Chapter 5
Fun with Language
1. Question:Where did the students of class five meet to talk with each other?
Answer: The students of class five met in the playground of their school during recess to talk with each other and discuss something interesting about language.
2. Question:What interesting thing did Ajay want to share with his friends?
Answer: Ajay wanted to share something interesting about names and explain how names are related to nouns in English grammar.
3. Question: Why did Leela think that Ajay was going to say something about English?
Answer:Leela thought that Ajay would talk about English because he had just attended an English class before the recess.
4. Question:What example did Ajay use to explain a noun?
Answer: Ajay used the name Rohit, which was the name of Leela’s younger brother, to explain that a name is called a noun.
5. Question:What did Ajay say about the name Rohit?
Answer: Ajay said that Rohit is a name and every name is called a noun.
6. Question:What did Leela understand about nouns from Ajay’s explanation?
Answer: Leela understood that the names of persons such as Gopal, John and Bhavana are nouns.
7. Question:What question did Nafees ask Ajay about nouns?
Answer: Nafees asked Ajay whether the names of things and places could also be called nouns.
8. Question:How did Ajay answer Nafees’s question?
Answer: Ajay replied that the names of things and places are also nouns.
9. Question:What examples did Neha give during the discussion?
Answer: Neha asked whether the names of birds, animals, buses, cars, trains, stars, the sun and the moon could also be nouns.
10. Question:What explanation did Ajay give about nouns?
Answer: Ajay explained that everything around us that has a name given by humans for recognition is called a noun.
11. Question:What examples of names of persons were given by Leela?
Answer: Leela gave examples such as Mohan, Salim, Madhuri, Tom and Suresh as names of persons.
12. Question:What type of nouns are names of persons?
Answer:Names of persons are called proper nouns.
13. Question:What examples of places were given by Neha?
Answer: Neha gave examples of places such as Bhopal, Burhanpur, Tawanagar, Delhi and Mumbai.
14. Question:What type of nouns are names of places?
Answer: Names of places are also called proper nouns.
15. Question:What examples of things were given by Nafees?
Answer: Nafees gave examples such as train, bus, table, chair, pen and pencil.
16. Question:What type of nouns are the names of things?
Answer: The names of things are called common nouns.
17. Question:What examples of birds and animals did Tom give?
Answer: Tom gave examples such as parrot, sparrow, crow, cuckoo, peacock, cow, goat, sheep, elephant and tiger.
18. Question:What type of nouns are birds and animals?
Answer: Birds and animals are also common nouns.
19. Question:How did the friends react to the discussion about nouns?
Answer: The friends said that the discussion was really interesting.
20. Question:How did the students define a noun?
Answer: The students defined a noun by saying that a noun is a naming word.
21. Question:Who happened to pass by during their discussion?
Answer: Their teacher Mr. Singh happened to pass by while they were discussing about nouns.
22. Question:What did Mr. Singh ask the children?
Answer: Mr. Singh asked the children what they were doing.
23. Question:What did Ajay reply to the teacher?
Answer: Ajay replied that they were discussing about nouns.
24. Question: What did Mr. Singh say about their discussion?
Answer: Mr. Singh said that their understanding was correct and he was happy that they were doing something good.
25. Question:What is a pronoun according to the discussion?
Answer: A pronoun is a word used in place of a noun.
26. Question:What does the pronoun “he” stand for in the story?
Answer: The pronoun “he” stands for the man who was cycling along the road.
27. Question:What does the pronoun “she” stand for?
Answer: The pronoun “she” stands for the woman who was the wife of the man.
28. Question:What does the pronoun “they” stand for?
Answer: The pronoun “they” stands for the man, his wife and their children together.
29. Question:When do we use the pronoun “he”?
Answer: We use the pronoun “he” for a male when the noun is in singular number.
30. Question:When do we use the pronoun “she”?
Answer: We use the pronoun “she” for a female when the noun is in singular number.
31. Question:When do we use the pronoun “they”?
Answer: We use the pronoun “they” when the noun is in plural number.
32. Question:What does the pronoun “it” stand for in Ajay’s example?
Answer: In the example given by Ajay, the pronoun “it” stands for the book.
33. Question:Who was Ramu in the story?
Answer: Ramu was a blind old man who lived in a cottage.
34. Question:What did Ramu carry when he went out at night?
Answer: Ramu carried a pitcher of water under his arm and a lantern in his hand.
35. Question:What question did the young man ask Ramu?
Answer: The young man asked Ramu why he was carrying a lantern when he could not see.
36. Question:What answer did Ramu give to the young man?
Answer: Ramu said that the lantern was not for him but for others so that people could see him and avoid knocking against him.
37. Question:How did the young man feel after hearing Ramu’s reply?
Answer: The young man felt ashamed of his behaviour.
38. Question:What does the story of Ramu teach us?
Answer: The story teaches us to think about others and not make fun of people.
39. Question:What did Rahul say when he entered the classroom late?
Answer: Rahul asked the teacher politely if he could come in and explained that he had missed the bus.
40. Question:What did Ashok ask the teacher in the classroom?
Answer:Ashok asked the teacher to explain the problem again because he could not understand it the previous day.
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