the name of an animal, field is the name of a place and radio, table , key are the names of different things. So, these words are nouns.
NOTE:
All naming words are noun.
For example: Names of birds, insects, flowers, fruits, material, etc.
Words denoting feeling of heart and quality or state of human beings are also noun.
For example: Childhood, Honesty, Poverty, Happiness, etc.
Practice Exercise
I Jack and Jill went up the hill.
Answer:
Subject = Jack and Jill and Predicate = went up the hill.
Fruits grow on trees.
Answer:
Subject = Fruits and Predicate = grows on trees.
He cuts his finger by a knife.
Answer:
Subject = He and Predicate = cuts his finger by a knife.
The earth moves round the sun.
Answer:
Subject = The earth and Predicate = moves round the sun.
In the following sentence identify the Subject: The bucket is full of water.
(A) The bucket
(B) is full of water
(C) of water
(D) All of these
(E) None of these
Answer: (A)
Explanation :
'Bucket' is the subject. Therefore, option (A) is correct and rest of the options is incorrect.
In the following sentence identify the Subject: He reads a story.
(A) He
(B) Reads
(C) A story
(D) All of these
(E) None of these
Answer: (a)
Explanation :
'He' is a subject. Therefore, option (A) is correct and rest of the options is incorrect.
In the following sentence identify the Predicate: People talk about it.
(A) Talk about
(B) It
(C) People
(D) Both A and B
(E) None of these
Answer: (d)
Explanation:
'Talk about it' is predicate. Therefore, option (D) is correct and rest of the options is incorrect.
In the following sentence identify the Predicate: James and his dog run on the beach.
(A) Run on the beach
(B) James
(C) His dog
(D) All of these
(E) None of these
Answer: (A)
Explanation :
'Run on the beach' is predicate. Therefore, option (A) is correct and rest of the options is incorrect.
The following sentence identifies the Subject: He looks like a clown.
(A) Clown
(B) He
(C) Looks
(D) All of these
(E)None of these
Answer: (B)
Explanation :
'He' is a subject. Therefore, option (B) is correct and rest of the options is incorrect.
In the following sentence identify the Predicate: Her uncle and she walked slowly.
(A) Her Uncle
(B) She
(C) Walked slowly
(D) All of these
(E)None of these
Answer: (c)
Explanation:
'Walked slowly' is predicate. Therefore, option (C) is correct and rest of the options is incorrect. more...
Predicate
Predicate is that part of a sentence which tells us something about the subject of the sentence.
The boat sails in the river.
The birds are flying in the sky.
Reema is singing a song.
Analysis
in the above given sentences 'sails in the river', 'flying in the sky', 'singing a song' are telling us something about the subject, 'the boat', 'the birds', and 'Reema'. So they are all predicates.
Box given below will give you more clear idea about the subject and predicate of the sentences given along.
Introduction
Every complete sentence contains two parts, a subject and a predicate.
Subject
The subject in a sentence is generally the or thing about whom /which we say something
Robert is talking to smith.
The horse grazes in the field
The aeroplane files in the sky
The cow eats grass.
James like story books.
The glass in made of steel.
The tall boy is jumping on the road
Analysis
In the above given sentences, 'Robert', 'the horse', 'the aeroplane', 'the cow,' 'james', 'the glass' and 'the tall boy' are spoken about. In other words, something have been said about them. Therefore, they are subject.
Practice Exercise
Read the sentence carefully and write the kind of sentence.
He has got very good marks in the examination.
Answer: Affirmative Sentence
He did not tell me anything about you.
Answer: Negative Sentence
What did you ask to him?
Answer: Interrogative Sentence
What a shame?
Answer: Exclamatory Sentence
Read the sentence carefully and choose the kind of sentence.
The machine is not working.
(A) Negative
(B) Interrogative
(C) Imperative
(D) Exclamatory
(E) Optative
Answer: (A)
Explanation :
The sentence deny something. Therefore, option (A) is correct and rest of the options is incorrect.
Hurrah! I have got a prize.
(A) Assertive
(B) Interrogative
(C) Imperative
(D) Exclamatory
(E) Optative
Answer: (D)
Explanation:
This sentence expresses happiness. Therefore, option (D) is correct and rest of the options is incorrect.
A group of words which makes complete sense is called Sentence.
A sentence always begins with a capital letter.
Assertive sentence ends with full stop.
Interrogative sentence ends with a Q. Mark (?).
The subject 'you' is generally hidden in Optative sentence..
Exclamation mark (!) is put at the end of exclamatory sentence.
Optative sentence ends with exclamatory mark !.
A question begins with either Helping Verb (is, am, are, was, were, has, have, had, do, does, did, can, will, shall, may, etc.) or Question word (What, where, how, when, whom, which, why, etc.)
A question ends with a question mark (?) or mark of interrogative.
The above given sentences give different expression
Sentences 1 and 2 express statements in general way.
Sentences 3 and 4 express questions.
Sentences 5, 6 and 7 express an order, a request or a prohibition.
Sentences 8 and 9 express happiness and surprise.
Sentences 10 express a wish or a desire.
On the basis of this a sentences can be divided into five kinds:
Statement (Or Assertive Sentence)
Question (Or Interrogative Sentence)
Command (Or Imperative Sentence)
Exclamation (Or Exclamatory Sentence)
Optative (Or Optative Sentence)
Statement
(Assertive Sentence): The sentences that express something in a general way are called statements or Assertive sentences.
An elephant is a large animal.
My grandfather lives in the village.
The servant has not come yet.
Mohan does not like coffee.
NOTE: Assertive sentence ends with full stop.
There are two types of statements
Affirmative Statement
Negative Statement
Affirmative Statement: The sentence which affirms something is called Affirmative Statement.
Mohan was driving a car.
The enemy surrendered.
These sentences affirm something. So these are Affirmative Statements.
Negative Statement: The sentence which denies something is called Negative Statement.
Aryan was not driving car.
The enemy did not surrender.
These sentences deny something. So these are Negative Statements. In a Negative Statement 'no' is used.
Question
(Interrogative sentence): The sentence which asks or enquires something is called a Question or an Interrogative Sentence.
Is he attending the class regularly?
Do you want to work with them?
What do you know about her?
Why are you going there?
The above given sentences ask something. These are Questions.
NOTE:
A question begins with either Helping Verb (is, am, are, was, were, has, have, had, do, does, did, can, will, shall, may, etc.) or Question word (What, where, how, when, whom, which, why, etc.)
Interrogative sentences have always Q. Mark (?) at the end.
Command
(Imperative sentence): The sentence which expresses an order, a request, more...
Introduction
A group of words that makes complete sense is called sentence. While speaking, we use words in a group. When this group of words expresses a complete sense, we call it sentence. If it makes no sense, we do not call it sentence.
Ball is Antony playing with a.
Aryan is playing with a ball.
Beautiful is flower this very.
The boy reads a book.
Is Marry name her.
The birds are flying in the sky.
Analysis
You can easily make a difference between the above given group of words. See the group of words given in 1, 3, and 5 these group of words do not give us complete sense. So we cannot call them sentences. Whereas the group of words given in 2, 4 and 6 have complete senses. Therefore, 2, 4 and 6 are the examples of sentences.
NOTE:
First letter of each sentence is always written in capital letter.
A sentence has a full stop or a question mark or exclamation sign at the end.
Passage - 5
Read the passage carefully and answer the following questions: There was a tree, near a pond. A dove lived on the tree with her children. One day an ant fell into the pond water. She tried to come out of the water but could not. The dove saw the ant drowning and felt pity for it. She plucked a leaf and put it into the pond water near the ant. The ant climbed on the leaf and came to the bank. Thus its life was saved by the dove. The ant thanked the dove for saving its life.
Where was the tree?
(A) Neartree
(B) Nearpond
(C) Near village
(D) Neartown
(E) Near river
Answer: (b)
Explanation:
Tree was near the pond. Therefore, option (B) is correct and rest of the options is incorrect.
Who lived on the tree?
(A) Monkey
(B) Birds
(C) Dove
(D) Parrot
(E) Crow
Answer: (c)
Explanation:
Dove lived on the tree. Therefore, option (C) is correct and rest of the options is incorrect.
Who fell into pond?
(A) Dog
(B) Parrot
(C) Paper
(D) Peace of meat
(E) Ant
Answer: (E)
Explanation:
Ant fell into pond. Therefore, option (E) is correct and rest of the options is incorrect.
A dove lived on the tree with her?
(A) Children
(B) Aunt
(C) Brother
(D) Sister
(E) Mother
Answer: (A)
Explanation:
Dove lived on the tree with her children. Therefore, option (A) is correct and rest of the options is incorrect.
Passage - 4
Read the passage carefully and answer the following questions: Once a greedy dog was wandering in the town in search of food. Suddenly, it saw a butcher's shop. It came to the shop and stole a piece of meat from the shop and ran out of town. It wanted to eat the meat at a lonely place. There was a small river in the way. The river had a wooden bridge on it. The dog stepped on to the bridge to cross the river. When the dog reached the middle of the bridge it looked downwards in the clear still water of the river. It mistook its reflection for another dog with a piece of meat in the mouth. As it was greedy, it could not bear it. Without losing any time the dog barked at its own reflection. As it did this, the piece of meat fell into water. The greedy dog realized this. But what could be done now?
Where was the dog wandering in search of food?
(A) In town
(B) In village
(C) In forest
(D) In house
(E) In kitchen
Answer: (A)
Explanation:
Dog was wandering in the town in search of food. Therefore, option (A) is correct and rest of the options is incorrect.
Who was very greedy?
(A) Cat
(B) Dog
(C) Tiger
(D) Lion
(E) Horse
Answer: (B)
Explanation:
Dog was very greedy. Therefore, option (B) is correct and rest of the options is incorrect.
What did the dog see in the middle of the bridge?
(A) Reflection of a fish
(B) Reflection of a crocodile
(C) Reflection of his own
(D) Reflection of a frog
(E) Reflection of water
Answer: (C)
Explanation:
Dog saw his own reflection in the water and mistook it as another dog. Therefore, option (C) is correct and rest of the options is incorrect.
What did the dog do to get another piece of meat?
(A) Smiled at its own reflection
(B) Barked at its own reflection
(C) Laughed at its own reflection
(D) Talked to its own reflection
(E) None of these
Answer: (b)
Explanation:
Dog barked at its own reflection. Therefore, option (B) is correct and rest of the options is incorrect.
Passage - 3
Read the passage carefully and answer the following question: Newton was a great scientist. One day he had to go out of his room for an urgent piece of work. He left behind a bundle of papers, which was the manuscript of his research on the theory of light, on his study table. That time, his dog was also sleeping in the room. As soon as he had left the room, the dog awoke. It jumped upon the table and upturned the lighted candle. The bundle of papers caught fire and was completely destroyed. When Newton returned after some time, he was surprised to see that all his labour of years had been destroyed. He became very upset. But he controlled himself. Instead of losing his temper, he patted his dog on its neck and said, "You don't know what you have done my dear."
Who was Newton?
(A) Professor
(B) Scientist
(C) Farmer
(D) Teacher
(E) Doctor
Answer: (B)
Explanation:
Newton was a scientist. Therefore, option (B) is correct and rest of the options is incorrect.
What did Newton leave behind on coming out of his room for an urgent work?
(A) Carbon
(B) Pencil
(C) Bundle of papers
(D) Rubber
(E) Pen
Answer: (c)
Explanation:
He left behind bundles of paper in his room, while coming out for an urgent piece of work. Therefore, option (C) is correct and rest of the options is incorrect.
What other thing did Newton leave behind before coming out of his room?
(A) Cat
(B) Dog
(C) Horse
(D) Rabbit
(E) Parrot
Answer: (B)
Explanation:
He left his dog behind before coming out of his room. Therefore, option (B) is correct and rest of the options is incorrect.
What did the dog do?
(A) Turned the lighted candle
(B) Ate the candle
(C) Broke the candle
(D) Upturned the lighted candle
(E) None of these
Answer: (D)
Explanation:
Dog upturned the lighted candle. Therefore, option (D) is correct and rest of the options is incorrect.
Introduction
Noun is a naming word. It can be the name of a person, place, animal, things etc. 4,
Analysis
in the above given sentences, John and Mr. Bush are the names of persons, tiger is the name of an animal, field is the name of a place and radio, table , key are the names of different things. So, these words are nouns.
Practice Exercise
I Jack and Jill went up the hill.
Answer:
Subject = Jack and Jill and Predicate = went up the hill.
Predicate
Predicate is that part of a sentence which tells us something about the subject of the sentence.
Analysis
in the above given sentences 'sails in the river', 'flying in the sky', 'singing a song' are telling us something about the subject, 'the boat', 'the birds', and 'Reema'. So they are all predicates.
Box given below will give you more clear idea about the subject and predicate of the sentences given along.
Introduction
Every complete sentence contains two parts, a subject and a predicate.
Analysis
In the above given sentences, 'Robert', 'the horse', 'the aeroplane', 'the cow,' 'james', 'the glass' and 'the tall boy' are spoken about. In other words, something have been said about them. Therefore, they are subject. 
Types of Sentence
The above given sentences give different expression
Statement
(Assertive Sentence): The sentences that express something in a general way are called statements or Assertive sentences.
Introduction
A group of words that makes complete sense is called sentence. While speaking, we use words in a group. When this group of words expresses a complete sense, we call it sentence. If it makes no sense, we do not call it sentence.
Analysis
You can easily make a difference between the above given group of words. See the group of words given in 1, 3, and 5 these group of words do not give us complete sense. So we cannot call them sentences. Whereas the group of words given in 2, 4 and 6 have complete senses. Therefore, 2, 4 and 6 are the examples of sentences.
Passage - 5
Read the passage carefully and answer the following questions: There was a tree, near a pond. A dove lived on the tree with her children. One day an ant fell into the pond water. She tried to come out of the water but could not. The dove saw the ant drowning and felt pity for it. She plucked a leaf and put it into the pond water near the ant. The ant climbed on the leaf and came to the bank. Thus its life was saved by the dove. The ant thanked the dove for saving its life.
Where was the tree?
(A) Neartree
(B) Nearpond
(C) Near village
(D) Neartown
(E) Near river
Answer: (b)
Explanation:
Tree was near the pond. Therefore, option (B) is correct and rest of the options is incorrect.
Passage - 4
Read the passage carefully and answer the following questions: Once a greedy dog was wandering in the town in search of food. Suddenly, it saw a butcher's shop. It came to the shop and stole a piece of meat from the shop and ran out of town. It wanted to eat the meat at a lonely place. There was a small river in the way. The river had a wooden bridge on it. The dog stepped on to the bridge to cross the river. When the dog reached the middle of the bridge it looked downwards in the clear still water of the river. It mistook its reflection for another dog with a piece of meat in the mouth. As it was greedy, it could not bear it. Without losing any time the dog barked at its own reflection. As it did this, the piece of meat fell into water. The greedy dog realized this. But what could be done now?
Where was the dog wandering in search of food?
(A) In town
(B) In village
(C) In forest
(D) In house
(E) In kitchen
Answer: (A)
Explanation:
Dog was wandering in the town in search of food. Therefore, option (A) is correct and rest of the options is incorrect.
Passage - 3
Read the passage carefully and answer the following question: Newton was a great scientist. One day he had to go out of his room for an urgent piece of work. He left behind a bundle of papers, which was the manuscript of his research on the theory of light, on his study table. That time, his dog was also sleeping in the room. As soon as he had left the room, the dog awoke. It jumped upon the table and upturned the lighted candle. The bundle of papers caught fire and was completely destroyed. When Newton returned after some time, he was surprised to see that all his labour of years had been destroyed. He became very upset. But he controlled himself. Instead of losing his temper, he patted his dog on its neck and said, "You don't know what you have done my dear."
Who was Newton?
(A) Professor
(B) Scientist
(C) Farmer
(D) Teacher
(E) Doctor
Answer: (B)
Explanation:
Newton was a scientist. Therefore, option (B) is correct and rest of the options is incorrect.
