For Anne Gregory — Grammar Exercises
Two grammar exercises based on real NCERT sentences from this chapter. Practise the editing and gap-filling formats tested in CBSE Section B.
Exercise 1Editing / Error Correction
The sentence below has one grammatical error. Find the incorrect word and write the correction.
Show Answer & Explanation
'The poem' is a third person singular subject. In the simple present tense, third person singular subjects take a verb ending in '-s': 'suggests'. 'Suggest' (without -s) would be used with 'I', 'you', 'we', or 'they'. This is the standard rule tested in almost every CBSE board paper — third person singular agreement in the editing section.
Exercise 2Gap Filling
Choose the option that best fills the blank in the sentence below.
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W.B. Yeats ends the poem with the line 'Only God, my dear, / Could love you for yourself alone / And not your yellow hair.' The poem argues that human love is always attracted to physical beauty (the 'yellow hair'). Only God can love a person purely for their soul. This is the poem's central argument and appears in nearly every board paper's extract question.
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