Identify the correct usage: We................... for the train for the past one hour.

If I committed a mistake, I.............it.

The detective spotted a suspect package on the platform. The adjective in the above sentence is.........

. 'Development' is a noun with '-ment' as a suffix. Which of the following will become a noun if we add the suffix '-ment' to it?

'Stop talking,' said the commander to the boys. This can be reported as:

When a person says 'Can you give me a hand?' he is asking for..........

Identify the correct sentence from those given:

A pair of socks....................lying there.

The word which denotes the name adopted by an author in his writing is.............

The word which denotes the name adopted by an author in his writing is.............

The passive form of the question, 'Has someone taken my book?' is:

The government.... ..........tents to accommodate the refugees

The student complained, 'Neither of these computers................ properly'.

Identify the word which is spelt incorrectly.

Don't touch the broken glass, it is.................

WHO is the.. ........for World Health Organisation.

Which syllable is stressed in the word 'photographic'?

If you had seen a snake in the garden, you............

I reached Chennai .................. 20th August last year.

There spread a.................. that the match might be postponed.

It is a sunny day. Let's go for a ride,...........?

Which of these is not correct with reference to a compost pit?

The opposite of the word 'valuable' is formed by prefixing it with...........

The word 'unkempt' in the passage means:

Garbage originates from:

What happens to the disposed material at the recycling centre?

Garbage can create havoc to mankind by:

Garbage is:

Fallen leaves from trees are useful because they:

How does the author conclude that the branch of the tree is dead?

Pick out the sentence which is true according to the passage:

Stephen Hawking .............

His friends called Stephen Hawking as

Doctors predicted that Stephen Hawking

Why can't Stephen Hawking be considered as a steretoypical scientist?

According to the passage Stephen Hawking is regarded as

1. one who changed the way the world views science
2. one who was cured of a very serious illness
3. one who changed the way the world views people with disabilities

Pick out the word from the passage which means a person devoted to intellectual and technical pursuits.

When Stephen Hawking couldn't speak .....................

The passage says that Hawking's life ............

When he was young. Stephen Hawking was .................

Locate the synonym of sesquipedalian from the following:

1. Short tempered

2. One who loves cycling

3. Using pompous language

4. One who writes lengthy poem

Neither food nor water ................... to be found there.

1. were

2. was

3. have

4. none of the above

Time we live ought not to be computed by number of years, but by use that has been made of them.

Insert articles where necessary:

1. The, the

2. The, the, the

3. A, the, the

4. A, the

I speak the truth. I am not afraid of it.

Combine the sentences using infinitive

(i) I am not afraid to speak the truth

(ii) I am not afraid of speaking the truth

(iii) I speak the truth as I am not afraid of it

(iv) None of the above

Choose the correct preposition from the following.

The public are cautioned ................ pickpockets

1. of

2. against

3. about

4. on

Convert the following statement into indirect speech.

He said, "Let us wait for the award".

1. He tells us to wait for the award

2. He tells him to wait for the award

3. He proposes that he should wait for the award

4. He proposed that they should wait for the award

Add proper question tag from the following options

None of those customers were happy,.................?

1. isn't it?

2. were they?

3. hasn't it?

4. weren't they?

Identify the meaning of the italicized words,

He will never set the Thames on fire

(i) think deeply

(ii) get ruined

(iii) achieve something unusually good

(iv) None of the above

Identify the correct spelling?

1. inveterate

2. invertarate

3. invetarate

4. inverterate

Antonym of clockwise is:

1. inclockwise

2. unclockwise

3. counter clockwise

4. none of the above