Class 9 students can download the complete English Grammar and Composition textbook in PDF format. Published by the Punjab Curriculum and Textbook Board (PCTB), this is the official English Grammar book for 9th class, covering vocabulary, verb forms, tenses, parts of speech, story writing, letters and applications, dialogue writing, and comprehension as per the Punjab Board syllabus.
Written by Prof. B.A. Chishti, Prof. Fazal-ur-Rehman Butt, and Abdul Qadeer Hashmi, this book focuses on functional knowledge of English as a living language rather than rote learning. Grade 9 students use eight of the book’s ten chapters, and the chapter summaries and important questions on this page are built from the book’s own examples, exercises, and model answers, making revision faster before the annual exam.
Book Overview
| Class | 9 |
| Subject | English Grammar and Composition |
| Board | Punjab Curriculum and Textbook Board (PCTB) |
| Authors | Prof. B.A. Chishti, Prof. Fazal-ur-Rehman Butt, Abdul Qadeer Hashmi |
| Chapters Covered | 8 of 10 (Vocabulary through Comprehension of a Passage) |
| Format | PDF (Free Download) |
Chapter List
Chapter 1: Vocabulary
This chapter builds thematic vocabulary across sections pairing English words with Urdu meanings, covering animals, birds, buildings, kitchen utensils, tools, fruits and vegetables, diseases, parts of the body, and trades and professions. It closes with idiomatic comparisons like “as busy as a bee,” collective nouns like “a hive of bees,” animal sounds like “donkeys bray,” and a list of commonly misspelled words such as February and Wednesday.
Important Questions:
- What is the Urdu meaning of ‘buffalo’ as listed in the Animals section? بھینس.
- Complete the idiomatic comparison: ‘as busy as a ___’. Bee.
- What is the correct collective noun for a group of bees? A hive of bees.
- According to the Words Indicative of Sounds list, what sound do donkeys make? They bray.
Chapter 2: Forms of Verb
The chapter opens with a table of question words such as What, Which, Who, and Whom with their Urdu meanings, then gives the three forms of dozens of irregular verbs, such as begin-began-begun and write-wrote-written, each with an Urdu meaning. It separately lists verbs whose three forms are identical, like cut and hit, and closes with tables of regular verbs showing simple -ed past and past participle formation.
Important Questions:
- Give the three forms of the verb ‘begin’. Begin, began, begun.
- Give the three forms of the verb ‘write’. Write, wrote, written.
- Name three verbs whose present, past, and past participle forms are all the same. Any three of cut, hit, hurt, put, set, shut.
- What is the past and past participle form of the regular verb ‘discuss’? Discussed.
Chapter 3: Tenses
The book’s longest chapter opens with the use of introductory ‘it’ and ‘there’, then drills all twelve tense forms in both active and passive voice, Present, Past, and Future, each in Indefinite, Continuous, Perfect, and Perfect Continuous, through affirmative, negative, and interrogative model sentences. Every exercise runs Urdu-to-English, giving students Urdu sentences to translate into correct English, which is exactly how this topic is tested in the Class 9 exam.
Important Questions:
- Translate into English: ‘کمرے میں دس لڑکے ہیں۔’ There are ten boys in the classroom.
- Change to passive voice: ‘The mother loves the children.’ The children are loved by the mother.
- Which tense uses ‘has been’ or ‘have been’ plus the first form of the verb with -ing, as in ‘The players have been playing football since 4 o’clock’? Present Perfect Continuous Tense.
- Translate into English: ‘میرے گھر کے سامنے ایک باغ ہے۔’ There is a garden in front of my house.
Chapter 4: Parts of Speech
This chapter covers all eight parts of speech: Noun, Pronoun, Adjective, Article, Preposition, Verb, Conjunction, and Interjection, with number and gender tables, degrees of comparison, and a list of common preposition pairings like ‘fond of’. It also covers Active and Passive Voice conversion rules in detail, walking students through changing sentences from one voice to the other across different tenses.
Important Questions:
- Identify the part of speech of the underlined word: ‘She is a pretty girl.’ (pretty) Adjective.
- Give the plural of ‘ox’. Oxen.
- Change into passive voice: ‘The boy is climbing the wall.’ The wall is being climbed by the boy.
- Name two words often confused with a wrong preposition, and give the correct pairing for one. Fond of, and afraid of are two examples; ‘fond of’ is the correct pairing for ‘fond’.
Chapter 5: Story Writing
This chapter teaches narrative writing through a five-part framework, Character, Setting, Problem, Events, and Resolution, plus a four-part Story Planner covering Introduction, Build-Up, Conflict, and Resolution. It gives twelve full specimen stories to study, including A Farmer and His Sons, The Kindness of Rasoolullah (PBUH), and The Boy Who Cried Wolf, each ending in an explicit moral, and closes with ten outlines for students to develop into complete stories.
Important Questions:
- According to the chapter’s five-part framework, name the five parts of a story. Character, Setting, Problem, Events, Resolution.
- What moral does ‘A Farmer and His Sons’ teach? United we stand, divided we fall.
- According to the chapter’s introduction, in what tense should a story generally be written? Past tense.
- The outline about a hungry fox trying to reach grapes hanging on a high wall but failing matches which well-known story, and what is its moral? The Fox and the Grapes; the moral is that people often belittle what they cannot get.
Chapter 6: Letters, Applications and Invitations
This chapter teaches the format of letter writing, address, salutation, body, subscription, and signature, through 15 worked informal letters, including letters to a mother about health, a father requesting hostel funds, and thanks for hospitality after a trip to Murree. It also covers formal invitations with accepting and declining replies, and model applications for leave, fee-concession, a character certificate, and a job.
Important Questions:
- What are the essential parts of a letter listed in the chapter? Writer’s address and date, salutation, body of the letter, subscription/close, signature, and the address on the envelope.
- In the model application for leave, what reason does the student give for requesting two days off? He is suffering from diarrhoea after eating fast food from a local restaurant.
- What should a formal reply declining a wedding reception invitation include, based on the chapter’s example? A polite thanks for the invitation followed by a regret statement giving the reason, such as a previous engagement.
- In the application for fee-concession, what family circumstances does the student cite to support her request? Her father is a low-paid employee supporting a large family, and his declining health due to household worries makes it hard to pay for her education.
Chapter 7: Dialogue Writing
This short chapter gives the basic rules of dialogue writing, quotation marks, punctuation, and starting a new paragraph for each speaker change, then presents five model dialogues: a teacher and a late student, two students debating going to namaz, a person asking directions to a museum, a brother and sister rushing to catch a train, and a tailor-customer conversation about being measured for a suit.
Important Questions:
- According to the chapter’s rules, where should periods, question marks, and exclamation points be placed relative to quotation marks? Inside the quotation marks.
- In the dialogue between the teacher and the late student, why was she late for school? The school bus had a flat tyre and no one would stop to help, so the students had to walk the rest of the way.
- In the dialogue about going to namaz, what argument convinces the other student to go? That nothing should be more urgent than namaz, since it gives peace, courage, and hope in this life and the next.
- What is the correct way to start a new paragraph in a dialogue, per the chapter’s rules? A new paragraph should be started every time the speaker changes.
Chapter 8: Comprehension of a Passage
This chapter explains how to answer comprehension questions by reading carefully and answering in the same tense and person as the passage, through ten fully solved short passages and fifteen practice exercises. Solved passages include the wolf in sheep’s clothing, King Robert Bruce and the spider, Hazrat Khalid Bin Waleed’s kind treatment of conquered civilians, and the power of newspapers.
Important Questions:
- In the wolf-and-sheep passage, how did the wolf manage to get into the flock unnoticed? He hid himself inside the skin of a sheep and safely entered the flock.
- What lesson did King Robert Bruce learn from watching the spider in the cave? Try, try again till you succeed, after seeing the spider reach its cobweb on its ninth attempt.
- According to the passage on Hazrat Khalid Bin Waleed, what orders did he give his army regarding civilians? Strict orders not to harm farmers, aged persons, women, and children, since he considered them the real strength of society.
- Based on the passage on newspapers, what two roles does the press play in modern society? Keeping people in touch with news from every corner of the globe, and educating public opinion.
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Who Should Read This
This textbook is for Class 9 students studying English Grammar and Composition under Punjab Board. It covers all grammar and composition topics required for the 9th class annual board exam, including Tenses, Parts of Speech, Story Writing, Letter Writing, Comprehension, and Dialogue Writing. Students who want to improve their written English and score well in board exams will find this book very helpful.
Applicable Boards
This textbook is published by the Punjab Curriculum and Textbook Board (PCTB) and is used in all Punjab Board affiliated schools for Class 9. Federal Board and other provincial boards with a similar English Grammar syllabus may also find it useful.
FAQs
Is this the official PCTB English Grammar book for Class 9?
Yes, this is the official Punjab Curriculum and Textbook Board English Grammar and Composition textbook for Class 9 students, covering all topics required for the Punjab Board annual exam.
What grammar topics are covered for Class 9?
Class 9 topics include Vocabulary, Forms of Verb, Tenses (translation), Parts of Speech including Active and Passive Voice, Story Writing, Letters, Applications and Invitations, Dialogue Writing, and Comprehension Passages.
Is there a separate book for Class 10?
This same book covers both Class 9 and Class 10 content, but the Class 10 page on our website is built specifically around the chapters and topics used at Grade 10.
Are multiple versions available?
Yes, three versions are available: the 2023-24 latest edition, the 2020 edition, and the 2014-15 edition of the PCTB English Grammar and Composition book.
Does the Tenses chapter include translation practice?
Yes, Chapter 3 drills all twelve tense forms in active and passive voice through Urdu-to-English translation exercises, which is how this topic is tested in the Class 9 exam.
Who are the authors of this book?
The book is written by Prof. B.A. Chishti, Prof. Fazal-ur-Rehman Butt, and Abdul Qadeer Hashmi.
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