All Free English MCQs with Answers

21. Complete the sentence: The scientist's findings were so ____ that no one could dispute them.

• A. ambiguous
• B. conclusive
• C. tentative
• D. obscure

Explanation: If nobody can dispute the findings they must be decisive, which is what conclusive means. Ambiguous, tentative and obscure all point in the opposite direction and would invite dispute rather than end it. The words following so and that always define the quality needed.

22. Complete the sentence: Despite his ____ manner, he was in fact deeply insecure.

• A. timid
• B. confident
• C. hostile
• D. quiet

Explanation: Despite signals a contrast with deeply insecure, so the outward manner must be the opposite of insecurity, that is confident or assured. Timid and quiet would match insecurity rather than contrast with it. Reading the whole sentence before looking at the options prevents this error.

23. Complete the sentence: The new drug must undergo rigorous trials ____ it can be approved for public use.

• A. before
• B. after
• C. unless
• D. although

Explanation: Trials logically precede approval, so before is the only connector that puts the two events in the right order. After reverses the sequence and unless would make approval the default. Time relationships are as much a part of these questions as meaning.

24. Identify the error: Neither the doctor nor the nurses was available.

• A. Neither should be Either
• B. nor should be or
• C. was should be were
• D. There is no error

Explanation: With neither nor the verb agrees with the nearer subject, which here is nurses, so the plural were is required. Reversing the two nouns would make was correct instead. Neither is always paired with nor and either with or, so the first two options are wrong on their own terms.

25. Identify the error: He is senior than me by three years.

• A. senior should be more senior
• B. than should be to
• C. me should be I
• D. There is no error

Explanation: Latin comparatives such as senior, junior, superior, inferior and prior take to rather than than. The construction is he is senior to me. Because these words already carry a comparative sense, adding more would also be wrong.

26. Identify the error: I have been living here since five years.

• A. have been should be am
• B. since should be for
• C. living should be lived
• D. There is no error

Explanation: Since introduces a point in time such as 2019 or Monday, while for introduces a length of time such as five years. The tense itself is correct for an action continuing from the past into the present. This pair is one of the most frequently tested points in Pakistani entry tests.

27. Identify the error: The scenery of Naran are very beautiful.

• A. scenery should be sceneries
• B. are should be is
• C. of should be in
• D. There is no error

Explanation: Scenery is an uncountable noun, so it takes a singular verb and has no plural form, which also rules out the first option. The same applies to information, furniture, advice, luggage and equipment. Learners often pluralise these nouns by analogy with their own language.

28. In the sentence "Time is a thief that steals our youth", the figure of speech used is

• A. simile
• B. metaphor
• C. hyperbole
• D. onomatopoeia

Explanation: Time is stated to be a thief rather than merely like one, and a direct comparison without like or as is a metaphor. Adding like would make it a simile. It also personifies time, so metaphor and personification often overlap in the same phrase.

29. In the sentence "He was as brave as a lion", the figure of speech is

• A. metaphor
• B. simile
• C. irony
• D. alliteration

Explanation: The comparison is made explicit with as, which is the defining mark of a simile along with like. Removing the as and writing he was a lion would turn it into a metaphor. Recognising the signal word is enough to answer this class of question.

30. In the sentence "I have told you a million times", the figure of speech is

• A. hyperbole
• B. understatement
• C. metaphor
• D. paradox

Explanation: Hyperbole is deliberate exaggeration for effect and is not meant to be believed literally. Its opposite is understatement, as in saying a serious injury is just a scratch. Both are rhetorical devices for emphasis rather than statements of fact.