Std:8 Class Test sub:English

 

Q.1 Match the sentence with their types.                          (5 Marks)    

 

(A) SENTENCES

 

(B) TYPE

1)     What has happened to you?

a)      Imperative

2)     I am long past the age for singing.

b)     Exclamatory

3)     Wonderful!

c)      Statement / Assertive

4)     No, not even then!

d)     Interrogative

5)     Take me to him.

e)      Negative

 

 

Q.2 Read the following poem and answer the questions.        

 

Sticks and stones may be bones.

But words can also hurt me.

Stones and sticks break only skin.

While words are ghosts that haunt me.

 

Slant and curved the fall words-swords.

To pierce and stick inside me.

Bats and bricks may ache through bones.

But words can mortify me.

 

Pain from words has left its scar

On mind and heart that’s tender

Cuts and bruises now have healed.

Its words that I remember.

 

 

 

 

 

Questions A – Answer in one sentence.                                                  (3 Marks)

 

A)     What objects can cause injury to your body

B)     How do harsh and bitter words hurt the poet?

C)     Why are harsh words called ghosts?

 

Questions B – Pick out the synonyms from poem.                                 (2 Marks)

 

a)      Injury

b)     Delicate

c)      Ache

d)     Embarrass

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