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1. |
Language is a --------- subject |
A. | style |
B. | skill |
C. | passive |
D. | None of these |
Answer» B. skill |
2. |
The word "unhappiness" consists of ---------- morphemes |
A. | Two |
B. | four |
C. | Three |
D. | five |
Answer» C. Three |
3. |
Speech is ----------- and writing is secondary |
A. | usual |
B. | unusual |
C. | primary |
D. | open |
Answer» C. primary |
4. |
Identify the structure: "I bought a text book |
A. | SVA |
B. | SVO |
C. | SVAO |
D. | SVOC |
Answer» B. SVO |
5. |
Identify the underlined part: "She stood under the tree |
A. | clause |
B. | phrase |
C. | suffix |
D. | object |
Answer» B. phrase |
6. |
old grammar is |
A. | Descriptive |
B. | prescriptive |
C. | simple |
D. | None of these |
Answer» B. prescriptive |
7. |
The diphthong in the word "height" |
A. | /ei/ |
B. | /ai/ |
C. | /ea/ |
D. | /i/ |
Answer» B. /ai/ |
8. |
The vowel in the word "food" |
A. | /e/ |
B. | /u:/ |
C. | /U/ |
D. | /i/ |
Answer» B. /u:/ |
9. |
Tongue is a --------- articulator |
A. | Active |
B. | passive |
C. | creative |
D. | None of these |
Answer» A. Active |
10. |
A gerund is -------------- |
A. | verb |
B. | object |
C. | verbal noun |
D. | verbal adjective |
Answer» C. verbal noun |
11. |
Identify the underlined word: I saw a running dog |
A. | verbal noun |
B. | present participle |
C. | past participle |
D. | All these |
Answer» B. present participle |
12. |
An example of an abstract noun is |
A. | death |
B. | eat |
C. | write |
D. | come |
Answer» A. death |
13. |
pick out the collective noun from the following |
A. | Aluminum |
B. | Government |
C. | Truth |
D. | Join |
Answer» B. Government |
14. |
After dinner the mother --------- the child in the cradle |
A. | lied |
B. | laid |
C. | lay |
D. | lied |
Answer» B. laid |
15. |
Yesterday I met ------------ European |
A. | an |
B. | a |
C. | on |
D. | of |
Answer» B. a |
16. |
"re" in the word "re examine" |
A. | suffix |
B. | prefix |
C. | phoneme |
D. | word |
Answer» B. prefix |
17. |
Affix’s are ----------- morphemes |
A. | Free |
B. | bound |
C. | both free and bound |
D. | None of these |
Answer» B. bound |
18. |
The antonym of the word "pessimism" |
A. | Hopeless |
B. | optimism |
C. | mysticism |
D. | classicism |
Answer» B. optimism |
19. |
The variety of English that has grarnmar social prestige is ---------- |
A. | standerd english |
B. | spoken english |
C. | written english |
D. | American English |
Answer» A. standerd english |
20. |
Noam chomsky is a ----------- |
A. | poet |
B. | grammarian |
C. | Novelist |
D. | Dramatist |
Answer» B. grammarian |
21. |
In English there are ----------- phonemes |
A. | 24 |
B. | 44 |
C. | 12 |
D. | 08 |
Answer» B. 44 |
22. |
Identify the correct spelling |
A. | possesion |
B. | possession |
C. | pocession |
D. | possecion |
Answer» B. possession |
23. |
I have not met him ---------- a long time |
A. | since |
B. | for |
C. | in |
D. | on |
Answer» B. for |
24. |
The word "branch" is an example of |
A. | eponym |
B. | blending |
C. | compounding |
D. | Affixing |
Answer» B. blending |
25. |
Gliding vowels are |
A. | Diphthongs |
B. | pure vowels |
C. | morphemes |
D. | monopthongs |
Answer» A. Diphthongs |
26. |
Regional variety of language is |
A. | Idiolect |
B. | Dialect |
C. | Register |
D. | pidgin |
Answer» B. Dialect |
27. |
The word "tall" is |
A. | poly syllabic |
B. | Disyllabic |
C. | mono syllabic |
D. | Tri syllabic |
Answer» C. mono syllabic |
28. |
stress, rhythm and ---------- are known as supra segmental features |
A. | syllable |
B. | phoneme |
C. | intonation |
D. | phonetics |
Answer» C. intonation |
29. |
The study of meaning is |
A. | semantics |
B. | linguistics |
C. | ethics |
D. | phonetics |
Answer» A. semantics |
30. |
In the word "remember" there are ----------- syllables |
A. | 2 |
B. | 3 |
C. | 4 |
D. | 5 |
Answer» B. 3 |
31. |
The intonation in "wh" question is |
A. | falling |
B. | rising |
C. | fall rise |
D. | None of these |
Answer» A. falling |
32. |
The syllabic structure of the word "clap" |
A. | cvc |
B. | ccvc |
C. | vccv |
D. | cvcv |
Answer» B. ccvc |
33. |
Pick out the modal auxiliary from the following |
A. | write |
B. | to |
C. | can |
D. | from |
Answer» C. can |
34. |
The auxiliary verb to indicate remote possibility is |
A. | will |
B. | shall |
C. | must |
D. | might |
Answer» D. might |
35. |
The noun "death" is |
A. | collective noun |
B. | Abstract noun |
C. | material noun |
D. | proper noun |
Answer» B. Abstract noun |
36. |
She has --------- for a walk |
A. | went |
B. | go |
C. | going |
D. | gone |
Answer» D. gone |
37. |
I prefer milk ---------- water |
A. | than |
B. | on |
C. | to |
D. | at |
Answer» C. to |
38. |
He is my ----------- brother |
A. | older |
B. | elder |
C. | eld |
D. | None of these |
Answer» B. elder |
39. |
When the doctor reached the patient -------- |
A. | had died |
B. | dies |
C. | dying |
D. | will die |
Answer» A. had died |
40. |
My brother as well as his wife ----------- coming to meet me |
A. | is |
B. | are |
C. | will |
D. | were |
Answer» A. is |
41. |
How ---------- money do you want? |
A. | more |
B. | many |
C. | much |
D. | any |
Answer» C. much |
42. |
The moon ---------- round the earth |
A. | moves |
B. | moving |
C. | will move |
D. | can moving |
Answer» A. moves |
43. |
No sooner did I reach the station --------- the train started |
A. | then |
B. | than |
C. | only |
D. | when |
Answer» B. than |
44. |
Be content ------------ what you have |
A. | on |
B. | with |
C. | at |
D. | of |
Answer» B. with |
45. |
There is hardly ---------- salt in the pot |
A. | some |
B. | many |
C. | much |
D. | any |
Answer» D. any |
46. |
Nepal lies --------- India and China |
A. | between |
B. | among |
C. | beyond |
D. | below |
Answer» A. between |
47. |
"Assassin" means |
A. | die |
B. | kill |
C. | attack |
D. | run |
Answer» B. kill |
48. |
Either Anil or Ashok ---------- responsible |
A. | are |
B. | were |
C. | is |
D. | on |
Answer» C. is |
49. |
A speech made without preparation is |
A. | Debate |
B. | speech |
C. | extempore |
D. | prepared |
Answer» C. extempore |
50. |
An unmarried woman is |
A. | widow |
B. | spinster |
C. | maid |
D. | Bachelor |
Answer» B. spinster |
51. |
Something that is "eatable" is |
A. | portable |
B. | edible |
C. | sweet |
D. | None of these |
Answer» B. edible |
52. |
A journey by sea is |
A. | voyage |
B. | Journey |
C. | safari |
D. | flight |
Answer» A. voyage |
53. |
The words "perfect" and "faultless" are ---------- |
A. | Antonyms |
B. | Rhymes |
C. | synonyms |
D. | None of these |
Answer» C. synonyms |
54. |
The phrasal verb "work out" means |
A. | guess |
B. | calculate |
C. | imagine |
D. | work |
Answer» B. calculate |
55. |
"Machiavellian" is an example of |
A. | Antonym |
B. | onamatopoea |
C. | eponym |
D. | none of these |
Answer» C. eponym |
56. |
The brothers quarrelled ------------ themselves |
A. | between |
B. | on |
C. | among |
D. | at |
Answer» C. among |
57. |
My uncle's hotel is --------- the lake |
A. | Besides |
B. | beside |
C. | by |
D. | none of these |
Answer» B. beside |
58. |
------------ you tell me your name please?(polite) |
A. | will |
B. | may |
C. | could |
D. | should |
Answer» C. could |
59. |
Are you ----------- better now? |
A. | feel |
B. | feels |
C. | felt |
D. | feeling |
Answer» D. feeling |
60. |
Fill up with a question tag let us go for a film, ---------- ? |
A. | should we |
B. | shall we |
C. | may we |
D. | none of these |
Answer» B. shall we |
61. |
I am very tired, -------- ? |
A. | am'nt I ? |
B. | am I ? |
C. | are I ? |
D. | aren’t I ? |
Answer» D. aren’t I ? |
62. |
"Juvenile" means |
A. | Humorous |
B. | childish |
C. | tedious |
D. | pious |
Answer» B. childish |
63. |
One who knows many language is |
A. | linguist |
B. | libertine |
C. | polyandrist |
D. | polyglot |
Answer» D. polyglot |
64. |
I am ---------- in learning english |
A. | interested |
B. | fond |
C. | interesting |
D. | disliking |
Answer» A. interested |
65. |
Did you hear the ----------- news ? |
A. | lastest |
B. | latter |
C. | latest |
D. | later |
Answer» C. latest |
66. |
I wish I --------- a bird |
A. | was |
B. | am |
C. | were |
D. | None of these |
Answer» C. were |
67. |
I ------------ the letter, but I can't find a stamp |
A. | have written |
B. | had written |
C. | wrote |
D. | was writing |
Answer» A. have written |
68. |
If you had called me I -------- helped you |
A. | would |
B. | might |
C. | would have |
D. | will |
Answer» C. would have |
69. |
Take --------- your health |
A. | care after |
B. | care for |
C. | care of |
D. | care at |
Answer» C. care of |
70. |
There was -------- rain for three days |
A. | continued |
B. | continuous |
C. | continued |
D. | continuing |
Answer» B. continuous |
71. |
--------- means "change for the better" |
A. | inform |
B. | reform |
C. | deform |
D. | confirm |
Answer» B. reform |
72. |
Identify the correct spelling |
A. | seperate |
B. | separate |
C. | sepearate |
D. | sepaerate |
Answer» B. separate |
73. |
The antonym of "dusk" is |
A. | night |
B. | day |
C. | dawn |
D. | morning |
Answer» C. dawn |
74. |
Please --------- attention to my words |
A. | give |
B. | say |
C. | pay |
D. | look |
Answer» C. pay |
75. |
The sound produced by a bird is |
A. | bray |
B. | chirp |
C. | grow |
D. | mew |
Answer» B. chirp |
76. |
She ran --------- the room |
A. | to |
B. | in |
C. | into |
D. | off |
Answer» C. into |
77. |
The plural of "thesis" is |
A. | thesises |
B. | thesis |
C. | theses |
D. | thesisis |
Answer» C. theses |
78. |
The United Nations -------- our only hope |
A. | are |
B. | is |
C. | were |
D. | will |
Answer» B. is |
79. |
"Etymology" means |
A. | study of meaning |
B. | study of opposites |
C. | study of word origin |
D. | study of grammer |
Answer» C. study of word origin |
80. |
"Smog" is |
A. | a blended word |
B. | an acronym |
C. | a clipped word |
D. | an antonym |
Answer» A. a blended word |
81. |
The feminine gender of "fox" is |
A. | she-fox |
B. | bitch |
C. | lamp |
D. | vixen |
Answer» D. vixen |
82. |
Being tired, children ---------- on the bed |
A. | laid |
B. | lied |
C. | lay |
D. | lain |
Answer» C. lay |
83. |
He is the ---------- of my two sons |
A. | older |
B. | eldest |
C. | elder |
D. | oldest |
Answer» B. eldest |
84. |
Find out the misspelt word |
A. | picknic |
B. | receive |
C. | writing |
D. | relative |
Answer» A. picknic |
85. |
Antonym of "ascend" is |
A. | defend |
B. | descend |
C. | dissent |
D. | arrive |
Answer» B. descend |
86. |
The verb of "rich" is |
A. | richen |
B. | enrich |
C. | richened |
D. | richening |
Answer» B. enrich |
87. |
Past pariciple of "over come" is |
A. | over came |
B. | over comed |
C. | over come |
D. | overcoming |
Answer» C. over come |
88. |
"Commend" means |
A. | defeat |
B. | order |
C. | remark |
D. | praise |
Answer» D. praise |
89. |
Two miles -------- a long way to walk |
A. | are |
B. | is |
C. | are not |
D. | were |
Answer» B. is |
90. |
Carnivorous means |
A. | meat eating |
B. | plant eating |
C. | water drinking |
D. | fasting |
Answer» A. meat eating |
91. |
Lexicography is |
A. | writing letters |
B. | dictionary writing |
C. | book printing |
D. | banking |
Answer» B. dictionary writing |
92. |
For -------- information, please meet the head of the department |
A. | farther |
B. | far |
C. | further |
D. | none of these |
Answer» C. further |
93. |
I have drunk ---------- milk |
A. | the whole |
B. | all |
C. | whole |
D. | all the |
Answer» A. the whole |
94. |
Either of these novels --------- worth reading |
A. | are |
B. | is |
C. | were |
D. | am |
Answer» B. is |
95. |
Mathematics --------- my favourite subject |
A. | is |
B. | are |
C. | have been |
D. | has been |
Answer» A. is |
96. |
My scissors --------- very old |
A. | are |
B. | is |
C. | has been |
D. | had been |
Answer» A. are |
97. |
Kalidasa is known as ---------- shakespeare of India |
A. | a |
B. | an |
C. | the |
D. | zero article |
Answer» C. the |
98. |
The meeting ----------- well |
A. | went off |
B. | went into |
C. | went by |
D. | went dowen |
Answer» A. went off |
99. |
They--------- the orphan. |
A. | adopted |
B. | adapted |
C. | adepted |
D. | none of these |
Answer» A. adopted |
100. |
The education minister --------- the prizes to the students |
A. | gave up |
B. | gave away |
C. | gave off |
D. | gave forth |
Answer» B. gave away |
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