English Grammar and Vocabulary
Test your English language skills with questions on grammar, sentence correction, and vocabulary including antonyms and proper word usage.
Questions
Directions: In the following sentence some parts have been underlined and labelled A, B, C and D. Identify the part that contains an error. If there is no error in any part of the sentence, mark your answer as E.
(A) I am feeling frustrated and have lost (B) the peace of my mind because of (C) the dirty politics of (D) the office. (E) No error
- (A)
- (B)
- (C)
- (D)
- (E)
Directions: This item presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is the best, choose option (1) as your answer; otherwise, choose one of the others.
Undergraduates, as well as us graduate students, are at the low end of the academic totem pole.
- Undergraduates, as well as us graduate students
- Undergraduates, as well as us graduates
- Undergraduates, as well as we graduates
- Undergraduates, as well as we graduate students
Directions: In the following question two sentences, labeled I and II, have been given. Mark your answer as
I. I worked all day
II. I worked all the day.
- if only sentence I is correct
- if only sentence II is correct
- if both are correct
- if neither of the two is correct
Directions: The following sentence has a blank followed by four options. Select the appropriate option so as to make the sentence grammatically correct.
Shalu is ____________ for his age.
- wise
- sane
- wiser
- insane
Directions: The following sentence has a blank followed by four options. Select the appropriate option so as to make the sentence grammatically correct.
The ____________team should win the match.
- best
- good
- better
- bad
Directions: Choose the opposite of the word :
Respectful
- Impersonal
- Impertinent
- Cautious
- Vulnerable
- Patient
Directions: Which of the following alternatives correctly rectifies the given sentence. If the sentence is correct as it is, choose option (1) as your answer.
The frequency of accidents implies that there is not only something wrong with our traffic management, but also the attitude of people who live in cities.
- The frequency of accidents implies that there is not only something wrong with our traffic management, but also the attitude of people who live in cities.
- The frequency of accidents implies that there is something wrong with not only our traffic management, but also the attitude of people who live in cities.
- The frequency of accidents implies that there is something wrong with not our traffic management, but also the attitude of people who live in cities.
- The frequency of accidents implies that not only there is something wrong with our traffic management, but also attitude of people who live in cities.
Directions: In the following question, four options are given. You have to choose the best way of writing the sentence in the context of correct English usage. Ensure that the meaning of the sentence remains unchanged.
Mobile telephony is taking the shape of a mass movement in India increasingly.
- Mobile telephony is taking the shape of a mass movement in India increasingly.
- Mobile telephony is taking the shape of an increasing mass movement in India.
- Mobile telephony has been taking the shape of a mass movement in India increasingly.
- Mobile telephony is increasingly taking the shape of a mass movement in India.
Directions: Select the word that replaces the given expression.
Of the highest sort
- Sublime
- Divine
- Voluntarily
- Precious
- Private
Directions: Pick out the antonym.
SINECURE
- optimistic forecast
- voluntary restriction
- unwelcome news
- arduous employment
Directions: Identify the incorrect sentence or sentences.
A. The question of when man starting cooking his food has not been answered by anthropologists with any definiteness.
B. There has not been sufficient rain this year.
C. The first railway line in the USA was built nearly two hundred years ago.
D. The Neanderthals appeared in Europe during third interglacial period.
- A and B
- B and C
- C and D
- A and D
Directions: Identify the incorrect sentence or sentences.
A. Dr. Friedman, who is a leader of the laissez faire school, goes further than most other observers, particularly in accusing the Fund of laying the ground for the crisis.
B. At the beginning of 1998, the World Bank established a special internal audit committee to examine problems of corruption in its lending policies.
C. The IMF is still reeling under the shock of the barrage of criticism it received over their handling of the Asian Crisis.
D. It is not too much to say that had there been no IMF; there would have been no East Asia crisis.
- B and D
- A and C
- A and D
- A and B
Directions: Identify the incorrect sentence or sentences.
A. I had such wonderful plans laid out for my life, and they all seemed to be right in track.
B. She is one of those who has sought the warmth of a fire that got out of hand.
C. Delore was afraid that if she told him they had just won such a large sum, he would have another heart attack and die.
D. Walking beside David and meeting his needs was a challenge, and God gave me, the strength to meet those challenges one step at a time.
- A and B
- C and D
- A, B and C
- B, C and D
Directions: Pick out the antonym of the given word.
SERE
- Humid
- Livid
- Parched
- Drained
Directions: The following question consists of a set of four statements. One or more of the statements may have an error of grammar or syntax. Select the statement(s) having the error.
(A) Naturalists continually refer to external conditions, such as climate, food etc., as the only possible causes of variation.
(B) Nevertheless, such a conclusion, even if well founded, would be unsatisfactory, until it could be shown how the innumerable species, have to acquire that perfection of structure and coadaptation.
(C) It is quite conceivable that a naturalist might come to the conclusion that species have not been independently created, but had descended from other species.
(D) Yet it is preposterous to attribute to mere external conditions, the structure of several species.
- Only A
- Only C
- A, B and C
- All of these
- None of these
Directions: Select the word/phrase that is antonymous to the word given in bold letters.
NARCISSISM
- nihilism
- altruism
- insolence
- virtuous
- obsequious
Directions: Select the word/phrase that is antonymous to the word given in bold letters.
RAVE
- flak
- flop
- cant
- pan
- snub
Directions: Select the word/phrase that is antonymous to the word given in bold letters.
TYRO
- subordinate
- genuine
- eccentric
- expert
- despot
Directions: Select the word that is most opposite in meaning to the given word.
SUPERNUMERARY
- Inferior
- Essential
- Deficit
- Negligible
- Tyro
Directions: Choose the correct form of the verb and fill in the blank.
The boy ____________ for stealing.
- punished
- was punished
- had punished
- has punished
Direction: The following question has four underlined portions marked I, II, III and IV. Choose the portion that must be changed for the sentence to be correct.
Gandhiji lived a noble life of fasting (I) and poverty (II) in order to work for peaceful (III) and independence (IV).
- I
- II
- III
- IV
Directions: The sentence given below is divided into four parts marked as 1, 2, 3 and 4. Identify the part having the error. If there is no error, mark (5) as your answer.
- No sooner
- had he left
- when his sister
- came