Grammar and vocabulary exercise

This exercise tests your grammar and vocabulary skills.

1. If I ………………………….. his phone number, I could call him.

a) know

b) knew

c) had known

2. The positive degree of ‘Raju is the most brilliant boy in the class’ is

a) Raju is a brilliant boy.

b) No other boy in the class is as brilliant as Raju.

c) Raju is more brilliant than any other boy in the class.

3. ‘We seldom see them these days’. Begin the sentence with seldom.

a) Seldom we see them these days.

b) Seldom do we see them these days.

c) Seldom we don’t see them these days.

4. The passive form of ‘He kept me waiting’ is

a) I was being kept waiting by him.

b) I was kept waiting by him.

c) I was kept awaited by him.

d) I was waited by him.

5. The meeting has been ………………………… until next week.

a) put on

b) put out

c) put off

d) none

6. Violation of something holy and sacred is ……………………………

a) pollution

b) pilferage

c) sacrilege

d) pittance

7. The higher you climb …………………………. you feel.

a) the most cold

b) colder

c) the colder

d) cold

8. Nocturnal relates to ………………………….

a) night time

b) day time

c) evening

d) afternoon

9. I love playing with my children. The gerund in this sentence is …………………….

a) love

b) playing

c) children

10. The poet and orator ……………………… dead.

a) is

b) are

c) has

Answers

1. If I knew his phone number, I could call him.

2. No other boy in the class is as brilliant as Raju.

3. Seldom do we see them these days.

4. I was kept waiting by him.

5. Put off

6. Sacrilege

7. The higher you climb, the colder you feel.

8. Night time

9. Playing

10. Is