English Grammar With Answers Key

1.What is meaning of idiom “To set the Thames on fire”?
(A) To destroy with fire
(B) To do impossible
(C) To do a heroic deed
(D) To wreak evil on something

Directions—(Q. 2—7): In each of the following questions, choose opposite of bold word.

2. NAIVE
(A) Cunning
(B) Wealthy
(C) Sophisticated
(D) Complicated

3. FACSIMILE
(A) Reproduction
(B) Sincere
(C) Original
(D) Engineered

4. RESPITE
(A) Tension
(B) Exertion
(C) Regularity
(D) Delay

5. SPURIOUS
(A) False
(B) Genuine
(C) Simple
(D) Synthetic

6. PERTINENT
(A) Indifferent
(B) Detached
(C) Determined
(D) Irrelevant

7. VIVACIOUS
(A) Quarrelsome
(B) Sober
(C) Notorious
(D) Drunken

8. Who is the author of the book— ‘A passage to India’
(A) T.S Eliot
(B) Oscar Wilde
(C) E.M. Forster
(D) G.B.Shaw

9. The play ‘Twelfth Night’ is written by
(A) Henry fielding
(B) H.G. wells
(C) Shakespeare
(D) Charles Dickens

10. Who wrote ‘Broken wing’?
(A) R.N. Tagore
(B) Sarojini Naidu
(C) Mulk Raj Anand
(D) R.K. Narayan

Directions—(Q. 1 1—20): In the following questions, groups of four words are given. In each group, one word is correctly spelt. Find the correctly spelt word and indicate your correct response.
11.
(A) Excution
(B) Excitment
(C) Expedition
(D) Extrection

12.
(A) Externel
(B) Extrovart
(C) Introvert
(D) Exect

13.
(A) Expact
(B) Impact
(C) Exite
(D) Impect

14.
(A) Intruisting
(B) Interesting
(C) Intersting
(D) Entertening

15.
(A) Supremecy
(B) Suppressor
(C) Surfiet
(D) Surender

16.
(A) Spectacular
(B) Spactroscope
(C) Spinache
(D) Splended

17.
(A) Sacrosant
(B) Sacrificeal
(C) Sacrilege
(D) Sabotege

18.
(A) Discription
(B) Discretion
(C) Dessemination
(D) Dessertation

19.
(A) Occurence
(B) Occassion
(C) Occupancy
(D) Octogenarean

20.
(A) Humorous
(B) Humanetarianism
(C) Hulabaloo
(D) Hurrecane

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