CBSE Class 10 English Grammar Practice Assignment Set 03

Modals

Question 1. Fill in the blank with an appropriate modal.
He ______ use my phone.
Answer: can

Question 2. Fill in the blank with an appropriate modal.
I wish you ______ fight this election.
Answer: would

Question 3. Fill in the blank with an appropriate modal.
You ______ answer all questions.
Answer: must

Question 4. Fill in the blank with an appropriate modal.
She told me that she ______ arrive at ten o’clock.
Answer: would

Question 5. Fill in the blank with an appropriate modal.
I ______ say he is a cheat.
Answer: dare

Question 6. Fill in the blank with an appropriate modal.
These sheets ______ washing.
Answer: need

Question 7. Fill in the blank with an appropriate modal.
He ran fast so that he ______ catch the bus.
Answer: could

Question 8. Fill in the blank with an appropriate modal.
______ you teach me how to sing?
Answer: Will / Can

Question 9. Complete the sentence with a suitable modal (negative forms are also possible): I like Saturdays because I ________ get up early.
Answer: don't have to

Question 10. Complete the sentence with a suitable modal (negative forms are also possible): You ________ play football on the road. It's dangerous.
Answer: must not / mustn't

Question 11. Complete the sentence with a suitable modal (negative forms are also possible): I'm not quite sure about his age. He ________ be 40 or 50.
Answer: might / may / could

Question 12. Complete the sentence with a suitable modal (negative forms are also possible): I ________ do some exercise. I'm getting very unfit.
Answer: should / must

Question 13. Complete the sentence with a suitable modal (negative forms are also possible): Passengers ________ smoke anywhere on the train.
Answer: must not / mustn't

Question 14. Complete the sentence with a suitable modal (negative forms are also possible): In England, you ________ be eighteen to vote.
Answer: must / have to

Question 15. Complete the sentence with a suitable modal (negative forms are also possible): ________ you pass me that book, please?
Answer: Can / Could

Question 16. Complete the sentence with a suitable modal (negative forms are also possible): I ________ take my dog to the vet yesterday. He was very ill.
Answer: had to

Question 17. Complete the sentence with a suitable modal (negative forms are also possible): Liz ________ use a computer so she's going to computer classes.
Answer: cannot / can't

Question 18. Complete the sentence with a suitable modal (negative forms are also possible): You ________ smoke in the library.
Answer: must not / mustn't

Question 19. There is a modal missing in each line against the blank given. Write the missing modal along with the word that comes before and the word that comes after it.
(a) I _______ like you to know the story of Helen Keller,
(b) who _______ neither see nor hear from the time she was a baby.
(c) She was unable to play with other children and _______ not hear
(d) what was said to her. Doctors _______ do nothing to make her hear
(e) and see again. For the first time, Helen learnt that things _______ have names under Ann Sullivan’s guidance.
Answer: (a) I would like (b) who could neither (c) and could not (d) Doctors could do (e) things must have

Question 20. What is the communicative intention behind the modal in: “Ann’s not in the class. She might be in the library.”
Answer: Possibility / probability

Question 21. What is the communicative intention behind the modal in: “I can remember all my friend’s telephone numbers.”
Answer: Ability

Question 22. What is the communicative intention behind the modal in: “I must eat something. I’m hungry.”
Answer: Logical necessity / obligation (compulsion)

Question 23. Complete the following dialogue by filling in appropriate modals.
Customer : (a) ______ you show me some warm clothes, please?
Shopkeeper : Which type of warm clothes (b) ______ you like to see? Light winter clothes or a heavy one?
Customer : I (c) ______ rather see some light winter clothes as in Hyderabad winter is not severe.
Shopkeeper : All right, madam, then you (d) ______ see this latest brand which will perfectly suit your requirement.
Customer : Light jacket! It’s good. (e) ______ you get me the brown colour?
Shopkeeper : Sure!
Answer: (a) Can / Could (b) would (c) would (d) must / may (e) Could

Question 24. Fill the blank to complete the cautionary declaration given below.
The traffic police ______ penalise the law breakers strictly. (CBSE Practice Set-2, 2023)
Answer: will

Verb Concord

Question 25. Fill in the blanks with the correct form of verb:
(a) The majority of the applicants ______ girls.
(b) Neither of these two boys ______ scored well.
(c) A pair of shoes ______ been stolen.
(d) The quality of these apples ______ not good.
(e) A black and white cow ______ grazing outside.
(f) A black and a white cow ______ grazing outside.
Answer: (a) are (b) has (c) has (d) is (e) is (f) are