English Language

English Grammar and Usage

2,711 Questions

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

Directions: Change the narration of the given sentence.

Nalini said, “My friends gave me a party.”

  1. Nalini said that her friends had given her a party.

  2. Nalini said her friends gave her a party.

  3. Nalini asked that her friends gave her a party.

  4. Nalini said that her friends were giving her a party.

  5. None of these

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

If reporting speech is in past tense, past tense changes to past perfect tense in the reported speech.

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the option that is grammatically correct and the best version of the underlined part.

A farmer recalled that in 1999, he had rushed to the village hearing cyclone warning on radio.

  1. had rushed to the village hearing cyclone warning

  2. had rushed to the village after he had heard about cyclone warning

  3. had rushed to the village after he heard about cyclone warning

  4. rushed to the village hearing cyclone warning

  5. rushed to the village when he heard about the cyclone warning
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Correct, the tense is used correctly in simple past.

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the option which is grammatically correct and the best version of the underlined part.

The armless statue of Venus and the headless statue of Gandharva look far more beautiful than if her arms and his head was not chopped away.

  1. look far more beautiful than if her arms and his head was not chopped away

  2. looks far more beautiful than if her arms or his head were not chopped away

  3. look far more beautiful than if her arms and his head were not chopped away

  4. looks far more beautiful than if her arms and his head had not been chopped away

  5. look far more beautiful if her arms or his head was not chopped off
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C Correct answer
Explanation

Correct, both the verbs , 'look' and 'were', are in correct form.

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the option which is grammatically correct and the best version of the underlined part.

Since the advent of cable television, at the beginning of this decade, the entertainment industry took a giant stride forward in our country.

  1. this decade, the entertainment industry took

  2. this decade saw the entertainment industry taking

  3. this decade, the entertainment industry had taken

  4. this decade, the entertainment industry has taken

  5. this decade the entertainment industry took
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Correct, the verb is in correct form.