Question 1 - Sentence Transformation - Grammar - English Class 9

Complete the dialogue by choosing the correct alternative from those given below. Only write your answers in the answer-sheet against the correct blank number. (any three)

Neha: Your watch is exclusive. Please tell me (a) ...............

Nidhi: I bought it from a showroom (b) ............... Neha: Will you tell me (c) ...............

Nidhi: (d) ............... Only for five hundred rupees.

(a) (A) when you bought it?(B) why you bought it?(C) where did you buy it from?(D) where you bought it from?

(b) (A) who is situated in Kamla Nagar (B) which is situated in Kamla Nagar (C) whom is situated in Kamla Nagar (D) where is situated in Kamla Nagar

(c) (A) which it cost you? (B) how much did it cost you? (C) how many it cost you? (D) how much it cost you?

(d) (A) I have it (B) I bought it (C) I buy it (D) I shall buy it

Answer:

For part 1

• Option (a) - will be eliminated as ‘when’ is used to enquire about the time of an event
• Option (b) - will be eliminated as ‘why’ is used to enquire about the reason of an event
• Option (c) - This is also correct and can be used in place of option (d)
• Option (d) - This is correct

For part 2

• Option (a) - will be eliminated as ‘who’ is used when the enquiry is about a person
• Option (b) - This is correct
• Option (c) - will be eliminated as ‘whom’ is used when the enquiry is about a person
• Option (d) - will be eliminated as the answer is a statement and not a question.

For part 3

• Option (a) - will be eliminated as ‘which’ is not used with numbers or measurements
• Option (b) - This is correct
• Option (c) - will be eliminated as ‘many’ is not used with monetary measurements
• Option (d) - will be eliminated as it does not contain the verb ‘did’

For part 4

• Option (a) - will be eliminated as ‘have’ is not the correct verb
• Option (b) - This is correct
• Option (c) - will be eliminated as ‘buy’ is present tense and the sentence is in past tense 
• Option (d) - will be eliminated as ‘shall buy’ is future tense and the sentence is in past tense

Thus the correct paragraph is

Neha: Your watch is exclusive. Please tell me where you bought it from?   

Nidhi: I bought it from a showroom which is situated in Kamla nagar.   

Neha: Will you tell me how much did it cost you?  

Nidhi: I bought it only for five hundred rupees.