English Grammar Fundamentals

Comprehensive test covering English grammar topics including parts of speech (nouns, pronouns, adjectives), sentence types, subject-predicate agreement, clauses, and error correction.

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Questions

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The following sentence may have an error. Choose the correct option to rectify the error, if any.

It rains each day in Cherapunji.

  1. every
  2. all
  3. each
  4. no error
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The following sentence may have an error. Choose the correct option to rectify the error, if any.

It's the most bore book I have ever read.

  1. boring
  2. bored
  3. borious
  4. no error
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The following sentence may have an error. Choose the correct option to rectify the error, if any.

Heena wrote a detailing report for the manager.

  1. detailed
  2. detail
  3. in detail
  4. no error
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The following sentence may have an error. Choose the correct option to rectify the error, if any.

John Donne wrote romanticised poetry.

  1. romantic
  2. romance
  3. romanticism
  4. no error
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The following sentence may have an error. Choose the correct option to rectify the error, if any.

She is the sweeter of all.

  1. sweet
  2. sweetest
  3. more sweeter
  4. no error
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the type of the underlined adjective in the following sentence.

It's a rainy day today.

  1. Adjective of quality
  2. Adjective of quantity
  3. Demonstrative adjective
  4. Distributive adjective
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the type of the underlined adjective in the following sentence.

She is my sister.

  1. Possessive adjectives
  2. Distributive adjective
  3. Demonstrative adjective
  4. Adjective of quality
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the type of the underlined adjective in the following sentence.

There was a little water in the jug.

  1. Adjective of quantity
  2. Adjective of number
  3. Adjective of quality
  4. Possessive adjective
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the type of the underlined adjective in the following sentence.

I like these flowers.

  1. Demonstrative adjective
  2. Possessive adjective
  3. Adjective of quality
  4. Distributive adjective
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the type of the underlined adjective in the following sentence.

I found a hundred rupee note.

  1. Adjective of quantity
  2. Adjective of number
  3. Adjective of quality
  4. Possessive adjective
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Select the type of noun for the underlined word in the following sentence.

The Bible is the holy book of the Christians.

  1. Proper noun
  2. Common noun
  3. Abstract noun
  4. Material noun
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Select the type of noun for the underlined word in the following sentence.

Trees give us fruit.

  1. Uncountable common noun
  2. Countable common noun
  3. Collective noun
  4. Material noun
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Select the type of noun for the underlined word in the following sentence.

I always speak the truth.

  1. Abstract noun
  2. Proper noun
  3. Common noun
  4. Material noun
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Select the type of noun for the underlined word in the following sentence.

Milk is rich in calcium.

  1. Abstract noun
  2. Proper noun
  3. Material noun
  4. Countable common noun
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Select the type of noun for the underlined word in the following sentence.

The Indian team won the match.

  1. Collective noun
  2. Countable common noun
  3. Abstract noun
  4. Proper noun
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the correct option to change the gender of the underlined word.

The wizard looked like a sixteen year old.

  1. vixen
  2. witch
  3. lass
  4. bitch
Question 17 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the correct option to change the gender of the underlined word.

Once a lioness, a vixen, a hind and a heifer quarreled among themselves.

  1. lion
  2. stag
  3. fox
  4. bullock
Question 18 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the correct option to change the gender of the underlined word.

The negro was invited by the queen.

  1. negress
  2. negroes
  3. nigger
  4. nigero
Question 19 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the correct option to change the gender of the underlined word.

The nun was truth and peace loving.

  1. monk
  2. priest
  3. saint
  4. pope
Question 20 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the correct option to change the gender of the underlined word.

The sire won the derby match.

  1. dame
  2. dam
  3. damsel
  4. damn
Question 21 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the appropriate pronoun and fill in the blank.

You and I shall eat __________ lunch.

  1. ours
  2. ourselves
  3. our
  4. us
Question 22 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the appropriate pronoun and fill in the blank.

________ book was lost?

  1. Whom
  2. Who
  3. Whose
  4. Where
Question 23 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the appropriate pronoun and fill in the blank.

This is the same shirt _________ I bought from Khan Market.

  1. which
  2. that
  3. who
  4. whom
Question 24 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the kind of pronoun.

I can do my work myself.

  1. Personal pronoun
  2. Reflexive pronoun
  3. Distributive pronoun
  4. Reciprocal pronoun
Question 25 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the appropriate pronoun and fill in the blank.

_________ of the three students went to the school today.

  1. Neither
  2. Not
  3. Nor
  4. None
Question 26 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the appropriate pronoun and fill in the blank.

All the women helped ________.

  1. each other
  2. one another
  3. every other
  4. one other
Question 27 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the kind of pronoun.

He is the one whom I met in the cinema.

  1. Reflexive pronoun
  2. Relative pronoun
  3. Distributive pronoun
  4. Personal pronoun
Question 28 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the kind of pronoun.

Each of us will get a new pen.

  1. Distributive pronoun
  2. Personal pronoun
  3. Reflexive pronoun
  4. Indefinite pronoun
Question 29 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the kinds of pronoun.

They helped one another.

  1. Reciprocal pronoun
  2. Reflexive pronoun
  3. Personal pronoun
  4. Indefinite pronoun
Question 30 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the kind of pronoun.

None knows me here.

  1. Indefinite pronoun
  2. Distributive pronoun
  3. Reciprocal pronoun
  4. Reflexive pronoun
Question 31 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Select the appropriate subject for the following predicate.

____________ is red in colour.

  1. My bag
  2. Where is my bag
  3. My bag has
  4. The bag of mine
Question 32 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the suitable clause in the following sentence.

I can't go out ______.

  1. while
  2. while it is raining
  3. out while it is raining
  4. it is raining
Question 33 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Select the appropriate subject for the following predicate.

___________ is what you reap.

  1. What one sows
  2. What I sow
  3. What you sow
  4. What we sow
Question 34 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Select the appropriate subject for the following predicate.

_________ is not a bed of roses.

  1. Life
  2. My bed
  3. Garden
  4. Human race
Question 35 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Select the appropriate subject for the following predicate.

___________ go to the school everyday.

  1. My son
  2. My child
  3. My children
  4. My daughter
Question 36 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the suitable clause in the following sentence.

Shriya and I _______________.

  1. best friends
  2. are best friends
  3. friends
  4. is best friends
Question 37 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Select the appropriate subject for the following predicate.

_____________ will not fare well in your exams.

  1. He
  2. We
  3. You
  4. They
Question 38 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the suitable clause in the following sentence.

I ate an apple ____________.

  1. an apple and an orange
  2. an orange
  3. and an orange
  4. none of these
Question 39 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the suitable clause in the following sentence.

I like ___________.

  1. to play classical music
  2. play classical music
  3. music playing
  4. classical music playing
Question 40 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the suitable clause in the following sentence.

We all ____________.

  1. going out
  2. out tonight
  3. are going out tonight
  4. going out tonight
Question 41 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the type of sentence.

I topped in my exams.

  1. Declarative
  2. Imperative
  3. Exclamatory
  4. Interrogative
Question 42 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the type of sentence.

Wow! What a pleasant surprise.

  1. Assertive
  2. Exclamatory
  3. Interrogative
  4. Imperative
Question 43 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the type of sentence.

Don’t disturb me.

  1. Assertive
  2. Imperative
  3. Exclamatory
  4. Declarative
Question 44 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the type of sentence.

Did you do your homework?

  1. Interrogative
  2. Imperative
  3. Exclamatory
  4. Assertive
Question 45 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the type of sentence.

I did not like that movie.

  1. Assertive
  2. Imperative
  3. Interrogative
  4. Exclamatory

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