Class 9 · 9th standard · 2026-27

Class 9 English worksheets, free, with every answer on the page

Three free Class 9 English worksheets - one grammar, one reading, one writing - with every question, every answer and a full model letter printed on this page rather than behind a download. They are weighted the way the paper is rather than the way revision usually is: grammar practised as pattern recognition, reading practised as evidence-based answering, and writing practised format-first. Every exercise opens with one question worked through in full.

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What these practise

Subject-verb concord where a phrase separates subject from verb
The recurring editing error types - articles, prepositions, concord, tense
Omission: the four things most often missing
Retrieval questions answered fast, so the time goes elsewhere
Inference answered in the child's own words with evidence quoted
The writer's attitude, read from the details chosen
Vocabulary worked out from context rather than looked up
The eight parts of a formal letter
A subject line that states the purpose rather than the topic

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Editing, omission and concord

Class 9 English · Grammar · 30 questions with answers

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Editing questions are not a test of grammar theory - they are pattern recognition. Four or five error types recur in almost every paper: articles, prepositions, subject-verb agreement, tense slips and wrong forms of a word. A child who knows the list scans for them; a child who does not reads the sentence hoping something sounds wrong.

Recognises the recurring error types rather than reasoning each sentence out
Corrects subject-verb agreement where the subject is separated from the verb
Chooses the right article and preposition by pattern
Spots a missing word in an omission exercise

Exercise 1 of 3 · 10 questions

Correct the verb. Say what the subject actually is.

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'The list of items are on the desk' should be 'is', because the subject is 'the list' and not 'items'. This is the single commonest concord error in the paper and it always works the same way: a phrase beginning with 'of' comes between the subject and the verb, and the child agrees the verb with the nearest noun. Cover the 'of' phrase with a finger and the right verb becomes obvious.

1)The list of items are on the desk.
2)Each of the students have submitted the form.
3)Neither of the answers were correct.
4)The quality of the mangoes were poor.
5)Mathematics are my favourite subject.
6)The number of applicants have increased.
7)Bread and butter are my usual breakfast.
8)Ten kilometres are a long distance.
9)Every one of the players were tired.
10)The jury was divided in their opinion.

Answers

1) 'is'. The subject is 'the list', not 'items' - the phrase 'of items' only describes it.
2) 'has'. 'Each' is singular, however many students there are.
3) 'was'. 'Neither' is singular.
4) 'was'. The subject is 'the quality', not 'the mangoes'.
5) 'is'. Mathematics is a singular subject despite ending in -s.
6) has. The subject is 'the number', which is singular; 'of applicants' only describes it.
7) is. 'Bread and butter' is treated as a single item, so it takes a singular verb.
8) is. A measure of distance taken as one quantity is singular.
9) was. The subject is 'every one', which is singular however many players there are.
10) were. When a collective noun acts as separate individuals - here 'divided' - it takes a plural verb.

Exercise 2 of 3 · 10 questions

Each line has one incorrect word. Write the incorrect word and the correction.

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'She has been working here since five years' - the error is 'since', which should be 'for'. The rule is worth learning as a pair rather than separately: 'for' takes a length of time (for five years, for an hour), 'since' takes a starting point (since 2019, since Monday). This exact error appears in editing exercises more often than any other, and recognising it takes a second where reasoning it out takes thirty.

1)She has been working here since five years.
2)He is one of the best player in the team.
3)I am living in Bengaluru since 2019.
4)The teacher asked me that where I was going.
5)He did not came to school yesterday.
6)He has went to the market an hour ago.
7)She don't know the answer to this question.
8)The childrens were playing in the park.
9)I have completed the work since yesterday.
10)He is more taller than his brother.

Answers

1) since → for. 'For' is used with a length of time, 'since' with a point in time.
2) player → players. 'One of the' is always followed by a plural noun.
3) am living → have been living. An action continuing from a past point to now takes the present perfect continuous.
4) that → (delete). Reported questions do not take 'that' before the question word.
5) came → come. After 'did', the verb stays in its base form.
6) went → gone. With 'has' the past participle is needed, not the simple past.
7) don't → doesn't. A singular third-person subject takes 'does'.
8) childrens → children. 'Children' is already plural.
9) have → had, or 'since' → 'yesterday' alone. 'Since' needs a perfect continuous or a starting point, not a completed action.
10) more → removed. 'Taller' is already comparative, so 'more' is redundant.

Exercise 3 of 3 · 10 questions

A word has been omitted from each line. Write the missing word and the words on either side of it.

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'He was so tired that he could walk' is missing 'not', and it is the most interesting item here because nothing about the grammar is wrong - the sentence is simply illogical. Omission questions are usually missing one of four things: an article, a preposition, a negative, or a helping verb. Checking for those four in order is far faster than reading the sentence repeatedly and waiting for something to feel wrong.

1)The boy was standing corner of the street.
2)She is best singer in our class.
3)I have been waiting you since morning.
4)He was so tired that he could walk.
5)Please give me glass of water.
6)She is one the finest speakers I know.
7)He was accused stealing the money.
8)The book is lying the table.
9)They have been living here 2015.
10)I am fond playing chess.

Answers

1) standing at the corner - the preposition 'at' is missing.
2) is the best - the article 'the' is missing before a superlative.
3) waiting for you - the preposition 'for' is missing.
4) could not walk - the negative 'not' is missing; without it the sentence contradicts itself.
5) me a glass - the article 'a' is missing.
6) of - 'one of the finest speakers'.
7) of - 'accused of stealing'.
8) on - 'lying on the table'.
9) since - 'living here since 2015'.
10) of - 'fond of playing'.

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Cover any 'of' phrase between the subject and the verb. The right verb becomes obvious immediately.
'For' takes a length of time, 'since' takes a starting point. This pair appears in editing exercises more than any other rule.
For omission, check four things in order: article, preposition, negative, helping verb.

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practice · challenging · 30 min

Unseen passage and evidence

Class 9 English · Comprehension · 24 questions with answers

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In Class 9 the unseen passage moves decisively from retrieval to inference, and one instruction covers most of what a child needs: the answer is in the passage, but not in those words. Answer in your own words first, then find and quote the line that supports it. The quotation is what carries the mark.

Answers retrieval questions quickly so time goes to the harder ones
Answers an inference question in their own words with evidence quoted
Identifies the writer's attitude from the details chosen
Works out the meaning of a phrase from its context

Exercise 1 of 3 · 8 questions

Read the passage, then answer. PASSAGE: The library in Kottayam had no catalogue. Mr Varghese, who had run it for twenty-six years, kept the whole arrangement in his head and could produce any title within a minute of being asked. Visitors found this charming; the district officer who inspected the library in 1997 did not, and wrote in his report that the system was unsustainable. He was, of course, correct. When Mr Varghese retired the following year, the library was closed for four months while two clerks catalogued eleven thousand books, and several dozen were never found at all. The new catalogue is excellent. Borrowing has not returned to what it was.

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These four are stated directly and should take about ninety seconds between them. Doing them first is deliberate: retrieval questions are meant to be cheap so that the time goes to the inference ones. A child who is slow here is reading the passage rather than searching it, and that is a habit worth naming.

1)How long had Mr Varghese run the library?
2)What did the district officer write in his report?
3)How long was the library closed after he retired?
4)How many books were catalogued?
5)Who ran the library?
6)Where were the catalogued books kept?
7)What did the officer call the arrangement?
8)What happened to some of the books?

Answers

1) Twenty-six years.
2) That the system was unsustainable.
3) Four months.
4) Eleven thousand.
5) Mr Varghese.
6) The passage says the arrangement was in his head, so the catalogue was not written down.
7) Unsustainable.
8) Some were never found at all.

Exercise 2 of 3 · 8 questions

None of these is stated. Answer in your own words and quote your evidence.

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The third question is the hardest and the most typical of Class 9. The writer never states an opinion, so the answer has to come from what was included: the exactness of 'twenty-six years', the minute it took to find a title, and the choice to end on the fall in borrowing. Attitude questions are always answered from the details a writer chose to put in, and quoting one of those details is what turns an impression into an answer.

1)Was the district officer right? What does the passage suggest?
2)What does the last sentence imply about what was lost?
3)What is the writer's attitude towards Mr Varghese?
4)Why might borrowing have fallen after the catalogue was created?
5)What risk does the passage suggest in a system that exists only in one person's memory?
6)Why does the writer mention the number of books rather than describing them?
7)Does the passage suggest the reorganisation was worthwhile? Give evidence.
8)What kind of reader does the library seem to have served?

Answers

1) Yes in one sense and not in another, and the passage says both. It states plainly that 'he was, of course, correct' about the system being unsustainable - and then shows that replacing it cost four months, several dozen books and a permanent fall in borrowing.
2) That something was lost which the catalogue could not replace. The catalogue is described as 'excellent' and borrowing 'has not returned to what it was', so the loss was not one of organisation.
3) Sympathetic, though the writer never says so and does not defend the old system. The sympathy is carried by the details chosen - twenty-six years, any title within a minute - and by the fact that the passage ends on what was lost rather than on what was gained.
4) Because what people valued was probably Mr Varghese himself - being asked and being answered - rather than the ability to find a book. A catalogue replaced the function and not the reason people came.
5) That it cannot outlast that person. Once Mr Varghese was gone, nobody could find what he had known by heart, and some books were lost for good.
6) Because a number lets the reader judge the scale of what was lost. A description would have made it about particular books rather than about the failure of the system.
7) It is left open, but the evidence leans against it: the library closed, books went missing, and borrowing has not returned to what it was.
8) Regular local borrowers who relied on being guided to a book rather than searching a catalogue themselves - which is why his memory worked for so long.

Exercise 3 of 3 · 8 questions

What does each phrase mean here? Work it out from the passage.

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'Unsustainable' is worth working out rather than defining. The passage explains it in what follows: the system collapsed the moment Mr Varghese left. So the word means something that cannot continue in the long run - and here, specifically, something that depended entirely on one person. Vocabulary questions test whether a child reads the sentences around a word, which is exactly the skill the rest of the paper needs.

1)kept the whole arrangement in his head
2)unsustainable
3)were never found at all
4)has not returned to what it was
5)catalogued
6)borrowing
7)arrangement
8)ran the library

Answers

1) Remembered the entire system of where every book was, without writing it down.
2) Unable to continue in the long term - here, because it depended entirely on one person.
3) Were missing and could not be traced, so were presumably lost when the shelves were reorganised.
4) Is still lower than it used to be, and has not recovered.
5) Listed in an ordered record so that any book can be found.
6) The number of books people take out - a measure of how much the library is used.
7) The system by which the books were ordered and found.
8) Managed and operated it day to day.

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For every inference answer, ask 'which words made you think that?' and have them quoted. The evidence carries the mark.
Time the retrieval questions. More than two minutes means your child is reading rather than searching.
Attitude questions are answered from the details the writer chose to include. Point that out once.

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practice · medium · 30 min

Letter and descriptive writing

Class 9 English · Writing · 17 questions with answers

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Writing is where the cheapest marks in the paper sit, because a share of them is awarded for layout before the content is read at all. A letter missing its subject line loses those marks however good the argument is. This sheet does the format first and the writing second, in that order, because that is the order the marking scheme uses.

Lays out a formal letter with every required part present
Writes a subject line that states the purpose in one line
Plans four points in two minutes before writing
Structures a descriptive paragraph rather than listing details

Exercise 1 of 3 · 8 questions

Put the parts of a formal letter in order. Number them 1 to 8.

Put in order · Warm-up

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Eight parts, and each carries something. The subject line is the one most often forgotten, and it costs marks that the letter had already earned in its content. Ten seconds spent laying the letter out before writing a word is the highest-return ten seconds anywhere on the English paper.

1)A. Salutation - Sir / Madam
2)B. Sender's address
3)C. Body of the letter
4)D. Date
5)E. Receiver's designation and address
6)F. Subject line
7)G. Closing - Yours faithfully / Yours sincerely
8)H. Signature and name

Answers

1) B, D, E, F, A, C, G, H. Sender's address, date, receiver's details, subject, salutation, body, closing, name.

Exercise 2 of 3 · 8 questions

Write a one-line subject for each letter.

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A good subject line is one line, specific, and states the purpose rather than the topic. 'Subject: Garbage' is a topic. 'Subject: Uncollected garbage in Ward 12 for the past two weeks' tells the reader what the letter is about and what it wants. Specific detail costs nothing and reads as a real letter rather than an exercise.

1)A letter to the editor about waterlogging on your street after every rain
2)A letter to the municipal commissioner about uncollected garbage
3)A letter to a bookshop about a damaged book delivered to you
4)A letter to your principal requesting an inter-house debate competition
5)A letter to the transport authority about an unsafe bus stop
6)A letter to the editor about the loss of trees in your locality
7)A letter to a company about a delayed order
8)A letter to the health officer about mosquito breeding

Answers

1) Subject: Waterlogging on Nehru Road after every spell of rain.
2) Subject: Uncollected garbage in Ward 12 for the past two weeks.
3) Subject: Replacement of a damaged book delivered on 12 July.
4) Subject: Request for an inter-house debate competition.
5) Subject: Request to relocate the unsafe bus stop at Gandhi Road.
6) Subject: Concern over the felling of trees in Vidyanagar.
7) Subject: Delay in delivery of order number 4471.
8) Subject: Request for action on mosquito breeding in Ward 12.

Exercise 3 of 3 · 1 questions

Write the letter in full, about 120 words. A model answer is given.

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The model letter is three short paragraphs: what the problem is, why it matters, and what should be done. That third paragraph is the one children leave out, and it is the one that makes a letter a letter rather than a complaint. Notice also that the details are specific - knee-deep, twice a day, this month. Specific detail costs nothing to invent and lifts the content mark noticeably.

1)Write a letter to the editor of a newspaper about waterlogging on your street after every spell of rain.

Answers

1) 42, Nehru Road Bengaluru 560001 21 July 2026 The Editor The Daily Chronicle Bengaluru 560001 Subject: Waterlogging on Nehru Road after every spell of rain Sir, I wish to draw attention through your columns to the condition of Nehru Road, which floods after even a short spell of rain. The drains along the road have not been cleared this year, and water now stands knee-deep for several hours after each shower. The consequences are not minor. Two-wheelers have stalled in the water, schoolchildren wade through it twice a day, and shopkeepers on the lower side of the road have lost stock more than once this month. A single round of desilting before the next heavy rain would prevent all of it. I request the concerned authorities to take note. Yours faithfully, Ananya Rao

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Check the eight parts before reading the content. Format marks are awarded first and lost first.
The subject line should state the purpose, not the topic. 'Garbage' is a topic; 'uncollected garbage in Ward 12 for two weeks' is a purpose.
Every letter needs a paragraph saying what should be done. It is the one most often missing.

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Why one sheet each for grammar, reading and writing?

Because that is roughly how the paper is weighted, and almost nowhere near how revision is.

English is the subject where a well-prepared child most reliably scores in the nineties, and it gets the least tuition time - because it feels like a subject a child either can or cannot do. Most of the paper is not like that at all. Format marks are mechanical, editing is pattern recognition, and inference is a technique that takes an afternoon to explain.

These three sheets put the practice where the marks are. The argument in full is on our Class 9 English tuition page.

How should we use these at home?

Twenty-five to thirty minutes each, once or twice a week. Every exercise opens with one question worked through in full.

In grammar, scan for the recurring types rather than reading for something that sounds wrong.
In comprehension, ask 'which words made you think that?' and have them quoted.
In writing, check the eight parts before reading the content. Format is marked first.
Let your child mark their own work. Every answer is on the page for exactly that reason.

Where do Class 9 children usually stall in English?

Three places, one per section, and none of them is vocabulary.

Concord across an 'of' phrase. 'The list of items are' - the verb agrees with the nearest noun instead of the subject. Covering the phrase with a finger fixes it.
Inference without evidence. The inference is often right and the quotation is missing, and the quotation is the mark.
The missing subject line. Format marks lost in a letter that was otherwise well argued.

All three are technique, which is why English responds faster than any other subject to a term of the right practice - see Class 8 English worksheets for what came before.

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Class 9 English worksheets - your questions

Are these Class 9 English worksheets free?

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

How should grammar be revised for Class 9?

As patterns rather than rules. The paper tests editing, omission and gap-filling, and four or five error types recur - articles, prepositions, concord and tense. Recognising them beats reasoning each sentence out.

How do I help with inference questions?

One instruction: the answer is in the passage, but not in those words. Answer in your own words first, then quote the line that supports it - the quotation is what earns the mark.

What are the parts of a formal letter?

Sender's address, date, receiver's designation and address, subject line, salutation, body, closing and name. The subject line is the most commonly forgotten and the most annoying to lose.

Why does my child lose marks in writing that reads well?

Almost always format. A share of the marks is awarded for layout before the content is read, so a missing subject line or closing costs marks that the argument had already earned.

Are these matched to NCERT?

They are written to the skills the Class 9 paper tests rather than to one reader's chapters, so they work whichever books your school uses. Check the current year's sample paper for the writing and grammar pattern.

How long should a Class 9 child spend on one sheet?

Twenty-five to thirty minutes. The writing sheet takes longer if the letter is actually written out, which is worth the time - one piece written and properly marked beats three glanced at.

Can I print these worksheets?

Yes. They print cleanly on A4 with the answers on a separate final page, and nothing needs to be downloaded or signed up for.

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Editing, omission and concord

Unseen passage and evidence

Letter and descriptive writing

Class 9 English - the guide

Why one sheet each for grammar, reading and writing?

How should we use these at home?

Where do Class 9 children usually stall in English?

Class 9 English worksheets - your questions

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