English Grammar: Subject-Verb Agreement and Noun Forms

Test your knowledge of English grammar including subject-verb agreement with collective nouns, pronoun usage, compound adjectives, and special plural forms.

25 Questions Published

Questions

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill the blank.

He _________ not do it.

  1. need
  2. needs
  3. want
  4. wants
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill the blank.

The commitee _________ arrived at a unanimous decision.

  1. has
  2. have
  3. can
  4. could
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option to complete the sentence.

_________ he in England to see the coronation?

  1. Was
  2. Were
  3. Will
  4. Would
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill the blank.

My spectacles _________ been broken.

  1. has
  2. have
  3. is
  4. are
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill the blank.

The commission _________ divided in their opinion on this issue.

  1. are
  2. is
  3. will
  4. can
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill the blank.

She _________ not come before me.

  1. dare
  2. dares
  3. daring
  4. trying
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill the blank.

Here _________ a pair of trousers for you.

  1. are
  2. is
  3. was
  4. were
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill the blank.

______ have been selected for scholarship.

  1. He, you, I
  2. he, You, I
  3. He, you and I
  4. he, you, I
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option to complete the sentence.

Each boy and each man recieved _________ share on time.

  1. his
  2. their
  3. them
  4. these
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill the blank.

It _________ him who will help us.

  1. is
  2. are
  3. will
  4. would
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill the blank space with the best choice from the given options.

The blind _________ to get social recognition.

  1. need
  2. needs
  3. want
  4. wants
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill the blank.

More games than one _________ lost for the want of coordination.

  1. is
  2. are
  3. was
  4. will
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill the blank.

Question after question _________ asked to me.

  1. was
  2. were
  3. will
  4. can
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill the blank.

My great disappointment _________ my repeated failures.

  1. is
  2. are
  3. will
  4. were
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Select the appropriate option to fill in the blank.

Not only the strikers, but also their leader _________ arrested.

  1. were
  2. was
  3. are
  4. will
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Select the appropriate option to fill in the blank.

Not only I, but also all my sons _________ ready to go.

  1. are
  2. am
  3. them
  4. will
Question 17 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill the blank.

A _________ commission has been set up.

  1. five-man
  2. five-men
  3. five-mens
  4. five-mans
Question 18 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill the blank.

Nothing but peak over peak _________ over there.

  1. appear
  2. appears
  3. show
  4. see
Question 19 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Select the appropriate option to fill in the blank.

Our only guide _________ the teachers.

  1. was
  2. were
  3. is
  4. he
Question 20 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill the blank.

We should not be miser in giving _________ to the beggars.

  1. alm
  2. alms
  3. aiming
  4. aimed
Question 21 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill the blank.

He jumped into a _________ deep well.

  1. forty-foot
  2. forty-feet
  3. forty-feets
  4. forty-feat
Question 22 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill the blank.

I have sent my _________ to the laundry.

  1. with trouser
  2. trousers
  3. to trouser
  4. to trousers
Question 23 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill the blank.

He has built a house on the _________ of the city.

  1. outskirt
  2. outskirts
  3. outskirting
  4. outskirted
Question 24 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill the blank.

He has lost all his _________.

  1. valuable
  2. valuables
  3. valueless
  4. valued
Question 25 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill the blank.

He immersed the _________ of his father in the Ganges.

  1. remain
  2. remains
  3. remaining
  4. remained