📌 30-Item English Grammar Test

Instructions: Choose the correct answer for each question.

1. Sentence Structure
1. Which of the following is a simple sentence?
a. The sun shines brightly.
b. The sun shines, and the birds sing.
c. The flowers bloom because it is spring.
d. The teacher gave a lecture because the students needed clarification, and they took
notes carefully.
2. What is the correct definition of a compound sentence?
a. A sentence with only one independent clause.
b. A sentence with one independent clause and at least one dependent clause.
c. A sentence with two independent clauses joined by a conjunction.
d. A sentence with multiple dependent clauses.
3. Identify the complex sentence:
a. She studies hard.
b. She studies hard, and she gets good grades.
c. She studies hard because she wants to pass the exam.
d. She studies hard, but she also enjoys sports.
2. Subject-Verb Agreement
4. Which sentence has correct subject-verb agreement?
a. The teacher and the students attends the seminar.
b. The manager and the employees attend the meeting.
c. Either the boys or the girl are responsible.
d. Everybody love ice cream.
5. Choose the correct sentence:
a. Many has submitted their projects.
b. Everyone have a chance to win.
c. Neither of the options is available.
d. The cats or the dog are making noise.
3. Verb Tenses
6. Which sentence is in the past simple tense?
a. She will go to school.
b. She is going to school.
c. She went to school.
d. She goes to school.
7. Identify the present perfect tense:
a. She teaches English.
b. She has taught for five years.
c. She taught English last year.
d. She will have taught by next year.
8. Which sentence is in future continuous tense?
a. She will be studying at 8 PM.
b. She will study later.
c. She studies every night.
d. She is studying now.
4. Articles (a, an, the)
9. Choose the correct article:
a. She saw ___ elephant at the zoo.
o A) a
o B) an
o C) the
o D) no article
10. Identify the correct sentence:
a. He is a honest man.
b. He is an honest man.
c. He is the honest man.
d. He is honest man.
5. Pronoun Usage
11. Choose the correct sentence:
a. Me and her went to the store.
b. She and I went to the store.
c. Her and I went to the store.
d. Me and she went to the store.
12. Identify the possessive pronoun in this sentence:
That book is mine.
a. That
b. Book
c. Is
d. Mine
6. Adjective and Adverb Usage
13. Choose the correct sentence:
a. He speaks slow.
b. He speaks slowly.
c. He speaks more slow.
d. He speaks slower.
14. Identify the adjective in this sentence:
She wore a beautiful dress.
a. She
b. Wore
c. Beautiful
d. Dress
7. Commonly Confused Words
15. Choose the correct sentence:
a. Their going to the mall.
b. They’re going to the mall.
c. There going to the mall.
d. They're house is near.
16. Identify the correct sentence:
a. Its raining outside.
b. It’s raining outside.
c. Its' raining outside.
d. It raining outside.
8. Capitalization Rules
17. Choose the correctly capitalized sentence:
a. My Birthday is in December.
b. My birthday is in december.
c. My birthday is in December.
d. my Birthday is In December.
18. Which sentence follows capitalization rules?
a. The doctor smith is a great physician.
b. The Doctor Smith is a great physician.
c. Dr. Smith is a great physician.
d. dr. smith is a great Physician.
9. Punctuation Rules
19. Identify the correctly punctuated sentence:
a. She bought apples oranges and bananas.
b. She bought apples, oranges and bananas.
c. She bought, apples oranges, and bananas.
d. She bought apples, oranges, and bananas.
20. Choose the correct use of an apostrophe:
a. The students book is missing.
b. The student's book is missing.
c. The students' book is missing.
d. The student book's is missing.
10. Prepositions
21. Choose the correct sentence:
a. I was born on 1995.
b. I was born in 1995.
c. I was born at 1995.
d. I was born for 1995.
22. Select the correct preposition:
a. She is waiting at the bus stop.
b. She is waiting in the bus stop.
c. She is waiting on the bus stop.
d. She is waiting to the bus stop.
11. Sentence Errors to Avoid
23. Which sentence is a fragment?
a. Because she was late.
b. She was late because of traffic.
c. She arrived late.
d. She was late, but she apologized.
24. Identify the run-on sentence:
a. I like coffee. I drink it every day.
b. I like coffee, so I drink it every day.
c. I like coffee I drink it every day.
d. I like coffee and tea.
12. Active vs. Passive Voice
25. Which sentence is in active voice?
a. The cake was baked by the chef.
 b. The chef baked the cake.
c. The cake is being baked.
d. The cake had been baked.
26. Identify the passive voice:
a. The students completed the project.
b. The project was completed by the students.
c. The students are completing the project.
d. The students have completed the project.
13. Proper Use of "IN," "ON," and "AT"
27. Choose the correct sentence:
a. We will meet in 5 PM.
b. We will meet at 5 PM.
c. We will meet on 5 PM.
d. We will meet by 5 PM.
28. Identify the correct preposition:
a. She walked in the store.
b. She walked into the store.
c. She walked at the store.
d. She walked to the store.
29. Select the correct sentence:
a. The keys are in the table.
b. The keys are on the table.
c. The keys are at the table.
d. The keys are next to table.
30. Which is correct?
a. The food is on the fridge.
b. The food is in the fridge.
c. The food is at the fridge.
d. The food is over the fridge.