english board exam grammer 40 marks

For Class 10 Board Exam 2026

You can directly use this to take a full class.

🟦 PART 1 – EDITING (Error Correction)

🎯 Objective

Students identify and correct grammatical errors in a given passage.

📌 Marks Pattern

5–6 sentences

1 mark each

Error + Correction format

🔹 Types of Errors Frequently Asked

Area

Common Errors

Tenses

have → has, is → was

Modals

can → could

Prepositions

in → at, than → to

Articles

a → an

Subject-Verb

boys has → boys have

Determiners

much → many

Pronouns

his → their

Conjunctions

but → and

🟩 TEACHING STRATEGY

Step 1: Identify Subject

Step 2: Check Verb Agreement

Step 3: Check Tense

Step 4: Check Articles & Prepositions

Step 5: Read sentence logically

📝 Board Pattern Example 1

The boy do not like playing outside.

He prefer to stay inside the house.

Error

Correction

do

does

prefer

prefers

📝 Board Pattern Example 2

She is senior than me and live in Delhi since 2010.

Error

Correction

than

to

live

has lived

🔥 Most Repeated Error Areas (Last 5–7 Years)

✔ Subject-Verb Agreement

✔ Present Perfect vs Past

✔ Since/For

✔ Comparative degree (senior to, prefer to)

✔ Articles before vowels

🟦 PART 2 – GAP FILLING

Usually 5 questions

1 mark each

Three major areas:

🟩 A. TENSES (Most Important)

🎯 Frequently Tested Tenses

Tense

Common Question Type

Present Perfect

since/for

Past Continuous

was/were + ing

Future Perfect

will have

Conditional

If clause

Simple Past

yesterday/ago

📝 Practice (Board Level)

She ______ (finish) her work before I arrived.

Answer: had finished

If he ______ (study) hard, he will pass.

Answer: studies

They ______ (play) cricket when it started raining.

Answer: were playing

He ______ (live) here since 2015.

Answer: has lived

🟨 Teaching Tip

Teach students:

👉 Look for time words

since / for

yesterday

already

when

by next year

if

Time words decide tense.

🟩 B. MODALS

🎯 Function-Based Learning

Modal

Use

Must

Obligation

Should

Advice

May

Permission

Can

Ability

Could

Past ability

Might

Possibility

Ought to

Moral duty

📝 Practice

You ______ obey traffic rules.

Answer: must

______ I come in?

Answer: May

She ______ speak French when she was five.

Answer: could

We ______ help the needy.

Answer: should

🔥 Most Asked Modal Concepts

✔ Obligation vs Advice

✔ Permission

✔ Past ability

✔ Possibility

🟩 C. REPORTED SPEECH (Very Important)

Appears almost every year.

🎯 Rules Summary

1️⃣ Tense Change

Present → Past

Will → Would

Can → Could

2️⃣ Pronoun Change

I → he/she

My → his/her

3️⃣ Time Words Change

Direct

Indirect

today

that day

tomorrow

next day

now

then

here

there

📝 Board Pattern Practice

He said, “I am tired.”

Answer: He said that he was tired.

She said to me, “Where are you going?”

Answer: She asked me where I was going.

The teacher said, “Do your homework.”

Answer: The teacher ordered/advised us to do our homework.

Rahul said, “I will call you tomorrow.”

Answer: Rahul said that he would call me the next day.

🔥 Most Repeated Question Types (Trend Based)

✔ Statement → Indirect

✔ WH Question → asked

✔ Yes/No Question → asked if/whether

✔ Imperative → ordered/advised/requested

🟦 COMMON STUDENT MISTAKES

❌ Forgetting tense change

❌ Not changing pronoun

❌ Not changing time words

❌ Using wrong reporting verb

🟦 2026 BOARD PREDICTION

✔ Editing passage with subject-verb + preposition error

✔ Gap filling with Present Perfect & Conditional

✔ One imperative reported speech

✔ One WH question conversion