CBSE Class 8 English Omission Of Prepositions Worksheet

CBSE Class 8 English Worksheet - Omission of prepositions

Worksheets have become an integral part of the education system. Worksheets are very critical for every student to practice his/ her concepts. Students, teachers and parents can download all CBSE educational material and extremely well prepared worksheets from this website. All revision worksheets, Sample papers, Question banks and easy to learn study notes for all classes and subjects have been prepared based on the latest guidelines sent by CBSE. All CBSE educational material is developed by our panel of teachers, have also been submitted by thousands of teachers and students. The study material has been carefully compiled by the best teachers in India. Worksheets have been submitted by teachers of various CBSE schools and also have been carefully developed keeping into consideration the latest CBSE syllabus.

1. I'm looking my pen.

2. What am I going to write ?

3. What did you come here ?

4. Name two benefits educating girls.

5. He arrived time at the station.

6. They subscribe the magazine.

7. She is tired of listening the same song every day.

8. The residents are looked by their Member of Parliament.

9. Pick that piece of paper on the floor.

10. The boy throws the bottle because he does not need it.

11. I went a walk yesterday evening.

12. They work and co-operate one another very well.

13. Go further the road until you reach the traffic-lights.

14. The students walked the same direction as the teachers.

15. Everyone had to wait his turn.

2. The following passage has not been edited. There is an error in each line against which there is a blank. Underline each error and write your correction in the space provided.

i) I entered the manager's office and sat down.

I have just lost five hundred rupees and I felt very upset. a) ______

"I leave the money in my desk," I said, b) ______

"and it is not there now". The manager was very sympathetic

but he can do nothing. "Everyone loses money these days", c) ______

he said, He start to complain about this wicked world, d) ______

but is interrupted by a knock at the door. e) ______

A girl came in and puts an envelope on his desk. f) ______

It contains five hundred rupees. "I found this g) ______

outside this gentleman's room," she said.

"Well! I say to the manager, "there is still some h) ______
honesty in this world !"
ii) Parmesh and his friends planning a trip a) _____
during the summer vacations. While all of them b) _____
keen to get away from the heat, none them were able to suggest which place to visit. c) _____
It only draw of lots which could finally decide the matter. d) _____
They decided on Ooty as it neither too far away nor too crowded.
e) _____
The date of departure and the duration of their stay still to be decided. f) _____
The announcement of their final exam date sheet still two weeks away. g) _____
Until then, each of them resolved h) _____
collect information about hill station. i) _____

Decide which parts of speech are the underlined words
1. You have to believe in yourself if you ever expect to be successful at something.
2. We left for the mountain just before six in the morning.
3. We first went to the store to buy a few things.
4. We had a breakfast at a café near the rail station.
5. My friend wasn't strong enough to lift his heavy rucksack.
6. I helped him carry it.
7. The weather was very cold.
8. My friend said, "Oh! What a cold weather!"
9. We didn't spend the night there.

In questions below, each passage consist of six sentences. The first and sixth sentence are given in the begining. The middle four sentences in each have been removed and jumbled up.
These are labelled as P, Q, R and S. Find out the proper order for the four sentences.
1. S1: In the middle of one side of the square sits the Chairman of the committee, the most important person in the room.
P : For a committee is not just a mere collection of individuals.
Q
:
On him rests much of the responsibility for the success or failure of the committee.
R : While this is happening we have an opportunity to get the 'feel' of this committe.
S : As the meeting opens, he runs briskly through a number of formalities.
S6: From the moment its members meet, it begins to have a sort nebulous life of its
own.
The Proper sequence should be:
A. RSQP B. PQRS
C. SQPR D. QSRP

View Answer Workspace Report Discuss in Forum

2. S1: A force of exists between everybody in the universe.
P : Normally it is very small but when the one of the bodies is a planet, like earth, the
force is considerable.
Q
:
It has been investigated by many scientists including Galileo and Newton.
R : Everything on or near the surface of the earth is attracted by the mass of earth.
S : This gravitational force depends on the mass of the bodies involved.
S6: The greater the mass, the greater is the earth's force of attraction on it. We can
call this force of attraction gravity.
The Proper sequence should be:
A. PRQS B. PRSQ
C. QSRP D. QSPR

View Answer Workspace Report Discuss in Forum
3. S1: Calcutta unlike other cities kepts its trams.
P : As a result there horrendous congestion.
Q : It was going to be the first in South Asia.
R : They run down the centre of the road
S : To ease in the city decided to build an underground railway line.
S6: The foundation stone was laid in 1972.
The Proper sequence should be:
A. PRSQ B. PSQR
C. SQRP D. RPSQ

View Answer Workspace Report Discuss in Forum
4. S1: For some time in his youth Abraham Lincoln was manager for a shop.
P : Then a chance Customer would come.
Q : Young Lincoln way of keeping shop was entirely unlike anyone else's
R : Lincoln would jump up and attend to his needs and then revert to his reading.
S : He used to lie full length on the counter of the shop eagerly reading a book.
S6: Never before had Lincoln had so much time for reading as had then.
The Proper sequence should be:
A. SRQP B. QSPR
C. SQRP D. QPSR

View Answer Workspace Report Discuss in Forum
5. S1: All the land was covered by the ocean.
P : The leading god fought the monster, killed it and chopped its body in to two
halves.
Q
:
A terrible monster prevented the gods from separating the land from the water.
R : The god made the sky out of the upper part of the body and ornamented it with stars.
S : The god created the earth from the lower part, grew plants on it and populated it with animals.
S6: The god moulded the first people out of clay according to his own image and mind.
The Proper sequence should be:
A. PQRS B. PQSR
C. QPSR D. QPRS
View Answer Workspace Report Discuss in Forum

6. S1: Smoke oozed up between the planks.
P : Passengers were told to be ready to quit the ship.
Q : The rising gale fanned the smouldering fire.
R : Everyone now knew there was fire on board.
S : Flames broke out here and there.
S6: Most people bore the shock bravely.
The Proper sequence should be:
A. SRQP B. QPSR
C. RSPQ D. QSRP

Rewrite the followings entence sasindirect speech .
1. My mother told us, "Your grandmother will be arriving in Singapore tomorrow.
2. "Don't meddle with the things in the house !" mother told Susie.
3. "Dawn hurt herself during P.E. lesson this morning," Mary said
4. "There are usually more girls than boys taking piano lessons," said the receptionist.
5. "Please clear the tables after you have finished the food." mother told the girls.
6. I would have accompanied you to the show if only you had asked, Henry," said Harry.
7. Bobby asked, "Can I have some pieces of papers, please ?"
8. Lin En, stop playing the fool now !" the class monitor ordered.
9. "I saw Terri playing alone yesterday," Pauline said.
10. "When are you leaving for China again ? Mrs Tan asked her husband

Q) Rearrange the following words to obtain a meaningful sentence.
Exercise 1
1) Always/his/I/honesty/shall/remember.
2) That/life/animal/plant/everyone/has/whether/or/breathes.
3) Buddha/his/child/kingdom/led/life/a/left/wife/and/the/and/of/beggar.
4) You/believe/hear/should/what/never/you.
5) This/so/I/satisfy/amount/little/can/anyone/is/that/not.

Exercise 2
1) Paper/sheets/buy/market/to/shall/I/go/the/to/some/of.
2) He/so/that/cannot/is/shy/he/talk/to/friends/his/even.
3) Suresh/party/was/marriage/ill/attend/so/not/he/could.
4) Results/was/excellent/their/brought/hard work/it/that.
5) Present/some/me/guests/to/that/unknown/were/there/were.

Exercise 3
1) I/why/angry/do/was/not/he/know.
2) Tea/that/it/is/drink/so/not/hot/can/we.
3) His/place/marriage/take/will/either/September/in/or/march.
4) I/nervous/the/but/were/kind/was/in/beginning/teacher/very.
5) Competition/hard/he/the/worked/won/very/and.

Exercise 4
1) Who/ America/a/my/lived/send/uncle/in/me/watch.
2) Bangalore/in/will/is/in/who/summer/come/friend/vacation/my.
3) Teacher/lady/in/a/the/was/exam/there/room.
4) The/bring/most/to/wise/ministers/man/his/in/ordered/the/king/court.
5) Only/danger/because/in/of/are/our/forests/greed.

Exercise 5
1) The/so/we/sit/sun/hot/can/outside/is/that/not.
2) Railway/I/time/left/reached/on/but/train/at/station/had.
3) From/mistakes/succeed/life/a/must/our/to/in/lesson/take/we.
4) Money/to/to/the/some/city/went/earn/another/woodcutter.
5) Should/good/we/time/habits/invest/our/on.