English Grammar

44 BCS Question


৪৪তম BCS


1. Select the appropriate preposition: ‘Are you doing anything special __ the weekend?’

a
at
b
with
c
on
d
for

 

 


2. What is the plural form of ‘sheep’?

a
sheeps
b
sheep
c
sheepes
d
sheepses

 

 


3. 'Sweet are the uses of adversity' is quoted from Shakespeare’s __

a
Julius Caesar
b
Macbeth
c
Comedy of Errors
d
As you Like it

 

 


4. What is the verb form of the word “ability” ?

a
capable
b
inability
c
enable
d
unable

 

 


5. The word 'equivocation' refers to __

a
stating like an author
b
two contradictory things in the same statement
c
free expression of opinions
d
a true statement

 

 


6. “Life but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more”

a
Lady Macbeth
b
Banquo
c
Duncan
d
Macbeth

 

 


7. Which of the following words is spelt correctly?

a
authoratative
b
autheritative
c
authoritative
d
authoratative

 

 


8. The story of ‘Moby Dick’ centres on __

a
a mermaid
b
A whale
c
a crocodile
d
a shark

 

 


9. "He prayeth best who loveth best" is said by---

a
Byron
b
S. T. Coleridge
c
Wordsworth
d
Shaw

 

 


10. The controlling sentence of a paragraph is known as __

a
content modulator
b
terminator
c
Thesis statement
d
topics sentense

 

 


11. Choose the correct comparative form of the sentence : ‘ Very few boys are as industrious as Zaman.’

a
Zaman is one of the most industrious boys.
b
Zaman is more industrius than most other boys
c
Zaman is really industrious like other boys.
d
Zaman is as industrious as other boys.

 

 


12. Identify the appropriate preposition : Your opinion is identical __ mine.

a
for
b
in
c
with
d
by

 

 


13. ‘Paradise Lost’ Attempted to __

a
Justify the ways of man to God
b
Show that Satan and God have equal power
c
Justify the ways of God to man
d
Explain why both good and evil are necessary

 

 


14. “Oh , lift me as a wave , a leaf , a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!” The extract is taken from P.B Shelley’s poem __

a
To Cloud
b
To a Skylark
c
Ode to the West Wind
d
Adomais

 

 


15. Who wrote the short story “The Ant the Grasshopper’?

a
Guy de Maupassant
b
W. Somerset Maugham
c
J.K Rawlings
d
O’ Henry

 

 


16. The word ‘Vital’ is a /an __

a
noun
b
adverb
c
adjective
d
verb

 

 


17. ‘To get along with’ means __

a
to adjust
b
to interest
c
to accompany
d
to walk

 

 


18. The synonym for ‘panoramic’ is __

a
scenic
b
Sluggish
c
energetic
d
quarrelsome

 

 


19. Find out the active form of the sentence: ‘By whom can our country be saved ?’

a
Who can save our country ?
b
Our country has been saved by who ?
c
Who save our country ?
d
Who will save our country ?

 

 


20. “All changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born” This extract is taken from W.B Yeats’ poem titled __

a
No Second troy
b
Easter 1916
c
The Second Coming
d
The Wild Swans at Coole

 

 


21. The poetic drama ‘Murder in the Cathedral’ was written by __

a
Harlod Pinter
b
G.B Shaw
c
T.S Eliot
d
Samuel Beckett

 

 


22. ‘All for love’ is a drama written by __

a
John Dryden
b
William Congreve
c
John Bunyan
d
Francis Bacon

 

 


23. Sitting happily, the chicken laid eggs.

a
noun clause
b
subordinate clause
c
independent clause
d
coordinate clause

 

 


24. "Caliban" is an important character from Shakespear’s __

a
The Tempest
b
Hamlet
c
Macbeth
d
Othelllo

 

 


25. What kind of noun is ‘river’?

a
Material
b
Collective
c
Proper
d
Common

 

 


26. 'Caesar and Cleopatra' is __

a
a tragedy by William Shakespeare
b
a poem by Lord Byron
c
A play by Bernard Shaw
d
A novel by S.T Coleridge

 

 


27. Identify the right tense : “My father __ before I came”

a
would be leaving
b
had been leaving
c
had left
d
will leave

 

 


28. Which of the following words is spelt incorrectly ?

a
reminescence
b
glycerin
c
indiosyncrasy
d
lexicography

 

 


29. Who wrote the picaresque novel tiled ‘Tom Jones’ ?

a
Samuel Richardson
b
Horace Walpole
c
Henry Fielding
d
Laurence Steme

 

 


30. Alexander Pope’s Essay on Man’ is a __

a
novel
b
treatise
c
short story
d
poem

 

 


31. ‘By and large’ means-

a
everywhere
b
very large
c
mostly
d
faraway

 

 


32. Francis Bacon is an illustrious __

a
essayist
b
dramatist
c
novelist
d
journalist

 

 


33. ‘He could not win but learnt a lot-Which parts of speech is the word ‘but’ ?

a
an adverb
b
a verb
c
an adjective
d
a conjunction

 

 


34. Identify the correct passive form; ‘Do not close the door’.

a
Let not the door close
b
Let not the door be closed
c
Let not the door close
d
Let not door closed

 

 


35. The antonym for ‘slothful’ is-

a
playful
b
sluggish
c
energetic
d
quarrelsome

 

 






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