WREN & MARTIN's English grammar-Mixed MCQ | Set 6 1st Year Intermediate
English Grammar — Mixed MCQ | Set 6 1st Year Intermediate
Q1. Choose the correct sentence: A. He is addicted to smoke since his college days. B. He has been addicted to smoking since his college days. C. He was addicted to smoke since his college days. D. He is addicted to smoking from his college days.
Q2. "A lot of time and money were wasted on the project." — The error is in: A. A lot of B. time and money C. were wasted D. No error
Q3. Choose the correct sentence: A. She is more prettier than her sister. B. She is prettiest than her sister. C. She is prettier than her sister. D. She is very prettier than her sister.
Q4. Fill in the blank: "If only I _______ harder for the exam." A. study B. studied C. had studied D. would study
Q5. Choose the correct sentence: A. He prevented me to enter the room. B. He prevented me for entering the room. C. He prevented me from entering the room. D. He prevented me against entering the room.
Q6. "The cattle is grazing in the field." — The error is in: A. The cattle B. is grazing C. in the field D. No error
Q7. Choose the correct passive voice of: "They had completed the project before the deadline." A. The project had been completed before the deadline. B. The project was completed before the deadline. C. The project has been completed before the deadline. D. The project had completed before the deadline.
Q8. "He said, 'I have never seen such a beautiful painting.'" — Choose the correct reported speech: A. He said that he has never seen such a beautiful painting. B. He said that he never saw such a beautiful painting. C. He said that he had never seen such a beautiful painting. D. He said that he never had seen such a beautiful painting.
Q9. Choose the correct sentence: A. She is used to get up early in the morning. B. She used to getting up early in the morning. C. She is used to getting up early in the morning. D. She uses to get up early in the morning.
Q10. Fill in the blank with the correct option: "_______ of the two sisters is more intelligent?" A. Who B. Whom C. Which D. What
Answers with Explanations
Q1. ✅ B — He has been addicted to smoking since his college days. Since indicates an ongoing state from a point in time, requiring present perfect continuous or present perfect tense. Addicted to is always followed by a gerund (smoking), never an infinitive. From cannot replace since for ongoing states.
Q2. ✅ D — No error. When two uncountable nouns (time and money) are joined by and, they can take a plural verb (were). However, if viewed as a single unit, was is also acceptable. In this context were is grammatically correct and the sentence has no error.
Q3. ✅ C — She is prettier than her sister. Prettier is already a comparative adjective. Adding more, very, or most before a comparative form creates a double comparative, which is always incorrect. Correct: prettier than, never more prettier.
Q4. ✅ C — had studied. If only expresses a strong wish or regret about the past. When referring to a past unfulfilled condition, the past perfect (had + past participle) is used. If only I had studied means the speaker regrets not studying — a past unreal situation.
Q5. ✅ C — He prevented me from entering the room. Prevent is always followed by the preposition from and then a gerund. The structure is: prevent + object + from + gerund. Using to, for, or against with prevent is incorrect.
Q6. ✅ B — "is grazing" is the error. Cattle is a collective noun that always takes a plural verb, similar to police and people. It has no singular form. Correct: The cattle are grazing in the field.
Q7. ✅ A — The project had been completed before the deadline. The active voice uses past perfect (had completed), so the passive must also be in past perfect: had been + past participle. The agent (they) is dropped as it is general. Correct: had been completed.
Q8. ✅ C — He said that he had never seen such a beautiful painting. In reported speech, present perfect (have seen) shifts back to past perfect (had seen). The reporting verb said triggers the backshift of tenses. Word order remains the same as a statement.
Q9. ✅ C — She is used to getting up early in the morning. Be used to means accustomed to and is always followed by a gerund (verb+ing). Used to (without be) expresses a past habit and takes the bare infinitive. Mixing the two structures, as in options A, B, and D, is incorrect.
Q10. ✅ C — Which. When choosing between two people or things, which is used, not who. Who is used when the number is not limited or specified. Since the question refers specifically to the two sisters (a defined, limited group), which is the correct choice.
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