Language comprehension Grammar based questions

Exercise -1 Identify subject & predicate 1. The cackling of geese saved Rome. 2. The stood on the burning deck 3. Tubal Cain was a man of might 4. Stone walls do not make a prison 5. The singing of the birds delights us 6. Miss kitty was rude at the table one day 7. He has a good memory 8. Bad habits grow unconsciously 9. The earth revolves round the Sun 10. Nature is the best physician 11. Edison invented the phonograph 12. The sea hath many thousand sands 13. We cannot pump the ocean dry 14. A barking sound the shepherd hears 15. On the top of the hills lives hermit.

Exercise -2
Identify the type of sentence simple, complex or compound. 1. As soon as the boy saw the cobra, he began to run. 2. The South Pole is too cold for human beings to live in. 3. A hundred percent in English is a very high score and it is almost impossible for the student to achieve this. 4. On account of mismanagement, the company suffered a great loss. 5. In spite of being supplied with the best weapons, the army could not win the battle. 6. The rooms were so selected as to enable me to reach the place of my interview. 7. It is in the field of education that the seed of secularism has to be sown at the earliest stage possible so that the plant can be carefully 8. Out hope that the clouds would disperse, was cheering.

9. To most people a long journey by motorcar is exhausting and disagreeable. 10. Although mountains are undoubtedly impressive, they have a kind of dreadful monotony that makes people like me, feel hostile to their beauty Exercises-3 Name the part of speech of each italicized word 1. Still waters run deep 2. He still lives in that house. 3. The after effects of drug are bad 4. The up train is late 5. It weighs about a pound 6. He told us all about the battle 7. He was only a yard off me. 8. Muslims fast in the month of Ramzan 9. He kept the fast for the week 10. He is on the committee 11. Sit down and rest a while 12. I will watch while you sleep. 13. They while away their evenings with books and magazines