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

Which one of the following sentences is grammatically correct?

  1. Had you paid attention from the beginning, you should have passed.

  2. Had you paid attention from the beginning, you will pass.

  3. Had you paid attention from the beginning, you would have passed.

  4. Had you paid attention from the beginning, you would pass.

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

Case of third conditional: The use of 'had...............would have' is appropriate to present an imagined situation of the past.

Multiple choice

Directions: Read the given sentence carefully and fill in the blank with the most appropriate idiom/phrase from the options given below. When I saw her last she was _____________ with grief over her husband's passing.

  1. at sixes and sevens

  2. giving herself airs

  3. on the alert

  4. beside herself

  5. bidding fair
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

This means out of one's mind with grief or worry. When I saw her last she was beside herself with grief over her husband's passing.

Multiple choice

Because the competitor’s new method is the fastest and it is therefore the most efficient system, it is being increasingly viewed by the production team as a threat to market share.

  1. and it is therefore the most efficient system, it is being increasingly viewed

  2. it is therefore the most efficient of systems, and it has increased the view

  3. and therefore the most efficient system, it is being increasingly viewed

  4. and therefore it is the most efficient of systems, there is an increasing view

  5. therefore being the most efficient of systems, it is increasingly viewed
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Options (1), (2) and (4) are incorrect because of the redundant ‘it is’. Option (5) disobeys parallelism by introducing ‘being’ after ‘therefore’. Hence (3).