WREN & MARTIN's English grammar-MIXED MCQ

 

English Grammar — Mixed MCQ | 

Q1. Choose the correct sentence: A. The furniture's are very expensive. B. The furnitures are very expensive. C. The furniture is very expensive. D. The furniture are very expensive.

Q2. Fill in the blank with the correct article: "_______ sun rises in the east." A. A B. An C. The D. No article needed

Q3. Identify the part of speech of the underlined word: "He is and honest and hardworking person." A. Preposition B. Conjunction C. Adverb D. Noun

Q4. Fill in the blank with the correct tense: "By the time we reached the cinema, the film _______." A. started B. has started C. had started D. was starting

Q5. Choose the correct passive voice of: "She wrote a beautiful poem." A. A beautiful poem is written by her. B. A beautiful poem has been written by her. C. A beautiful poem was written by her. D. A beautiful poem was being written by her.

Q6. Fill in the blank with the correct preposition: "He is very good _______ playing chess." A. in B. on C. at D. for

Q7. "She said, 'I will finish the work tomorrow.'" — Choose the correct indirect speech: A. She said that she would finish the work the next day. B. She said that she will finish the work tomorrow. C. She said that she would finish the work tomorrow. D. She told that she would finish the work the next day.

Q8. Choose the correct sentence: A. A number of students was absent today. B. A number of students are absent today. C. A number of students is absent today. D. A number of students were being absent today.

Q9. Choose the correct meaning of the idiom: "After the argument, they decided to bury the hatchet." A. Hide their weapons carefully B. Dig a hole in the garden C. Make peace and end their quarrel D. Continue fighting more aggressively

Q10. Identify the type of sentence: "What a pleasant surprise this is!" A. Assertive sentence B. Imperative sentence C. Interrogative sentence D. Exclamatory sentence

Answers with Explanations

Q1. ✅ C — The furniture is very expensive. Furniture is an uncountable noun and has no plural form. It never takes s at the end and never uses a possessive apostrophe in this context. Being uncountable, it always takes a singular verb. Correct: The furniture is. Similar uncountable nouns: information, luggage, advice, equipment.

Q2. ✅ C — The. The definite article the is used before unique natural phenomena that are one of a kind — things that exist as the only one of their type. The sun, the moon, the earth, the sky are all unique and take the. No other article can be used before such nouns.

Q3. ✅ B — Conjunction. And is a coordinating conjunction that joins two adjectives: honest and hardworking. Coordinating conjunctions connect words, phrases, or clauses of equal grammatical rank. The seven coordinating conjunctions are remembered by the acronym FANBOYS: For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So.

Q4. ✅ C — had started. By the time we reached signals that one past action (film starting) was completed before another past action (reaching the cinema). The earlier completed action uses past perfect tense (had + past participle). The later action uses simple past. By the time always signals past perfect in such contexts.

Q5. ✅ C — A beautiful poem was written by her. The active voice uses simple past tense (wrote), so the passive must also be in simple past: was/were + past participle. The object (a beautiful poem) becomes the subject in passive voice. The subject (she) becomes her and is placed after by.

Q6. ✅ C — at. The correct preposition after good when referring to a skill, activity, or subject is at. This is a fixed idiomatic usage. Structure: good + at + noun/gerund. Correct: He is very good at playing chess. Using in, on, or for after good in this context is incorrect.

Q7. ✅ A — She said that she would finish the work the next day. In indirect speech, will changes to would when the reporting verb is in the past tense. The time expression tomorrow changes to the next day. Both changes must happen together. Option C keeps tomorrow unchanged, which is incorrect. Option D uses told without a personal object, which is wrong.

Q8. ✅ B — A number of students are absent today. A number of means many and is always followed by a plural noun and a plural verb. It is different from the number of, which takes a singular verb. Think of a number of as meaning several or many — which naturally takes a plural verb. Correct: A number of students are.

Q9. ✅ C — Make peace and end their quarrel. Bury the hatchet is an idiom meaning to stop fighting or arguing and to make peace with someone. It originates from the Native American tradition of literally burying weapons as a symbol of peace between warring groups. It implies forgiveness and a willingness to move forward without anger.

Q10. ✅ D — Exclamatory sentence. An exclamatory sentence expresses a strong emotion such as surprise, joy, admiration, or wonder and always ends with an exclamation mark. It typically begins with what or how. Structure: What a + adjective + noun + subject + verb! Here the emotion expressed is pleasant surprise.

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