Welcome to your SSC English Practice Set 3
1.
Identify the segment in the sentence, which contains the grammatical error.
He is elder than all other employees in this office.
2.
Select the correct indirect form of the given sentence.
The doctor said to Anita, “Are you feeling better now?”
3.
Change the voice of the given sentence.
The principal discovered a new lake.
4.
In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which will improve the underlined part of the sentence. In case no improvement is needed, select “No improvement”.
Either Ravindra or his friends has joined the club.
5.
Direction: Choose the word which is most nearly the SAME in meaning as the word printed in Bold.
6.
Direction: Choose the word, which is the antonym of the word printed in bold.
7.
In the following question, out of the given four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/Phrase.
8.
Choose the closest meaning:
State of recurring again and again
9.
Out of the given alternatives in below given items, choose the correct one reflecting meaning.
A thing which easily catches fire.
10.
In the given question, four words are given out of which one word is correctly spelt. Choose the correctly spelt word
11.
Select the most appropriate word to fill in the blank in the given sentence.
The state and its autocracy always abandoned its _______ poor.
12.
Given below are four jumbled sentences. Select the option that gives their correct order.
A. After some time a flock of pigeons comes by and starts eating grains and gets caught in the net.
B. They flew away to their friend’s mouse hole, then the mouse cuts the net and freed the pigeons.
C. One day a hunter sets a net to catch birds and placed grains and rice over the net.
D. After some time they started losing hope, then their leader asks them to fly together up in the sky.
13.
Select the most appropriate word to fill in the blank in the given sentence.
The Hubble Space Telescope will search for planets around the stars, a key to the ________ for extraterrestrial life, and examine interstellar dust and gases out of which stars are born
14.
In the given question, four words are given out of which one word is correctly spelt. Choose the correctly spelt word.
15.
In the following question, out of the given four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/Phrase.
16.
Given below are four jumbled sentences. Select the option that gives their correct order.
A. Agriculture is a primary activity, which produces most of the food that we consume.
B. India is an agriculturally important country.
C. Besides food grains, it also produces raw materials for various industries.
D. Two-thirds of its population is engaged in agricultural activities.
17.
Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.
18.
Direction: Choose the word, which is the antonym of the word printed in bold
19.
Identify the segment in the sentence, which contains the grammatical error.
Although it was raining, but we went for a walk.
20.
In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which will improve the underlined part of the sentence. In case no improvement is needed, select “No improvement”.
He always obeys his parents who show his loyalty.
