Grade II English

Skill: Concrete nouns

Concrete Nouns

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1. Don’t forget to get the picnic _____________ tomorrow. (cup / show / basket)

2. Mother knitted a ______________ for winter. (saree / sweater / curtain)

3. Rahul rode on his ____________ to college. (bus / car / cycle)

4. Yesterday, father bought a new _____________. (sun / mobile / satellite)

5. Sneha loves to play with her _________________. (fan / sofa / dolls)

6. Navya got many ______________ for her birthday. (toothpaste / gifts / computer)

7. The ______________ roared loudly in the forest. (lion / sparrow / hen)

8. The ______________ chirped on my windowsill. (crow / sparrow / hen)

9. The ____________ flapped its wings in the lake. (swan / cheetah / cow)

10. The ____________ sang in a sweet voice. (fox / cuckoo / peacock)

A concrete noun names a person, place or thing that is physicaland visible.

Fill in the blanks using the correct concrete noun fromthe bracket:

Skill: Improving, learning and comprehension skills

The farmer lives in a village. He works hard from morning to evening. He uses oxen to plough the field. He grows crops,vegetables and fruits for us. There are many farm animalson the farm.

1. Where does the farmer live?_________________________________________________

2. What does the farmer use to plough the field?_________________________________________________

3. What does the farmer grow?_________________________________________________

4. Pick out 5 nouns from the passage._________________________________________________

5. Pick out 4 verbs from the passage._________________________________________________

6. Name 4 farm animals._________________________________________________

Answer the following questions.

Picture Comprehension

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Skill: Use of punctuations

Rewrite these sentences using capital letters, full stop orquestion marks.

1. is delhi the capital of india

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2. did sneha finish her lunch

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3. mr and mrs verma live in mumbai

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4. shimla is a hill station

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5. the toy costs rs 50

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6. will rahul come home early today

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7. nutan and nikhil had an early dinner

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8. bangalore is called the garden city of india

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_____________________________________________________9. chennai is in the east coast of india

Punctuations

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Skill: Comprehension skills

Once there was a ____________ crow. He found a tall _________.

He __________________ to drink the water from the pot. But there

was a ______________ water in the pot. He could not reach the

_______________. Soon he got an idea. He ________________ some

__________________ in the pot. The water ____________up. The

crow _______________ the water and flew away _______________.

came, little, pot, put, water, drank,happily, stones, wanted, thirsty.

Look at the pictures. Number them in the correct order.Complete the passage. Use the words in the box.

Picture Composition

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Skill: Identifying the collective nouns

A collective noun is the name of a number (or collection) of people or things taken together and spoken of as one whole.

Fill in the blanks using the correct collective noun:

1. The students gave a ______________ of flowers to their teacher.

2. A _______________ of ships are sailing in the ocean.

3. The mechanic used his ____________ of tools to repair the car.

4. The cat protected her _____________ of kittens from all dangers.

5. The entire ___________ went out for dinner.

6. The ______________ of Japan are hard working .

7. The ____________ of robbers were caught yesterday.

8. The Western ghats are a _____________ of mountains.

9. A _____________ of fish were seen in the middle of the sea.

10. Rajiv saw a _____________ of birds flying in the sky.

fleet family range set school gang flock people bouquet litter

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Collective Nouns

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