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Sentence Completion MCQs | English Grammar for Competitive Exams

Sentence Completion, English Grammar for Competitive Exams

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

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Practice Exercise in Adjective/Adverb Use | English Grammar for Competitive Exams

Practice Exercise in Adjective Adverb Use

Check each of these sentences for faulty use of adjectives and adverbs. Write the correct word in the spaces provided. Some sentences are correct.

1. The nurse felt bitterly that she had contracted AIDS from a patient.
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2. There is simply no justification for the judge’s ruling.
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3. Meredith’s bike is old, but it rides smooth.
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4. The soprano sang the aria beautiful, in spite of her head cold.
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5. The black Mercedes drove slow up the gravel driveway.
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Practice Exercise in Diction | English Grammar for Competitive Exams

Practice Exercise in Diction

Find nonstandard, colloquial, and redundant usages in the following sentences. Write the standard words or phrases in the spaces provided. Some sentences may be correct; some may contain more than one error.

1. A bale of hay dropped off the truck on the way to Dover.
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2. Bruno flunked his driving test three times before he secured a licence.
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3. Mrs. Grant felt plenty scared to go into that cave because of the snake.
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4. This plate is an exactly identical replica of those that Willie stored in the attic.
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5. At the reunion, a dozen people sat in a circle and told stories about each other.
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