MCQ Bank
Correct the sentence by inserting the appropriate comparative verb degree.
Elephants are heavy than pigs
- A) heavy
- B) heavier
- C) none
- D) heaviest
Put the correct form of adjectives in the blanks.
She's got (little) ________ money than you, but she doesn't care.
- A) short
- B) less
- C) little
- D) small
Choose the correct option. The ‘describing words’ which add qulifying details about the nouns in a sentence are known as ___________.
- A) Adjectives
- B) Pronouns
- C) Adverbs
- D) Verbs
The antonym of ‘Circumlocution’ is ----------.
- A) brevity
- B) extensive
- C) rational
- D) none of the above
Colloquialism is formal business expression.
- A) True
- B) False
- C)
- D)
In a good message, contractions should be avoided.
- A) False
- B) True
- C)
- D)
Identify and choose the adverb in the given sentence.
She placed the crystal vase carefully on the table.
- A) on the table
- B) placed
- C) carefully
- D) crystal vase
Vivid verbs enhance a piece of writing. Choose the best verb for the weather sentence given below.
Fluffy, white snowflakes -------- gently to the ground on Grouse Mountain
- A) crackle
- B) numb
- C) moisten
- D) float
Choose the correct option:
I'll be ready to leave ____ about twenty minutes.
- A) at
- B) upon
- C) in
- D) on
Ambiguity cannot be syntactical.
- A) False
- B) True
- C)
- D)
Choose the correct present tense verb for each sentence.
Two cups of sliced jalapeno peppers ___________ extreme for a single batch of burrito filling, but that's the amount in Felipe's recipe.
- A) seem
- B) seemed
- C) seems
- D) had seemed
Choose the option that correctly fills the blank.
Then, in the _____ morning, I found it under my pillow.
- A) quilt
- B) quiet
- C) quit
- D) quite
Fill in the blank with the appropriate contraction.
I would not call out if I was you.
- A) wouldn't
- B) woul'nt
- C) wou'not
- D) wouldno't
Select the grammatically perfect sentence from the given options.
- A) You speak a very good English.
- B) You speak very good English.
- C)
- D)
Choose the formal term for the colloquial word ‘a lot’.
- A) Several
- B) More
- C) Huge
- D) Much
Select the sentence that is grammatically perfect and error-free:
- A) Look – it’s raining.
- B) Look – it rains.
- C)
- D)
In a good message, sentences should be ended at a preposition.
- A) False
- B) True
- C)
- D)
Choose the correct present tense verb for each sentence.
The eight slots on Pam's extra-large toaster __________ that no one has to fight over frozen waffles during breakfast.
- A) will mean
- B) means
- C) meant
- D) mean
Please don't get mad _____ me! I'm only doing this for your own good!
- A) at
- B) by
- C) on
- D) in
Fred lives _____ Mill Street, doesn't he?
- A) by
- B) at
- C) in
- D) on