Category: MCQs
Practice Exercise in Punctuation | English Grammar for Competitive Exams
In the sentences below insert commas where they are needed, remove them where they are not. Also, beware of errors in the use of semicolons. Some sentences may contain no error.
1. While Bill was riding his bike got a flat tire.
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2. The mailman did not leave the package for Jeff was not at home.
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3. After doing her homework Millie as you might expect talked on the phone for an hour.
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4. His work criticised many commonly held beliefs however and it was strictly censored.
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5. The car, which ran into mine, was a Buick.
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6. Dad went to the airport to pick up Dave and Ellie went to the train station to meet Debbie.
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ظہور اسلام سے قبل عرب کا اکثریتی مذہب
اے) بدھ مت
بی) یہودیت
سی) بت پرستی
ڈی) عیسائیت
اسلام سے قبل عرب میں جس مذہب میں توحید کا تصور پایا جاتا تھا
اے) بدھ مت
بی) ہندومت
سی) عیسائیت
ڈی) حنفیت
Identify the errors in English idiom in the following sentences. Write revised versions in the spaces provided. Some sentences may contain no error.
1. It was an honour to die at battle for their religion.
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2. After the ceremony, the newlyweds ascended up the stairs.
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3. I hope that the admissions office will comply to my request for an extension.
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4. Unless the call comes soon, we will lose out on a lucrative business venture.
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Change of Voice MCQs | English Grammar for Competitive Exams
Fill in the blanks with suitable active and passive verb forms
This house ———————- in 1970 by my grandfather.
(a) Built
(b) Was built
(c) Was build
(d) Has built
Answer: (b)
The robbers ————————- by the police.
(a) Have arrested
(b) Have been arrested
(c) Was arrested
(d) Had arrested
Answer: (b)
We ———————- for the examination.
(a) Have preparing
(b) Are preparing
(c) Had preparing
(d) Have been prepared
Answer: (b)
Idioms and Phrases MCQs | English Grammar for Competitive Exams
There are so many skills and so much knowledge to acquire that a lifetime is not enough
(a) Art is long, and Time is fleeting.
(b) Art is long, life is short.
(c) The life so short, the craft so long to learn
(d) So vast is art, so narrow human life.
Answer: (b) Art is long, life is short.
Don’t judge by appearances.
(a) Beauty is only skin deep
(b) Handsome is as handsome does.
(c) Never judge by appearances
(d) All the above
Answer: (d)
It is pointless reasoning with a person want to listen to sense.
(a) There are none so blind as those who will not see.
(b) There are none so deaf as those who will not hear.
(c) Both the above.
(d) None of the above.
Answer: (c)
Sentence Completion MCQs | English Grammar for Competitive Exams
She hadn’t eaten all day, and by the time she got home she was ______.
(a) blighted
(b) confutative
(c) ravenous
(d) ostentatious
(e) blissful
Answer: (c) Ravenous (adj.) means بھوک سے بے حال
The movie offended many of the parents of its younger viewers by including unnecessary ______ in the dialogue.
(a) vulgarity
(b) verbosity
(c) vocalizations
(d) garishness
(e) tonality
Answer: (a) Vulgarity (n.) means ناشائستگی
His neighbors found his ______ manner bossy and irritating, and they stopped inviting him to backyard barbeques.
(a) insentient
(b) magisterial
(c) reparatory
(d) restorative
(e) modest
Answer: (b) Magisterial (adj.) means حاکمانہ
Identify the non-renewable energy resource from the following:
(a) Coal
(b) Fuel cells
(c) Wind power
(d) Wave power
Answers: (a)
Which of the following is a disadvantage of most of the renewable energy sources?
(a) Highly polluting
(b) High waste disposal cost
(c) Unreliable supply
(d) High running cost
Answers: (c)
Photovoltaic energy is the conversion of sunlight into:
(a) Chemical energy
(b) Biogas
(c) Electricity
(d) Geothermal energy
Answers: (a)
Land between Beas and Ravi is called ____.
(a) Doaaba Bari
(b) Doaaba Rachna
(c) Doaaba Chaj
(d) None of these
Answer: a
Doaaba Rachna is located between the River Chenab and River ___.
(a) Ravi
(b) Jhelum
(c) Indus
(d) None of these
Answer: a
____ lies between Indus and Jehlum rivers.
(a) Doaaba Chaj
(b) Sindh Sagar
(c) Doaaba Bari
(d) None of these
Answer: b
Doaaba Chaj is located between River Chenab and River ____.
(a) Jhelum
(b) Ravi
(c) Indus
(d) None of these
Answer: a
River ____ is the longest river in Pakistan.
(a) Jhelum
(b) Indus
(c) Chenab
(d) Ravi
Answer: b
The Karakoram are extending from Tibet in the east to the Hindu Kush mountains in the ____.
(a) East
(b) West
(c) South
(d) North
Answer: b
The water dividing the Hunza River and the ____River is taken as the boundary between the Karakoram and Hindu Kush mountains.
(a) Indus
(b) Jhelum
(c) Kabul
(d) Gilgit
Answer: d
The Karakoram mountains lie ____of the Indus River and extend North ward beyond the borders of Pakistan.
(a) East
(b) West
(c) North
(d) South
Answer: c

