General English Practice Question and Answer

Q:

Change into Indirect speech. 

Nitish said to me, " When did you buy this pen?
 "Nitish asked me. 

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    when I was to buy that pen.
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    when I would buy that pen.
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    when I had bought that pen.
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    when I was buying that pen.
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Answer : 3. "when I had bought that pen. "

Q:

Bose is (A) / more popular than (B) / any student in the class. (C) No error (D) 

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    C
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    D
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    A
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    B
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Answer : 1. "C"

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In the following question, a sentence has been given in Active/Passive voice. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Passive/Active voice.

Mother needs your help in the kitchen.

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    Your help is needed by mother in the kitchen.
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    Needing of your help is done by mother in the kitchen.
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    In the kitchen mother needs help by yourself.
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    Your helping is needed by mother in the kitchen.
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Answer : 1. "Your help is needed by mother in the kitchen."

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In world of ours (A)/ one has to compete (B)/ for almost everything. (C) No error (D)

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    C
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    D
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    A
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    B
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Answer : 3. "A"

Q:

Fill in the blanks with the correct Article or Determiner choosing from the options given below:

Do you take sugar in your coffee?

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    an
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    a
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    no article
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    the
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Answer : 3. "no article "

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Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed that we cannot by conscious action do anything about it. Our civilization is decadent and our language-so the argument runs-must inevitably share in the general collapse. It follows that any struggle against the abuse of language is a sentimental archaism, like preferring candles to electric light or hansom cabs to aeroplanes. Underneath this lies the half-conscious belief that language is natural growth and not an instrument which we shape for our own purposes. 
Now it is clear that the decline of a language must ultimately have political and economic causes it is not due simply to the bad influence of this or that individual writer. But an effect can become a cause, reinforcing the original cause and producing the same effect in an intensified form, and so on indefinitely. A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts. The point is that the process is reversible. Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble. If one gets rid of these habits, one can think more clearly, and to think clearly is a necessary first step towards political regeneration: so that the fight against bad English is not frivolous and is not the exclusive concern of professional writers. 

The author believes that –

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    English is become ugly
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    Bad language
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    Our thoughts are becoming uglier because we ae making the language uglier
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    Our civilization is decadent so nothing can be done to stop the decile of the language
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Answer : 3. "Our thoughts are becoming uglier because we ae making the language uglier "

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