All Free English MCQs with Answers

• A. Scarce
• B. Plentiful
• C. Fragile
• D. Hidden

Explanation: "Abundant" means existing in large quantity, so "plentiful" is the closest synonym.

• A. Frank
• B. Evasive
• C. Honest
• D. Direct

Explanation: "Candid" means open and straightforward. Its opposite is "evasive", meaning inclined to avoid a direct answer.

• A. in
• B. at
• C. on
• D. for

Explanation: English uses "good at" for skills and subjects — good at mathematics, good at cricket.

• A. To waste time on trivial matters
• B. To take on a dangerous task for the common good
• C. To flatter someone in authority
• D. To make an easy profit

Explanation: The idiom comes from the fable in which mice agree that a bell around the cat’s neck would warn them, but none is willing to attach it.

• A. Ignorant
• B. Illiterate
• C. Illegible
• D. Illegitimate

Explanation: "Illiterate" describes a person unable to read or write. "Illegible" describes handwriting that cannot be read, and "ignorant" means…

• A. A letter is written by her
• B. A letter was written by her
• C. A letter has been written by her
• D. A letter is being written by her

Explanation: The sentence is in the present indefinite tense, so the passive form is "is/are + past participle": A letter is written by her.

• A. were
• B. was
• C. have been
• D. are

Explanation: "Each" is a singular pronoun and governs the verb regardless of the plural noun that follows in the prepositional phrase.

• A. have
• B. has
• C. were
• D. are

Explanation: Neither is a singular pronoun, so it takes a singular verb regardless of the plural noun in the prepositional phrase that follows.

• A. is
• B. are
• C. was being
• D. has

Explanation: A collective noun takes a plural verb when the members are acting as individuals rather than as a single unit, and being divided is…

• A. are
• B. is
• C. were
• D. have been

Explanation: The subject is quality, which is singular, so the verb must be is. The plural noun instruments sits inside a prepositional phrase and can…

• A. loses
• B. has lost
• C. had lost
• D. will lose

Explanation: Two completed past events need the past perfect for whichever happened first, so had lost marks the loss of consciousness as earlier than…

• A. works
• B. worked
• C. has been working
• D. is working

Explanation: Since fixes a starting point for an action that began in the past and is still continuing, which calls for the present perfect continuous.

• A. with
• B. by
• C. from
• D. along

Explanation: Accompanied by is used for people, while accompanied with is used for things that go alongside something, as in tea accompanied with…

• A. with
• B. from
• C. of
• D. in

Explanation: Suffer from is the standard collocation for illnesses and conditions. Suffer with occasionally appears in speech but is not accepted in…

• A. a
• B. an
• C. the
• D. no article

Explanation: The choice between a and an depends on the opening sound, not the opening letter, and the h in honest is silent so the word begins with a…

• A. The injection was administered by the nurse
• B. The injection is administered by the nurse
• C. The injection has been administered by the nurse
• D. The injection administered the nurse

Explanation: The active verb is in the simple past, so the passive must be was administered, keeping the same tense.

• A. Each of the students
• B. have submitted
• C. their assignment
• D. on time

Explanation: Each is singular and requires has submitted, so the plural verb is the error.

• A. Malignant
• B. Harmless
• C. Aggressive
• D. Fatal

Explanation: Benign means gentle or harmless, and in medicine it describes a tumour that does not invade surrounding tissue or spread.

• A. Brief
• B. Fleeting
• C. Permanent
• D. Momentary

Explanation: Transient means lasting only a short time, so its opposite is permanent.

• A. therefore
• B. nevertheless
• C. similarly
• D. because

Explanation: Although already sets up a contrast, and nevertheless carries that contrast into the second half.