Communication Skills in English MCQs [set-

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1. Language is a --------- subject

A. style
B. skill
C. passive
D. None of these
Answer: B

2. The word "unhappiness" consists of ---------- morphemes

A. Two
o m
B. four
. c
C. Three
te
D. five
a
Answer: C

q M
cis secondary
3. Speech is ----------- and writing
A. usual M
B. unusual
C. primary
D. open
Answer: C

4. Identify the structure: "I bought a text book

A. SVA
B. SVO
C. SVAO
D. SVOC
Answer: B

5. Identify the underlined part: "She stood under the tree

A. clause
B. phrase
 C. suffix
D. object
Answer: B

6. old grammar is
A. Descriptive
B. prescriptive
C. simple
D. None of these
Answer: B

7. The diphthong in the word "height"

A. /ei/
B. /ai/
C. /ea/
D. /i/
Answer: B

8. The vowel in the word "food"

A. /e/
B. /u:/
C. /U/
D. /i/
Answer: B

9. Tongue is a --------- articulator

A. Active
B. passive
C. creative
D. None of these
Answer: A

10. A gerund is --------------

A. verb
B. object
C. verbal noun
D. verbal adjective
Answer: C

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11. Identify the underlined word: I saw a running dog
A. verbal noun
B. present participle
C. past participle
D. All these
Answer: B

12. An example of an abstract noun is

A. death
B. eat
C. write
D. come
Answer: A

13. pick out the collective noun from the following

A. Aluminum
B. Government
C. Truth
D. Join
Answer: B

14. After dinner the mother --------- the child in the cradle
A. lied
B. laid
C. lay
D. lied
Answer: B

15. Yesterday I met ------------ European

A. an
B. a
C. on
D. of
Answer: B

16. "re" in the word "re examine"

A. suffix

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 B. prefix
C. phoneme
D. word
Answer: B

17. Affix’s are ----------- morphemes

A. Free
B. bound
C. both free and bound
D. None of these
Answer: B

18. The antonym of the word "pessimism"

A. Hopeless
B. optimism
C. mysticism
D. classicism
Answer: B

19. The variety of English that has grarnmar social prestige is ----------
A. standerd english
B. spoken english
C. written english
D. American English
Answer: A

20. Noam chomsky is a -----------

A. poet
B. grammarian
C. Novelist
D. Dramatist
Answer: B

21. In English there are ----------- phonemes

A. 24
B. 44
C. 12

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 D. 08
Answer: B

22. Identify the correct spelling

A. possesion
B. possession
C. pocession
D. possecion
Answer: B

23. I have not met him ---------- a long time

A. since
B. for
C. in
D. on
Answer: B

24. The word "branch" is an example of

A. eponym
B. blending
C. compounding
D. Affixing
Answer: B

25. Gliding vowels are

A. Diphthongs
B. pure vowels
C. morphemes
D. monopthongs
Answer: A

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