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English grammar covers how words, phrases and clauses combine to form correct sentences. It includes tenses, parts of speech, prepositions, articles, voice, reported speech, agreement, infinitives, gerunds, adverb position, transitions, punctuation, sentence structure and inversion, with special attention to distinctions such as phrases versus clauses and active versus passive voice.
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- A. a
- B. an
- C. the
- D. no article
Explanation: The choice depends on the sound rather than the letter, and honest begins with a vowel sound because the h is silent, so an is correct.
Correct answer: an- A. are
- B. were
- C. is
- D. have
Explanation: Neither is a singular pronoun when used on its own, so it takes a singular verb however plural the following phrase sounds.
Correct answer: is- A. are
- B. is
- C. were
- D. have been
Explanation: The subject is list, which is singular, and of items is merely a prepositional phrase that must be ignored when deciding the verb.
Correct answer: is- A. their
- B. his or her
- C. its
- D. them
Explanation: Every student is grammatically singular, so a formal examination expects the singular his or her.
Correct answer: his or her- A. to read
- B. reading
- C. read
- D. to reading
Explanation: Enjoy always takes a gerund, never an infinitive, and the same is true of avoid, finish, mind, suggest and practise.
Correct answer: reading- A. helping
- B. to help
- C. help
- D. helped
Explanation: Agree belongs to the group of verbs followed by the infinitive, along with promise, refuse, decide and manage.
Correct answer: to help- A. My brother who lives in Karachi is a doctor.
- B. My brother, who lives in Karachi, is a doctor.
- C. My brother who lives in Karachi, is a doctor.
- D. My brother, who lives in Karachi is a doctor.
Explanation: A non defining relative clause, one that adds extra information rather than identifying which brother, is enclosed by a pair of commas.
Correct answer: My brother, who lives in Karachi, is a doctor.- A. therefore
- B. however
- C. moreover
- D. similarly
Explanation: The two clauses contrast, so a contrastive connector such as however, nevertheless or on the other hand is needed.
Correct answer: however- A. a noun clause
- B. a participial phrase modifying he
- C. an independent clause
- D. a prepositional phrase
Explanation: A present participle introducing a phrase that describes the subject of the main clause is a participial phrase, and it must attach to the…
Correct answer: a participial phrase modifying he- A. usually
- B. usual
- C. usualy
- D. usualness
Explanation: Adverbs of frequency normally stand between the subject and the main verb, so usually goes is the natural order.
Correct answer: usually- A. Never I have seen such a crowd.
- B. Never have I seen such a crowd.
- C. Never seen I have such a crowd.
- D. Never I saw such a crowd.
Explanation: When a negative adverb such as never, seldom, rarely or hardly begins a sentence, the subject and auxiliary invert as they would in a…
Correct answer: Never have I seen such a crowd.- A. cat
- B. jumped
- C. over
- D. wall
Explanation: Over shows the relationship between the verb and the noun that follows it, which is what a preposition does, and over the wall is the…
Correct answer: over- A. adjective
- B. adverb
- C. noun
- D. verb
Explanation: Surprisingly modifies the adjective good, and a word that modifies an adjective, a verb or another adverb is an adverb.
Correct answer: adverb- 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.
Correct answer: easier- 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…
Correct answer: is- 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.
Correct answer: are- 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…
Correct answer: He said that he was reading a book.- 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.
Correct answer: She asked where I lived.- 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.
Correct answer: No article- 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…
Correct answer: from