BCM SCHOOL, BASANT AVENUE

ENGLISH ASSIGNMENT

CLASS VIII

  1. COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING BLANKS BY USING A SUITABLE WORD IN EACH BLANK:

Sleepwalkers are a source ______amusement to other people, thanks to ______Zombie likebehaviour. But for the families of sleepwalkers ,they ______a source of anxiety, because sleep walking incidents are not easy to prevent and sometimes ______in accidents. No one ______for sure what triggers sleep walking. It is not , as believed earlier , walking in a dream , because body movements almost get ______in deep sleep

  1. THE FOLLOWING PARAGRAPH HAS NOT BEEN EDITED. THERE IS AN ERROR IN EACH LINE . INDENTIFY AND WRITE THE ERROR AGAINST THE CORRECT BLANK NUMBER ALONG WITH THE CORRECTION IN YOUR ANSWER SHEET AS SHOWN IN EXAMPLE: INCORRECT CORRECT

An individual blinks around 15 times at a AT IN

minute. Blinking in a voluntary action ______

what protects the eyes from the dust in ______

a atmosphere. A protection fat-layer ______

covering the surface of eyes. ______

Where they open, one – tenth area of the ______

eyes is exposure to outer air. ______

  1. THE FOLLOWING PARAGRAPH HAS NOT BEEN EDITED.ONE WORD HAS BEEN OMITTED IN EACH LINE.WRITE THE OMITTED WORD ALONG WITH THE WORD THAT COMES BEFORE AND THE WORD THAT COMES AFTER IN YOUR ANSWER SHEET AGAINST THE CORRECT BLANK NUMBER SHOWN IN THE EXAMPLE. BEFORE OMITTED AFTER

A helpline been opened helpline has been

in united kingdom for people ______

who had close encounter with ______

aliens, making it first of its ______

kind of the country. The phone service ______

offers counseling those who ______

believe have been abducted ______

byextra terrestrials. ______

D) REARRANGE THE FOLLOWING WORDS AND PHRASES TO FORM MEANINGFUL SENTENCES:

1. the/farmer/know/didn’t/to do/cried/animal/the/and/what

2. invited/he/neighbours/all/help/his/to/him

3. what/donkey/the/didn’t/at first/realize/was/happening

E) FILL IN THE BLANKS WITH MUST/SHOULD/NEEDN’T

1. We ______pay our taxes in time.

2. Walk fast lest you ______miss the train.

3. They are so much alike. They ______be real brothers.

4. The government ______uplift the poor and the down trodden.

5. I have withdrawn money through ATM. Now you ______go to bank.

F) CHANGE THE FOLLOWING SENTENCES INTO PASSIVE VOICE.

1. I like mangoes. 4. We played cricket.

2. She is reading a poem. 5. I was writing a story.

3. They have done their work. 6. He had solved the sum.