English Grammar Quiz

Grammar and Figures of Speech

• A brisk walk can raise your heart rate, and "brisk" is an abstract noun for "briskness".
• The sentence "Folks who have no enemy have very few friends" is an example of antithesis, a figure of speech.
• In the sentence "The boy drove across the house", "across" is a preposition.

Adverbs and Adjectives

• In the sentence "We are very close to our project", "close" is an adjective.
• In the sentence "The soup tastes horrible", "horrible" is an adjective.

Sentence Structure and Word Choice

• The correct sentence is "No sooner had I eaten two morsels than the phone rang".
• In the sentence "Not only are prehistoric records patent, they are also the objects of great interest and antiquity", "authenticity" is a synonym for the underlined word.
• In the sentence "I forget everyone for paying the bills", "everyone" is a pronoun.

Word Choice and Sentence Types

• In the sentence "Can I borrow your keys? I can't find ours", "ours" is the suitable word for the blank.
• In the sentence "The cat _____ asleep", "lie" is the suitable word for the blank.
• The sentence "During our warm conversation, I could not offer him even a vehement cup of tea because of my bad habit of obliviousness" is a complex sentence.