WBBSE 9th Class English Solutions – Grammar – 3 Sentence: Functions and Types
WBBSE 9th Class English Solutions – Grammar – 3 Sentence: Functions and Types
West Bengal Board 9th Class English Solutions – Grammar – 3 Sentence: Functions and Types
WBBSE 9th Class English Solutions
WORKED-OUT TEXTUAL EXAMPLES
Read the following sentences and state what kind of sentences they are:
Tales of Bhola Grandpa
1. He did not realise when those fingers slipped out.
Ans. Complex sentence
2. Enquiry revealed that Bhola Grandpa had taken his grandson to the festival.
Ans. Complex sentence
3. Then someone asked Bhola Grandpa what he was gripping.
Ans. Complex sentence
4. He remembered his grandson and let out a wail.
Ans. Compound sentence
5. At this point of time, Bhola Grandpa confessed that there was no real treasure.
Ans. Complex sentence
6. Bhola Grandpa turned and found the bright gaze of the tiger on his face.
Ans. Compound sentence
7. The tiger roared and circled the tree about a hundred times.
Ans. Compound sentence
8. Then Bhola Grandpa remembered the tiger and looked at it.
Ans. Compound sentence
9. Bhola Grandpa climbed the mound and requested the first man he saw for some water to drink.
Ans. Compound sentence
All about a Dog
1. It was a bitterly cold night, and even at the far end of the bus the east wind cut like a knife.
Ans. Compound sentence
2. The bus stopped and two women and a man got in together and filled the vacant places.
Ans. Compound sentence
3. This was the opportunity for which the conductor had been waiting, and he intended to make the most of it.
Ans. Compound sentence
4. I had marked him as the type who had a general vague grievance about everything.
Ans. Complex sentence
5. He seemed to have a particular grievance against passengers who came and sat in his bus while he shivered at the door.
Ans. Complex sentence
6. She had evidently expected the challenge and knew the reply.
Ans. Compound sentence
7. The conductor pulled the bell, and the bus stopped.
Ans. Compound sentence
8. He stepped on to the pavement and waited.
Ans. Compound sentence
9. Two or three passengers got out and disappeared into the night.
Ans. Compound sentence
10. She expressed her anger to the three policeman who stood up the street watching the drama.
Ans. Complex sentence
11. Then she came back, called her companion, and vanished.
Ans. Compound sentence
A Day in the Zoo
1. It is quite another thing to own a zoo and live in it.
Ans. Compound sentence
2. The sky will be slightly tinged with yellow when you are awakened by the birdsong.
Ans. Complex sentence
3. A male peahen is dancing, his burnished tail raised like a fountain in the sunlight.
Ans. Simple sentence
4. The gorillas have been let out of their cages while the cages are cleaned.
Ans. Complex sentence
5. They try to wrench the electric heaters from their sockets, or break the fluorescent lights.
Ans. Compound sentence
6. You pass slowly down the house to the big case at the end where the touracos now live.
Ans. Complex sentence
7. Then, if you call to him, he will fly down and land on a perch nearest to you.
Ans. Complex sentence
8. As they come flooding into the grounds, everyone has to be alert.
Ans. Complex sentence
9. This is not to ensure that the animals do not hurt the people, but to make sure that the people do not hurt the animals.
Ans. Compound sentence
30. The slanting rays of the sun light the cage where the crowned pigeons live.
Ans. Complex sentence
All Summer in a Day
1. A thousand forests crushed under the rain, had grown up a thousand times to be crushed again.
Ans. Simple sentence
2. Here was located the schoolroom of the children belonging to men and women who came by rockets from Earth.
Ans. Complex sentence
3. When the sun came out last time seven years ago they were too young.
Ans. Complex sentence
4. They could not recall the sun when it came out for just an hour and showed its face to the stunned world.
Ans. Complex sentence
5. They had been only two years old when the sun last came out.
Ans. Complex sentence
6. They played in the echoing tunnels of the underground city and sang of summer and the sun.
Ans. Compound sentence
7. It was as if a hurricane had lost its sound.
Ans. Complex sentence
8. The silence was so immense one would feel as if the ears had been stuffed.
Ans. Complex sentence
9. It was the colour of flaming bronze and it was very large.
Ans. Compound sentence
10. The jungle grew and never stopped growing.
Ans. Compound sentence
Tom Loses a Tooth
1. Presently, he wished that he was sick; then he could stay home from school.
Ans. Compound sentence
2. He thought that he had found symptoms of stomach trouble.
Ans. Complex sentence
3. However, the symptoms soon grew feeble and wholly went away.
Ans. Compound sentence
4. Tom thought he would hold the tooth in reserve for the present.
Ans. Complex sentence
5. He remembered hearing from a doctor that a certain ailment could lay up a patient for three days and make him lose a finger.
Ans. Complex sentence
6. He eagerly drew his sore toe from under the sheet and held it up for inspection.
Ans. Compound sentence
7. He fancied that he began to feel pain in the toe
Ans. Complex sentence
8. Sid shook him and looked in his face anxiously
Ans. Compound sentence
9. Her face grew pale and her lips trembled.
Ans. Compound sentence
10. She laughed a little, then cried a little.
Ans. Compound sentence
11. When he had run forward to the brink of the ledge he became afraid.
Ans. Complex sentence
12. The great expanse of the sea stretched down beneath, and it was miles down.
Ans. Compound sentence
13. He felt certain that his wings would never support him.
Ans. Complex sentence
14. So he bent his head and ran away back to the little hole where he slept at night.
Ans. Compound sentence
15. They were teaching them the art of flight and how to dive for fish.
Ans. Simple sentence
16. He had seen his older brother catch his first herring, while his parents circled around proudly.
Ans. Complex sentence
17. The sun was now ascending the sky, blazing warmly on his ledge that faced the south.
Ans. Complex sentence
18. He felt the heat because he had not eaten since the previous nightfall.
Ans. Complex sentence
19. There was no ledge, and he was not a fly.
Ans. Compound sentence
20. He could surely reach them without flying if he could only move northwards along the cliff.
Ans. Complex sentence
The Price of Bananas
1. The monkey was generous and threw it down from the neem tree at the man’s feet.
Ans. Compound sentence
2. I was struck by the genius of a monkey in snatching away the loin cloth of a pious person who was taking a bath under the pump.
Ans. Complex sentence
3. While all this was going on, I noticed a gentleman come up to our compartment.
Ans. Complex sentence
4. A porter was carrying his luggage which included a big steel trunk,j several small baskets and a brass jug.
Ans. Complex sentence
5. He ran towards the tree over the pump and stood threatening the monkey. .
Ans. Compound sentence
6. However, the more he shouted at the monkey, the remoter the monkey became.
Ans. Complex sentence
7. It was the same monkey that had snatched the bather’s loin cloth.
Ans. Complex sentence
8. He told the Sethji that he would rescue the cap.
Ans. Complex sentence
9. The whole platform became silent and waited, with bated breath, for the impossible to happen.
Ans. Compound sentence
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