AD (Town Planning) • General English
Shall I go to visit the patient tomorrow? (Identify the tense)
A)
Future Indefinite tense
B)
Future Perfect tense
C)
Interrogative form of Future Indefinite tense
D)
Interrogative Future tense
Shall I go... is Future Indefinite (shall go) in interrogative form.
AD (Town Planning) • General English
After lunch, let’s go out for a coffee. (Identify part of speech for 'After')
A)
Pronoun
B)
Adverb
C)
Preposition
D)
Conjunction
After lunch, 'After' governs lunch, so preposition showing time.
AD (Town Planning) • General English
Which of the following is an adjective?
A)
Shirt
B)
Brown
C)
Colour
D)
Call
Brown describes colour, functions as adjective; Shirt/Colour are nouns, Call is verb.
AD (Town Planning) • General English
I am sure I’ve met your parents before. (Identify part of speech for 'met')
A)
Verb
B)
Adverb
C)
Noun
D)
Pronoun
met is past of meet, action word: Verb.
AD (Town Planning) • General English
You will be having your lunch at noon. (Identify the tense)
A)
Future Continuous tense
B)
Future Perfect tense
C)
Future Indefinite tense
D)
Future Perfect Continuous tense
will be having = Future Continuous tense structure.
AD (Town Planning) • General English
Which of the following is an adverb?
A)
Smart
B)
Short
C)
Stand
D)
Soon
Soon modifies verb/time, so adverb; Smart/Short are adjectives, Stand is verb.
AD (Town Planning) • General English
What is the adjective form of ‘belief’?
A)
Believe
B)
Believing
C)
Believable
D)
Believably
Adjective form of belief is believable (also believing as participle; believable is correct adjective).
AD (Town Planning) • General English
Which among the following is not a verb?
A)
Grab
B)
Trap
C)
Wrap
D)
Make
Grab, Wrap, Make are clearly verbs; Trap is primarily noun though also verb; exam expects Trap as not verb. All are usable as verbs but Trap listed as exception.
AD (Town Planning) • General English
What is the adverb form of ‘accept’?
A)
Acceptance
B)
Acceptably
C)
Acceptable
D)
Accept
Adverb form of accept is acceptably (from acceptable + ly).
AD (Town Planning) • General English
Identify the sentence that does not have an Interjection.
A)
Hey! Look out for the car.
B)
Oh! Ihave a really bad headache.
C)
That was indeed a great movie!
D)
Ouch! You stepped on my toes.
Hey, Oh, Ouch are interjections; 'That was indeed a great movie!' has no interjection, indeed is adverb.
AD (Town Planning) • General English
Choose the nearest opposite in meaning for the word ‘stimulates’.
I)
Manage
II)
Vibrate
III)
Dedicate
IV)
Prevents
Options missing; stimulates means encourages; opposite is discourages/inhibits/deters. Assuming A is discourage. Marked with uncertainty.
AD (Town Planning) • General English
My neighbour wants to go to a university in the United States. (Identify part of speech for 'university')
A)
Noun
B)
Pronoun
C)
Adjective
D)
Adverb
University is a place noun; object of 'to'.
AD (Town Planning) • General English
Nikko M., who always wears a hat will be joining us this year. (Identify the underlined part: 'who always wears a hat')
A)
Noun clause
B)
Noun phrase
C)
Adjective clause
D)
Adjective phrase
who always wears a hat modifies Nikko M. with relative clause: Adjective clause (non-restrictive).
AD (Town Planning) • General English
He was a true math _______ and at the same time a virtuoso storyteller.
A)
pseudo
B)
super
C)
contra
D)
poly
Polymath = person with wide knowledge; He was a true math polymath and storyteller fits.
AD (Town Planning) • General English
What is the noun form of ‘restrict’?
A)
Restriction
B)
Restricted
C)
Restricting
D)
Restrictive
Noun form of restrict is restriction.
AD (Town Planning) • General English
Which of the following word is not a pronoun?
A)
Me
B)
Himself
C)
Themselves
D)
Reflexive
Me, Himself, Themselves are pronouns; Reflexive is a category/type, not a pronoun itself.
AD (Town Planning) • General English
The cat has been chasing the rats for an hour. (Identify the tense)
A)
The Perfect Continuous tense
B)
Present Perfect Continuous tense
C)
Past Perfect Continuous tense
D)
Past Continuous tense
has been chasing for an hour = Present Perfect Continuous tense.
AD (Town Planning) • General English
The students _______ the teacher on teacher’s day for twenty years of dedicated teaching.
A)
Fecilitated
B)
Felicitated
C)
Fantasized
D)
Fecilitate
Felicitated = honoured; correct spelling Felicitated, Fecilitated is wrong.
AD (Town Planning) • General English
What is the verb form of ‘expansion’?
A)
Expandable
B)
Expand
C)
Expanding
D)
Expansionist
Verb form of expansion is expand.
AD (Town Planning) • General English
What is the noun form of ‘energize’?
A)
Energy
B)
Energetic
C)
Energetically
D)
Enertia
Noun form of energize among given options is energy (technically energization).
AD (Town Planning) • General English
What is the noun form of ‘protect’?
A)
Protective
B)
Protectiveness
C)
Protection
D)
Protect
Noun form of protect is protection.
AD (Town Planning) • General English
Find the correctly spelt word from the following.
A)
Crystllization
B)
Controvertial
C)
Rehabilitation
D)
Interogation
Correct spelling is Rehabilitation; other spellings: Crystallization, Controversial, Interrogation.
AD (Town Planning) • General English
Were they not waiting for you anxiously? (Identify the tense)
A)
Negative Interrogative form of Continuous tense.
B)
Negative Interrogative form of Past Continuous tense
C)
Interrogative form of Past tense.
D)
Negative Interrogative form of Past tense.
Were + not + waiting = past continuous 'were waiting' with negative and interrogative. So Negative Interrogative Past Continuous.
AD (Town Planning) • General English
If we finish our work quickly, we can go to the movies. (Identify part of speech for 'If')
A)
Conjunction
B)
Adjective
C)
Adverb
D)
Verb
If introduces conditional clause, functions as subordinating conjunction.
AD (Town Planning) • General English
I saw a long dress at the mall. (Identify part of speech for 'long')
A)
Preposition
B)
Adjective
C)
Noun
D)
Pronoun
Long describes noun dress, functioning as adjective.
