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Grammar — 198 previous-year questions — page 3 of 8
Every Grammar question TNPSC has asked in the papers we hold, under English, with the correct answer marked in Tamil and English. Explanations are free with an account.ஆங்கிலம் பாடத்தின் கீழ், எங்களிடம் உள்ள வினாத்தாள்களில் TNPSC கேட்ட அனைத்து வினாக்களும், சரியான விடை குறிக்கப்பட்டு. விளக்கங்கள் இலவசக் கணக்கில் கிடைக்கும்.
- 198questionsவினாக்கள்
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Which of the following options has a sentence with a verb in the active voice?
- The letter was posted last night
- The boy was bitten by a dog
- Columbus discovered America✓
- The enemy was compelled to surrender
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Which includes an apostrophe indicating the possessive form?
- (a) Our child's busy
- (b) Mr. X's new bag is ready
- (c) Mrs. X's got her bag
- (d) The child's slept
- (a)
- (b)✓
- (c)
- (d)
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Fill in the blank with the correct verb form of the noun 'writer'
Don't ---------- on the wall.- written
- write✓
- write-up
- writing
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Which of the following options has a sentence with the verb in the active voice?
- Many students attended this workshop.✓
- Many students were questioned.
- Many students have been screened.
- Many students had been given a warning.
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Identify the sentence pattern
Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears.- SVO
- SVOA
- SVIODO✓
- SVOC
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Fill in the blank with the suitable preposition.
He was born ——— 1960.- In✓
- On
- At
- Since
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Select the correct meaningful sentence from the following.
- My Sister and friend have come.
- Her cousins as well as her friends has received prizes.
- The whole class are attentive.
- News never comes too late.✓
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Which one of the following is incorrect?
- Furnitures✓
- Scissors
- Pliers
- News
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Fill in the blank with suitable Gerund form of the verb
——— seemed foolish when decisive action was required.- Wait
- Waiting✓
- To wait
- To be wait
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Fill in the blank with correct option to complete the sentence :
The clerk who ——— (serve) in police department for Thirty Years, retired from service yesterday.- was serving
- has served
- had served✓
- serves
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Identify which is the correct singular word and select the answer from the codes given below.
- (a) Crises
- (b) Media
- (a) is a singular word
- (b) is a singular word
- Both (a) and (b) are singular word
- Both (a) and (b) are plural word✓
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Choose the appropriate answer
The ———— in Italy are dangerous.- Volcano
- Volcanoes✓
- Volcanos
- Volcanose
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Pick out the sentence with the wrong usage of verb
- I am known to them
- Mother cooks food
- We speak English
- Two and two make four✓
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Select the correct passive form of the sentence given.
She had already sent the parcel- The parcel has already been sent by her
- The parcel had already been sent by her✓
- The parcel was already sent by her
- The parcel was already sent to her
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Select the correct Passive forms of the sentence :
"The Manager will give you a ticket".- (a) A ticket will be given to the Manager by you.
- (b) A ticket will be given to you by the Manager.
- (c) The Manager will be given a ticket by you.
- (d) You will be given a ticket by the Manager.
- (a) and (b)
- (a) and (c)
- (b) and (d)✓
- (b) and (c)
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Choose the correct plural form for 'Alumnus'.
- Alumna
- Alumnae
- Alumni✓
- Alumnas
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Combine the pairs of sentences by choosing the correct sentence.
I saw a Tiger. It was wounded- I saw a Tiger was wounded
- I saw a wounded Tiger✓
- A wounded Tiger saw me
- I was wounded by the Tiger
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Identify the sentence which is in the Positive degree
- He is the most intelligent man
- His statement is a very super fluous one✓
- The Ganga is considered the most pious river
- Your signature is more valid than mine
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Choose the correct sentence from the following
- My son is fond in music
- My son is fond on music
- My son is fond of music✓
- My son is fond to music
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Frame a question to get the following answer :
Why ____________ ?
He has gone to the railway station to see off his cousin.- Why has he gone to the railway station?✓
- Why he went to the railway station?
- Why he go to the railway station?
- Why have he gone to the railway station?
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Which of the following sentence is wrong?
- Teach me to fish I will live for life time
- One never knows what the future will bring
- All that glitters is not gold
- We has been living in this house since 1995✓
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Transform the following assertive sentence into an imperative sentence :
'You should answer all the questions'.- (a) Should you answer all the questions?
- (b) Answer all the questions.
- (c) You answer all the questions.
- (d) All questions should be answered.
- (a)
- (b)✓
- (c)
- (d)
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Dancing bird is a compound word formed by combining
- Noun + Gerund
- Adjective + Gerund
- Gerund + Noun✓
- Preposition + Noun
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Identify the correct preposition from the options given below.
I will have finished this essay ———— Friday.- in
- on
- at
- by✓
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Which of the following is suitable to complete the meaning?
I stopped ———— to him.- to talk
- talking✓
- having talked
- being talked
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