English Questions for Competitive Exams

Choose the word that is opposite in meaning to the given word.

Desiccate

Such was the education / of the Spartans with regard to / one of the greatest of there king

Choose the word that is opposite in meaning to the given word.

Sane

Improve the underlined part of the sentence. Choose ‘No improvement’ as an answer if the sentence is grammatically correct.

His shoes were soaked from walk through the dew.

Choose the option that is the correct passive form of the sentence.

We had eaten the cake.

Some parts of a few sentences have been jumbled up, and labelled A, B, C and D. Select the option that gives the correct sequence in which these parts can be rearranged to form a meaningful and grammatically correct sentence.

I didn’t speak to the sage again for many years,

A. seer, born on a dark island of a union between an ascetic and a fisher princess

B. because of the many hefty books, he’d written. Vyasa the

C. though I heard of him from time to time. I learned

D. his name: Vyasa the Compendious,

Choose the word that can substitute the given group of words.

A leader who sways his followers by his oratory

Choose the word that means the same as the given word.

Select the correct indirect form of the given sentence.

Miranda said to her teacher, “I was sick for a day.”

In the following question, out of the given four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/Phrase.

To miss the bus