Class 6 · 6th standard · 2026-27

Class 6 English worksheets, free, with every answer on the page

Three free Class 6 English worksheets, with every question and every answer printed on this page rather than behind a download. Class 6 is the year comprehension moves from what a passage says to what it implies, agreement starts being marked strictly, and a written answer is expected to hold a position rather than only describe. Every exercise opens with one question worked through, and the model answers are marked out so the shape is visible rather than implied.

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3 worksheets · 59 questions · every answer on the page · no sign-up · aligned to NCERT's Class 6 English reader is Poorvi. Many schools use their own readers, so these sheets are written to the skills rather than to one book's chapters.

What these practise

Simple, continuous and perfect tense forms, chosen from the time clue
Subject-verb agreement, including phrases sitting between subject and verb
Holding one tense across a paragraph
Answering a directly stated comprehension question quickly
Inference with the evidence quoted
Working out a word's meaning from context
Notice writing format, and the four things a notice body must answer
A paragraph that states a position, gives reasons and acknowledges the other side

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Tenses and subject-verb agreement

Class 6 English · Grammar · 25 questions with answers

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Class 6 adds the continuous and perfect forms to the three basic tenses, and starts marking subject-verb agreement strictly. Most errors are with collective nouns and with a phrase sitting between the subject and the verb.

Uses simple, continuous and perfect forms correctly
Makes the verb agree with the subject even when words come between them
Keeps one tense through a paragraph

Exercise 1 of 3 · 12 questions

Fill in the correct form of the verb in brackets.

Fill in the blank · Warm-up

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She ______ (write) a letter when the phone rang. → was writing. Two things happened: one was going on, the other interrupted it. The one going on takes the continuous form. Look for the time clue in every sentence - when, since, by the time, every Sunday - because it chooses the tense before you think about the verb at all.

1)She ______ (write) a letter when the phone rang.
2)They ______ (finish) their homework before dinner yesterday.
3)I ______ (live) in Pune since 2019.
4)By the time we arrived, the film ______ (start).
5)Look! The baby ______ (sleep).
6)He ______ (visit) his grandmother every Sunday.
7)We ______ (wait) for an hour before the bus came.
8)She ______ (not finish) her project yet.
9)The train ______ (leave) at six tomorrow morning.
10)While I ______ (read), the lights went out.
11)They ______ (know) each other since childhood.
12)By next June he ______ (complete) five years here.

Answers

1) was writing
2) had finished
3) have lived
4) had started
5) is sleeping
6) visits
7) had waited (or had been waiting)
8) has not finished
9) leaves
10) was reading
11) have known
12) will have completed

Exercise 2 of 3 · 12 questions

Choose the correct verb.

Fill in the blank · Guided

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The box of books ______ heavy. → is. The subject is 'the box', not 'books' - the phrase 'of books' sits in between and pulls the ear towards the plural. Cover the middle phrase with a finger and the right answer becomes obvious. This is the single most common agreement error in Class 6.

1)The box of books ______ (is / are) heavy.
2)Neither of the answers ______ (is / are) correct.
3)The team ______ (has / have) won the match.
4)One of my friends ______ (live / lives) in Delhi.
5)The children ______ (was / were) playing outside.
6)Mathematics ______ (is / are) my favourite subject.
7)Each of the students ______ (was / were) given a book.
8)The news ______ (is / are) good.
9)Ten kilometres ______ (is / are) a long way to walk.
10)My scissors ______ (is / are) blunt.
11)Everybody in the class ______ (know / knows) the answer.
12)A pair of shoes ______ (was / were) kept outside.

Answers

1) is
2) is
3) has
4) lives
5) were
6) is
7) was
8) is
9) is
10) are
11) knows
12) was

Exercise 3 of 3 · 1 questions

This paragraph drifts between tenses. Rewrite it consistently in the past.

Write the answer · Practice

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We arrive → We arrived. Then: is waiting → was waiting, takes → took, explains → explained, take → took, look → looked, leave → left, is → was. Note that 'were found' was already past and stays as it is - a child changing it too has stopped reading and started applying a rule.

1)We arrive at the museum at ten. The guide is waiting near the entrance and takes us to the first room. She explains how the fossils were found. Some of us take notes while others just look. We leave at one o'clock and everyone is tired but happy.

Answers

1) We arrived at the museum at ten. The guide was waiting near the entrance and took us to the first room. She explained how the fossils were found. Some of us took notes while others just looked. We left at one o'clock and everyone was tired but happy.

While your child works

For agreement, cover the phrase between the subject and the verb with a finger. It fixes most errors instantly and needs no rule.
Find the time clue first in tense questions - when, since, by the time, every Sunday. It chooses the tense before the verb is even considered.
In the paragraph, one verb is already correct. A child who changes it has stopped reading and started applying a rule mechanically.

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practice · medium · 25 min

Reading an unseen passage

Class 6 English · Comprehension · 27 questions with answers

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Class 6 comprehension asks what a passage implies, what a word means from its context, and what the writer thinks. Only the first few questions can be answered by finding a line.

Answers a directly stated question quickly and moves on
Answers an inference question with evidence attached
Works out a word's meaning from the sentence around it

Exercise 1 of 3 · 10 questions

Read the passage, then answer. PASSAGE: The old clock in the hall had not worked for years. Nobody in the family could quite remember when it had stopped, though everyone agreed it had been before the move. Ravi's grandmother still wound it every Sunday morning, turning the small brass key exactly seven times. When Ravi asked her why, since the hands never moved, she said that some things are worth keeping in the habit of caring for. He did not entirely understand her then. He wound it himself every Sunday after she was gone.

Write the answer · Warm-up

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How often did she wind it? → every Sunday morning. Stated directly in the third sentence, so this should take seconds. The third question is the interesting one - the honest answer is that nobody knows exactly, and writing that is better than inventing a date the passage does not give.

1)How often did the grandmother wind the clock?
2)How many times did she turn the key?
3)When had the clock stopped working?
4)What did Ravi do after his grandmother was gone?
5)Where in the house was the clock kept?
6)On which day of the week did she wind it?
7)What did Ravi's grandmother use to wind the clock?
8)For how long had the clock not worked?
9)What reason did the family give for the clock stopping?
10)What did Ravi not entirely understand at the time?

Answers

1) She wound it every Sunday morning.
2) She turned it exactly seven times.
3) Nobody could remember exactly, but everyone agreed it was before the move.
4) He wound the clock himself every Sunday.
5) It was in the hall.
6) On Sunday morning.
7) A key, which she turned seven times.
8) Long enough that nobody could remember exactly when it stopped.
9) That it had stopped before the family moved house.
10) Her answer about why she kept winding a clock that no longer worked.

Exercise 2 of 3 · 8 questions

None of these are stated. Answer, and give your evidence.

Write the answer · Guided

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Did Ravi understand at the time? → No - the passage says 'not entirely... then', and 'then' implies he does now. The single word 'then' is doing all the work. Inference questions usually turn on one specific word, so the useful instruction to a child is: find the word that made you think it, and quote it.

1)Did Ravi understand his grandmother's answer at the time?
2)What does the last sentence suggest about the grandmother?
3)Why might the family have kept a clock that does not work?
4)How does Ravi feel about his grandmother now?
5)Why does the writer mention that she turned the key exactly seven times?
6)What does the clock stand for in this passage, beyond being a clock?
7)Does Ravi wind the clock for the same reason his grandmother did? Explain.
8)What kind of person does the grandmother seem to have been?

Answers

1) No. The passage says he did not entirely understand her then, and the word 'then' suggests he does now.
2) That she has died, since it says Ravi wound it 'after she was gone' and speaks of her in the past.
3) Because it mattered to them for reasons other than telling the time - it had been in the family and the grandmother cared for it.
4) He values what she taught him, because he now continues the same habit himself without being asked.
5) It shows how careful and regular she was - the number matters to her even though the clock does not run.
6) It stands for the family's memory and for the habit of caring for something, which outlast whether it works.
7) Answers will differ. She wound it out of long habit and attachment; he winds it to keep her memory and her habit alive.
8) Patient and steady - she kept up a small act of care for years without needing a practical reason for it.

Exercise 3 of 3 · 9 questions

What does each phrase mean here? Use the passage to work it out.

Write the answer · Practice

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'wound it' → turned the key to make the mechanism work. Your child may know 'wound' only as an injury. The sentence says she wound it by turning a key, so this must be a different word with a different meaning. Working that out from the sentence is the skill - looking it up is not.

1)wound it
2)before the move
3)in the habit of caring for
4)the hall
5)exactly
6)nobody could remember
7)entirely
8)after she was gone
9)kept

Answers

1) Turned the key to make the clock's mechanism work.
2) Before the family shifted to a different house.
3) Continuing to look after something regularly, even without an obvious reason.
4) The main open space or passage inside the house.
5) Precisely that number, no more and no fewer.
6) So long ago that the memory of it had faded for everyone.
7) Completely or fully.
8) After she had died.
9) Held on to and looked after, rather than thrown away.

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For inference, ask 'which word made you think that?' and have them quote it. Almost every inference question turns on one specific word.
'Nobody knows exactly' is sometimes the correct answer. Children invent a detail rather than write that, and lose the mark for it.
Do not let them look up the vocabulary. Working it out from context is the whole exercise.

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practice · challenging · 25 min

Notice writing and holding a position

Class 6 English · Writing · 7 questions with answers

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Notice writing carries format marks that are awarded before the content is read, which makes it the most reliable question in the Class 6 paper. Paragraph writing now asks the child to hold a position rather than only describe something.

Lays out a notice with every required part in place
Writes a notice body that answers what, when, where and who
Writes a paragraph that takes a position and supports it

Exercise 1 of 3 · 5 questions

Put the parts of a notice in order. Number them 1 to 5.

Put in order · Warm-up

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The school name comes first, then the word NOTICE, then the date and heading, then the body, then the writer's name and role. These format marks are given before anyone reads what the notice actually says, which makes this order the cheapest thing on the paper to secure.

1)A. Body - what, when, where, who it is for
2)B. Name of the school or organisation
3)C. The word NOTICE
4)D. Name and designation of the writer
5)E. Date, and a heading that says what it is about

Answers

1) B, C, E, A, D

Exercise 2 of 3 · 1 questions

Write a notice for your school notice board about a lost water bottle.

Write the answer · Guided

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The body answers four questions in three sentences: what was lost, when and where, how to identify it, and what to do if you find it. A notice that leaves out any one of those is incomplete even if the format is perfect - and 'what to do next' is the one children forget.

1)Lost water bottle - notice for the school notice board

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1) SUNRISE PUBLIC SCHOOL NOTICE 15 July 2026 LOST WATER BOTTLE A blue steel water bottle was lost near the school playground on 14 July, during the games period. It has the name 'Ananya' written on the base. Anyone who finds it is requested to hand it in to the class teacher of Class 6-B or to the school office. Ananya Rao Class 6-B

Exercise 3 of 3 · 1 questions

Write a paragraph of six sentences taking a position, with reasons.

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The model paragraph states a position in the first sentence, gives two reasons, acknowledges the other side ('that said...'), proposes something, and closes. Acknowledging the opposite view is what separates a Class 6 answer from a Class 4 one - it shows the writer has considered it rather than only asserted. Your child's position may be the opposite of this one and score just as well.

1)Should students be given homework every day?

Answers

1) I do not think students should be given homework every single day. A short break from written work lets a child come back to a subject with more attention rather than less. Homework given daily also becomes a task to finish rather than something to think about, which defeats its purpose. That said, some regular practice is genuinely useful, especially in subjects like maths where a skill fades without use. A better arrangement would be homework three or four days a week, with more time given for each piece. That way the work is still done, but it is done properly.

While your child works

Format marks come before content marks. Learn the notice order once and it pays in every paper up to Class 10.
In the notice body, check all four: what, when and where, how to identify, and what to do. 'What to do' is the one children leave out.
For the opinion paragraph, either position is correct. Judge it on whether reasons are given and whether the other side is acknowledged.

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What changes in Class 6 English?

Three things, and the third is the one most children are not told about.

Grammar becomes marked rather than used. Tenses, agreement and clauses were all in use in Class 5. Class 6 names them and takes marks off when they are wrong - particularly subject-verb agreement, where a phrase between the subject and the verb pulls the ear towards the wrong answer.

Comprehension moves to inference. Questions stop asking what the passage says and start asking what it suggests, what a word means in context, and what the writer thinks. A child who reads accurately but literally answers 'it does not say' and loses the mark.

Writing has to take a position. A Class 4 paragraph described something. A Class 6 paragraph is expected to argue something, give reasons, and ideally acknowledge the other side - which is a genuinely different skill and rarely taught explicitly.

How should we use these at home?

Twenty to twenty-five minutes each, once or twice a week. Every exercise opens with a worked example, and both writing tasks come with model answers that have the shape marked out rather than just the content given.

For agreement, cover the middle phrase with a finger. It fixes most errors instantly and needs no rule at all.
For inference, ask 'which word made you think that?' Almost every inference question turns on one specific word, and quoting it is what earns the mark.
Learn the notice format once. Those marks are given before the content is read, and the same format runs to Class 10.
Accept the opposite position in the opinion paragraph. It scores just as well if it is argued.

Where do Class 6 children usually stall?

Four places, all of them habits rather than knowledge gaps.

'The box of books are heavy.' The nearest plural pulls the ear away from the real subject.
Answering 'it does not say' to inference questions. Literal reading, and very common at this age.
Inventing a detail the passage does not give. Sometimes 'nobody knows exactly' is the correct answer, and children will not write it.
Paragraphs that assert without reasons. A position needs support, and acknowledging the other side is what lifts an answer.

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Class 6 English worksheets - your questions

Are these Class 6 English worksheets free?

Yes. Every question and every answer is on this page, with no sign-up, no email wall and no account. The printable version puts the answers on a separate final sheet.

Do these include an answer key?

Yes, under each exercise on this page and on a separate sheet when printed. The writing tasks have model answers with the shape marked out, and the key says where more than one answer is correct.

Why does my child write 'the box of books are heavy'?

Because the plural word nearest the verb pulls the ear. The subject is 'the box'. Covering the phrase in between with a finger fixes it faster than any rule, and it is the most common agreement error at this level.

My child answers 'it does not say' to comprehension questions.

That is literal reading. Rephrase as 'what do you think, and which word made you think it?'. Inference questions almost always turn on one specific word, and quoting it is what earns the mark.

How many marks are for format in notice writing?

A substantial share, awarded before the content is read. That makes it the most reliable question in the writing section, and the same format is used right through to Class 10.

Does the opinion paragraph have a right answer?

No. Either position scores well if it is argued with reasons. What lifts a Class 6 answer above a Class 4 one is acknowledging the other side before disagreeing with it.

Are these matched to NCERT?

They are written to the skills Class 6 expects rather than to one publisher's chapters, so they work whether your school uses NCERT's Poorvi or its own reader.

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Class 6 English worksheets, free, with every answer on the page

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Tenses and subject-verb agreement

Reading an unseen passage

Notice writing and holding a position

Class 6 English - the guide

What changes in Class 6 English?

How should we use these at home?

Where do Class 6 children usually stall?

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