English Language

English Grammar and Usage

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English grammar and usage questions test fundamental sentence structure, correct verb forms, and accurate syntax. Topics include identifying grammatical errors, filling blanks with appropriate verbs, and changing narration. These are essential for the English language sections of competitive exams.

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English Grammar and Usage Questions

Multiple choice

Change the following sentence into negative without changing the meaning of the sentence.

She finished every work.

  1. She did not finish every work.

  2. She does not finished every work.

  3. She did not finished every work.

  4. She left no work unfinished.

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

(1), (2) and (3) are incorrect because the given sentence has a positive meaning. In order to make it negative, two negatives will have to be used so that the sense of the given sentence does not change whereas (1), (2) and (3) have only one negative. Answer: (4)

Multiple choice

Select the option that corrects the following incorrect sentence.

When the teacher will go, we shall begin to play.

  1. When the teacher shall go, we shall begin to play.

  2. When the teacher goes, we shall begin to play.

  3. When the teacher go, we shall begin to play.

  4. When the teacher had gone, we shall begin to play.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

(1), (3) and (4) are incorrect because in a complex sentence, if the main clause is in the Simple Future Tense, the subordinate clause has to be in the Simple Present Tense and none of the (1), (3) and (4) fulfils this condition. Option (2) fulfils this condition.     Answer: (2)

Multiple choice

Select the correct option to tick the correct answer for the following incorrect sentence. Ross is the most happiest man in our family.

  1. Ross is more happiest man in our family.

  2. Ross is the happiest man in our family.

  3. Ross is more happier man in our family.

  4. None of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

(1) and (3) are incorrect as there is error of double comparative/superlative. (4) is not applicable because (2) is correct.         Answer: (2)

Multiple choice

Select the option that corrects the following incorrect sentence. The patient had died before the doctor had come.

  1. The patient had died before the doctor will come.

  2. The patient had died before the doctor came.

  3. The patient had died before the doctor comes.

  4. The patient had died before the doctor come.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

(1), (3) and (4) are incorrect because in a complex sentence, if the main clause is in the Past Perfect Tense, then the subordinate clause has to be in the Simple Past Tense. Answer: (2)

Multiple choice

Select the option that corrects the following incorrect sentence. Ray is the boy who he was punishes by the teacher.

  1. Ray is the boy who him was punished by the teacher.

  2. Ray is the boy who his was punished by the teacher.

  3. Ray is the boy who was punished by the teacher.

  4. Ray is the boy who himself was punished by the teacher.

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

(1), (2) and (4) are incorrect because all of them contain redundant pronouns like 'him', 'his' and 'himself'. Answer: (3)

Multiple choice

Select the option that corrects the following incorrect sentence. I am too busy not to see him.

  1. I am too busy not to saw him.

  2. I am too busy not to seeing him.

  3. I am too busy not to have seen him.

  4. I am too busy to see him.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

(1), (2) and (3) are incorrect because the sense, in the given sentence, is that “I am so busy that I cannot see him”, whereas the sense conveyed by (1), (2) and (3) is quite opposite. Answer: (4)

Multiple choice

Select the option that corrects the following incorrect sentence. The moon has not been brighter never before.

  1. The moon has not been brighter nothing before.

  2. The moon has not been brighter one before.

  3. The moon has not been brighter ever before.

  4. None of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

(1) and (2) are incorrect because both of them have the negative words, which are not required. (4) is not applicable because (3) is correct. Answer: (3)

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the appropriate option for the blank, so as to make the sentence grammatically correct.

________________ by the time I received the interview call.

  1. I waited for several weeks

  2. I have been waiting for several weeks

  3. I had been waiting for several weeks

  4. I was waiting for several weeks

  5. None of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

'By the time' indicates continuation. 'Several weeks' indicate the time elapsed. The call has already been received, so the so it is past tense. Hence, the recommended use is past perfect 'had been'.

Multiple choice

Direction: Choose the appropriate option for the blank, so as to make the sentence grammatically correct.

____________________, it seems clear, he will continue to play for the country.

  1. Since he is a great player for the selectors to drop

  2. Since he is too great a player for the selectors to drop

  3. Since he is so great a player for the selectors to drop

  4. Since he is such a great player for the selectors to drop

  5. None of these

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

He is so great a player that the selectors cannot drop him. Since no negation precedes 'drop' here, the negation has to come in the form of negative 'too'. Hence, option 2 is correct.