Model questions 05

### **Grammar: Sentence Structure** 5. **Which is the incorrect sentence?**

1. **Identify the correct sentence.** a) The colour of her eyes is blue.

a) Last night I went to bed lately. b) The players in the field are strong.

b) The book deals in common errors. c) Fifty miles is a long way.

c) She is one of the best student in the class. d) He ran fast lest he misses the train.

d) The murderer was caught and hanged. **Answer:** d

**Answer:** d

6. **Which one is the correct sentence?**

2. **Choose the wrong sentence.** a) The man advanced as if he has killed me.

a) We write in ink. b) It is high time I do the work.

b) Neither of us was present. c) The wind was made blow.

c) Hot and cold are opposites. d) He did everything except follow my

example.
d) I went to my home.
**Answer:** d
**Answer:** d

### **Tenses and Verb Forms**

3. **Choose the correct sentence.**
7. **How many times _____ you? Turn that
a) He went there walking on foot.
music down.**
b) He went there on foot.
a) do I tell you
c) He went there by walking.
b) am I telling you
d) He went there on footing.
c) have I told you
**Answer:** b
d) have I been telling you

**Answer:** c
4. **Which is the correct sentence?**

a) The scissors is blunt.

8. **He _____ for five hours and is still
b) One dozen of bananas are sufficient. sleeping.**

c) One of the boys are absent. a) slept

d) It is I who am responsible for this. b) was sleeping

**Answer:** d c) has slept

 d) has been sleeping **Answer:** d

**Answer:** d

13. **The baby _____ since morning.**

9. **We _____ English since our childhood.** a) has been crying

a) are learning b) has cried

b) learn c) cries

c) learned d) have been crying

d) have been learning **Answer:** a

**Answer:** d

14. **How long _____ English?**

10. **____ English since I was twelve.** a) have your learn

a) I’m learning b) do you learn

b) I’ve learned c) are you learning

c) I learn d) have you been learning

d) I have been learning **Answer:** d

**Answer:** d

15. **My parents _____ in this house since last

year.**
11. **I _____ waiting here since five O’clock.**
a) had been living
a) am
b) is living
b) have been
c) were living
c) shall be
d) have been living
d) am being
**Answer:** d
**Answer:** b

16. **It _____ since early morning.**

12. **They _____ the canal for a week.**
a) is raining
a) were digging
b) rained
b) are digging
c) was raining
c) dug
d) has been raining
d) have been digging
 **Answer:** d d) would happen

**Answer:** c

17. **Choose the correct sentence in the

following.**
### **Prepositions**
a) How long are you wearing glasses?
21. **He is not _____ the committee.**
b) How long have you been wearing glasses
a) on
c) How long your wear glasses
b) in
d) How long you are wearing glasses.
c) at
**Answer:** b
d) under

**Answer:** b
18. **He _____ go to his office yesterday.**

a) does not
22. **The cow was hidden _____ the table.**
b) did not
a) on
c) do not
b) under
d) has not
c) beside
**Answer:** b
d) over

**Answer:** b
19. **He _____ in at eleven O’clock last
night.**
23. **United Nations is _____ the guidance of
a) has been coming
labourers' work.**
b) has come
a) on
c) had come
b) under
d) came
c) against
**Answer:** c
d) for

**Answer:** b
20. **Choose the correct option: Last night an
accident.**
24. **The accused was arrested _____ the
a) was happened
law.**
b) happen
a) against
c) happened
 b) under 28. **My needs are few.**

c) on a) Verb

d) over b) Adverb

**Answer:** b c) Noun

d) Pronoun

### **Parts of Speech** **Answer:** c

25. **Where the word `Near’ is used as a

preposition?**
29. **Please take what I have, only let me go.**
a) Draw near and listen
a) Adjective
b) My school was near the mosque.
b) Adverb
c) She is near relation
c) Conjunction
d) Death nears with the passage of time
d) Preposition
**Answer:** b
**Answer:** c

26. **There is a big pond near the school.**

30. **He is the only son of his father. Here
a) Noun `only’ is-**

b) Pronoun a) A preposition

c) Adjective b) An interjection

d) Preposition c) An adverb

**Answer:** d d) An adjective

**Answer:** d

27. **The day of my sister’s marriage ceremony

is drawing near. The underlined word is a/an-**
31. **She did it right.**
a) Adjective
a) Preposition
b) Verb
b) Adverb
c) Preposition
c) Noun
d) Adverb
d) Adjective
**Answer:** b
**Answer:** b
32. **I cannot right the wrong.**

a) Verb 36. **Find the correct sentence.**

b) Adverb a) She was interested in both plants and

animals
c) Pronoun
b) She was interest both in plants and animals
d) Adjective
c) She was interested both in plants but also
**Answer:** a
in animals

d) She was interesting in both plants and

33. **Which of the following sentence uses animals.
right word as adjective?**
**Answer:** a
a) Serve him right

b) He is the right man for the job

37. **Halim will wash the clothes, _____.**
c) It is such a fault that will right itself
a) iron the shirts, prepare the meal, and dust
d) It is a matter of right. the furniture.

**Answer:** b b) iron the shirt, prepare the meal, and

dusting the furniture.

c) ironing the shirts, preparing the meal, and

### **Auxiliary Verbs** dusting the furniture.
34. **Mr. Robert is a noted chemist-** d) to iron the shirts, prepare the meal, and
a) and to a very efficient teacher dust the furniture.

b) but he teaches very good in addition **Answer:** a

c) however he teaches very good also

d) as well as an effective teacher 38. **We should obey the laws. Here the verb
`obey’ is-**
**Answer:** d
a) Principal

b) Finite
35. **Choose the correct sentence.**
c) Non-finite
a) I like to swim, playing tennis, and ride
d) Auxiliary
b) I like to swimming, play tennis, and ride
**Answer:** b
c) I like to swim, play tennis, and riding

d) I like to swim, play tennis, and ride

39. **Nothing lasts forever. What type of verb
**Answer:** d is `last’ in this sentence?**
a) Auxiliary verb

b) Participle

c) Main