All Free English MCQs with Answers

61. Choose the correct comparative form: This question is ____ than the last one.

• A. more easier
• B. easier
• C. most easy
• D. easiest

Explanation: Short adjectives form the comparative with er alone, so combining it with more is a double comparative and is always wrong. Longer adjectives take more instead, as in more difficult. The superlative easiest would need three or more items being compared.

62. Choose the correct verb: Ten kilometres ____ a long way to walk.

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

Explanation: A measurement of distance, time, money or weight is treated as a single unit and takes a singular verb, even though the noun is plural in form. The same rule gives twenty rupees is enough and three hours is too long. The plural verb would suggest the kilometres are being counted separately.

63. Choose the correct verb: Either the teacher or the students ____ mistaken.

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

Explanation: With either or and neither nor, the verb agrees with the subject nearer to it, and here that is students, which is plural. Reversing the order to either the students or the teacher would require is instead. This proximity rule is a favourite examination point.

64. Change to indirect speech: He said, "I am reading a book."

• A. He said that he is reading a book.
• B. He said that he was reading a book.
• C. He said that I was reading a book.
• D. He said that he has been reading a book.

Explanation: The reporting verb is in the past, so the present continuous shifts back to the past continuous, and the first person pronoun changes to the third person to match the speaker being reported. Keeping is would only be correct if the reporting verb were says. Pronoun and tense must both be adjusted.

65. Change to indirect speech: She asked, "Where do you live?"

• A. She asked where do I live.
• B. She asked where I lived.
• C. She asked where did I live.
• D. She asked where I live?

Explanation: A reported question takes normal statement word order, so the auxiliary do disappears and the verb shifts back to lived. No question mark is used, since the sentence as a whole is a statement about a question. Retaining the interrogative order is the most common error here.

66. Choose the correct article: ____ Mount Everest is the highest peak in the world.

• A. A
• B. An
• C. The
• D. No article

Explanation: Names of individual mountains take no article, so we say Mount Everest and K2 but the Himalayas for the range. The same pattern applies to lakes, which take no article, and rivers and seas, which take the. These conventions are learnt by exposure rather than deduced.

67. Choose the correct preposition: He has been suffering ____ malaria for a week.

• A. with
• B. from
• C. of
• D. by

Explanation: Suffer from is the fixed combination used with an illness. Die of is used for the cause of death, and cure of for recovery, so the prepositions in this medical family all differ and must be memorised individually. Suffer with is heard in speech but is not the safe choice in a test.

68. Identify the error: One of my friend is a surgeon.

• A. One should be Ones
• B. friend should be friends
• C. is should be are
• D. There is no error

Explanation: The phrase one of must be followed by a plural noun, since it selects a single member from a group, so it should read one of my friends. The verb stays singular because the subject is one, which is why is is correct. Both halves of this construction are tested together very often.

69. Identify the error: The teacher asked the students to not make noise.

• A. asked should be told
• B. to not make should be not to make
• C. students should be student
• D. There is no error

Explanation: In careful written English the negative particle precedes the infinitive marker, giving not to make. Splitting the infinitive with not is common in speech but is penalised in formal grammar questions. The rest of the sentence is correct as written.

70. Choose the correct form: The room needs ____.

• A. to clean
• B. cleaning
• C. cleaned
• D. clean

Explanation: After need, want and require, a gerund carries a passive meaning, so the room needs cleaning means it needs to be cleaned. The alternative correct form would be needs to be cleaned, which states the passive explicitly. Needs to clean would wrongly suggest the room is doing the cleaning.