Welcome to your SSC English Practice Set 2
1.
Direction: Find out which part has an error and mark it as your answer. If there is no error, mark 'No error' as your answer.
I drink always (A) / two cups of coffee (B) / in the morning. (C) / No error (D)
2.
Direction: Select the correct passive form of the given sentence.
Farmers are growing wheat and barley.
3.
In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which will improve the highlighted part of the sentence. In case no improvement is needed, select "No Improvement".
Shama did not break the windowpane, I did not neither
4.
Direction: Select the option that is similar in meaning to the given word and mark your response accordingly.
5.
Directions: Select the most appropriate antonym of the given word.
6.
Choose the best expression amongst multiple choices for a given idiom/proverb.
7.
Select the most appropriate 'one word' for the expressions given below.
A person appointed by two parties to solve a dispute
8.
Choose the correct spelling:
9.
Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
We were just ________ youths, but he made a huge effort to invite us to his parties.
10.
Given below are four jumbled sentences. Select the option that gives their correct order.
A. Rush hour crowds jostle for position on the underground train platform
B. But this aspiring musician faced a bigger challenge than most: she was profoundly deaf.
C. It was her first day at the prestigious Royal Academy of Music in London and daunting enough for any teenager fresh from a Scottish farm.
D. A slight girl, looking younger than her seventeen years, was nervous yet excited as she felt the vibrations of the approaching train.
11.
Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
Pritha doesn’t like you. You’ve got to _______ the fact that you’re just not her type.
12.
Choose the correct spelling:
13.
Select the correct one-word for the given group of words
A place where birds are kept.
14.
Given below are four jumbled sentences. Select the option that gives their correct order.
A. They didn’t want to run things like other kings, so they decided to change night into day and day into night.
B. Anyone who disobeyed would be punished with death.
C. In the Kingdom of Fools, both the king and the minister were idiots.
D. They ordered that everyone should be awake at night and run their businesses only after dark.
15.
In each of the following questions out of the four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given word/ sentence.
A prima facie case is such
16.
Choose the word that is opposite in meaning to the given word.
17.
Direction: Select the option that is similar in meaning to the given word and mark your response accordingly.
18.
In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which will improve the highlighted part of the sentence. In case no improvement is needed, select "No Improvement".
If we had the money, we would have lent it to you
19.
Direction: Change the Narration-
The bookseller said to me, “Do you want to buy these books?"
20.
Direction: Find out which part has an error and mark it as your answer. If there is no error, mark 'No error' as your answer.
Teena decided (A) / to treat with (B) / some sweets. (C) / No error (D)
