MCQ Bank
'Yet', 'even though' and 'but' are:
- A) none of the above
- B) signal words
- C) location words
- D) vague words
Descriptive passages in a narrative text are created by using _______.
- A) none of the above
- B) adjectives
- C) adverbs
- D) verbs
Choose the correct option.
The new girl in our ESL class has a brother in grade 7 and a sister in grade 9.
- A) Compound
- B) Compound-complex
- C) Complex
- D) Simple
Choose the correct option.
He told me that he is returning to London next summer.
- A) Complex
- B) Compound
- C) Simple
- D) Compound-complex
Memo and Letters are types of ----------.
- A) None of the above
- B) Narrative writing
- C) Persuasive writing
- D) Report writing
Mustafa has strong opinions about educating our children and raising them to know right from wrong. I feel _________.
- A) similarly
- B) likewise
- C) same
- D) all of the above
I ____to wash the dishes before I leave the house.
- A) was
- B) have
- C) had
- D) has
------ signal answers the "where" question.
- A) Comparison-Contrast Signal
- B) Spatial
- C) Result Signal
- D) Fuzz Signal
Appeal to emotion is:
- A) none of the above
- B) creating the sensitivity in audience
- C) directing the viewpoints for humanitarian cause
- D) exploiting the audience’s feelings to convert them to a particular viewpoint.
Choose the correct option.
We were doing a mathematics test when the fire alarm rang yesterday.
- A) Complex
- B) Simple
- C) Compound-complex
- D) Compound
Pick the statement that best corresponds to ‘Expository writing'.
- A) Proof or examples can or cannot be given.
- B) It does not need proof or examples if you make a claim or a statement.
- C) None of the above
- D) It needs proof or examples if you make a claim or a statement.
Continuation Signals are used when there are no more ideas to come.
- A) True
- B) False
- C)
- D)
Write doesn't or don't to complete each sentence.
"No, he ___________________," Grandpa said.
- A) does not
- B) do not
- C)
- D)
Appeal to popular opinion is a form of -------.
- A) none of the above
- B) logical fallacy
- C) persuasive writing
- D) sequential writing
Which one of the following is an example of 'fuzz signal'?
- A) sort of
- B) but
- C) still
- D) yet
_______ answers the "where" questions.
- A) None of the above
- B) Emphasis Signal
- C) Result signal
- D) Spatial Signal
Fill in the blank by selecting correct subordinate conjunction.
It looks ____________ the train will be late.
- A) as though
- B) while
- C) although
- D) as far
The style used in ordinary conversation, personal letters etc, when there is no special reason to speak carefully is called ---------.
- A) interrogative
- B) infinitive
- C) informal
- D) intransitive
Fill in the blank by selecting correct subordinate conjunction.
____________ she got her degree, she became a teacher.
- A) Either
- B) Than
- C) Neither
- D) After
Choose the correct option.
Because she runs every day, she is very fit.
- A) Compound-complex
- B) Simple
- C) Complex
- D) Compound