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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 framing questions transformation of sentences english

Convert the given statement into a yes/no question:
(Ensure that the meaning of the sentence remains unchanged.)
She wrote a great story.

  1. Did she write a great story?

  2. Does she write a great story?

  3. Is she writing a great story?

  4. She wrote a great story?
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

'Yes/No' questions are those questions which start from helping verbs like was, are, were, is, etc. 

In such a case, the order is Verb + Subject + Object. In the given sentence, 'Did' is the verb, 'she' is the subject and 'story' is the object. 
Thus, option A is the correct answer. 

Multiple choice framing questions transformation of sentences english

Frame a 'wh' question for the given sentence:
Kids are playing in the garden.

  1. What are the kids doing?

  2. Where are the kids playing?

  3. Who is playing in the garden?

  4. All of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Since the emphasis is on thing, place and person, "where', "what" and "who" should be used. Hence, Option D is correct. 

Multiple choice framing questions transformation of sentences english

Frame 'wh' question for the given sentence:
Sandra loves the new cafe.

  1. Sandra does love the new cafe, right?

  2. Sandra loves the new cafe, doesn't she?

  3. Who loves the new cafe?

  4. Sandra loves what?
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Since the emphasis is on person in direct, "who" should be used. Hence, Option C is correct. The rest of the options do not adhere to the goal, hence incorrect. 

Multiple choice framing questions transformation of sentences english

Frame 'wh' question for the given sentence:
Monica was sleeping in the afternoon.

  1. Monica was doing what in the afternoon?

  2. Who was sleeping in the afternoon?

  3. Monia was sleeping in the afternoon, wasn't she?

  4. What was Monica doing in the afternoon?
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B,D Correct answer
Explanation

Since the emphasis is on both thing and person,  both "what" and "who" should be used. Hence, Option A and B are correct. The rest of the options do not adhere to the goal, hence incorrect. 

Multiple choice framing questions transformation of sentences english

Frame 'wh' question for the given sentence:
Tina is jogging.

  1. What is Tina doing?

  2. Who is jogging?

  3. A & B both

  4. Tina is jogging, isn't she?
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Since the emphasis is on both thing and person,  both "what" and "who" should be used. Hence, Option C is correct. The rest of the options do not adhere to the goal, hence incorrect. 

Multiple choice framing questions transformation of sentences english

Frame a 'wh' question for the given sentence:
Jay is doing something.

  1. Jay is doing what?

  2. Jay is doing something, isn't he?

  3. Is Jay doing something?

  4. What is Jay doing?
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Since the emphasis is on thing, "what" should be used. Hence, Option D is correct. The rest of the options do not adhere to the goal, hence incorrect. 

Multiple choice framing questions transformation of sentences english

Frame a 'wh' question for the given sentence:
Ajay just left from work.

  1. When did Ajay leave from work?

  2. Why did Ajay leave from work?

  3. Ajay left from work, didn't he?

  4. Ajay is leaving from work, isn't he?
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Since the emphasis is on time, "when" should be used. Hence, Option A is correct. The rest of the options do not adhere to the goal, hence incorrect. 

Multiple choice framing questions transformation of sentences english

Frame a question such that the underlined part of the sentence given is the answer:
We stopped at a small vendor's stall near the mountains for breakfast. 

  1. Where did you stop for breakfast?

  2. Why did you stop for breakfast?

  3. How did you have breakfast?

  4. When did you stop for breakfast?
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Wh-questions are used to ask certain types of questions. What, when, why, whom, who, whose, where and how are the wh-questions. 

Where is used to ask in or at what place or position. 
The highlighted part of the sentence shows the place 'vendor's stall'. 
Thus, option A is the correct answer. Rest of the options are incorrect ones. 

Multiple choice types of sentences sentences english

Identify whether the following sentence is simple, compound or complex:

The plastic bags were thin and green.

  1. Simple

  2. Compound

  3. Complex - subordinate adjective clause

  4. Complex - subordinate adverb clause
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

There is only one finite verb in the given sentence and, by extension, only one clause. Thus,it is not a complex or a compound sentence. Therefore, Option A is the correct answer. 

Multiple choice types of sentences sentences english

Identify whether the following sentence is simple, compound or complex:

The children strolled through the meadow.

  1. Simple

  2. Compound

  3. Complex - subordinate adverb clause

  4. Complex - subordinate noun clause
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

There is only one finite verb in the given sentence. Thus, there is only clause, so, it cannot be a complex or compound sentence. Hence, Option A id the correct answer. 

Multiple choice types of sentences sentences english

Identify whether the following sentence is simple, compound or complex:

His blue shirt hung sideways on the door.

  1. Simple

  2. Complex - subordinate adverb clause

  3. Complex - subordinate noun clause

  4. Compound
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The given sentence has only one finite verb and, by extension, only one clause. Therefore, it cannot be a complex or compound sentence. Thus, Option A is the correct answer. 

Multiple choice types of sentences sentences english

Identify the type of sentence from the options given below:
He left.

  1. Phrase

  2. Compound sentence

  3. Complex sentence

  4. Simple sentence
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Option D is the correct answer. There is only one finite verb. Thus, there is only one clause. So, it cannot be a compound or a complex sentence. Though the sentence is small, it does indeed contain a verb and makes complete sense, which does not make it a phrase. Therefore, Options A,B and C are all incorrect. 

Multiple choice types of sentences sentences english

Identify the dependent/subordinate clause in the following sentence:
You may stand wherever you like.

  1. You may stand

  2. may stand

  3. may stand wherever you like

  4. wherever you like
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Subordinate clauses start with conjunctions or prepositions and cannot exist without the on the main clause. Here “wherever you like” is dependent on “You may stand”. Hence, Option D is correct. The rest of the options do not fit this description, hence incorrect.

Multiple choice types of sentences sentences english

Choose the appropriate option that contains a simple sentence, made from the words given below:
John, had, taken, the day off, even though, he, got, an urgent call, from work

  1. John had taken the day off.

  2. Even though John had taken the day off.

  3. John got an urgent call from work even though he had taken the day off.

  4. John he got an urgent call from work.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

A simple sentence is made up of only one clause, containing one subject and one verb. From the given options, A contains one clause, with one subject "John", one verb "had taken" and one object "the day off". Hence it is a simple sentence and option A is correct. Option B starts with a subordinating conjunction which makes the clause dependent. Dependent clauses are incomplete in meaning whereas a simple sentence is an independent clause, complete in meaning. Hence option B is incorrect. The sentence in C is a complex sentence made up of an independent clause "John got an urgent call from work" and a dependent clause "even though he had taken the day off" hence C is incorrect. Option D is grammatically incorrect, the subject John cannot be followed by a pronoun, as pronouns replace the nouns (here, the subject).

Multiple choice types of sentences sentences english

Choose the appropriate option that contains a simple sentence, made from the words given below:
My car, on the way here, broke down, so, I, had, for a taxi, to look around

  1. My car on the way here.

  2. My car broke down on the way here.

  3. So I had to look around for a taxi.

  4. My car broke down, so I had to look around for a taxi.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

A simple sentence is consists of a single subject and a verb. From the given options, B contains a simple sentence made up of one subject "My car" and one verb "broke down". Hence B is correct.
Option A is incomplete in meaning, it lacks a verb that would qualify it as a sentence.
Option C is grammatically incorrect. When a sentence begins with 'so', it is usually followed by a comma ','. ('So' when used in the beginning of a sentence functions as a discourse marker, i.e., it connects the sentence with a previous idea.)
Option D is a compound sentence, made up of two independent clauses: 'My car broke down' and 'I had to look around for a taxi'. ('so' is a conjunction that connects the clauses)
It has two subjects and two verbs. Hence options A, C and D are incorrect.