English Language

Grammar

1,680 Questions
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

“How many Perfect Continuous Tenses are there?”

  1. There are six tenses.

  2. There are three tenses.

  3. There are twelve tenses.

  4. There are nine tenses.
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B Correct answer
Explanation

English has three time periods (Past, Present, Future) and Perfect Continuous exists in each: Past Perfect Continuous (had been verb-ing), Present Perfect Continuous (has/have been verb-ing), and Future Perfect Continuous (will have been verb-ing). Therefore, there are three Perfect Continuous tenses.

Multiple choice

Change the following sentence into Past Perfect Continuous Tense.

“The cooks had cooked the food.”

  1. The cooks have cooked the food.

  2. The cooks will have cooked the food.

  3. The cooks had been cooking the food.

  4. The cooks have been cooking the food.
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C Correct answer
Explanation

According to the given question, the given sentence has to be changed into Past Perfect Continuous Tense, which will take only “had been + I form of verb + ing” . Answer: (3)

Multiple choice

Directions: The sentence has four underlined words or phrases. The four underlined parts of the sentence are marked (1), (2), (3) and (4). Identify the one underlined word or phrase that must be changed in order for the sentence to be correct.

The quality of Mr. Kapoor's speeches (1) on 'Increasing Public Awareness' (2) were (3) better (4) than that of Mr. Arora.

  1. (1)

  2. (2)

  3. (3)

  4. (4)
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B Correct answer
Explanation

(was). In the sentence the problem lies in locating the right subject. The correct subject is not 'speeches', it is 'quality'; which is singular, so the verb used will be also singular. 

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the part of speech of the word in bold letter.

The dogs are caged at night.

  1. noun

  2. adjective

  3. adverb

  4. verb

  5. preposition
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D Correct answer
Explanation

In the sentence 'The dogs are caged at night,' the word 'caged' is a past participle form of the verb 'to cage' functioning as part of the passive voice construction 'are caged.' It describes what action is being done to the dogs. Therefore, 'caged' is functioning as a verb (past participle) in this context.

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the part of speech of the word in bold letter.

Tony is very cagey about his family.

  1. noun

  2. adjective

  3. adverb

  4. verb

  5. preposition
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B Correct answer
Explanation

In the sentence 'Tony is very cagey about his family,' the word 'cagey' describes Tony's quality of being cautious or secretive. Adjectives modify nouns or pronouns by describing their qualities or states. Since 'cagey' describes Tony's characteristic, it is functioning as an adjective.