BSc First Year (Sem 1 & 2) English (Compulsory) – Daily Revision MCQ (English Medium)
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In the sentence 'She sings beautifully', what part of speech is 'beautifully'?
Chapter 2: Grammar Essentials
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Answer: C. Adverb
'Beautifully' tells how she sings, so it modifies the verb and is an adverb.Which tense is used in 'I have been reading since morning'?
Chapter 3: Sentence Patterns and Tenses
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Answer: A. Present perfect continuous
'Have/has been + verb-ing' with 'since' shows an action that began in the past and is still going on.Choose the correct passive voice of: 'The boy kicked the ball.'
Chapter 4: Transformation of Sentences
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Answer: D. The ball was kicked by the boy.
Simple past active becomes 'was/were + past participle' in the passive, with the object as the new subject.In 'The Monkey's Paw', what was Mr White's first wish?
Chapter 8: The Monkey's Paw – W. W. Jacobs
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Answer: B. Two hundred pounds
He wished for two hundred pounds to pay off the house, and the money came as compensation for Herbert's death.Complete the closing lines of 'Invictus': 'I am the master of my fate, / I am the captain of my ___.'
Chapter 9: Invictus – William Ernest Henley
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Answer: C. soul
Henley ends the poem with 'I am the captain of my soul', showing an unconquered spirit.Choose the one-word substitute for 'a person who always looks on the bright side of things'.
Chapter 13: Idioms, Phrases and One-Word Substitutes
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Answer: A. Optimist
An optimist expects good outcomes; a pessimist expects the worst.What does the idiom 'a piece of cake' mean?
Chapter 13: Idioms, Phrases and One-Word Substitutes
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Answer: D. Something very easy to do
'It was a piece of cake' means the task was very easy.In Tagore's 'The Postmaster', what is the name of the orphan girl who does the postmaster's housework?
Chapter 17: The Postmaster – Rabindranath Tagore
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Answer: B. Ratan
Ratan, an orphan village girl, looks after the postmaster and grows deeply attached to him.In O. Henry's 'After Twenty Years', who is the policeman on the beat?
Chapter 18: After Twenty Years – O. Henry
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Answer: C. Jimmy Wells
Jimmy Wells recognises Bob as a man wanted in Chicago and sends a plain-clothes officer to arrest him.Complete the last line of Tennyson's 'Ulysses': 'To strive, to seek, to find, and not to ___.'
Chapter 19: Ulysses – Alfred Tennyson
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Answer: B. yield
The poem ends 'To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield', showing Ulysses' will to keep going.
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