English Grammar Questions Quiz for Competitive Exam
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) Neccessary
(B) Temparory
(C) Itinerary
(D) Sanguinery
Correct Answer : C
Select the word with the correct spelling.
(A) guarantee
(B) genaral
(C) gragarious
(D) garbege
Correct Answer : A
Given below are four jumbled sentences. Pick the option that gives their correct order.
A: One day when the quarreling had been much more violent than usual and each of the sons was moping in a surly manner, he asked one of them to bring him a bundle of sticks.
B: No words he could say did the least good, so he thought in his mind for some very striking example that should make them see that discord would lead them to misfortune.
C: A man had a family of sons, who were forever quarrelling among themselves.
D: Then handing the bundle to each of his Sons in turn he told them to try to break it.
(A) CBAD
(B) CABD
(C) DCBA
(D) ABDC
Correct Answer : A
Given below are four jumbled sentences. Pick the option that gives their correct order.
A: He became rich and built on their father's business.
B: After their father's death, the greedy Khasim married a wealthy woman.
C: Ali Baba married a poor woman and settled into the trade of a woodcutter.
D: Ali Baba and his elder brother Khasim were the sons of a merchant.
(A) CBAD
(B) DBAC
(C) DACB
(D) ADBC
Correct Answer : B
Kalidasa was a greater classical Sanskrit poet of India.
(A) No improvement
(B) was a great classical
(C) was the greater classic
(D) was a greatest classical
Correct Answer : B
Given below are four jumbled sentences. Pick the option that gives their correct order.
A: The farmer climbed down from his seat and stood beside the wagon.
B: A farmer was driving his wagon along a muddy country road after a heavy rain.
C: At last it came to a standstill when one of the wheels sank to the hub in a rut.
D: The horses could hardly drag the load through the deep mud.
(A) BACD
(B) ACBD
(C) BDCA
(D) DCAB
Correct Answer : C
Given below are four jumbled sentences. Pick the option that gives their correct order.
A: They say that Jupiter punished him so, because he was such a lazy stay-at-home that he would not go to Jupiter’s wedding, even when especially invited.
B: The Tortoise, you know, carries his house on his back.
C: After many years, Tortoise began to wish he had gone to that wedding.
D: No matter how hard he tries, he cannot leave home.
(A) DCAB
(B) BDAC
(C) BCDA
(D) CABD
Correct Answer : B
Given below are four jumbled sentences. Pick the option that gives their correct order.
A:"Impossible," said the people when they heard the condition.
B: The Emperor offered a reward of 1000 gold coins to any man who could come to the palace observing the following condition.
C: Just then a villager came carrying a string cot over his head and claimed the prize.
D: The man had to walk in the sun without an umbrella but he had to be in the shade at the same time.
(A) CDAB
(B) ABCD
(C) BCDA
(D) BDAC
Correct Answer : D
Economic policies formulated by the IAS officers are generally above the power of comprehension off most of the ministers.
(A) the powers of comprehension off
(B) the powerful of comprehension of
(C) the power of comprehension of
(D) No correction required
Correct Answer : C
Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.
Attempts in India
P. honesty and more by blind faith
Q. by the government to validate traditional
R. medicine are driven less by
(A) QPR
(B) RPQ
(C) QRP
(D) RQP
Correct Answer : C