NCERT Solutions for Class 8 English Grammar

Chapter wise Main Points of Class 8 English Grammar

• Chapter 1. The Sentence
  What is a sentence and how to write a correct sentence? Making right to a wrong sentence. Kinds of sentence like Interrogative, Command, Exclamatory sentences etc.
• Chapter 2. Order of Words
  Proper placement of verb and subject in a sentence. Important points to be learnt like when the Subject is an Interrogative Pronoun, it comes before the verb.
• Chapter 3. Subject and Predicate
  Proper use of subject and predicate. What are subjects and their identification same for predicate also. The correct order of subject and predicate. Structure of simple sentence using suitable subject and predicate.
• Chapter 4. The Noun– Kinds of Noun
  Definition and kinds of noun. Examples of all five kinds of noun using suitable sentence. Conversion of verb to noun and noun to verb. Formation of nouns from adjectives, synonyms and antonyms, singular and plural, etc.
• Chapter 5. The Pronoun
  Definition and kinds of pronoun with suitable examples of each type. Use of pronoun as Nominative case, Objective or Accusative case, Possessive case, Vocative case, etc.

Topic wise Class 8 English Grammar all Chapters

• Chapter 6. The Verb
  Definition and types of verbs. Finite and non-finite verbs with examples. Transitive, intransitive and auxiliary verbs. Difference Between Primary and Modal Auxiliaries, etc.
• Chapter 7. The Adjective
  Adjective with examples and explanation. Attributive and predicative use of adjectives. Kinds of adjectives like Proper, descriptive, Quantitative, Numeral, Demonstrative, Distributive, Interrogative, Exclamatory, Possessive and Emphasising adjectives.
• Chapter 8. The Adverb
  Example sentences of Adverb and its modification to a phase or sentence. Kinds of adverbs like simple, Interrogative and Relative Adverbs.
• Chapter 9. The Tense
  Kinds of tenses and examples of each kind. Present, past and future tense with its further subdivision like simple tense, continuous tense, perfect tense or perfect continuous tense.
• Chapter 10. The Preposition
  Definition and examples of preposition. Examples based on such sentences where there is confusion in words of preposition. Use of prepositions in suitable sentences.

Important Point of the chapters of 8th English Grammar

• Chapter 11. Conjunctions
  Conjunctions and its types like coordinate and subordinate conjunctions. Kinds of Coordinate conjunctions like Cumulative, Adversative, Alternative and Illustrative conjunctions.
• Chapter 12. Interjection
  What are interjection words and how to use it? Examples and words used on interjections or exclamatory sentences.
• Chapter 13. The Article
  How to use articles in proper manner? Use of a, an and the in sentences. Examples of indefinite and definite articles.
• Chapter 14. Punctuation and Capital Letters
  Punctuations provide the correct manner to read the sentence or a paragraph. Various examples based on Comma, Semicolon, Colon, Full stop, Mark of interrogation or Exclamation, Inverted Commas, Apostrophe, etc.
• Chapter 15. Active and Passive Voice
  Examples of active to passive voice or passive to active voice. Rules for the change of voice. Application of active and passive voice in different tenses like present, past and future tense.

Writing and Speech section of Grade 8 English Grammar

• Chapter 16. Direct and Indirect
  Sentences based on direct speech and indirect speech. Identification of reported speech and reporting verb. Conversion of direct speech to indirect speech. Rules for changing direct to indirect speech.
• Chapter 17. Comprehension
  Comprehension of a passage helps to improve our reading skills. Here, we will learn how to find the answers of questions based on comprehension.
• Chapter 18. Story Writing
  Story writing is always an interesting work for students of standard 8. Here, we will learn how to write a story taking the help of instructions given for the story.
• Chapter 19. Letter Writing
  Letter writing can be classified into three kinds as social letters, business letters and official letters. The format of all three kinds of letter are given in simplest form.
• Chapter 20. Essays Writing
  Essay writing consists of mainly three parts, introduction of the topic, body part which contains almost all the detail about the topic and last part conclusion.