English Grammar

43 BCS Question


৪৩তম BCS


1. Fill in the gap : Birds fly………in the sky.

a
random
b
at large
c
at a stitch
d
are long

 

 


2. Who wrote the play ‘The Way of the World’ ?

a
William Congreve
b
William Shakespeare
c
Ben Jonson
d
Oscar Wilde

 

 


3. Who is not an Irish writer ?

a
D.H Lawrence
b
James Joyce
c
Jonathan Swift
d
Oscer Wilde

 

 


4. What is the adjective form of the word ‘people’?

a
populous
b
popular
c
popularity
d
popularize

 


5. What is the noun form of the word ‘laugh’ ?

a
laughter
b
laughing
c
laughable
d
laughingly

 


6. __ was both a poet and a painter.

a
John Keats
b
Spenser
c
William Blake
d
John Donne

 

 


7. Words inscribed on a tomb is an __

a
epitome
b
epithet
c
episode
d
epitaph

 

 


8. Do you have any money ……… you ? Fill in the gap with the appropriate preposition:

a
to
b
over
c
in
d
on

 

 


9. Choose the right form of verb : It is high time we (act) on the matter.

a
are acting
b
acted
c
have acted
d
could act

 

 


10. Identify the word which is spelt incorrectly?

a
fluctuation
b
remission
c
ocassion
d
decision

 

 


11. The word ‘to genuflect’ means-

a
to be genuine
b
to reflect
c
to bend the knee
d
to be flexible

 

 


12. Which of the following novels is not written by an English writer ?

a
A passage to India
b
Sons and Lovers
c
One hundred Years of Solitude
d
Pride and Prejudice

 

 


13. The phrase ‘sine die’ means-

a
half-heateldly
b
doubtfully
c
fixed
d
uncertain

 

 


14. The most famous romantic poet of English literature is -

a
John Dryden
b
Alexander Pope
c
William Wordsworth
d
T. S. Eliot

 

 


15. Which gender is the word ‘orphan’?

a
neuter
b
feminine
c
common
d
masculine

 

 


16. 'A herd of cattle is passing'. The word 'herd' is an/a

a
adverb
b
adjective
c
collective noun
d
abstract noun

 

 


17. Who is the poet of the poem ‘Ozymandias’ ?

a
P. B. Shelley
b
William Wordsworth
c
S. T. Coleridge
d
John Keats

 

 


18. "If winter comes, can spring be far behind?" – Who wrote this?

a
William Blake
b
P. B Shelley
c
Lord Byron
d
S. T. Coleridge

 

 


19. Who is the author of ‘Jane Eyre’?

a
Charlotte Bronte
b
Emily Bronte
c
Jane Austen
d
Mary Shelly

 

 


20. A speech full of too many words is –

a
a big speech
b
maiden speech
c
a verbose speech
d
an unimportant

 

 


21. Fill in the blank: ‘She went to New Market’

a
on foot
b
on feet
c
by foot
d
by walking

 

 


22. What kind of play is ‘Julius Caesar’?

a
romantic
b
anti-romantic
c
comedy
d
historical

 

 


23. Who is the author of the novel "The God of Small Things"?

a
Thomas Hardy
b
Jhumpa Lahiri
c
R. K. Narayan
d
Arundhati Roy

 

 


24. What is the antonym for the word ‘deformation’?

a
wholeness
b
distortion
c
contortion
d
disfigurement

 

 


25. Identify the correct sentence :

a
The girl burst out tears
b
The girl burst into tears
c
The girl burst with tears
d
The girl bursted out tears

 

 


26. “Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav’n.” – Who wrote this?

a
Geoffrey Chaucer
b
John Milton
c
Christopher Marlowe
d
P. B. Shelley

 

 


27. He contemplated marrying his cousin. Here 'marrying' is an/a-

a
present participle
b
gerund
c
verb
d
infinitive

 

 


28. Change the voice : ‘Nobody trusts a traitor.’

a
A traitor is not trusted by anybody
b
A traitor is trusted
c
Everybody hate a traitor
d
A traitor should not be trusted

 

 


29. Identify the correct synonym of the word ‘magnanimous’

a
unkind
b
generous
c
revengeful
d
friendly

 

 


30. Where is the setting of the play ‘Hamlet’ ?

a
England
b
Denmark
c
Italy
d
France

 

 


31. Who is not the Modern poet?

a
W. B. Yeats
b
W. H. Auden
c
John Keats
d
T. S. Eliot

 

 


32. 'Moby Disk', a novel, was written by……

a
Herman Melville
b
Nathaniel Hawthrone
c
Mark Twain
d
William Faulkner

 

 


33. The phrase ‘dog days’ means __

a
cold weather
b
hot weather
c
rain-soaked streets
d
ice storm

 

 


34. O Henry was from –

a
Canada
b
America
c
England
d
Ireland

 

 


35. ‘No Second Troy’ is a-

a
short
b
novel
c
poem
d
drama

 

 






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