English misc (82) MCQs with Answers

A simile is defined as:

• A.A figure of speech comparing two things using 'like' or 'as'
• B.A figure of speech that gives human qualities to non-human things
• C.A figure of speech that exaggerates for effect
• D.A figure of speech that uses contradictory terms

The wind howled in the night. The wind in the sentence is the example of _?

• A.Simile
• B.Metaphor
• C.Personification
• D.Alliteration

Past Paper MCQ

() is called?

• A.Bracket
• B.Apostrophe
• C.Parenthesis
• D.Comma

What is the smallest unit of sound in linguistics?

• A.Morpheme
• B.Semantics
• C.Syntax
• D.Phoneme

Identify which kind of sentence "Do you like bread?" is.

• A.Declarative
• B.Interrogative
• C.Imperative
• D.Exclamatory

Identify the type of sentence: "I want to be a good person."

• A.Imperative
• B.Interrogative
• C.Declarative
• D.Exclamatory

What do we call the words that organize our writing, such as "first," "next," "then," etc.?

• A.Transition words
• B.Conjunctions
• C.Linking verbs
• D.Sequence markers

Can you see that blue colour car? Which type of sentence is it?

• A.Declarative
• B.Interrogative
• C.Imperative
• D.Exclamatory

A grammar containing properties common to all languages and innately present in human beings is called?

• A.Transformational Grammar
• B.Universal Grammar
• C.Generative Grammar
• D.Descriptive Grammar

One of the following is not a “Part of Speech”?

• A.Noun
• B.Verb
• C.Adjective
• D.Subjunctive