General English Test

Senior to is the correct prepositional phrase when comparing rank, position, or status. We say someone is senior TO someone else (similar to junior to, superior to, inferior to). Over, form, and on are not correct prepositions in this context.

Further means additional or more, and is used with uncountable nouns or abstract concepts like explanation. Farther refers to physical distance, farthest is the superlative of far, and former means the first of two mentioned.

Tag questions with 'everyone' or 'everybody' use 'they' as the pronoun (singular they). Even though 'everyone' is grammatically singular, we use 'aren't they?' as the tag question. 'Isn't they' and 'is they' are grammatically incorrect, and 'were they' doesn't match the tense.

Approve means to agree with, support, or regard favorably. Its direct opposite is condemn, which means to express strong disapproval or criticize harshly. Discourage is related but means to try to stop something, while raise and raw are unrelated.

This is a mixed conditional sentence. 'If I had a car' (past tense) combined with 'would have driven' indicates a past counterfactual situation - something that didn't happen in the past but we're imagining. 'Will drive' is future, 'would drive' is present/future conditional, and 'have driven' lacks the auxiliary.

In questions, we use 'anyone' (or anybody) rather than 'someone' or 'everyone'. 'Is there anyone in the class?' asks if at least one person is present. 'Someone' is used in affirmative statements, 'everyone' means all people, and 'none of these' is incorrect because there is a right answer.

The phrase 'Would you mind' is always followed by a gerund (verb+ing form). This is because it literally means 'Would you object to...' and the gerund functions as the object of the preposition. 'Lend' is base form, 'lent' is past tense, and 'to lend' is infinitive - all incorrect here.

Sharp means having a keen edge or point, or being acute/perceptive. Its direct opposite is blunt, which means not sharp or dull. Bear is an animal, crooked means bent or twisted (not the direct opposite of sharp), and broken means damaged.

Question tags use the opposite auxiliary verb. For "I am," the tag is "aren't I" (not "amn't I" which is non-standard English). The tag always agrees with the subject and uses the correct form of 'be'.

In reported yes/no questions, we use "if" or "whether" as the conjunction. The word order stays declarative (subject before verb), not interrogative like direct questions.

When the main clause contains "hardly" (a negative adverb), the question tag uses the positive form of the auxiliary verb. "Hardly get" (negative meaning) requires "do they" (positive tag), not "don't they".

This idiom describes someone born into a wealthy family, implying privilege and advantage from birth. Silver spoons were traditionally associated with aristocratic households that could afford silver utensils.

This idiom refers to a person or problem that is difficult to understand, deal with, or solve. Just as a nut with a hard shell is difficult to crack open, a "hard nut to crack" represents a challenging situation or person.

The correct spelling is "confusion" with one 's'. The word comes from "confuse" + "-ion" suffix. "Confussion" is a common misspelling, but the correct form has only one 's' between the vowels.

Use "whom" as the object pronoun in relative clauses. The headmaster punished the boy, so "whom" is correct (the object of "punished"). "Whose" shows possession, "when" is for time, and "which" is for things, not people.

In reported speech, verb tense shifts back (backshift). Present continuous "am going" becomes past continuous "was going" when the reporting verb is in the past tense. The word order stays declarative, not interrogative.

'Of' is the correct preposition.

Indigenous means originating or occurring naturally in a particular place; native to an area. It refers to plants, animals, or people that have existed in a region from ancient times, not foreign or introduced.

Positive statements take negative question tags. "You will go" (positive) requires "won't you" (will not you) as the tag. The auxiliary verb in the tag matches and negates the main clause auxiliary.

"Take pains" is an idiom meaning to make great effort or be very careful about something. It doesn't refer to physical pain but to careful, diligent work. The phrase suggests thoroughness and attention to detail.

Words ending in -is from Greek (like crisis, thesis, analysis) form their plural by changing -is to -es. The singular "crisis" becomes "crises" in the plural, following the Greek-derived pattern, not the English -s or -es rules.

The phrase 'No sooner' is always followed by 'than' in standard English grammar. This construction connects two events where the second happens immediately after the first. 'When' would create redundancy since 'no sooner' already indicates timing.

'Resembles' means to look like or be similar to in appearance. 'Takes after' is a phrasal verb meaning to resemble a family member in appearance or character. 'Looks after' means to care for someone, while 'imitates' and 'follows' have different meanings.

'From' is the correct preposition to indicate a starting point in time for a future action. 'Since' is used with perfect tenses for duration continuing to the present. 'On' specifies a particular day but doesn't convey the starting point meaning, and 'at' is for precise times.

As the sentence begins with a negative word 'never', the verb should be placed before the subject.