Test Your Grammar Skills
TEST YOUR GRAMMAR SKILLS
TEST YOUR GRAMMAR SKILLS
In each pair of sentences one is wrong and one is correct. Circle the one you think is correct and then check the with the Answer Key. (Try not looking at the answers)
1) a. I study about engineering | b. I study engineering
2) a. The movie was very funny | b. The movie was very fun
3) a. I went many places on my holiday | b. I went to everywhere on my holiday
4) a. I am exciting too much | b. I am very excited
5) a. Many temples beautiful | b. Many beautiful temples
6) a. Nowadays | b. Nowsaday
ANSWER KEY:
1. b
2. a
3. a
4. b
5. b
6. a
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The Quiz # Pharmaceutical Companies
The quiz given below is based on the reading passage PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES.
The table given has two columns, Column A and Column B. Column A consist of words from the passage and column B has their respective meanings. Your task is to match the word with the correct meaning.
| COLUMN A | COLUMN B |
|---|---|
| 1.pharma | (i)fall suddenly, clumsily, or headlong |
| 2.volley | (ii)a person who conducts analysis |
| 3.criticism | (iii)a number of bullets, arrows, or other projectiles discharged at one time |
| 4.defense | (iv)express (an idea) in a concise or systematic way |
| 5.tumbled | (v)in poor health |
| 6.gouging | (vi)the action of defending from or resisting attack |
| 7.ailing | (vii)say or estimate that (a specified thing) will happen in the future or will be a consequence of something |
| 8.formulating | (viii)pharmaceutical companies collectively as a sector of industry |
| 9.earnings | (ix)disposed to take a favorable view of events or conditions and to expect the most favorable outcome |
| 10.predictive | (x) a large amount, as of money, exacted or extorted |
| 11.rhetoric | (xi)a particular attitude towards or way of regarding something; a point of view |
| 12.perspective | (xii)a collection or systems of formulas |
| 13.analyst | (xiii)gain deservedly in return for one’s behaviour or achievements |
| 14.well-calibrated | (xiv)a command or authorization to act in a particular way on a public issue given by the electorate to its representative |
| 15.optimistic | (xv)to determine,check, or rectify the graduation of (any instrument giving quantitative measurements) |
| 16.mandated | (xvi)the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the exploitation of figures of speech and other compositional techniques |
| 17.formularies | (xvii)the expression of disapproval of someone or something on the basis of perceived faults or mistakes |
ANSWERS
- viii
- iii
- xvii
- vi
- i
- x
- v
- iv
- xiii
- vii
- xvi
- xi
- ii
- xv
- ix
- xiv
- xii
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The Quiz # The Social Media Effect
The quiz below is based on the reading passage The social media effect.
The table below has two columns, column A consisting of the words given in the passage and Column B has the meanings of the given words.
Your task is to match the words with the correct meaning.
| COLUMN A | COLUMN B |
| 1.social media | (i)achieving or having achieved success |
| 2. global-society | (ii)used to refer to a society that is being built in modern times in which all the people of the world have a good deal in common with one another |
| 3.relevant | (iii)to increase in extent, size, volume, scope, etc |
| 4. promoting | (iv)a distinguishing feature or quality |
| 5. expanding | (v)to mention or introduce (an idea, proposition, plan, etc.) |
| 6. social network | (vi)noting or pertaining to large social groups, or to their activities,customs, etc. |
| 7. perception | (vii)the act of producing or causing to exist; the act of creating;engendering |
| 8. aspire | (viii)websites and other online means of communication that are used by large groups of people to share information and to develop social and professional contacts |
| 9. successful | (ix)the point or place at which a person stands to view something |
| 10. prevalent | (x)to search or search for again |
| 11. research | (xi) to regard as resulting from a specified cause; consider as caused by something indicated (usually followed by to) |
| 12. suggests | (xii) the act or faculty of perceiving, or apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind;cognition; understanding |
| 13. attributes | (xiii) the act of competing; rivalry for supremacy, a prize, etc |
| 14. characteristics | (xiv) a portrait |
| 15. personality | (xv) to help or encourage to exist or flourish |
| 16. societal | (xvi) widespread; of wide extent or occurrence; in general use or acceptance |
| 17. standpoint | (xvii)something accomplished, especially by superior ability, special effort,great courage, etc.; a great or heroic deed |
| 18. competition | (xviii)bearing upon or connected with the matter in hand |
| 19. achievement | (xix)a beginning or start |
| 20. creation | (xx)to long, aim, or seek ambitiously |
| 21. portrayal | (xxi)the visible aspect of one’s character as it impresses others |
| 22. onset | (xxii)a network of friends, colleagues, and other personal contacts |
SAMPLE ANSWER
- viii
- ii
- xviii
- xv
- iii
- xxii
- xii
- xx
- i
- xvi
- x
- v
- xi
- iv
- xxi
- vi
- ix
- xiii
- xvii
- vii
- xiv
- xix
The Quiz # Decline Of Pollinators
The quiz given below is based on the reading passage Decline Of Pollinators.
The table below has two columns, column A and column B. Column A consist of the words given in the passage and column B has the meaning of the words.
Your task is to match the word with the correct meaning.
| COLUMN A | COLUMN B |
| 1.Pollinators | (i)poorly or improperly nourished |
| 2. Contribute | (ii) the process by which organisms take in and utilize food material |
| 3. Economic | (iii)tame and kept as a pet or on a farm |
| 4. Nutrition | (iv) In epidemiology, a vector is any agent (person,animal, or microorganism |
| 5. Reproduction | (v) an insect that carries pollen from one flower to another |
| 6. Malnourished | (vi) convey pollen to or deposit pollen on a stigma, ovule, flower, or plant |
| 7. Nutritional | (vii) involving or pertaining to one’s personal resources of money |
| 8. Deficiencies | (viii) a person with whom one works in a profession or business |
| 9. Animal vectors | (ix) providing nutrition |
| 10. Pollinated | (x)the state of being reproduced |
| 11. Domesticated | (xi)to give to a common supply |
| 12. Colleague | (xii)the act of judging or deciding the amount, value, quality, or importance of something, or the judgment or decision that is made |
| 13. Assess | (xiii)the quality or condition of being deficient; incompleteness or inadequacy |
ANSWER
- v
- xi
- vii
- ii
- x
- i
- ix
- xiii
- iv
- vi
- iii
- viii
- xii