English Questions
5261. Who wrote the picaresque novel titled ‘Tom Jones’?
Samuel Richardson
Horace Walpole
Henry Fielding
Laurence Sterne
5262. Choose the correct comparative form of the sentence: ‘Very few boys are as industrious as Zaman’
Zaman is one of the most industrious boys.
Zaman is more industrious than most other boys.
Zaman is really industrious like other boys.
Zaman is as industrious as other boys
5263. ‘He prayeth best, who loveth best.’-Who said that?
John Milton
John Donne
Lord Byron
S. T. Coleridge
5264. Which of the following words is spelt correctly?
authoratative
autheritative
authoritative
authoratative
5265. Identify the correct passive form: ‘Do not close the door.’
Let not the door close.
Let not the door be closed.
Let not the door close.
Let not door closed.
5266. What is the verb form of the word ‘ability’?
capable
inability
enable
unable
5267. Find out the active form of the sentence: ‘By whom can our country be saved?’
Who can save our country?
Our country has been saved by who?
Who save our country?
Who will save our country?
5268. Identify the write tense: ‘My father ________ before I came’.
would be leaving
had been leaving
had left
will leave
5270. The controlling sentence of a paragraph is known as –
content modulator
terminator
thesis statement
topic sentence
5271. ‘Caesar and Clopatra’ is –
a tragedy by william Shakespeare
a poem by Lord Byron
a play by Bernard Shaw
a novel by S. T. Coleridge
5272. Which of the following word is spelt incorrectly?
reminescence
glycerin
idiosyncrasy
lexicography
5273. “Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player,That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more;” Thesee memorable lines in Shakespearean tragedy are spoken by –
Lady Macbeth
Macbeth
Duncan
Banquo
5274. The word ‘equivocation’ refers to –
stating like an author
two contradictory things in the same statement
free expression of opinions
a true statement
5275. Sitting happily, The chicken laid eggs. The underlined part is a/an –
noun clause
subordinate clause
independent clause
coordinate clause
5276. Identify the appropriate preposition: Your opinion is identical _______ mine.
or
by
with
in
5277. The poetic drama ‘Murder in the Cathedral’ was written by –
Harold Pinter
G. B. Shaw
T. S. Eliot
Samuel Beckett
5278. Caliban is an important character from Shakespeare’s-
The Tempest
Hamlet
Macbeth
Othello
5280. Alexander Pope’s ‘Essay on Man’ is a –
novel
treatise
short story
poem