1) Choose the sentence with a non-finite clause.
a) Having done his homework, he went out to play.
b) He went out to play because he had done his homework.
c) He had done his homework and went out to play.
d) He went out to play after he had done his homework.
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- Answer: A
2) Choose the list of words in the correct alphabetical order.
a) shrew, shrine, shriek, shrank
b) shriek, shrank, shrew, shrine
c) shrank, shrew, shriek, shrine
d) shrine, shriek, shrank, schrew
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- Answer: C
3) The teacher said, “What can be the origin of the word?” Choose the correct reported speech of the sentence
a) The teacher asked what the origin of the word could be.
b) The teacher told what could be the origin of the word.
c) The teacher said what the origin of the word could be.
d) The teacher said what could be the origin of the word.
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- Answer: A
4) Choose the sentence that has a noun clause
a) She said that she was busy
b) She asked him for money
c) He helped her many times
d) I will not go there
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- Answer: A
5) Choose the sentence that does not have a noun clause.
a) what you eat is not good for you.
b) Hari said that he was busy.
c) Hari was very happy.
d) Hari said that he had finished his work.
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- Answer: C
6) Choose the expression with the correct order of adjectives.
a) a brown Indian handmade wooden table
b) a handmade wooden Indian brown table
c) a wooden handmade brown Indian table
d) a brown Indian table handmade wooden
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- Answer: A
7) The doctor took off his coat The meaning of the phrasal verb 'took off' is:
a) cleaned
b) washed
c) removed
d) folded
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- Answer:C
8) Choose the correct 'be form' that can be used to change the present perfect tense an a)was
b) been
c) is
d) were
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- Answer: B
9) What is the genre which we follow in writing Autobiography?
a) Semi fiction
b) Non-fiction
c) Realistic fiction
d) Non Realistic fiction
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- Answer: B
10) Choose the word that gives the meaning of 'a number of people watching a match or something.'
a) mob
b) troupe
c) spectators
d) team
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- Answer: C
11) The culprit gave the slip to the police and ran away. The underlined idiom 'gave the slip' means.
a) gave a piece of paper
b) took a slip test
c) slipped before
d) escaped without notice
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- Answer: D
12) _____ is a brief, fictional prose narrative.
a) A Story
b) An Essay
c) A Novel
d) An Epic
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- Answer: A
13) Siri got a good job by means of her own abilities and skills. The meaning of 'by means of' in the above sentence is:
a) together
b) through
c) substitute
d) together with
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- Answer: B
14) Read the following passage and choose the correct answers to the questions given after Mahatma Gandhi believed that industrialisation was no answer to the problems that plague the mass of India's poor and that villagers should be taught to be self-sufficient in food, weave their own cloth from cotton and eschew the glittering prizes that the 20th century so temptingly offers. Such an idyllic and rural paradise did not appear to those who inherited the reins of political power. The basis of 'an idyllic and rural paradise' is:
a) rapid industrialisation of villages.
b) self sufficiency in food, clothes and simplicity of the life style.
c) bringing the glittering prizes to the villages.
d) supporting holding powerful positions.
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- Answer: B
15) Read the following passage and choose the correct answers to the questions given after Nehru's was a many sided personality. He enjoyed reading and writing books as much as he enjoyed fighting political and social evils or residing tyranny. In him, the scientist and the humanist were held in perfect balance. While he kept looking at special problems from a scientific standpoint, he never forgot that we should nourish the total man. As a scientist, he refused to believe in a benevolent power interested in men's affairs. But, as a self proclaimed nonbeliever, he loved affirming his faith in life and the beauty of nature. Children he adored. Unlike Wordsworth, he did not see them trailing clouds of glory from the recent sojourn in heaven. He saw them as blossoms of promise and renewal, the only hope for mankind. Nehru enjoyed:
a) reading but not writing books
b) not fighting social evils
c) smelling flowers
d) reading and writing books
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- Answer: D
16) They pretended to be very busy, though they had nothing to work. Choose the correct noun form of the underlined word.
a) pretend
b) pretension
c) pretends
d) pretention
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- Answer: B
17) It is the greatest battle of my life. Choose the positive degree of this sentence.
a) It is greater than any other battle of my life.
b) No other battle of my life is so great as it.
c) All the battles of my life are so great as this.
d) It is one of the greatest battles of my life.
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- Answer: B
18) What ______ yesterday? Choose the correct verb and subject that fit the blank.
a) did you did
b) will you do
c) do you do
d) did you do
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- Answer: D
19) Choose the grammatically correct sentence from the following.
a) Neither of these two pens are mine.
b) Neither of this two pens were mine.
c) Neither of these two pens is mine.
d) Neither of these two pens were mine.
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- Answer:C
20) _____ essay characterized by humor and graceful style.
a) Stylish Essay
b) Semi formal Essay
c) Formal Essay
d) Informal Essay
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- Answer: D
21) He arrived at the station by ……….. car Choose the article that fits the context.
a) a
b) an
c) the
d) no article is needed
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- Answer: D
22) The accident sadly resulted _____ the death of a man.
a) with
b) in
c) at
d) for
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- Answer: B
23) The past participle form of 'flow' is;
a) flown
b) flowed
c) flewed
d) flew
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- Answer: B
24) He never drinks milk, …………………. Choose the correct question tag to complete the sentence
a) does he ?
b) doesn't he ?
c) didn't he ?
d) did he ?
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- Answer: A
25) Read the passage and choose the correct answer to the question given after. Nicholas learnt to make strong kites modeled on the Japanese kites, Rokkaku that could endure harsh winds. A novice in his chosen field, set out to train himself. The purpose of Nicholas to make strong kites on the model of “Rokkaku” was :
a) to train himself how to fly kites
b) to withstand harsh winds
c) to create history in the field of kite flying
d) to take them to Japan.
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- Answer: B
26) Identify the sentence that indicates a positive degree
a) Actions speak louder than words.
b) Stolen fruit is the sweetest.
c) Roja is not so tall as Gita.
d) Roja is as the tallest as Gita.
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- Answer: C
27) Mohan wants to lie down for an hour. The meaning of the phrasal verb 'lie down' is:
a) remove
b) take rest
c) observe keenly
d) turn into
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- Answer: B
28) Choose the conjunction that can be used to write a compound sentence.
a) so ........ that
b) neither ........... nor
c) even though
d) in order that
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- Answer: B
29) While one of my friends ………… , it began to rain. Choose the correct tense form of the verb to complete the sentence given above.
a) was playing
b) were playing
c) have played
d) will be playing
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- Answer: A
30) When I _____ to college, I saw a big snake.
a) were going
b) was going
c) am going
d) was gone
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- Answer: B
31) She did not go to school as she was ill. This sentence is:
a) a simple sentence
b) a compound sentence
c) a complex sentence
d) an interrogative sentence
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- Answer: C
32) Choose the simple sentence from the following.
a) The baby cried.
b) He went to market and bought vegetables.
c) Study. Else you will fail
d) He felt hungry so he ate an apple.
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- Answer: A
33) Walking makes you healthy. In the above sentence, 'walking' is :
a) a model verb
b) a present participle
c) a gerund
d) a past participle
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- Answer: C
34) I shall give her the message as soon as I ______ her.
a) will have seen
b) would have seen
c) would see
d) see
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- Answer: D
35) Read the following passage and choose the correct answers to the questions given after Today perhaps your only association with the word 'polio' is the Sabin Oral Vaccine that protects children from the disease. Fifty five years ago this was not so. The dreaded disease, which mainly affects the brain and spinal cord causing stiffening and weakening of muscles, crippling and paralysis – which is why I am in a wheelchair today. If somebody had predicted, when I was the seventh child in a family of four pairs of brothers and sisters, with huge 23 years gap between the first and the last. I was so fair and brown haired that I looked more look like a foreigner than a Dawood Bohri. I was also considered to be the healthiest of the brood. In this passage, the word 'brood' refers to:
a) polio victims
b) foreign children
c) children in the family
d) Indian children
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- Answer: C
36) Tyagaraja did not heed his brother’s words. Choose the meaning of the word “heed”.
a) pay attention
b) travel through
c) work with energy
d) do something
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- Answer: A
37) Choose the word that cannot be an adjective;
a) agility
b) errant
c) relentless
d) vigilant
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- Answer: A
38) Read the following passage and choose the correct answer to the question given after Nationalism, of course, is a curious phenomenon which at a certain stage in a country's history gives life, growth and unity but, at the same time, it has a tendency to limit one, because one thinks of one's country as something different from the rest of world. One's perceptive changes and one is continuously thinking of one's own struggles and virtues and failing to the exclusion of other thoughts. Nationalism, when it becomes successful sometimes goes on spreading in an aggressive way and becomes a danger internationally. Culture, which is essentially good become not only static but aggressive and something that breeds conflict and hatred when looked at from a wrong point of view. We turn to economic theories because they have an undoubted importance. It is folly to talk of culture or even of god. When human beings starve and die. Before one can talk about anything else one must provide the normal essential of life to human beings. Negative national feeling can make a nation:
a) selfish
b) self-centred
c) indifferent
d) dangerous
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- Answer: B
39) In a formal letter the name given to the address and date written at the top is:
a) Salutation
b) Heading
c) Body
d) Closing
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- Answer:B
40) It's time you ............... to bed. Choose the correct verb that fits the context.
a) go
b) went
c) will go
d) had gone
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- Answer:B
41) They were waiting for their teacher to come to the class. Identify the auxiliary verb in the above sentence.
a) waiting
b) come
c) were
d) teacher
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- Answer: C
42) Choose the correct expression with the correct order of adjectives.
a) A silk nice saree
b) A nice silk saree
c) A saree nice silk
d) A silk saree nice
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- Answer: B
43) I have lived in Hyderabad for ten years. This sentence means:
a) I started living in Hyderabad ten years ago and I no longer continue to live in Hyderabad.
b) I am living in Hyderabad and I will live in Hyderabad for ten years.
c) I live in Hyderabad only for ten years.
d) I will not live in Hyderabad after ten years.
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- Answer: A
44) Choose the correct 'Yes / No' question.
a) Do you know where is she live?
b) You know where does she lives?
c) Do you know where does she live?
d) Do you know where she lives?
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- Answer: D
45) You don't know much about my aunt, The correct question tag for the above sentence is;
a) don't you ?
b) doesn't she ?
c) isn't it ?
d) do you ?
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- Answer: D
46) Ramu is an honest person. He believes in ……… honesty. Choose the article that fits the context.
a) a
b) an
c) the
d) No article is needed
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- Answer: D
47) Choose the correct sentence regarding the use of 'neither ..... nor'.
a) Neither Raju nor his friends do not go there.
b) Neither Raju nor his friends does not go there.
c) Neither Raju nor his friends does not goes there.
d) Neither Raju nor his friends do not goes there.
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- Answer: A
48) We need not sleep on the floor as there are ……………….. Choose the correct phrase to fill in the blank.
a) not beds enough
b) not enough beds
c) enough beds
d) beds enough
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- Answer: C
49) Identify the type of the sentence ‘Are you free now?’
a) Assertive
b) Imperative
c) Interrogative
d) Exclamatory
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- Answer: C
50) Choose the correct 'Yes / No' question.
a) Don't you like coffee ?
b) Do you likes coffee ?
c) Does he liked coffee ?
d) You does like coffee ?
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- Answer: A
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