*Solved English Grammar MCQs for Competitive Exams*
1. While Pakistan has earned record revenue this year, ______ well behind in exports.
(A) it still lag
(B) it still lags
(C) it lag still
(D) it lags still
Answer
(B) it still lags
2. Anna and Tania went shopping, but _______ couldn’t find anything ________ liked.
(A) they, those
(B) they, them
(C) those, they
(D) they, they
Answer
(D) they, they
3. Nuclear energy is _______ dangerous to be used widely.
(A) so
(B) such
(C) too
(D) that
Answer
(C) too
4. If I have money, I _______ it tomorrow.
(A) will purchase
(B) would purchase
(C) have purchase
(D) have purchased
Answer
(A) will purchase
5. Cannon had ـــــــــــــــــ unique qualities ــــــــــــــ it was used widely in ancient times.
(A) such, that
(B) such, so
(C) that, since
(D) that, that
Answer
(A) such, that
6. She succeeded by ________ hard.
(A) work
(B) working
(C) continuous work
(D) continuous working
Answer
(B) working
7. Gulalai made her children __________ chores on Sunday.
(A) make some
(B) take some
(C) do some
(D) does some
Answer
(C) do some
8. I enjoy __________ tennis.
(A) to play
(B) plays
(C) playing
(D) to playing
Answer
(C) playing
9. Most of the guests arrived __________ buses.
(A) with
(B) by
(C) from
(D) in
Answer
(D) in
10. The departmental store is open __________ eight to seven.
(A) by
(B) from
(C) between
(D) during
Answer
(B) from
11. On leaving the shopping plaza, Kate was robbed ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ purse.
(A) by her
(B) by bets
(C) of her
(D) of hers
Answer
(C) of her
12. If I had money, I ـــــــــــــــــــــــ it now.
(A) will purchase
(B) would purchase
(C) would have purchased
(D) have purchased
Answer
(B) would purchase
13. The man ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ you met is an anchorperson.
(A) who
(B) whose
(C) whom
(D) which
Answer
(C) whom
14. The woman __________ is standing by the table works in electronic media.
(A) who
(B) whose
(C) whom
(D) which
Answer
(A) who
15. He is looking for accommodation ______ in a flat or shared house.
(A) both
(B) until
(C) neither
(D) either
Answer
(D) either
16. You can go neither by train ____________ by bus.
(A) no
(B) nor
(C) or
(D) and
Answer
(B) nor
17. Before designing a public park, the architect must _______________ the public.
(A) consider
(B) considers
(C) recognize
(D) recognizes
Answer
(A) consider
18. When she was younger, she _______ five kilometres a day.
(A) walked
(B) had walked
(C) has been walking
(D) had been walking
Answer
(A) walked
19. The house is large ________ is quite old-fashioned.
(A) and
(B) or
(C) which
(D) but
Answer
(D) but
20. We need to find _______ method to solve this problem.
(A) other
(B) the other
(C) another
(D) others
Answer
(C) another
21. The students in our school are ______ in other schools.
(A) smarter
(B) smarter than
(C) smarter than those
(D) more smarter than
Answer
(C) smarter than those
22. The number of web entrepreneurs _____________ increasing every year.
(A) is
(B) are
(C) has been
(D) have been
Answer
(A) is
23. Write down ____________ your name and roll number.
(A) both
(B) either
(C) neither
(D) not only
Answer
(A) both
24. Compressed Naxuml Gas (CNG) bums less efficiently than gasoline_______________.
(A) burn
(B) burns
(C) should burn
(D) would burn
Answer
(B) burns
25. Oxygen can be mixed with __________ gasses such as Hydrogen, Nitrogen and Chlorine.
(A) another like
(B) another
(C) the other
(D) other
Answer
(D) other
26. The man __________ wallet was stolen called the police.
(A) who
(B) whose
(C) whom
(D) which
Answer
(B) whose
27. The market is nearer to them than__________.
(A) we
(B) our self
(C) us
(D) ourselves
Answer
(C) us
28. He takes his turn and she takes _____.
(A) her
(B) hers
(C) herself
(D) himself
Answer
(B) hers
29. If I had had money. I ______ it yesterday.
(A) would purchase
(B) would purchased
(C) would have purchase
(D) would have purchased
Answer
(D) would have purchased
30. Umma, accompanied by her brother, __________ at the party.
(A) is
(B) are
(C) was
(D) were
Answer
(C) was
31. White ball _____________ for the first time in the 1992 Cricket World Cup.
(A) used
(B) was used
(C) had used
(D) has been used
Answer
(B) was used
32. The new information on dengue virus caused panic in the public and government____________.
(A) like
(B) likely
(C) alike
(D) dislike
Answer
(C) alike
33. I cannot come to see you ___________ tomorrow.
(A) by
(B) till
(C) until
(D) unless
Answer
(C) until
34. He has been living in Switzerland ___________ two years.
(A) for
(B) since
(C) from
(D) until
Answer
(A) for
35. She is standing ________ her boyfriend.
(A) with
(B) by
(C) in
(D) for
Answer
(B) by
36. He paid the dining bill ___________ a credit card.
(A) with
(B) by
(C) in
(D) for
Answer
(A) with
37. He did not give up______.
(A) hope
(B) hopes
(C) to hope
(D) hoping
Answer
(D) hoping
38. ________ the bad weather, the outdoor party was rescheduled.
(A) Because of
(B) In order to
(C) Despite
(D) In spite of
Answer
(A) Because of
39. ________ loosing the first match, our team has won the world cup.
(A) Because of
(B) In order to
(C) Despite
(D) In spite of
Answer
(C) Despite
40. Everyone at the party _________ amazed by his performance.
(A) is
(B) are
(C) were
(D) was
Answer
(D) was
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