Mixed Grammar Test - Error Identification & Gap Fills

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Questions

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Select the correct word or phrase to complete a grammatical and idiomatic sentence.

With neither hat nor topcoat in the 22 degree Fahrenheit chill, youthful John F. Kennedy ____ a stirring inaugural speech on January 20, 1961.

  1. has delivered
  2. was delivered
  3. delivering
  4. delivered
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Select the correct word or phrase to complete the given sentence.

By 1921, Andrew Mellon had become ____ persons in America.

  1. one of the wealthiest
  2. the wealthier
  3. which the wealthiest of one
  4. one wealthiest
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Select the correct word or phrase to complete a grammatical and idiomatic sentence.

Not every pearl that is found ____.

  1. of value
  2. is valuable
  3. to be valued
  4. valuable
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Select the correct word or phrase to complete a grammatical and idiomatic sentence.

The clay burial vessels from the early Hopewell Culture of North America are decorated with zigzag, grooved, and ____.

  1. geometrically designed
  2. designed are geometric
  3. geometric designs
  4. geometry designed
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)
Directions: Select the correct word or phrase to complete a grammatical and idiomatic sentence.

Only rarely ____ neuroses leave a person unable to function in everyday situations.

  1. had
  2. are
  3. do
  4. it is exposed
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)
Directions: Select the correct word or phrase to complete a grammatical and idiomatic sentence.
____, Thomas Jefferson's love for music helped him win his bride.
  1. The legend is
  2. The legend
  3. A legend
  4. According to legend
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)
Directions: Select the correct word or phrase to complete a grammatical and idiomatic sentence.

Pure naphtha is highly explosive if ____ to an open flame.

  1. it exposed
  2. exposed
  3. expose it
  4. is it exposed
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Select the correct word or phrase to complete a grammatical and idiomatic sentence.

Costume jewellery is very popular because ____ allows for a great variety of styles.

  1. of its low price
  2. its low price
  3. the price is low
  4. the price is being low
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having an error.

  1. He is
  2. coaching here
  3. off and on
  4. for five years.
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having an error.

  1. Usha Club team
  2. is the runners-up in Jawahar Tournaments;
  3. the Sheriff Club team
  4. being the champions
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having an error.

  1. By and by
  2. rest of my family
  3. left Mumbai
  4. forever.
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having an error.

  1. They started from Delhi
  2. and we from Bombay
  3. and we reached at Calcutta
  4. at the same time.
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)
Directions: Select the correct word or phrase to complete a grammatical and idiomatic sentence.

The raw material for speech is the air ____ in and out of the sub laryngeal organs.

  1. directs
  2. directed
  3. is directed
  4. has directed
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having an error.

  1. He bought
  2. three dozens
  3. oranges
  4. for six.
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having an error.

  1. The priest asked
  2. the parishioners
  3. to open the Bible
  4. on page 105.
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having an error.

  1. Abbas
  2. as well as his parents
  3. were expected
  4. to go to Bombay.
Question 17 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having an error.

  1. Take care
  2. of your luggages
  3. quickly
  4. as the train is to arrive soon.
Question 18 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having an error.

  1. We are reading
  2. the newspapers
  3. in the library
  4. since afternoon continuously.
Question 19 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having an error.

  1. All of them
  2. helped each other
  3. when the earthquake
  4. devastated the town.
Question 20 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having an error.

  1. The doctor
  2. would touch it
  3. only with
  4. a tongs.
Question 21 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having an error.

  1. It is natural
  2. that
  3. the more a person gets
  4. more he wants.
Question 22 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Select the correct word or phrase to complete a grammatical and idiomatic sentence.

Alfalfa plants flourish in fertile and well-drained soil ____ neutral or slightly alkaline.

  1. which
  2. is that
  3. is
  4. that is
Question 23 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the blank by choosing the best option from the given choices.

Sidney Lanier was most famous for his poetry, but ____ a school teacher, a literary critic and a musician.

  1. was including
  2. he was also
  3. moreover he
  4. together with
Question 24 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having an error.

  1. He took
  2. his engineers
  3. degree
  4. at Pilani
Question 25 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having an error.

  1. This realism
  2. of Tendulkar
  3. is the main feature
  4. of his performances