General English Questions & Answers –
Part 5
1.Match the correct suffix with the root
words
(A) popular 1. let
(B) sensible 2.
ling
(C) book 3.
ity
(D) duck 4.
ise
(A) (B) (C) (D)
a) 4 3 1 2
b) 4 3 2 1
c) 1 2 4 3
d) 3 4 1 2
2. Choose the correct pair to fill in the
correct articles in the blank:
_______road to success is not ______bed of
roses. Gandhi became”
_______leader par excellence; that made
Churchill_______ greatest and the most successful wartime leader.
a) the, the, the, a
b) a, a, a, the
c) the, a, a, the
d) the, some, a, the
3. Choose the correct question tag:
I am a student
a) amn’t I?
b) ain’t I?
c) are I?
d) am I?
4. Choose the sentence which has no error.
a) I place great
confidence on you
b) I place great confidence in you
c) I place great
confidence of you
d) I place great
confidence with you
5. Choose the correct pattern for the
sentence He is a professor with a lot of experience.
a) SVOA
b) SVIODO
c) SVCA
d) SVOCA
6. Find the odd one of the following words.
a) honour
b) wonderful
c) brave
d) excellent
7. The plural form of ‘alumna’ is
a) alumnus
b) alumnae
c) alumnas
d) alumne
8. Which of the following sentence is
wrong?
a) Teach me to fish
I will live for life time
b) One never knows
what the future will bring
c) All that
glitters is hot gold
d) We has been living in this house since
1995
9. Pick out the correct passive form of the
verb.
We should help the poor.
a) must be helped
b) will be helped
should be helped
c) should be helped
d) shall be helped
10. If I_____ the Principal of my school. I
would abolish examinations.
a) am
b) was
c) were
d) will be
11. Fill in the blanks with correct option
Lecdem is the blended form of
a) Lecture and
demon
b) Lecture and demonstration
c) lecturer and
demo
d) Lecturer and
demonstration
12. Choose the correct sentence which has
no error x
a) Geetha’s father
is a MLA
b) Geetha’s father
is the MLA Geetha’s father is an MLA
c) Geeths’s father is an MLA
d) Geetha’s father
is MLA
13. Select the correct sentence
Cakes are softer than cookies
a) Cakes are softer than cookies
b) Cakes are more
soft than cookies
c) Cakes are softer
then cookies
d) Cakes are soft
than cookies
14. Join the sentences given below.
Choosing the correct relative pronoun furnished in brackets I know the girl.
She is a famous sportsperson (whom/who)
a) I know the girl
whom is a famous sportsperson
b) I know the girl
who she is a famous sportsperson MI know the girl who is a famous sportsperson
c) I know the girl who is a famous
sportsperson
d) I know the girl
whom she is a famous sportsperson
15. Dancing bird is a compound word formed
by combining
a) Noun + Gerund
b) Adjective +
Gerund
c) Gerund + Noun
d) Preposition +
Noun
16. Match the following:
(a) Autumn 1.
Faucet
(b) Nappy 2.
Fall
(c) Tap 3Diaper
(d) Pavement 4. Side walk
(A) (B) (C) (D)
(a) 2 3 4 1
(b) 4 2 1 3
(c) 2 3 1 4
(d) 2 1 3 4
17.Which of the following lines belongs to
“William Shakespeare
a) Love alters not with his brief hours and
weeks But bears .it out even to the edge of the doom
B) But O heart!
heart! heart
O the bleeding
drops O red !
c) For I’m off to
outer space tomorrow morning
d) The music in my
heart I bore
18.Long after it was heard no more
Here __________Laika into space.
a) will go
b) go
c) went
d) goes
19. Find out the figures of speech in the
following lines:
“Laugh till the game is played”
a) Simile
b) Metaphor
c) Allusion
d) Oxymoron
20. Match the synonyms with their meanings
(a) Coarse 1.
Push Roughly in a crowd
(b) Invidious 2. Unjust
(c) Exodus 3. Rough
(d) Jostle 4.
Mass movement from one place
(A) (B) (C) (D)
(a) 3 2 4 1
(b) 3 2 1 4
(c) 2 3 4 1
(d) 4 3 2 1
21.Match the correct Suffix
(a)announce 1.
ance
(b)exception 2. ment
(c)wash 3.
nal
(d)clear 4.
able
(A) (B) (C) (D)
(a) 2 3 1 4
(b) 2 3 4 1
(c) 3 2 4 1
(d) 4 1 2 3
22. It _______heavily since last night.
a) has been raining
b) was raining
c) is raining
d) were raining
23. Pick out the correct active form of the
verb.
A poem has been written by Gopi
a) has written
b) had written
c) would have
written
d) would write
24. Match the sentences with their
patterns.
(a)They elected himleader 1.SVA
(b)He wore his new uniform 2.SVO
(c)He was excited 3.SVC
(d)She went to Chennai 4.SVOC
(A) (B) (C) (D)
(a) 1 2 4 3
(b) 2 3 1 4
(c) 3 1 2 4
(d) 4 2 3 1
25.Fill in the blank with correct
Homophone.
The Police tried to _____information from the bootlegger who sells_____ liquor.
a) illicit, elicit
b) illegible,
legible
c) elucidate,
illicit
d) elicit, illicit
26. Match the phrases in Column A with
their suitable clauses in Column B
Column A Column B
Phrases Clauses
(A)Despite his sickness 1.Kalam
became a great scientist
(B)On seeing the snake 2.the
teacher appreciated me
(C)By working hard 3.she ran away
(D)Observing my skill 4.he
attended school
(A) (B) (C) (D)
(a) 2 4 3 1
(b) 3 4 2 1
(c) 4 3 1 2
(d) 3 2 4 1
27.Transform the following sentence into
comparative degree. Wordsworth is one of the greatest English poets.
a) Wordsworth is greater than many other
English poets
b) Very few English
poets are as great as Wordsworth
c) No other English
poet is as great as Wordsworth
d) Wordsworth is
greater than any other English poet
28. ‘Binary + digit’ the blended form of
this word is
a) bidigit
b) binarit Off
c) bit
d) binary digit
29. Match the following Column (A) with
Column (B)
Column A Column
B
(A) We
got interrupted power supply,_______? 1.
Can she?
(B) Shreya
draws well, _______? 2.Didn’t we?
(C) Swarna
cannot run fast, ______? 3.Isn’t it?
(D) The
bus is early today _______? 4.Doesn’t she?
(A) (B) (C) (D)
(a) 1 3 2 4
(b) 2 4 1 3
(c) 2 4 3 1
(d) 3 2 4 1
30.Fill in the blanks with correct article.
Prem is _______strongest boy in the class.
a) a
b) an
c) the
d) some
