a simple presentation on english grammar in multiple choice format.

1. English Grammar
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Youre doing wrong?
No, your doing it wrong?
No, you’r doing wrong!
No, you are doing is wrong.
Yes, you’re doing is wrong!

2. Idioms
“Where one door shuts, another opens”
means
a. Time brings more opportunities
b. Never lose an opportunity
c. Doors should be shut properly
d. Doors keep closing and opening
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3. Word Meaning
Even the smallest error cannot escape the
attention of a meticulous teacher. The
underlined word means:
a. slow
b. new
c. intelligent
d. careful
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4. Gerunds
My favorite pastime is _____
a. daydreams
b. daydreaming
c. daydreamer
d. daydreamful
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5. Spelling
The plural of ‘lily’ is
a. lilies
b. lillies
c. lilys
d. lily
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6. Pronunciation
‘Comb’ rhymes with
a. home
b. thumb
c. bomb
d. aplomb
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7. Adjectives
These are photocopies. The _____
paintings are in the cupboard.
a. originally
b. original
c. origins
d. originals
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8. Number
One is a wife, many are ……….. .
a. wifes
b. wives
c. wife’s
d. wifes’
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9. Pronouns
Modi and Mohammed are Indians.
_____ are from Gujarat.
a. Those
b. There
c. They
d. Their
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10. Pronouns
My boy friend and I are in a restaurant.
_____ are hungry.
a. Because
b. We
c. They
d. Both
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11. Contraction
Are they really hungry?
No, _____ not.
a. they’re
b. they
c. there
d. we are
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12. Common Errors
Which one of the following is correct?
a. He has a headache.
b. He is having a headache.
c. He have a headache.
d. He’s have a headache.
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13. Possessive Pronouns
He ended the letter with the customary
______ .
a. Yours affectionately
b. Your affectionately
c. Your’s affectionately
d. Yours’ affectionately
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14. Reflexive Pronouns
My husband cooked the dinner _____.
a. by his self
b. self
c. himself
d. by himself
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15. Articles
Martha is _____ European.
a. an
b. the
c. a
d. any
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16. Expressions
My new spectacles cost me _________
the last pair.
a. two times
b. double
c. twice as much as
d. as much as twice as
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17. Degrees of Comparison
Ambalika can’t swim __________ I can.
a. so good that
b. as fast as
c. as fast
d. like
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18. Prepositions
Irene has worked in the Andamans
_____ many years.
a. for
b. since
c. from
d. till
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19. Conjunctions
She has returned home early _____ she
has unexpected guests.
a. why because
b. because
c. therefore
d. though
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20. Prepositions
The minister died _____ stroke.
a. in a
b. with
c. of
d. of a
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21. Prepositions
Identify the incorrect sentence:
a. My students are able to do it.
b. My students can do it.
c. My students can able to do it.
d. My students are capable of
doing it.
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22. Short Responses
Are you teachers?
No, we _____. We are students.
a. are
b. isn’t
c. aren’t
d. don’t
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23. Word Order in Questions
Why _____ going home so late?
a. you are
b. you have been
c. are you
d. are
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24. Present Simple Tense
What time _____ you usually get up in
the mornings?
a. are
b. do
c. will
d. can
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25. Tense Consistency
What will you _____ next weekend?
I _____ my family.
a. do, will visit
b. go, will go
c. do, visit
d. go, visit
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26. Present Simple Tense
People in Mizoram _____ English.
a. are speaking
b. speak
c. speaks
d. did speak
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27. Collocation
Which one of the following is not
correct?
a. I made a mistake
b. I committed a mistake.
c. I did a mistake.
d. I rectified a mistake.
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28. Demonstrative Adverbs
_____ is the umbrella?
It’s on the floor.
a. That
b. What
c. Where
d. How much
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29. Reduced Clauses
_____ I get to know her, the more I like
her.
a. As much as
b. The more
c. For more
d. Far more
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30. Interrogative Adjectives
_____ time is breakfast?
It’s at 9 o’ clock.
a. What
b. When
c. Morning
d. This
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31. Tense Consistency
What _____ you doing in the library?
I was _____ a magazine.
a. were, reading
b. did, reading
c. are, reading
d. were, to read
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32. Idioms
To drop someone a line is to _____ him.
a. throw a ball at
b. queue in front of
c. mislead
d. write to
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33. Tense
This letter _____ at once.
a. should be sent
b. should have been send
c. ought to sent
d. send
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34. Parts of Speech
Thanks for the good advice. The
underlined word is
a. a noun
b. an adjective
c. a verb
d. a subject
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35. Irregular Verbs
Aishwarya _____ the glass at Salman.
a. thorough
b. through
c. throw
d. threw
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36. Past Perfect Tense
If Sai Baba _____ with us, we would
have had a good time.
a. had come
b. came
c. would be
d. will come
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37. Phrasal Verbs
Mary asked me to call _____ exactly at
midnight.
a. up her
b. she up
c. her up
d. upon her
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38. Word Order
Never _____ seen her so worried.
a. have I
b. I have
c. did I
d. have I been
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39. Words Often Confused
Please _____ for the national anthem.
a. raise
b. rose
c. rise
d. risen
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40. Parallel Construction
Mr Narayana Murthy will leave soon,
and so _____ Ms Murthy.
a. is
b. would
c. will
d. will be
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41. Past Tense
Was it _____ when you came home last
night?
No, it _____.
a. rained, didn’t
b. raining, didn’t
c. raining, wasn’t
d. rained, wasn’t
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42. Present Simple Tense
Everyday, the college buses
_____________.
a. will leave at 5.
b. will be leaving at 5.
c. will have left at 5.
d. leave at 5.
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43. Past Perfect Tense
Before the team visited the college, the
civil work _____ completed.
a. had been
b. was
c. has been
d. was being
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44. Prepositions
She took the risk _____ my warning.
a. despite
b. in despite
c. in spite
d. despite of
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45. Short Responses
Is she from Delhi?
No, _____. She is from Goa.
a. she is.
b. she isn’t.
c. is she?
d. isn’t she?
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46. Voice
I know her. (Change into passive)
a. I am known to her.
b. I don’t know her.
c. She is known to me.
d. She is known by me.
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47. Transitive Verbs
My trainer _____ me that her last name
was Angela.
a. said
b. asked
c. told
d. announced
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48. Transitive Verbs
I avoided _____ her.
a. meeting
b. to meet
c. meet
d. meeting with
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49. Antonyms
The antonym of legal is _____
a. elegal
b. ilegal
c. unlegal
d. illegal
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50. Words Often Confused
Yesterday, Sonali _____ in the sun all
day.
a. lay
b. laid
c. lie
d. lied
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51. Stative Verbs
Identify the correct sentence:
a. I smell it burning.
b. I am smelling it burning.
c. I am smelled it burning.
d. I smell it is burning.
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