Home › Quizzes › Grammar Revision Test 2

Grammar Revision Test 2

Speed test grammar revision2

30 Questions Published
Play Quiz Practise this topic out loud

Questions

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The sentence below has been divided into four parts. Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (5).

If (1) your holiday (2) coincided with the full moon, (3) there is a (4) glorious full moon cruise. (5) No error

  1. (1)
  2. (2)
  3. (3)
  4. (4)
  5. (5)
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (5).

  1. Arresting the trend,
  2. a new constitution was drawn up
  3. under the guidance of Sir Paul Reeves,
  4. a former Governor General of New Zealand
  5. No error
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (5).

  1. A majority of the educationists
  2. believes that
  3. too many examinations
  4. are counter-productive
  5. No error
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (5).

  1. But he can
  2. walk just
  3. as fast
  4. as him
  5. No error
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (5).

  1. This type of product
  2. is not available in
  3. any of the shop
  4. in the market around Model Town
  5. No error
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (5).

  1. The most early attempts
  2. to raise computer literacy in rural India
  3. have been funded by
  4. non-governmental organizations
  5. No error
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The sentence below has been divided into four parts. Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (5).

Sleep is (1) controlled by (2) the brain and (3) associated by characteristic (4) breathing rhythms. (5) No error.

  1. (1)
  2. (2)
  3. (3)
  4. (4)
  5. (5)
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The sentence below has been divided into four parts. Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (5).

The knee (1) is likely to be more than damaged most (2) other joints in the body because (3) it cannot twist (4) without injury. (5) No error

  1. (1)
  2. (2)
  3. (3)
  4. (4)
  5. (5)
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The sentence below has been divided into four parts. Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (5).

(1) Municipalities are (2) of two kind: (3) the agricultural municipalities and the (4) commercial-industrial municipalities. (5) No error

  1. (1)
  2. (2)
  3. (3)
  4. (4)
  5. (5)
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (5).

  1. We found it strange that
  2. the professor had avoided from
  3. answering the very question that
  4. was of vital importance to us
  5. No error
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The sentence below has been divided into four parts. Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (5).

Fossils of (1) plant that have (2) been extinct for (3) fifty million years have been found in large deposits of amber (4) near the Baltic Sea. (5) No error

  1. (1)
  2. (2)
  3. (3)
  4. (4)
  5. (5)
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The sentence below has been divided into four parts. Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (5).

In (1) the last part of (2) the nineteenth century (3) a new housing form was (4) quiet being developed. (5) No error

  1. (1)
  2. (2)
  3. (3)
  4. (4)
  5. (5)
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The sentence below has been divided into four parts. Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (5).

(1) Beside their wear ability, (2) either as jewelry or as incorporated into articles (3) of attire, beads possess the desirable characteristics of every (4) collectible. (5) No error

  1. (1)
  2. (2)
  3. (3)
  4. (4)
  5. (5)
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The sentence below has been divided into four parts. Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (5).

(1) Public transportation in many parts of India (2) is inadequate, (3) making it necessary for people (4) to own cars. (5) No error

  1. (1)
  2. (2)
  3. (3)
  4. (4)
  5. (5)
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (5).

  1. It is really amazing that
  2. a person who is totally paralyzed
  3. and permanently confined to a wheel chair
  4. running a large public school
  5. No error
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The following sentence has an underlined part. Five different ways of phrasing the underlined part are given. Choose the best alternative among the five. If the underlined part is correct as it is, mark (1) as your answer.

The political masters of the health care system have not listened to professional health planners because it has not been profitable for them to do that thing.

  1. has not been profitable for them to do that thing
  2. has not been profitable for them to do so
  3. has been unprofitable for them to do that thing
  4. has been unprofitable for them to do so
  5. doing so had not been profitable for them
Question 17 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: In the given question, the same idea has been expressed in three different ways. Which of the versions is/are grammatically and idiomatically correct?

(A) There are leaders, there are leaders.
(B) There are leaders and leaders.
(C) There are leaders, and there are leaders.

  1. Only A
  2. Only B
  3. Only C
  4. Both A and B
  5. Both B and C
Question 18 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: A part of the sentence is underlined. Five different ways of phrasing the underlined part are given. Choose the best alternative among the five.

Because of the efforts of advocates of the soft path of solar energy, the economics of nuclear power are open to closer examination than they ever were before.

  1. open to closer examination than they ever were before
  2. being more closely examined now than ever before
  3. being closely examined more now than ever before
  4. more closely examined than before
Question 19 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: A part of the sentence is underlined. Five different ways of phrasing the underlined part are given. Choose the best alternative among the five.

We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves from ourselves.

  1. cannot forever
  2. cannot never
  3. forever cannot
  4. seldom cannot
  5. can never
Question 20 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: In the given question, the same idea has been expressed in three different ways. Which of the versions is/are grammatically and idiomatically correct?

(A) Five of six people suffer acidity.
(B) Five out of six people suffer from acidity.
(C) Five out of six people suffer acidity.

  1. Only A
  2. Only B
  3. Only C
  4. Both A and B
  5. Both A and C
Question 21 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: In the given question, the same idea has been expressed in three different ways. Which of the versions is/are grammatically and idiomatically correct?

(A) Some people are simply not to be managers.
(B) Some people are simply not cut to be managers.
(C) Some people are simply not cut out to be managers.

  1. Only A
  2. Only B
  3. Only C
  4. Both A and B
  5. Both B and C
Question 22 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: In the given question, the same idea has been expressed in three different ways. Which of the versions is/are grammatically and idiomatically correct?

(A) The International Herald Tribune which is co-owned by the Washington Post and The New York Times, is headquartered in Paris.
(B) The International Herald Tribune, that is co-owned by the Washington Post and The New York Times, is headquartered in Paris.
(C) The International Herald Tribune, co-owned by the Washington Post and The New York Times, is headquartered in Paris.

  1. Only A
  2. Only B
  3. Only C
  4. Both A and B
  5. Both B and C
Question 23 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: A part of the sentence is underlined. Five different ways of phrasing the underlined part are given. Choose the best alternative among the five.

For the reason that gasoline was relatively cheap and twenty-five cents per gallon in the 1960's, the average American came to view unfettered, inexpensive driving as a right rather than a lucky privilege.

  1. For the reason that gasoline was relatively cheap and
  2. Since gasoline was relatively cheap and
  3. Due to the fact that gasoline was a relatively inexpensive and
  4. In that gasoline was a relatively inexpensive and
  5. Because gasoline had been relatively cheap and
Question 24 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: In the given question, the same idea has been expressed in three different ways. Which of the versions is/are grammatically and idiomatically correct?

(A) Eye for eye ends up making the whole world blind.
(B) An eye for eye ends up making whole world blind.
(C) An eye for an eye ends up making the whole world blind.

  1. Only A
  2. Only B
  3. Only C
  4. Both A and B
  5. Both A and C
Question 25 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The sentence below has been divided into four parts and numbered (1) to (4). Identify the part having an error and mark that as your answer. If no part has an error, mark (5) as your answer.

It makes (1) honest public life impossible, (2) as every politician (3) tries to benefit his family (4) on the expense of the state. (5) No error

  1. (1)
  2. (2)
  3. (3)
  4. (4)
  5. (5)
Question 26 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (5).

  1. This story is about a boy
  2. who meets a baby tiger in the jungle
  3. and
  4. became its friend
  5. No error
Question 27 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (5).

  1. October 2, the very celebrated
  2. occasion of Gandhi Jayanti
  3. has deteriorated into a time
  4. for lip-service to Gandhian ideals
  5. No error
Question 28 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (5).

  1. The great bulk
  2. of the people
  3. was either having one-time meals or
  4. not having at all
  5. No error
Question 29 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The sentence below has been divided into four parts. Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (5).

(1) It was the first map made after English settlers (2) came to Smith town (3) was a map of Virginia by (4) James Brown, the famous adventurer. No error

  1. (1)
  2. (2)
  3. (3)
  4. (4)
  5. (5)
← Back to Quizzes