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14 questions
  1. Identify the part of speech of the underlined word: The evening was a round of pleasures.
    1. Verb
    2. Adverb
    3. Preposition
    4. Noun
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    Answer: (D) Noun

    Here round names a thing — a series of pleasures — so it is a noun.

  2. Identify the part of speech of the underlined word: Down with the tyrant!
    1. Noun
    2. Verb
    3. Adjective
    4. Adverb
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    Answer: (D) Adverb

    No noun follows it, and it expresses direction in an exclamation — an adverb.

  3. In the sentence "These mangoes are sour", the word "These" is —
    1. Adjective of Quality
    2. Relative Pronoun
    3. Pronoun
    4. Demonstrative Adjective
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    Answer: (D) Demonstrative Adjective

    It describes the noun mangoes, so it is a demonstrative adjective.

  4. Identify the part of speech of the underlined word: They while away their evenings with books and games.
    1. Noun
    2. Verb
    3. Adjective
    4. Adverb
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    Answer: (B) Verb

    While away is the action of the sentence, so while is a verb.

  5. Identify the part of speech of the underlined word: I shall see you next Monday.
    1. Verb
    2. Adverb
    3. Noun
    4. Adjective
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    Answer: (D) Adjective

    It describes the noun Monday, so it is an adjective.

  6. The match will be telecast live. The underlined word is —
    1. an adjective used as a noun
    2. an adverb used as a pronoun
    3. an adverb used as a verb
    4. an adjective used as an adverb
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    Answer: (D) an adjective used as an adverb

    Live is normally an adjective, but here it modifies the verb telecast.

  7. Match the kind of adjective with its example: Quality, Demonstrative, Distributive, Quantitative
    1. square, those, each, some
    2. some, each, those, square
    3. those, square, some, each
    4. each, some, square, those
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    Answer: (A) square, those, each, some

    Square is quality, those demonstrative, each distributive, some quantitative.

  8. An adverb modifies —
    1. only a verb
    2. a verb, an adjective or a second adverb
    3. only a noun
    4. a noun or a pronoun
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    Answer: (B) a verb, an adjective or a second adverb

    That three-part definition is the test for an adverb.

  9. Which of these is NOT an adverb?
    1. hard
    2. fast
    3. lovely
    4. well
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    Answer: (C) lovely

    Lovely ends in -ly but is an adjective.

  10. "He came after the meeting ended." Here "after" is a —
    1. preposition
    2. conjunction
    3. adverb
    4. interjection
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    Answer: (B) conjunction

    A clause follows it, so it is a conjunction. Before a noun it would be a preposition.

  1. Which of these nouns is uncountable?
    1. book
    2. chair
    3. information
    4. boy
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    Answer: (C) information

    Information has no plural; never write informations.

  2. "Swimming is good for health." The word "Swimming" is a —
    1. participle
    2. gerund
    3. finite verb
    4. adverb
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    Answer: (B) gerund

    It is the -ing form used as a noun — a gerund.

  3. Which pair contains correlative conjunctions?
    1. and / but
    2. because / since
    3. neither / nor
    4. in / on
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    Answer: (C) neither / nor

    Correlatives work in pairs: neither…nor, either…or, both…and.

  4. "I myself saw the accident." The pronoun "myself" is used —
    1. reflexively
    2. emphatically
    3. as a relative pronoun
    4. as an indefinite pronoun
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    Answer: (B) emphatically

    It adds emphasis; it is not the object of the verb, so it is not reflexive here.

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