English Language

Grammar

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All Parts of Speech Identification 1421 Tense and Time Sequence 167 Conjunctions and Connectors 8 Prepositional Usage 8 Subject-Verb Agreement 6 Pronoun Agreement and Case 4 Adjective and Adverb Confusion 2 Non-Finite Verbs 2 Parallel Structure 2 Noun Pluralization 1

Grammar Questions

Multiple choice

The passage gives various ideas in support of music that mainly aim to

Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows:
Music
Music is a wonderful art indeed. It gets us out of the individual self into the social self without any effort on our part. It is a bond of social unity.
Moliere even expected it would unite the whole human race in love and peace. He said: “If all men learn music, would it not be a means of agreeing together in unity and establishing universal peace in the world?”
All men love music. Even some animals respond to it. It is nature’s direct wireless message.
Music lightens labour and promotes harmony and unity among men. It enlivens our leisure moments, and adds a touch of refinement to all our pleasures. It rescues us from coarseness and rudeness, and lifts us to a higher mental and ethical plane. It awakens in us that inner rhythm which adds to the passion of life and increases our energy and vitality. It takes us away from the insignificant material pleasures that are so false and misleading.
Whoever got tired of good music, even after the millionth repetition? Music expresses for us what speech cannot convey.

  1. make the passage more interesting

  2. generate publicity for a newly released music album

  3. highlight the benefits of music in common life

  4. encourage people to adopt music as an art form
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

It basically focuses on telling the various benefits of music for a common man in common life.

Multiple choice

Nobody can get tired of good music even after millionth repetition because

Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows:
Music
Music is a wonderful art indeed. It gets us out of the individual self into the social self without any effort on our part. It is a bond of social unity.
Moliere even expected it would unite the whole human race in love and peace. He said: “If all men learn music, would it not be a means of agreeing together in unity and establishing universal peace in the world?”
All men love music. Even some animals respond to it. It is nature’s direct wireless message.
Music lightens labour and promotes harmony and unity among men. It enlivens our leisure moments, and adds a touch of refinement to all our pleasures. It rescues us from coarseness and rudeness, and lifts us to a higher mental and ethical plane. It awakens in us that inner rhythm which adds to the passion of life and increases our energy and vitality. It takes us away from the insignificant material pleasures that are so false and misleading.
Whoever got tired of good music, even after the millionth repetition? Music expresses for us what speech cannot convey.

  1. people become habitual of it

  2. it is never the same when repeated

  3. it is an unexplained natural phenomenon

  4. it never loses its solace and beauty
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Music ahs everlasting beauty and inner peace that it provides to the listener.

Multiple choice

Identify the past tense sentence...

  1. Ich spiele Fußball

  2. Ich habe Fußball gespielt

  3. Ich werde Fußball spielen

  4. Ich möchte Fußball spielen
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The perfect tense (a common past tense) is formed with 'haben' or 'sein' plus the past participle. 'Ich habe... gespielt' is the correct construction for the past.

Multiple choice introduction to clauses sentences english

Identify the type of clause underlined in the following sentence:
All the good things we enjoy should make us happy.

  1. Relative Clause

  2. Noun Clause

  3. Adverb Clause of Manner

  4. Adverb Clause of Condition
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Relative clause adds extra information about a noun by using "who", 'what", "why", "that" and other questioning words. Here, "that" is implied. Hence Option C is correct. The rest of the options do not fit this description, hence incorrect. 

Multiple choice introduction to clauses sentences english

Identify the type of clause underlined in the following sentence:

He is the man whom we all have praised.

  1. Noun Clause

  2. Adverb Clause of Manner

  3. Adverb Clause of Place

  4. Relative Clause
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Noun clause is a dependent clause starting with "how", "what", "that", "whom" and other questioning words and describes a noun. Hence, Option D is correct. The rest of the options do not fit this description, hence incorrect. 

Multiple choice introduction to clauses sentences english

Identify the relative clause in the statement:
She worked for a man who used to be a teacher.

  1. worked for a man

  2. who used to be a teacher

  3. for a man

  4. all of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

A relative clause is one that describes the noun that precedes it in the main part of the sentence. Here the clause "who..teacher" describes the man. Hence Option B is correct. The rest of the options do not adhere to the goal, hence incorrect. 

Multiple choice introduction to clauses sentences english

Identify the relative clause in the statement:
They called a doctor who lived nearby.

  1. called a doctor

  2. lived nearby

  3. a doctor who lived nearby

  4. who lived nearby
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

A relative clause is one that describes the noun that precedes it in the main part of the sentence. Here the clause "who lived nearby" describes the doctor. Hence Option D is correct. The rest of the options do not adhere to the goal, hence incorrect. 

Multiple choice introduction to clauses sentences english

Identify the relative clause in the statement:
My sister, who lives in Australia, has three children. 

  1. my sister

  2. has three children

  3. in Australia

  4. who lives in Australia
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

A relative clause is one that describes the noun that precedes it in the main part of the sentence. Here the clause "who..Australia" describes the sister. Hence Option D is correct. The rest of the options do not adhere to the goal, hence incorrect. 

Multiple choice introduction to clauses sentences english

Identify the relative clause in the statement:
This is the man who saved the kid.

  1. the man

  2. the man who

  3. saved the kid

  4. who saved the kid
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

A relative clause describes the noun that precedes it, in the main part of the sentence. Here "who ...kid" describes "man", hence Option D is correct. The rest of the options do not adhere to the goal, hence incorrect. 

Multiple choice introduction to clauses sentences english

Identify the relative clause in the following statement:
A lion is an animal which is very strong.

  1. a lion

  2. which is very strong

  3. is an animal

  4. a lion is an animal
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

A relative clause describes the noun that precedes it, in the main part of the sentence. Here "which... strong" describes "lion", hence Option B is correct. The rest of the options do not adhere to the goal, hence incorrect. 

Multiple choice introduction to clauses sentences english

Identify the relative clause in the statement:
I dropped a glass that was new.

  1. a glass

  2. that was new

  3. dropped

  4. all of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

A relative clause is one that describes the noun that precedes it in the main part of the sentence. Here the clause that was new" describes the glass. Hence Option B is correct. The rest of the options do not adhere to the goal, hence incorrect.