{"id":534,"date":"2015-02-23T08:49:50","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T08:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=534"},"modified":"2015-02-23T08:49:50","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T08:49:50","slug":"english-grammar-worksheets-for-class-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/english-grammar-worksheets-for-class-8\/","title":{"rendered":"English Grammar Worksheets for Class 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Edit the given passage.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Shyam and Rahul was (a) friends. Shyam wanted to went (b) on a vacation. He discussed the matter with Rahul while they were sitting in (c) a bench.<\/p>\n<p>He wanted rahul (d) to keep his money and jewels while he was away in (e) vacation. Rahul accepted (f) to help his friend.<\/p>\n<h3>Solution<\/h3>\n<p>a) Shyam and Rahul <strong>were<\/strong> friends. (Two singular nouns connected by \u2018and\u2019 require a plural verb. \u2018Was\u2019 is singular. \u2018Were\u2019 is the correct plural form.)<\/p>\n<p>b) Shyam <strong>wanted to go<\/strong> on a vacation. (We make the infinitive form by putting the first form of the verb after \u2018to\u2019.)<\/p>\n<p>c) while they were sitting<strong> on<\/strong> a bench (We use \u2018on\u2019 for position on a surface. \u2018In\u2019 is used for position inside something.)<\/p>\n<p>d) He wanted <strong>Rahul<\/strong> to keep his money. (A proper noun always begins with a capital letter.)<\/p>\n<p>e) while has was away<strong> on vacation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>f) Rahul <strong>agreed to<\/strong> help his friend. (The verb \u2018accept\u2019 cannot be followed by a to-infinitive. We use \u2018agree\u2019 instead.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edit the given passage. Shyam and Rahul was (a) friends. Shyam wanted to went (b) on a vacation. He discussed the matter with Rahul while they were sitting in (c) a bench. He wanted&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[109],"class_list":["post-534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kerala-syllabus-english","tag-class-8-grammar-worksheets-kerala-syllabus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":535,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions\/535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}