- "Crowd", "jury" and "flock" are examples of which kind of noun?
- proper
- collective
- abstract
- material
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Answer: (B) collective
They name a group spoken of as one whole.
- Which of these is an uncountable noun?
- chair
- furniture
- table
- book
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Answer: (B) furniture
Furniture has no plural and takes no a/an.
- Choose the correct sentence.
- He gave me many advices.
- He gave me much advice.
- He gave me some advices.
- He gave me an advice.
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Answer: (B) He gave me much advice.
Advice is uncountable — use much advice or a piece of advice.
- The feminine of "bachelor" is —
- bachelorette
- spinster
- maiden
- widow
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Answer: (B) spinster
Spinster.
- The plural of "mango" is —
- mangos
- mangoes
- mango’s
- mangoe
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Answer: (B) mangoes
Mangoes — a consonant before the -o.
- The plural of "piano" is —
- pianoes
- pianos
- piani
- piano’s
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Answer: (B) pianos
Musical words take plain -s.
- The plural of "chief" is —
- chieves
- chiefs
- chievs
- chiefes
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Answer: (B) chiefs
Chief is one of the -f exceptions: roofs, chiefs, proofs, gulfs.
- The plural of "commander-in-chief" is —
- commander-in-chiefs
- commanders-in-chief
- commander-in-chieves
- commanders-in-chiefs
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Answer: (B) commanders-in-chief
The principal word takes the plural.
- The plural of "phenomenon" is —
- phenomenons
- phenomena
- phenomenae
- phenomeni
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Answer: (B) phenomena
A Greek plural — phenomena; so too criterion → criteria.
- Which sentence is correct?
- The news are good.
- The news is good.
- The newses are good.
- A news is good.
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Answer: (B) The news is good.
News is plural in form but singular in meaning.
- Which sentence is correct?
- The cattle is grazing.
- The cattle are grazing.
- The cattles are grazing.
- A cattle is grazing.
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Answer: (B) The cattle are grazing.
Cattle is singular in form but plural in meaning.
- Choose the correct possessive: the school for boys
- the boy’s school
- the boys’ school
- the boys school
- the boys’s school
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Answer: (B) the boys’ school
A plural already ending in -s takes the apostrophe alone.
- Choose the correct possessive: the park for children
- the childrens’ park
- the children’s park
- the childrens park
- the children’ park
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Answer: (B) the children’s park
A plural not ending in -s takes ’s.
- "Ram and Shyam’s shop" means —
- two separate shops
- one shop owned jointly
- Ram’s shop only
- Shyam’s shop only
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Answer: (B) one shop owned jointly
One ’s at the end means joint ownership.
- Which is correct?
- The dog wagged it’s tail.
- The dog wagged its tail.
- The dog wagged its’ tail.
- The dog wagged it tail.
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Answer: (B) The dog wagged its tail.
Possessive its has no apostrophe; it’s means it is.
- "He himself said so." The pronoun here is —
- reflexive
- emphatic
- relative
- distributive
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Answer: (B) emphatic
It can be removed and the sentence still stands — so it is emphatic.
- Which is correct?
- Each of the boys have a pen.
- Each of the boys has a pen.
- Each of the boy has a pen.
- Each of the boys having a pen.
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Answer: (B) Each of the boys has a pen.
Distributives are singular.
- Which is correct?
- Neither of the three came.
- None of the three came.
- Neither of three came.
- Either of the three came.
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Answer: (B) None of the three came.
Neither and either are used of two only.
- The two brothers love —
- one another
- each other
- themselves
- one other
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Answer: (B) each other
Each other for two; one another for more than two.
- Which is correct?
- One should do his duty.
- One should do one’s duty.
- One should do their duty.
- One should do its duty.
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Answer: (B) One should do one’s duty.
The pronoun one is followed by one’s.
- Which is correct?
- Who did you meet yesterday?
- Whom did you meet yesterday?
- Who did you met yesterday?
- Whom did you met yesterday?
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Answer: (B) Whom did you meet yesterday?
Whom is the object of meet.
- In which clause can "that" NEVER be used?
- a defining clause
- a non-defining clause
- after a superlative
- after "all"
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Answer: (B) a non-defining clause
That cannot be used in a non-defining (comma-marked) clause.
- In "The book I bought is useful", the omitted relative is —
- who
- which
- whose
- what
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Answer: (B) which
Which is the object of bought, so it may be dropped.
- "What is he?" asks about his —
- identity
- profession
- character
- nationality
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Answer: (B) profession
What is he? asks the job; Who is he? asks the identity.
- Complete: All ___ glitters is not gold.
- which
- that
- what
- who
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Answer: (B) that
After all, the relative is that.
- Which order is correct for an admission of fault?
- You, he and I are to blame.
- I, you and he are to blame.
- He, you and I are to blame.
- You, I and he are to blame.
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Answer: (B) I, you and he are to blame.
123 for blame — the first person takes responsibility first.
- Find the error: The scenery (a) / of Kashmir (b) / are very beautiful. (c) / No error (d)
- a
- b
- c
- d
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Answer: (C) c
Scenery is uncountable and takes a singular verb — is.
- Find the error: He bought (a) / three dozen (b) / mango’s (c) / from the market. (d)
- a
- b
- c
- d
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Answer: (C) c
An apostrophe never makes a plural — it is mangoes.
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