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YEAR 9
ENGLISH
WORKSHEET4

Question 1 a) Identify the part of speech of the underlined words by from the table.
noun adverb adjective pronoun preposition

1. Our dog likes playing with children.

2. Anna’s younger brother attends this school too.

3. Pita, Keni and Maraia are running alongside each other.

4. Samu did not go to Nadi yesterday.
5. Instead, he went to Nausori.

b) Write down the plural form of the singular words given.

1. lady 2. life 3. child 4. thief 5. deer

C. Write down the correct spelling of the following words.

1. neccesary
2. tommorrow
3. carefull
4. un known
5. belance

Question 2 Punctuation
Place capital letters where appropriate in the sentences given below.
1. my favourite subject is english.
2. i live in bonu street in nausori.
3. his excellency gave a speech on television.
4. he attends suva sangam college.

5. i hate watching the shortland street drama.

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Question 3 Affix
Fill in the blank spaces below with the correct prefix.
1. Dave speaks Fijian and Hindi fluently; he is ______________. (lingual)
2. Joe enjoyed his travel to Suva and vowed to ___________ the following year. (visit)
3. The campers _________ the map and got lost. (read)
4. The customer was _________ with the item and complained to the Manager. (satisfy)
5. James failed the job interview because he was ____________. (qualify)
6. Their rugby team was ______________ for coming late. (qualify)
7. It was an ____________ task that no one completed successfully. (possible)
8. Isireli became ___________ after taking the drugs and everyone stayed away. (social)
9. However, he developed ___________ artistic skills that amazed everyone. (ordinary)
10. The class worked in __________ and won the competition. (operation)