English Holiday Homework, Class 9
English Holiday Homework, Class 9
Q.1. The following passage has not been edited. There is one error in each
line. Write the incorrect word correction as given in the example against
the correct blank number in your answer sheet. Also, underline the correct
word that you have supplied
A) Passage Incorrect Correct
Children are fond to mango. It is a _______ ________
Q.2. The following paragraph has not been edited. There is one
word missing in each line. Write the missing word along with the
word that comes before and the word that comes after in your
answer sheet. The first one has been done as an example.
Missing Word
Passage Word Before
Word After
Exercise 3
3. In the following passage, one word has been omitted in each line. Write the missing
word along with the words before and after against the correct blank number.
Nobody
knows we knows why we
sleep
But we all
need to. (a) ……………. ……………. …………….
There no
rules
about much
sleep is (b) ……………. ……………. …………….
necessary
but average
adult sleeps (c) ……………. ……………. …………….
for seven
hours
babies need
14 to 18 (d) ……………. ……………. …………….
hours sleep.
B ) Haiku: The landlord has come. Take out the money you have set aside.
Wife: But there are only three’ hundred rupees. If you give them to him, where is the
blanket going to come from?
Haiku: Don’t worry. I will figure out some other plan.
Haiku told his wife that the landlord had come, she should take out (a) ……………. His
wife said that (b)…………and asked him if he gave them to him (c)…………..