NCERT Solutions Class 6th English Grammar Correct Use of Verb Exercises With Answers

NCERT Solutions Class 6th English Grammar Correct Use of Verb Exercises

NCERT Solutions Class 6th English Grammar Correct Use of Verb Exercises

English Grammar

Correct Use of Verb

Practice Exercises

A verb may tell us –

1.What a person or thing does; as;
• He sings a song.
• The clock ticks.

2. What is done to a person or thing; as:
• The teacher scolded him.
• The window pane is broken.

3.What a person or thing is; as:
• The lion is dead.
• I feel sorry for what I did.

A verb often consists of more than one word; as;
• I have read the book.
• The ball has been lost 

3. Forms of Verbs:

• There are three forms of verb: Infinitive, Past Simple and Past Participle For example:

4.Regular and Irregular Verbs

Regular Verbs
• If a verb is regular, the Past Simple and Past Participle end in -ed; as:

Spelling tips:

1. If a word ends in the consonant -y (baby, carry, easy etc.)
y changes to i before the ending -ed, e.g. hurry – hurried; study – studied; apply – applied; try – tried, (a, e, i, o and u are vowel letters.
The other letters b, c, d, f, g etc. are consonant letters)

2. If a verb ends in -e, we add -d for the past of regular verbs; e.g. hope/hoped; smile/smiled; dance/danced and confuse/confused.

3. Sometimes a word ends in vowel + consonant, e.g. stop, plan, rub etc. In such cases before the endings –ed, we double the consonant at the end. So, p becomes pp, n becomes nn; as in: stop – stopped; plan – planned; rub – rubbed. 

1. When the past simple/past participle do not end in -ed (for example, I saw/ I have seen etc.) the verb is irregular.

• With some irregular verbs, all three forms (infinitive, past simple and past participle) are the same, for example hit:
• Don’t hit me. (infinitive)
• Somebody hit me when I went to market.
• I have never hit anybody in my life, (past participle – present perfect)
• Mohan was hit on the head by a stone, (past participle – passive)

2. With other irregular verbs, the past simple is the same as the past participle (but different from the infinitive). For example, tell – told:

• Can you tell me about Sharan?
• She told me to come back the next day. (past simple)
• Have you told anybody about changing your school? (past participle – present perfect)
• I was told to come back the next day (past participle – passive)

3. With other irregular verbs, all three forms are different, for example, wake – woke/woken:• I will wake you up. (infinitive)

• I woke up in the middle of the night, (past simple)
• The baby has woken up. (past participle – present perfect)
• I was woken up by a loud noise (past participle)

4. The following verbs can be regular or irregular:

Exercise 1

Write the past simple / past participle of these verbs, (the past simple and past participle are the same for all the verbs in this exercise.)

Answer –

Exercise 2

Write the past simple and past participle of these verbs:

Answer –

Exercise 3

Put the verb in the right form:

I …………………………….. my hands because they were dirty, (wash)
Somebody has …………………………….. this window pane, (break)I feel good.
I …………………………….. very well last night, (sleep)We …………………………….. a very good film yesterday, (see)
It …………………………….. a lot while we were on holiday, (rain)
I have …………………………….. my bag. (lose).
Have you ………. it? (see)
Harish’s bicycle was …………………………….. last week, (steal)
I …………………………….. to bed early because I was tired, (go)Have you …………………………….. your work yet? (finish)This house was …………………………….. about 15 years ago. (build)
Parth …………………………….. to drive when he was 18. (learn)
I have never …………………………….. a horse, (ride)Sushma is a good friend of mine.
I have …………………………….. her for a long time, (know)Yesterday I …………………………….. (fall) and my leg. (hurt)

Answer –1.washed.
2. broken.
3. slept.
4. saw.
5. rained.
6. lost, seen.
7. stolen
8. went.
9. finished.
10. built
11. learnt.
12. ridden.
13. known.
14. fell, hurt.

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