General English Practice Question and Answer
8 Q: Select the correct indirect form of the given sentence.
Miranda said to her teacher, “I was sick for a day.”
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644a698a9e10c4684b0748cc- 1Miranda told her teacher that she has been sick for a day.false
- 2Miranda told her teacher that she is sick for a day.false
- 3Miranda told her teacher that she was sick for a day.false
- 4Miranda told her teacher that she had been sick for a day.true
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Answer : 4. "Miranda told her teacher that she had been sick for a day."
Q: 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
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644a5d81389f65682176b3fe- 1Short lived gloryfalse
- 2To lose an opportunitytrue
- 3Escape by a thin marginfalse
- 4A problem in a situationfalse
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Answer : 2. "To lose an opportunity"
Q: Choose the word that means the same as the given word.
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644a5d12e2eff5686890d281- 1Sweetfalse
- 2Flytrue
- 3Bitterfalse
- 4Sourfalse
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Answer : 2. "Fly"
Q: 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,
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64490dfb389f6568217288df- 1ABCDfalse
- 2DCABfalse
- 3CDBAtrue
- 4BADCfalse
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Answer : 3. "CDBA"
Q: 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.
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6449078ae2eff568688cf556- 1soaked from walkingtrue
- 2soak from walkingfalse
- 3No improvementfalse
- 4soaks from walkfalse
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Answer : 1. "soaked from walking"
Q: Choose the word that is opposite in meaning to the given word.
Sane
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644907079b03af93b70c9dfd- 1Paranoidtrue
- 2Reposefulfalse
- 3Stoicalfalse
- 4Halcyonfalse
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Answer : 1. "Paranoid"
Q: Such was the education / of the Spartans with regard to / one of the greatest of there king
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644906699b03af93b70c902f- 1No errorfalse
- 2one of the greatest of there kings.true
- 3Such was the educationfalse
- 4of the Spartans with regard tofalse
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Answer : 2. "one of the greatest of there kings."
Q: Choose the word that is opposite in meaning to the given word.
Desiccate
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644905039b03af93b70c8bf8- 1Honourfalse
- 2Ascendfalse
- 3Hydratetrue
- 4Veneratefalse
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