Multiple Choice Questions

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Choose the correct sentence.

  • The committee were one on this point

  • The committee was one on this point

  • The committee was divided on this point

  • The committee have on this point


B.

The committee was one on this point

Here, the committee is used as an entity, so 'the committee was one on this point' is a correct sentence.


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Fill in the blank with correct word to complete the proverb.

Blood is ______ than water.

  • thinner

  • thicker

  • purer

  • precious


Select the sentence in which the article has been wrongly used.

  • He is MA

  • Twelve inches make a foot

  • A pupil should obey his teacher

  • He is a European 


The idiom green-eyed monster means

  • to be jealous

  • to be sick

  • to be angry

  • to be blind


Change the following sentence into active voice.

The visitors were shown the newborn by the woman.

 

  • The newborn was shown to the visitors by the woman

  • The woman has shown the newborn to the visitors

  • The woman showed the visitors the newborn

  • The woman might have shown the newborn


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Pick out the correct question tag for the following.

People shouldn't drink and drive,_______

  • should they?

  • shouldn't they?

  • isn't it?

  • shall they?


Select the antonym for the word 'adverse'.

  • Hostile

  • Friendly

  • Inimical

  • Unwilling


Which of the following is an example of a simile?

  • I wandered lonely as a cloud

  • Life is a dream

  • Anxiety is sitting on her face

  • A lie has no legs


A sentence is divided into four parts (A), (B),(C) and (D).

Point out the part that has an error:

A. You are learning English
B. For the last one year
C. But you show
D. No improvement at all.

  • A

  • B

  • C

  • D


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Bees are kept in

  • a pantry

  • a nursery

  • an apiary

  • an aquarium