Free Comprehension MCQs with Answers

21. 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.

22. 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.

23. Commencement of words with the same letter:

• A. Pun
• B. Alliteration
• C. Transferred epithet
• D. Oxymoron

Explanation: Alliteration is the repetition of the same initial sound or letter in nearby words, as in “wild and windy.” A pun depends on wordplay, while an oxymoron joins contradictory terms.

24. My father was so poor _________?

• A. That he could not buy us food
• B. That who could not buy us food
• C. To he could not buy us food
• D. None of These

Explanation: The result clause after “so poor” is introduced by “that”: “My father was so poor that he could not buy us food.” The structure “so ... that” links a degree with its consequence.

25. Our group will be____________ by your group at next intersection but the goal of both groups will remain same.

• A. joined
• B. replaced
• C. ignored
• D. influenced

Explanation: Joined means connected or combined with another group, which fits the idea that both groups continue toward the same goal. Replaced would mean one group takes the other's place, which conflicts with the sentence.

26. We gave _________a meal.

• A. at the visitors
• B. for the visitors
• C. the visitors
• D. None of These

Explanation: “Give” takes an indirect object for the recipient and a direct object for the thing given: “We gave the visitors a meal.” “At” and “for” do not form the required construction here.

27. The ______ for a vaccine could take up to a year.

• A. chase
• B. pursuit
• C. track
• D. search

Explanation: Search for is the standard collocation meaning an attempt to find something. Chase and track do not normally fit this sentence, while pursuit would require a different structure such as “the pursuit of a vaccine.”

28. Anam is the smartest _______ girls?

• A. among others
• B. of all others
• C. of all
• D. of

Explanation: The natural superlative construction is “the smartest of all girls,” where of all introduces the group being compared. “Of all others” is unnecessarily awkward in this sentence.

29. ______ dangerously a person lives _____ chances of his deaths in young age.

• A. the more/the more
• B. the most/the more
• C. the most/ the most
• D. None of these

Explanation: This uses the comparative correlative pattern “the more..., the more...,” showing that one increasing condition produces another. The sentence would be more natural as “the more dangerously a person lives, the greater the chance of dying young.”

30. I________my friend will die soon.

• A. Hope
• B. Fear
• C. Expect
• D. No Appropriate Option

Explanation: “Fear” expresses apprehension about an undesirable future event, so it fits the statement that the friend may die soon. “Hope” expresses a desired outcome and would conflict with the intended meaning.