CBSE Class 9 English Communicative Connectors

1.  Read the English folktale given below and fill up the blank spaces with suitable words. 

There were once three tortoises - a father, a mother (a) ______ a baby. (b)_____ one fine  morning during Spring, they decided (c) ______ they would like to go for a picnic. They  picked the place (d) ______ they would go; a nice wood at some distance, (e) ______ they  began to put their things together. They got tins of cheese, vegetables, meat and fruit  preserves.  In  about  three  months,  they  were  ready.  They  set  out  carrying  their  baskets (f) _____ eighteen months, they sat down for a rest. They knew (g) _____ they  were already half way to the picnic place.  In three years they reached there. They unpacked (h) ________ spread out the canned  food. Then, mother began to search inside the basket. She turned it upside down and  shook it (i) _____ something important was missing.  "We've forgotten the tin- opener. Baby, you'll have to go back. We can't start without a  tin-opener. We'll wait for you".  "Do you promise (j) __________ you won't touch a thing (k) _____ I come back?" "Yes, we promise faithfully," Mother and father said together.  Soon after, he was lost among the bushes.  So, they waited and waited. A year went by and they were getting hungry. They had  promised (l)______ they waited. They began to feel really hungry (m) ______ the sixth  year was about to end.  Mother tortoise said, "He'd never know the difference." "No," said the father tortoise.  Mother  tortoise  said,  "He  ought  to  be  back  by  now.  Let's  just  have  one  sandwich  (n)_______ we are waiting."  They picked up the sandwiches, (o) _______ as they were going to eat them, a little  voice said, "Aha! I knew you'd cheat! It's a good thing I didn't start for that tin opener,"  baby Tortoise said.

1.1  Based  on  your  reading  of  the  passage,  complete  the  statements  using  given connectors. 

1.2  Notice  how  ideas  are  connected  in  the  story.  Write  what  the  following  words you just used in 1.1 imply by choosing suitable options from the  box.

a) The mother, father ________________thought ____________________(and) 

b) They planned to walk to the woods ____________________________ (which)

c) They reached the place ___________________________________in eighteen  months (which)

d) They eagerly unpacked their picnic basket ____________________________  (but)

e) It  was  ___________________________________________,  when  the  three  tortoises arrived at the picnic, place. (after)

f) The mother tortoise ordered the baby to go home for the opener, saying  _______________________ (that).

g) ________________________________________________ (but) was not willing  at first.

h) The Mother and Father promised to wait ________________________ (until)

i) ___________________________________, they began to get very hungry. (after)

Note: You have combined and completed each sentence with the help of words  called connectors.

and :

but :

where :

while :

after :

until :

so :

Please refer to the link below - CBSE Class 9 English Communicative Connectors