| English Language has become more and more common in the world. It has become more dominant as well as worldwide language. Increasingly, people are studying English as their second language. . English has become an indispensable and scoring segment of Competitive Exams. Competitive exams are well-structured to understand our proficiency as well as comprehension of English. They test candidate’s verbal skills, on the basis of various questions or activities on different Grammar topics like Parts of Speech, Tenses, Voices, Degrees, Types of sentences, Reported speech etc. Here, candidate’s grammatical knowledge, understanding and skills are tested quite systematically and competently. . We have designed various exam-based Examples-Sets for the better practice and study of English Grammar for Competitive Exams. We hope that these Examples-Sets will definitely help every aspirant to study English Grammar with perfect direction. |
Examples Set No.1
| 1. Identify the correct sentence. |
| i. They have been working since morning. ii. They are working since morning. iii. They work since morning. iv. They worked since morning. |
| 2. Choose the correct option. ‘The engineer said that he _____ the project before the end of the month.’ |
| i. will finish ii. would finish iii. was finishing iv. will be finishing |
| 3. Which verb will be suitable to fill in the blank? ‘My granny still _____ a very good eye-sight.’ |
| i. is ii. has ii. will be iv. has been |
| 4. ‘If he _________ (study) hard, he would have passed the exam.’ Fill in the blank with the appropriate tense form of the verb given in the brackets. |
| i. would have studied ii. had studied iii. studied iv. would study |
| 5. Choose the correct sentence from the following. |
| i. He had left the office before I reached there. ii. He left the office before I reached there. iii. He will leave the office before I reached there. iv. He was leaving the office before I reached there. |
| 6. Choose appropriate form of the verb to fill in the blank. ‘He saw children _________ (play) on the ground.’ |
| i. will play ii. will be playing iii. were playing iv. playing |
| 7. Identify the tense form and time expressed in the following sentences: ‘Are you going home now?’ ‘They are going to visit Delhi soon.’ |
| i. Future, simple present ii. Present perfect, future iii. Present continuous, future iv. Future, present perfect |
| 8. Identify the correct sentence. a. He has worked for twelve hours yesterday. b. She has had her breakfast. |
| i. Both ‘a’ and ‘b’ are correct ii. Only ‘b’ is correct iii. Only ‘a’ is correct iv. Both ‘a’ and ‘b’ are incorrect |
| 9. Point out the sentence that has the correct use of tense. |
| i. John got up at 6 O’clock every morning. ii. John is getting up at 6 O’clock every morning. iii. John gets up at 6 O’clock every morning. iv. John was getting up 6 O’clock every morning. |
| 10. ‘The patients of Covid-19 _________ rapidly.’ Fill in the blank with an acceptable form of the verb given below. |
| i. increase ii. have risen iii. are rising iv. have been rising |
| 11. Fill in the blanks. ‘Do not plague her mind, she _________ her homework.’ |
| i. does ii. did iii. will do iv. is doing |
| 12. Choose the most correct sentence. |
| i. We stopped there for a week. ii. We left there for a week. iii. We lived there for a week. iv. We stayed there for a week. |
| 13. Choose the correct alternative. ‘The cheque _________ by William.’ |
| i. has cashed ii. was cashed iii. had been cashed iv. none of above |
| 14. Choose the incorrect sentence/s. a. Why did you disconnect my call? b. She has passed the M.B.A degree examination in 2000. c. She passed the M.B.A degree examination in 2000. |
| i. a only ii. b only iii. a and b iv. b and c |
| 15. Fill in the blank with an acceptable form of the verb given in the options. ‘My sister _________ many books on this subject.’ |
| i. have ii. is wanting iii. has iv. want |
| 16. ‘The committee members are going to take decision on this soon.’ The underlined expression in the above sentence reveals _________. |
| i. Possible future ii. Definite future iii. Remote future iv. Immediate future |
| 17. Select the correct alternative to complete the sentence. ‘Mother _________ when the phone rang.’ |
| i. had cooked ii. was cooking iii. cooks iv. had been cooking |
| 18. Identify the tense of the underlined verb. ‘She had been teaching music for many years.’ |
| i. past perfect continuous ii. past perfect iii. simple past iv. past continuous |
| 19. Choose from the alternatives the sentence which is in Perfect Past Tense. |
| i. They have finished the work. ii. They finished the work. iii. They had finished the work. iv. They had been finishing the work. |
| 20. Fill in the blank with the correct tense form. ‘He _________ if he does not abide by rules of the office.’ |
| i. will fire ii. would fire iii. will be fired iv. should be fired |
ANSWERS:
1. i, 2. ii, 3. ii, 4. ii, 5. i, 6. iv, 7. iii, 8. ii, 9. iii, 10. iii, 11. iv, 12. iv, 13. ii, 14. i, 15. iii, 16. iv, 17. ii, 18. i, 19. iii, 20. iii.
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