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Grade-8 - Worksheet - Agreement of Tenses - Main and Subordinate Clause

This document contains a worksheet with exercises on agreement of tense between main and subordinate clauses, use of prepositions, compound adjectives, and verb forms. The worksheet contains examples of sentences where the tenses do not agree between main and subordinate clauses and asks the student to rewrite them correctly. It also contains fill-in-the-blank exercises requiring the student to use the correct verb form or prepositional phrase. Finally, it provides sentences where the student must replace a phrase with a compound adjective. The exercises are meant to practice key grammatical concepts for an 8th grade student.

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Grade-8 - Worksheet - Agreement of Tenses - Main and Subordinate Clause

This document contains a worksheet with exercises on agreement of tense between main and subordinate clauses, use of prepositions, compound adjectives, and verb forms. The worksheet contains examples of sentences where the tenses do not agree between main and subordinate clauses and asks the student to rewrite them correctly. It also contains fill-in-the-blank exercises requiring the student to use the correct verb form or prepositional phrase. Finally, it provides sentences where the student must replace a phrase with a compound adjective. The exercises are meant to practice key grammatical concepts for an 8th grade student.

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Grade 8 

              JAYSHREE PERIWAL HIGH SCHOOL 2021-2022

WORKBOOK – WORKSHEET-8

Agreement of Tense: Main and Subordinate Clauses

A. Read these sentences. Check if the tenses in the main and subordinate clauses are in agreement.
Rewrite the sentences in which the tenses do not agree in your notebook.
1. As he was not there, I cannot speak to him.
2. I will wait for Suresh until he came.
3. I didn’t know whether he is innocent.
4. Please tell me that you have put my books in order.
5. The man who commits the theft last night will be caught.
6. It is difficult to understand why he mistrusted his own children
7. As I walked out of school, it will start to rain.
8. Ajay insisted that he wears his new watch to school.
9. Mother called us when dinner is ready.
10. We eat so that we have lived.
11. We had completed our tennis match before she comes.
12. Aunt has been preparing food when the guests arrived yesterday.
B. Complete each sentence with the correct form of the highlighted verb.
1. All the participants will get the chance to showcase their talent in the music programme which
_______________ (telecast) next Monday.
2. The family seated behind us was talking, which _____________ (be) anuisance.
3. Some people’s belief that they can change the society ____________ (seem) to be more hopeful than
realistic.
4. I __________ (take) a break and _________ (go) to Shillong last month.
5. I _________ (be) alone in the house for long hours since both my parents work.
6. Ranita __________ (show) me her t-shirt that glows in the dark.
C. Complete these sentences by choosing the correct prepositional phrases from the box.

1. __________ Mohan made a fuss and refused to stand for the school union elections, but _____________
he agreed.
2. We met _______________. The meeting was wholly accidental and ______________ preplanned.
3. Your idea sounds alright ________________, but I am sure it will work _______________.
4. “What brings you here? Are you here _______________ or __________________?” “Neither business nor
holiday. I’m here in my official capacity as the Collector of the district. I am _____________.”
5. I am sorry, I don’t know those people. Some of them I recognise _________, but I don’y know any of
them ________.
D. Here are six compound adjectives. Rewrite these sentences using compound adjectives in the place
of the highlighted words.

1. The shoplifter was caught in the act


2. People should be tolerant of other people’s cultures. They should be more unbiased.
3. Ishani couldn’t understand what the teacher asked. She was not paying attention.
4. In order to be a translator, one needs to be knowledgeable of foreign languages.
5. Once the instructor explained the procedure, Rita stopped being confused.
6. Karan does not work full time at the shopping complex.

Grade 8                JAYSHREE PERIWAL HIGH SCHOOL 2021-2022 WORKBOOK – WORKSHEET-8 Agreement of Tense: Main and Subordinate
3. Your idea sounds alright ________________, but I am sure it will work _______________. 4. “What brings you here? Are you h

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