English Grammar: 231 MCQs with Answers

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English Grammar Quiz Questions

English Grammar is one of the most important sections in competitive examinations conducted by various state and central government recruiting agencies across India. A strong command of English Grammar helps candidates improve their performance in subjects such as English Language, Communication Skills, Reading Comprehension, Error Detection, Sentence Improvement, Vocabulary, and Writing Ability.

This English Grammar Quiz contains carefully selected multiple-choice questions (MCQs) covering all major grammar topics including Parts of Speech, Nouns, Pronouns, Verbs, Tenses, Articles, Adjectives, Adverbs, Prepositions, Conjunctions, Active and Passive Voice, Direct and Indirect Speech, Subject-Verb Agreement, Error Detection, Sentence Correction, Vocabulary, Synonyms, Antonyms, One Word Substitution, Idioms and Phrases, Cloze Test, Para Jumbles, and Reading Comprehension.

These English Grammar MCQs are highly useful for candidates preparing for various state-level and national-level examinations. Regular practice of these questions helps improve accuracy, speed, grammatical understanding, and overall exam performance.

Important English Grammar Topics

  • Parts of Speech
  • Noun
  • Pronoun
  • Verb
  • Tenses
  • Articles
  • Adjectives
  • Adverbs
  • Prepositions
  • Conjunctions
  • Interjections
  • Active and Passive Voice
  • Direct and Indirect Speech
  • Subject-Verb Agreement
  • Error Detection
  • Sentence Improvement
  • Sentence Rearrangement
  • Synonyms
  • Antonyms
  • Idioms and Phrases
  • One Word Substitution
  • Spellings
  • Cloze Test
  • Reading Comprehension
  • Vocabulary Building
  • Fill in the Blanks

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  • TGT Recruitment
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Punjab Exams

  • PPSC Civil Services
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  • Excise Inspector
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Uttar Pradesh Exams

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  • UKPSC PCS
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Practice these English Grammar Quiz Questions regularly to strengthen your grammar concepts, improve your vocabulary, and achieve higher scores in competitive examinations.

Q211. Spot the correct spelling of an REE-bearing metamorphic texture word.

Right Answer: Porphyroblastic

'Porphyroblastic' is the correct spelling. In metamorphic petrology a porphyroblast is a large crystal that grows within a finer-grained matrix during metamorphism, and the adjective describes that texture. The word combines the Greek 'porphyra', meaning purple and used for porphyry rock, with 'blastos', meaning sprout or growth. Each distractor corrupts one part: 'Prophyroblastic' reorders the letters to give 'proph', 'Porfyrblastic' replaces 'ph' with 'f' and drops a vowel, and 'Porphyroblastik' ends in a non-English 'k'. Careful attention to the 'porphyro-' root settles the question. Hence option two is correct.
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Q212. Choose the correct one-word substitute for: 'A political system based on the rule of the wealthy'.

Right Answer: Plutocracy

A 'plutocracy' is a political system in which power rests with the wealthy, from the Greek 'ploutos' meaning wealth and 'kratos' meaning rule. This matches the given definition exactly. The distractors describe different bases of power. An 'oligarchy' is rule by a small group, though not necessarily a rich one. An 'aristocracy' is rule by a hereditary noble class, where birth rather than money confers status. A 'meritocracy' is rule by those with ability and talent, judged on achievement. Only wealth is the defining criterion in the question. Hence option three is correct.
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Q213. Select the correct option: Only after a decade of fieldwork ___ fully grasp the dialect's nuances.

Right Answer: did she

This sentence begins with the restrictive adverbial phrase 'Only after a decade of fieldwork'. When such a negative or restrictive expression is fronted, English requires subject-auxiliary inversion in the main clause. The blank is followed by the bare infinitive 'grasp', so the auxiliary must be 'did', giving 'did she fully grasp'. Option one, 'she had', keeps normal word order and ignores the inversion rule. Option three, 'had she', is inverted but would need the past participle 'grasped' rather than 'grasp'. Option four, 'she did', is again uninverted. Hence option two is correct.
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Q214. Select the correct option: The professor's remarks were so dense with jargon that they bordered on ___.

Right Answer: opacity

The blank follows the preposition 'on' in the phrase 'bordered on', which must be completed by a noun. 'Opacity' is the noun form, meaning the quality of being difficult to understand or see through, and it fits the idea of remarks so dense with jargon that they become impenetrable. 'Opaque' is an adjective and cannot follow a preposition in this structure. 'Opacus' is Latin rather than standard English usage. 'Opalescent' is an adjective describing a milky, shimmering play of colour, which concerns appearance rather than incomprehensibility. Hence option one is correct.
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Q215. Select the correct option: Her rebuttal, though eloquent, failed to ___ the central issue raised by the opposition.

Right Answer: address

The sentence concedes that the rebuttal was eloquent but says it 'failed to ___ the central issue'. The natural completion is 'address', meaning to deal with or attend to a matter directly. The contrast signalled by 'though eloquent' demands a verb of genuine engagement, since the criticism is that fine words never actually tackled the point. 'Digress' means to wander from the subject. 'Circumvent' means to find a way around something, and 'elude' means to escape or evade; both describe what the rebuttal did rather than what it failed to do. Hence option one is correct.
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Q216. Find the part of the sentence that contains an error.

Find the part of the sentence that contains an error:

The reforms being recommended by the panel (1)/ are not only intended to streamline administrative functions (2)/ but also addressing the asymmetries in resource allocation (3)/ that have long plagued rural districts. (4)

Right Answer: (3)

The sentence uses the correlative pair 'not only ... but also', which demands grammatical parallelism: the elements following each half must share the same form. Part two gives 'not only intended to streamline administrative functions', an infinitive phrase. Part three, however, continues with 'but also addressing the asymmetries in resource allocation', a participial phrase. To restore the balance it should read 'but also to address the asymmetries'. Parts one and four are free of error, and part two is correct in itself. The fault therefore lies in part three. Hence option three is the answer.
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Q217. Find the part of the sentence that contains an error.

Find the part of the sentence that contains an error:

What the committee failed to deliberate on adequately (1)/ were not the policy's objectives themselves, (2)/ but the political ramifications it (3)/ might have had if implemented without broader consensus. (4)

Right Answer: (2)

The subject of this sentence is the noun clause 'What the committee failed to deliberate on adequately'. A noun clause functioning as a subject is always singular and therefore takes a singular verb. Part two uses the plural 'were not', which does not agree with that singular subject and should read 'was not'. The plural noun 'objectives' sitting immediately after the verb is a deliberate distractor that tempts candidates towards the plural form. Parts one, three and four are grammatically sound. Hence the error lies in part two.
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Q218. Change the following from active to passive: The laboratory will have double-checked the reagents by dawn.

Right Answer: The reagents will have been double-checked by the laboratory by dawn.

The active sentence stands in the future perfect tense: 'The laboratory will have double-checked the reagents by dawn.' To convert a future perfect active into the passive, the object becomes the subject and the verb takes the form 'will have been' plus the past participle. So 'the reagents' moves into subject position, the verb becomes 'will have been double-checked', and the original subject is reintroduced by 'by the laboratory'. Option one wrongly uses the present perfect, option three uses the simple future, and option four keeps an active continuous form. Hence option two is correct.
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Q219. Select the sentence containing the homonym of the highlighted word: The fanon rested on the Pope's shoulder during Mass.

Select the sentence containing the homonym of the highlighted word:

The fanon rested on the Pope's shoulder during Mass.

Right Answer: The critic analyzed Fanon's theory of postcolonial identity.

A homonym is a word spelt or pronounced like another but carrying an entirely different meaning and origin. In the given sentence 'fanon' is the ecclesiastical vestment, a cape or shoulder covering worn by the Pope during solemn Mass. Options one, two and four all keep the word in that same liturgical sense, referring to its origin, its stitched edge and a cardinal wearing it. Option three instead uses 'Fanon' as the surname of Frantz Fanon, the postcolonial theorist, an unrelated word that merely sounds the same. Hence option three is correct.
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Q220. Convert the sentence provided below from its passive voice structure to an active voice structure: Rare minerals are known to have been secretly extracted from the site by unauthorized workers before the inspection.

Right Answer: Unauthorized workers are known to have secretly extracted rare minerals before inspection.

The original sentence is passive: 'Rare minerals are known to have been secretly extracted ... by unauthorized workers.' Converting it to the active voice requires the agent in the 'by' phrase to become the grammatical subject, while the reporting frame 'are known to' is preserved intact. Option three does exactly this, making 'unauthorized workers' the subject and retaining 'are known to have secretly extracted'. Option one drops the reporting frame and alters the tense. Option two remains passive and omits the agent entirely. Option four is likewise passive and loses the agent. Hence option three is correct.
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