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Sainul Abid=====================
ENGLISH GRAMMER QUESTIONS
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1. Plural form of ‘belief’ is:
(a) believes
(b) beliefs
(c) beliefes
(d) belief
Ans: (b) beliefs
2. Plural form of ‘terminus’ is:
(a) terminal
(b) terminuse
(c) terminii
(d) terminus
Ans: (a) terminal
3. Plural form of ‘ox’ is:
(a) oxes
(b) ox
(c) oxen
(d) none of these
Ans: (c) oxen
4. Plural form of ‘dwarf’ is:
(a) dwarf
(b) dwarfs
(c) dwarevs
(d) dwarfes
Ans: (b) dwarfs
5. Plural form of ‘sheaf’ is:
(a) sheafs
(b) sheaves
(c) sheafes
(d) sheaf
Ans: (b) sheaves
6. Everybody has a bad back, _____?
(a) Have they?
(b) Don’t they?
(c) Hasn’t he?
(d) None of these
Ans: (b) Don’t they?
7. Let me ask him, _____?
(a) will he?
(b) shall we?
(c) will you?
(d) Shall I?
Ans: (c) will you?
8. Have some more rice. _________?
(a) will you?
(b) haven’t you?
(c) can’t you?
(d) do you?
Ans: (a) will you?
9. You oght to help your brother. _______?
(a) shouldn’t you?
(b) ought you?
(c) can’t you?
(d) none of these
Ans: (a) shouldn’t you?
10. He used to go there, _______?
(a) usedn’t he?
(b) didn’t he?
(c) did he?
(d) none of these
Ans: (b) didn’t he?
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11. Measles that ____ fast can be cured
(a) spread
(b) spreads
(c) spreading
(d) have spread
Ans: (b) spreads
12. The jury ____ in their opinion
(a) has divided
(b) has been divided
(c) divided
(d) are divided
Ans: (d) are divided
13. A pair of pants _____ for my son.
(a) has bought
(b) has been bought
(c) have been bought
(d) are bought
Ans: (b) has been bought
14. Where _____ the gentry of this town?
(a) are
(b) is
(c) has been
(d) have
Ans: (a) are
15. My grandfather and guardian ___ dead.
(a) has
(b) are
(c) is
(d) have
Ans: (c) is
16. John Byred intended ______ television
(a) a
(b) the
(c) an
(d) No article needed
Ans: (b) the
17. He works in ______ Calicut University
(a) a
(b) the
(c) an
(d) No article needed
Ans: (d) No article needed
18. This race will be ___ ultimate test of your skill.
(a) a
(b) an
(c) the
(d) No article needed
Ans: (c) the
19. The lecturer is going to ______ school now.
(a) an
(b) a
(c) the
(d) No article needed
Ans: (c) the
20. Redwine gives me _______ headache
(a) an
(b) a
(c) the
(d) No article needed
Ans: (b) a
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21. Before the first world war, he ____ the army.
(a) joined
(b) had joined
(c) has joined
(d) was joined
Ans: (b) had joined
22. He ____ working as lecturer when he got IAS.
(a) was
(b) had been
(c) were
(d) have been
Ans: (b) had joined
23. When you called me, I ______
(a) have been driving
(b) was driving
(c) had been driving
(d) none of these
Ans: (b) was driving
24. By the time you come back, the work ______
(a) will finish
(b) will have finished
(c) will be finished
(d) will have been finished
Ans: (d) will have been finished
25. This is the second time, I _____ Kerala.
(a) visited
(b) have visited
(c) would visit
(d) had visited
Ans: (b) have visited
26. Passive voice of ‘Somebody has informed the police’ is:
(a) the police have been informed
(b) the police has been informed by someboy
(c) the police has been informed
(d) the police is informed by somebody
Ans: (a) the police have been informed
27. Passive voice of ‘open the door’ is:
(a) Let open the door be
(b) Let the door be opened
(c) Let be the door opened
(d) shall the door be opened
Ans: (b) Let the door be opened
28. Passive voice of ‘why did he not inform her’ ?
(a) why wasn’t she informed by him
(b) why was her not informed by him
(c) why was she not informed by him
(d) why she was not informed by him
Ans: (c) why was she not informed by him
29. Active voice of ‘the thief was arrested’ is
(a) somebody has arrested the thief
(b) the police has arrested the thief
(c) the police was arrested the thief
(d) the police arrested the thief
Ans: (d) the police arrested the thief
30. Passive voice of ‘who has bought the tickets’ ?
(a) By whom have been the tickets bought
(b) By whom the tickets have been bought
(c) who was the tickets been bought by
(d) By whom have the tickets been bought
Ans: (d) By whom have the tickets been bought