English Grammar Questions Quiz for Competitive Exam
Select the correct indirect form of the given sentence.
He said to his employee, “Do not provoke me unnecessarily.”
(A) He told his employee not to provoke me unnecessarily.
(B) He requested his employee do not provoke him unnecessarily.
(C) He told to his employee to not provoke him unnecessarily.
(D) He warned his employee not to provoke him unnecessarily.
Correct Answer : D
Select the most appropriate antonym of the given word.
CONDENSE
(A) repel
(B) reduce
(C) constrict
(D) expand
Correct Answer : D
Given below are four sentences in jumbled order. Pick the option that gives their correct order.
A. It then came to the main road and smashed all the stalls selling fruits, mud pots and clothes.
B. Finally, the elephant entered a school ground, breaking through the brick wall.
C. The people on the main road ran helter-skelter in panic.
D. The wild elephant first reached the outskirts of our town, breaking down fences like matchsticks.
(A) DACB
(B) CBDA
(C) BDAC
(D) CADB
Correct Answer : A
Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to substitute it, select ‘No substitution’.
I wished I have tried more harder.
(A) No substitution
(B) had tried harder
(C) had tried more hard
(D) have tried hardest
Correct Answer : B
He is both diligent ______ efficient.
(A) also
(B) but
(C) and
(D) yet
Correct Answer : C
Select the most appropriate meaning of the underlined idiom in the given sentence.
The wedding preparations are in full swing.
(A) in great difficulty
(B) at the height of activity
(C) hard to arrange
(D) very costly affair
Correct Answer : B
Groups of four words are given. In each group one word is correctly spelt. Find the correctly spelt word and mark it in your Answer-Sheet.
(A) Misdemenour
(B) Manoeuvre
(C) Begining
(D) Chameloon
Correct Answer : B
Groups of four words are given. In each group one word is correctly spelt. Find the correctly spelt word and mark it in your Answer-Sheet.
(A) Superfluous
(B) Superflous
(C) Superfluos
(D) Supperflous
Correct Answer : A
Groups of four words are given. In each group one word is correctly spelt. Find the correctly spelt word and mark it in your Answer-Sheet.
(A) Inefable
(B) Inaccesible
(C) Infallible
(D) Invincible
Correct Answer : C
Groups of four words are given. In each group one word is correctly spelt. Find the correctly spelt word and mark it in your Answer-Sheet.
(A) Fluorescent
(B) Floorescent
(C) Floorascent
(D) Flourascent
Correct Answer : A