CBSE CLASS 10 ENGLISH GRAMMAR-MOCK TEST

 English Grammar Comprehensive Mock Test

1. Which sentence uses the present perfect continuous tense correctly?
A) I am working here for five years.
B) I have been working here since five years.
C) I have been working here for five years.
D) I had been working here for five years.

2. Choose the correct preposition: "I am not very good ___ repairing clocks."
A) in
B) at
C) with
D) for

3. Identify the correctly punctuated sentence:
A) The players' uniforms were dirty after the game.
B) The player's uniforms were dirty after the game.
C) The players uniforms' were dirty after the game.
D) The players uniform's were dirty after the game.

4. Change to Passive Voice: "The chef is preparing a delicious meal."
A) A delicious meal was prepared by the chef.
B) A delicious meal is prepared by the chef.
C) A delicious meal is being prepared by the chef.
D) A delicious meal has been prepared by the chef.

5. Which word is an adjective in this sentence: "The elderly man walked slowly across the busy street."?
A) Elderly
B) Slowly
C) Across
D) Walked

6. Select the correct form: "Neither the teacher nor the students ___ present at the assembly."
A) was
B) is
C) were
D) has been

7. Choose the correct conditional: "If I ___ you, I would take the job."
A) am
B) was
C) were
D) would be

8. Fill in the blank: "She is the woman ___ daughter won the scholarship."
A) who
B) whom
C) whose
D) which

9. Identify the error: "He don't (A) know (B) how to (C) drive a (D) car."
A) A
B) B
C) C
D) D

10. What is the antonym of "Meticulous"?
A) Careful
B) Sloppy
C) Detailed
D) Organized

11. Choose the correct article: "He is ___ honest man."
A) a
B) an
C) the
D) No article needed

12. Select the correct Reported Speech: "I will call you later," she said.
A) She said that she will call me later.
B) She said that she would call me later.
C) She told she would call me later.
D) She says she will call me later.

13. "Break a leg" is an idiom that means:
A) To get injured
B) To fail miserably
C) Good luck
D) To be clumsy

14. Which of these is a complex sentence?
A) I like tea and he likes coffee.
B) Although it was raining, we went for a walk.
C) She ran fast.
D) The sun rose; the birds sang.

15. Fill in the blank: "By this time next year, I ___ my degree."
A) will finish
B) will have finished
C) finish
D) am finishing

16. Identify the part of speech for the word in brackets: "The [quickly] moving car hit the fence."
A) Adjective
B) Noun
C) Adverb
D) Verb

17. Choose the correct spelling:
A) Accomodation
B) Accommodation
C) Acomodation
D) Accommodasion

18. Fill in the blank: "I look forward to ___ you at the conference."
A) see
B) seeing
C) seen
D) saw

19. "Hardly had I reached the station ___ the train left."
A) than
B) then
C) when
D) so

20. What is the plural of "Crisis"?
A) Crisises
B) Crises
C) Crisis's
D) Crisiss

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Answer Key

1. C (Present perfect continuous uses 'have been' + 'for' for duration)
2. B (To be "good at" an activity)
3. A (Plural possessive 'players' takes the apostrophe after the 's')
4. C (Present continuous passive requires 'is being' + past participle)
5. A ('Elderly' describes the noun 'man')
6. C (With 'neither/nor', the verb agrees with the closer subject 'students')
7. C (Subjunctive mood for hypothetical 'if' statements)
8. C (Possessive relative pronoun)
9. A (Should be "doesn't")
10. B (Sloppy is the opposite of being very careful)
11. B ('Honest' starts with a vowel sound)
12. B ('Will' changes to 'would' in reported speech)
13. C (Common theatrical idiom)
14. B (Contains a dependent clause starting with 'Although')
15. B (Future perfect for an action completed by a point in the future)
16. C (Describes the verb/adjective)
17. B (Double 'c' and double 'm')
18. B ("Look forward to" is followed by a gerund/-ing)
19. C (The pair is "Hardly... when")
20. B (Latin root pluralization)