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Grammar: Determiners and Articles

Test your knowledge of determiners including articles, possessives, quantifiers, and indefinite pronouns in English grammar

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Part of the sentence is underlined. Select the option that best corrects the underlined part.

Now that you have learnt some techniques which prepare you for a change, you need to learn that when in your life is a good time to make a change, and that how to plan a change and follow it through.

  1. you need to learn that when in your life is a good time to make a change, and that how to plan a change and follow it through
  2. you need to learn when in your life is a good time to make a change and how can a change be planned and followed throughout
  3. you need to learn that when in your life it is a good time to make a change, how to plan a change and how to follow it through
  4. you need to learn when in your life it is a good time to make a change, and how to plan a change and follow it through
  5. you need to learn that when in your life a good time to make a change is, and that how to change and follow a plan
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Part of the sentence is underlined. Select the option that best corrects the underlined part.

Designers of athletic footwear finely tune each category of shoes to their particular activity by studying human motion and physiology.

  1. finely tune each category of shoes to their particular activity
  2. fine tune each category of shoes to its particular activity
  3. fine tune each category of shoes to their particular activity
  4. finely tune each category of shoes to its particular activity
  5. finely tune all categories of shoe to their particular activity
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect:" none;="">Directions:<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect:" none;=""> Part of the sentence is underlined. Select the option that best corrects the underlined part.

There are all too many scientists, or would be scientists, who are primarily concerned with data gathering, data counting and data describing, and seem to forget that such operations, however useful, are but the first step.

  1. There are all too many scientists, or would be scientists, who are primarily concerned with data gathering, data counting and data describing, and seem to forget that such operations,
  2. There are plenty of scientists, or upcoming scientists, whose primary concerns include gathering data, data counting and data describing, and seem to forget that such operations
  3. There are all too many scientists, or would be scientists, the ones who are primarily concerned with data gathering, counting and description, and who seem to forget that such operations
  4. There are all too many scientists, or would be scientists, who are primarily concerned with data gathering, data counting and data describing, and who seem to forget that such operations,
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Part of the sentence is underlined. Select the option that best corrects the underlined part.

Human beings are amongst the most ignorant of breathing creatures, none shows an intense determination to engage with the ones who promote their mutual good.

  1. none shows an intense determination to engage with the ones who promote their mutual good
  2. none show an intense determination to engage with the ones who promote their mutual good
  3. none of them shows an intense determination to engage with the ones who promote their mutual good
  4. none of them show an intense determination to engage with the ones who promote their mutual good
  5. no one shows an intense determination to engage with the ones who promote their mutual good
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Select the option that best corrects the underlined sentence.

A good number of these investors are entrepreneurs and professionals who are familiar with workings of US stock markets and many of them already have stocks like Apple, Google and Microsoft in their portfolios.

  1. A good number of these investors are entrepreneurs and professionals who are familiar with workings of US stock markets and many of them already have stocks like Apple, Google and Microsoft in their portfolios.
  2. A good number of these investors are entrepreneurs and professionals who are familiar with the workings of US stock markets and many of them already have stocks like Apple Google and Microsoft in their portfolios.
  3. A good number of these investors are entrepreneurs and professionals who are familiar with the work of US stock markets and many of them already have stocks like Apple, Google and Microsoft in their portfolios.
  4. A good number of these investors are entrepreneurs and professionals who are familiar with the workings of US stock markets and much of them already have stocks like Apple, Google and Microsoft in their portfolios.
  5. A good number of these investors are entrepreneurs and professionals who are familiar with the workings of US stock markets and many of them already have stocks like Apple, Google and Microsoft in their portfolios.
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Select option that best corrects the underlined sentence.

It has something to do with the rising demand in Europe for a great emphasis on individualism, on breaking away from tradition, on moving out beyond old confines into the New World.

  1. It has something to do with the rising demand in Europe for a great emphasis on individualism, on breaking away from tradition, on moving out beyond old confines into the New World.
  2. It has something to do with the rising demand in Europe for a greater emphasis on individualism, on breaking away from tradition, on moving out beyond old confines into the New World.
  3. It has something to do with the rising demand in Europe for much emphasis on individualism, on breaking away from tradition, and on moving out beyond old confines into the New World.
  4. It has something to do with the rising demand in Europe for a greater emphasis on individualism, for breaking away from tradition, on moving out beyond old confines into the New World.
  5. It has something to do with the rising demand in Europe for more emphasis on individualism, breaking away from tradition, moving out beyond old confines into the New World.
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Select the option that best corrects the underlined sentence.

Three fourths of the national capital's citizenry believes that with much fast growth of telecom infrastructure sector, the various information services (entertainment, education, home shopping, telebanking etc) at home are becoming realities.

  1. Three fourths of the national capital's citizenry believes that with much fast growth of telecom infrastructure sector, the various information services (entertainment, education, home shopping, telebanking, etc.) at home are becoming realities.The sentence states that the various information services like entertainment, education, home shopping, telebanking, etc) which one uses at his house are becoming realities. The problem is with the determiner 'much fast', which is ungrammatical.
  2. Three fourths of the national capital's citizenry believe that with fast growth of telecom infrastructure sector, the various information services (entertainment, education, home shopping, telebanking, etc.) at home are becoming realities.
  3. Three fourths of the national capital's residents believe that with much growth of telecom infrastructure sector, the various information services (entertainment, education, home shopping, telebanking, etc.) are becoming realities at home
  4. Three fourths of the national capital's residents believes that with much faster growth of telecom infrastructure sector, the various information services (entertainment, education, home shopping, telebanking, etc.) at home are becoming realities
  5. Three fourths of the national capital's citizens believe that with faster growth of telecom infrastructure sector, the various information services (entertainment, education, home shopping, telebanking, etc.) are becoming realities at home
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Part of the sentence is underlined. Select the option that best corrects the underlined part

The mind mistakes the nature of objective sensory stimuli in dreams that reach it during sleep under conditions favourable to the formation of illusions.

  1. that reach it during sleep under conditions favourable to the formation of illusions
  2. which reach it during sleep under conditions favourable to the formation of illusions
  3. which reach it during sleep conditions favourable to the formation of illusions
  4. as the stimuli reach it during sleep under conditions favourable to the formation of illusions
  5. as the stimulus reaches it during sleep under conditions favourable to the formation of illusions
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