SSC CGL Grammar & Usage Verified Practice Test 5
15 structurally validated Grammar & Usage questions with unique options, mapped answers and explanations.
SSC CGL Grammar & Usage Verified Practice Test 5
15 structurally validated Grammar & Usage questions with unique options, mapped answers and explanations.
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- Voice
1. Choose the passive form: They are repairing the road.
- A. The road is repaired.
- B. The road is being repaired. (Correct)
- C. The road was being repaired.
- D. The road has repaired.
Explanation: Present continuous passive uses is being + past participle.
- Error Spotting
2. Identify the error: The news are surprising.
- A. The
- B. news
- C. are surprising (Correct)
- D. no error
Explanation: 'News' is singular, so 'is surprising' is correct.
- Conditional
3. If it rains, we _____ indoors.
- A. stay
- B. stayed
- C. will stay (Correct)
- D. would stay
Explanation: First conditional uses future in the main clause.
- Sentence Improvement
4. Choose the best replacement: He is good in maths.
- A. good at maths (Correct)
- B. good on maths
- C. good for maths
- D. no improvement
Explanation: 'Good at' is the correct phrase.
- Pronoun
5. Everyone should do _____ duty.
- A. their
- B. his (Correct)
- C. our
- D. its
Explanation: Traditional exam grammar prefers singular 'his' here.
- Conjunction
6. Work hard, _____ you will fail.
- A. and
- B. or (Correct)
- C. but
- D. so
Explanation: 'Or' expresses warning in this pattern.
- Gerund
7. He enjoys _____ books.
- A. read
- B. reading (Correct)
- C. to read
- D. reads
Explanation: 'Enjoy' is followed by a gerund.
- Adjective
8. This road is _____ than that one.
- A. wide
- B. wider (Correct)
- C. widest
- D. more widest
Explanation: Comparative adjective is needed.
- Verb Form
9. Had I known, I _____ helped you.
- A. will
- B. would have (Correct)
- C. shall
- D. am
Explanation: Third conditional takes 'would have'.
- Question Tag
10. She is absent today, _____?
- A. is she
- B. isn't she (Correct)
- C. doesn't she
- D. wasn't she
Explanation: Positive statement takes negative tag.
- Articles
11. Choose the correct article: It was _____ unique opportunity.
- A. a (Correct)
- B. an
- C. the
- D. no article
Explanation: Unique begins with a consonant sound, so 'a' is correct.
- Preposition
12. She is interested _____ classical music.
- A. at
- B. in (Correct)
- C. on
- D. for
Explanation: The correct phrase is 'interested in'.
- Agreement
13. Neither the manager nor the workers _____ ready.
- A. is
- B. was
- C. are (Correct)
- D. has
Explanation: The verb agrees with the nearer subject, 'workers'.
- Tense
14. By this time tomorrow, they _____ the journey.
- A. finish
- B. finished
- C. will finish
- D. will have finished (Correct)
Explanation: Future perfect is used for completion before a future point.
- Voice
15. Choose the passive form: The police arrested the thief.
- A. The thief arrested by the police.
- B. The thief was arrested by the police. (Correct)
- C. The police was arrested by the thief.
- D. The thief is arrested by the police.
Explanation: Simple past passive uses was/were plus past participle.