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.
Questions
Directions: The following sentence may have an error. Choose the correct option to rectify the error, if any.
It rains each day in Cherapunji.
- every
- all
- each
- no error
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.
- boring
- bored
- borious
- no error
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.
- detailed
- detail
- in detail
- no error
Directions: The following sentence may have an error. Choose the correct option to rectify the error, if any.
John Donne wrote romanticised poetry.
- romantic
- romance
- romanticism
- no error
Directions: The following sentence may have an error. Choose the correct option to rectify the error, if any.
She is the sweeter of all.
- sweet
- sweetest
- more sweeter
- no error
Directions: Identify the type of the underlined adjective in the following sentence.
It's a rainy day today.
- Adjective of quality
- Adjective of quantity
- Demonstrative adjective
- Distributive adjective
Directions: Identify the type of the underlined adjective in the following sentence.
She is my sister.
- Possessive adjectives
- Distributive adjective
- Demonstrative adjective
- Adjective of quality
Directions: Identify the type of the underlined adjective in the following sentence.
There was a little water in the jug.
- Adjective of quantity
- Adjective of number
- Adjective of quality
- Possessive adjective
Directions: Identify the type of the underlined adjective in the following sentence.
I like these flowers.
- Demonstrative adjective
- Possessive adjective
- Adjective of quality
- Distributive adjective
Directions: Identify the type of the underlined adjective in the following sentence.
I found a hundred rupee note.
- Adjective of quantity
- Adjective of number
- Adjective of quality
- Possessive adjective
Directions: Select the type of noun for the underlined word in the following sentence.
The Bible is the holy book of the Christians.
- Proper noun
- Common noun
- Abstract noun
- Material noun
Directions: Select the type of noun for the underlined word in the following sentence.
Trees give us fruit.
- Uncountable common noun
- Countable common noun
- Collective noun
- Material noun
Directions: Select the type of noun for the underlined word in the following sentence.
I always speak the truth.
- Abstract noun
- Proper noun
- Common noun
- Material noun
Directions: Select the type of noun for the underlined word in the following sentence.
Milk is rich in calcium.
- Abstract noun
- Proper noun
- Material noun
- Countable common noun
Directions: Select the type of noun for the underlined word in the following sentence.
The Indian team won the match.
- Collective noun
- Countable common noun
- Abstract noun
- Proper noun
Directions: Choose the correct option to change the gender of the underlined word.
The wizard looked like a sixteen year old.
- vixen
- witch
- lass
- bitch
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.
- lion
- stag
- fox
- bullock
Directions: Choose the correct option to change the gender of the underlined word.
The negro was invited by the queen.
- negress
- negroes
- nigger
- nigero
Directions: Choose the correct option to change the gender of the underlined word.
The nun was truth and peace loving.
- monk
- priest
- saint
- pope
Directions: Choose the correct option to change the gender of the underlined word.
The sire won the derby match.
- dame
- dam
- damsel
- damn
Directions: Choose the appropriate pronoun and fill in the blank.
You and I shall eat __________ lunch.
- ours
- ourselves
- our
- us
Directions: Choose the appropriate pronoun and fill in the blank.
________ book was lost?
- Whom
- Who
- Whose
- Where
Directions: Choose the appropriate pronoun and fill in the blank.
This is the same shirt _________ I bought from Khan Market.
- which
- that
- who
- whom
Directions: Identify the kind of pronoun.
I can do my work myself.
- Personal pronoun
- Reflexive pronoun
- Distributive pronoun
- Reciprocal pronoun
Directions: Choose the appropriate pronoun and fill in the blank.
_________ of the three students went to the school today.
- Neither
- Not
- Nor
- None
Directions: Choose the appropriate pronoun and fill in the blank.
All the women helped ________.
- each other
- one another
- every other
- one other
Directions: Identify the kind of pronoun.
He is the one whom I met in the cinema.
- Reflexive pronoun
- Relative pronoun
- Distributive pronoun
- Personal pronoun
Directions: Identify the kind of pronoun.
Each of us will get a new pen.
- Distributive pronoun
- Personal pronoun
- Reflexive pronoun
- Indefinite pronoun
Directions: Identify the kinds of pronoun.
They helped one another.
- Reciprocal pronoun
- Reflexive pronoun
- Personal pronoun
- Indefinite pronoun
Directions: Identify the kind of pronoun.
None knows me here.
- Indefinite pronoun
- Distributive pronoun
- Reciprocal pronoun
- Reflexive pronoun
Directions: Select the appropriate subject for the following predicate.
____________ is red in colour.
- My bag
- Where is my bag
- My bag has
- The bag of mine
Directions: Choose the suitable clause in the following sentence.
I can't go out ______.
- while
- while it is raining
- out while it is raining
- it is raining
Directions: Select the appropriate subject for the following predicate.
___________ is what you reap.
- What one sows
- What I sow
- What you sow
- What we sow
Directions: Select the appropriate subject for the following predicate.
_________ is not a bed of roses.
- Life
- My bed
- Garden
- Human race
Directions: Select the appropriate subject for the following predicate.
___________ go to the school everyday.
- My son
- My child
- My children
- My daughter
Directions: Choose the suitable clause in the following sentence.
Shriya and I _______________.
- best friends
- are best friends
- friends
- is best friends
Directions: Select the appropriate subject for the following predicate.
_____________ will not fare well in your exams.
- He
- We
- You
- They
Directions: Choose the suitable clause in the following sentence.
I ate an apple ____________.
- an apple and an orange
- an orange
- and an orange
- none of these
Directions: Choose the suitable clause in the following sentence.
I like ___________.
- to play classical music
- play classical music
- music playing
- classical music playing
Directions: Choose the suitable clause in the following sentence.
We all ____________.
- going out
- out tonight
- are going out tonight
- going out tonight
Directions: Identify the type of sentence.
I topped in my exams.
- Declarative
- Imperative
- Exclamatory
- Interrogative
Directions: Identify the type of sentence.
Wow! What a pleasant surprise.
- Assertive
- Exclamatory
- Interrogative
- Imperative
Directions: Identify the type of sentence.
Don’t disturb me.
- Assertive
- Imperative
- Exclamatory
- Declarative
Directions: Identify the type of sentence.
Did you do your homework?
- Interrogative
- Imperative
- Exclamatory
- Assertive
Directions: Identify the type of sentence.
I did not like that movie.
- Assertive
- Imperative
- Interrogative
- Exclamatory