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WBCS English PYQs: Miscellaneous English

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Question 12023

Pick out the word that is not similar to the others.

  1. Pond
  2. Water body
  3. Lake
  4. Stream
Answer: DStream
Question 22023

Choose the correct option to frame a question from the following sentence, using the appropriate punctuation— I asked him why he wasn’t in class.

  1. I asked him—”Why you not in class?”
  2. I asked him, “Why you are not in class?”
  3. I asked him: “Why you are not in class?”
  4. I asked him, “Why are you not in class?”
Answer: DI asked him, “Why are you not in class?”
Question 32023

Read the following sentences and then select the correct option. (i) One should not interfere in the personal affairs of others. (ii) The personal in that company are dissatisfied with their salaries.

  1. Only Sentence (i) is correct.
  2. Only Sentence (ii) is correct.
  3. Sentences (i) and (ii) are both correct.
  4. Sentences (i) and (ii) are both incorrect.
Answer: AOnly Sentence (i) is correct.
Question 42023

Identify the mood in the following sentence— I would surely go there if I could.

  1. Indicative mood
  2. Interrogative mood
  3. Subjunctive mood
  4. Imperative mood
Answer: CSubjunctive mood
Question 52023

Correctly change the following sentence to the active voice, using the appropriate punctuation— My daughter expressed her preference for History over English.

  1. My daughter says ‘I prefer History over English.’
  2. My daughter said, “I prefer History over English.”
  3. My daughter tells — ‘I prefer History over English.’
  4. My daughter told, “I prefer History over English.”
Answer: BMy daughter said, “I prefer History over English.”
Question 62023

Which of the following is an auxiliary verb?

  1. Look
  2. Can
  3. Take
  4. Do
Answer: BCan
Question 72023

Choose the option that correctly changes the following sentence into indirect speech— He said, “I will go there tomorrow.”

  1. He said that I will go there tomorrow.
  2. He told that he shall go there tomorrow.
  3. He said that he will go there after today.
  4. He said that he would go there the next day.
Answer: DHe said that he would go there the next day.
Question 82022

Find the correctly spelled word. (practice, try-out, read-through)

  1. Reharsal
  2. Rehersal
  3. Rehearsal
  4. Rehearsel
Answer: CRehearsal
Question 92022

What parts of speech is the word ‘Adjective’?

  1. Pronoun
  2. Noun
  3. Adjective
  4. Adverb
Answer: BNoun
Question 102022

What type of sentence is ‘Do or Die’?

  1. Simple
  2. Complex
  3. Exclamatory
  4. Compound
Answer: DCompound
Question 112022

Which one is the plural number? (a group of former male student)

  1. Index
  2. Alumni
  3. Hypothesis
  4. Analysis
Answer: BAlumni
Question 122022

“I have done my duty.” Which tense is this?

  1. Present Indefinite
  2. Present Perfect
  3. Past Perfect
  4. Past Indefinite
Answer: BPresent Perfect
Question 132022

It has been established that (P) Einstein was (Q) although a great scientist (R) weak in arithmetic (S) right from his school days To form a correct and meaningful sentence, the proper sequence should be:

  1. (Q) (P) (R) (S)
  2. (P) (R) (S) (Q)
  3. (P) (S) (Q) (R)
  4. (Q) (P) (S) (R)
Answer: A(Q) (P) (R) (S)
Question 142022

What is the most appropriate passive form of “Who has done the work?” ?

  1. Who has been done the work?
  2. By whom has been done the work?
  3. Whom has done the work by?
  4. By whom has the work been done?
Answer: DBy whom has the work been done?
Question 152021

Convert the given sentence into an interrogative sentence: I will meet you tomorrow.

  1. Where will you meet me ?
  2. How will you meet me ?
  3. Will you meet me ?
  4. When will you meet me ?
Answer: DWhen will you meet me ?
Question 162021

Add a suitable prefix to form the opposite of the word ‘capable’

  1. Uncapable
  2. Noncapable
  3. Ill-capable
  4. Incapable
Answer: DIncapable
Question 172021

Select the correct spelling: (housing, living quarters)

  1. Accommodition
  2. Accommodation
  3. Accomodation
  4. Acommodation
Answer: BAccommodation
Question 182021

Which is the correct sentence ?

  1. An one-eyed person was seen roaming about the streets.
  2. A one-eyed person was seen roaming about the streets.
  3. The one eyed person was seen roaming about the streets.
  4. One-eyed person was seen roaming about the streets.
Answer: BA one-eyed person was seen roaming about the streets.
Question 192021

The past tense of ‘rewind’ is

  1. rewinded
  2. rewounded
  3. rewound
  4. none of the above
Answer: Crewound
Question 202020

Which complex form is correct for the following sentence? ‘Everyone is happy during Christmas celebration.’

  1. When Christmas celebrations occur everyone is happy.
  2. During Christmas celebration everyone is happy.
  3. Everyone during Christmas celebration is happy.
  4. Happy is everyone when Christmas celebration occurred.
Answer: AWhen Christmas celebrations occur everyone is happy.
Question 212020

Choose the correct indirect statement. He said, “grass is green.”

  1. He told that grass is green.
  2. He told that grass was green.
  3. He told that grass had been green.
  4. He told that grass will always be green.
Answer: AHe told that grass is green.
Question 222020

Correct passive form of the following sentence ‘Orange tastes sour’

  1. Orange is tasted sour.
  2. Orange is sour after tasting.
  3. Orange is sour when tasted.
  4. Orange is tasted as sour.
Answer: COrange is sour when tasted.
Question 232020

Convert the given sentence into an interrogative sentence and see below for the correct option : “Honesty is the best policy”

  1. Is honesty the best policy ?
  2. Is not honesty the best policy ?
  3. Is honesty not the best policy ?
  4. Why is honesty the best policy ?
Answer: BIs not honesty the best policy ?
Question 242019

Correct the following sentence. We had gone to the movies last night.

  1. We had had gone to the movies last night.
  2. We went to the movies last night.
  3. We should have gone to the movies last night.
  4. We have gone to the movies last night.
Answer: BWe went to the movies last night.
Question 252019

Which is the correct form of the given sentence They discussed about the matter.

  1. They had discussed about the matter.
  2. They should have discussed about the matter.
  3. They discussed the matter.
  4. The given sentence is correct.
Answer: CThey discussed the matter.
Question 262019

Change the voice of the verb. ‘The script is being written.’

  1. The script will have to be written.
  2. Write the script.
  3. They are writing the script.
  4. They have been writing the script.
Answer: CThey are writing the script.
Question 272019

Convert the given sentence into an interrogative sentence: I will meet you at the train station.

  1. When will you meet me ?
  2. How will you meet me ?
  3. Where will you meet me ?
  4. Can’t you meet me ?
Answer: CWhere will you meet me ?
Question 282019

Convert this to a simple sentence. She wanted to go on vacation, so she saved money.

  1. As she wanted to go on vacation she saved money.
  2. She saved money for vacation.
  3. She wanted to go on vacation and saved her money.
  4. Although she saved her money, she wanted to go on vacation.
Answer: BShe saved money for vacation.
Question 292019

Convert the given sentence into a simple sentence: Pancakes are delicious but not without syrup.

  1. Pancakes are delicious when served with syrup.
  2. Pancakes are delicious only with syrup.
  3. If served with syrup, pancakes are delicious.
  4. None of the above
Answer: BPancakes are delicious only with syrup.
Question 302018

Marble may be used with

  1. Painting
  2. Music
  3. Rocks
  4. Sculpture
Answer: DSculpture
Question 312018

‘Regret’ may be expressed by the following interjection:

  1. Alas!
  2. Hush!
  3. Bravo!
  4. Hurrah!
Answer: AAlas!
Question 322017

Sorrow may be expressed by the following interjection:

  1. Hurrah!
  2. Bravo!
  3. Oh!
  4. Alas!
Answer: DAlas!
Question 332016

‘Surprise’ may be expressed by the following interjection:

  1. Hush!
  2. Alas!
  3. Ha!
  4. Bravo!
Answer: CHa!
Question 342015

‘Approval’ may be expressed by the following Interjection:

  1. Ha!
  2. Hush!
  3. Bravo!
  4. Hurrah !
Answer: CBravo!
Question 352015

A stoic person can : (who can endure pain)

  1. Entice
  2. Endure (undergo, go through)
  3. Excite
  4. Enable
Answer: BEndure (undergo, go through)
Question 362014

The word ‘Pride’ is also used to describe a group of

  1. Tigers
  2. Elephants
  3. Lions
  4. Hyenas
Answer: CLions
Question 372012

‘Thespian art’ refers to

  1. The art of tragedy
  2. The art of history
  3. The art of story telling
  4. Tribal art
Answer: AThe art of tragedy
Question 382010

Detect where the adjective “public” is used in a derogatory sense :

  1. Public house
  2. Public Woman
  3. Public servant
  4. Public speech
Answer: BPublic Woman
Question 392010

A duck is a bird, but to duck is

  1. To feel shy
  2. To refuse
  3. To abandon
  4. To avoid
Answer: DTo avoid
Question 402010

Baptism by fire means—

  1. A fire-fighting act
  2. A bad beginning in the first job
  3. A difficult introduction to an experience
  4. A religious experience
Answer: CA difficult introduction to an experience
Question 412008

To be very busy is to be as busy a

  1. Squirrel
  2. Bee
  3. Duck
  4. Mouse
Answer: BBee
Question 422008

Someone having a weak memory is said to have a mind/memory like a

  1. Sieve (strainer, filter)
  2. Soap
  3. Screw
  4. Stream
Answer: ASieve (strainer, filter)
Question 432008

A homophone for the word whole will be

  1. Hole
  2. Roll
  3. Wholesome
  4. Whale
Answer: AHole
Question 442008

A soporific speech would tend to (sleep-inducing)

  1. Put one to sleep
  2. Stimulate action
  3. Appeal primarily to emotions
  4. Be incomprehensible
Answer: APut one to sleep
Question 452008

The idiosyncrasies of a professor must not include

  1. Eccentricities (unconventionality, unorthodoxy)
  2. Flaws
  3. Oddities
  4. Topicalities
Answer: AEccentricities (unconventionality, unorthodoxy)
Question 462005

To refuse is to deny but used as a noun the word can mean

  1. Garbage
  2. Dust
  3. Prohibition
  4. Fuel
Answer: AGarbage
Question 472004

The boy has mendacious habits. (untruthful, dishonest, false)

  1. Stealing habits
  2. Lying tendencies
  3. Prone to begging
  4. Over-critical habits
Answer: BLying tendencies
Question 482003

It is obvious that he greatly hates his new colleague in office.

  1. Dislikes
  2. Abhors (detest, hate)
  3. Admires
  4. Adores
Answer: BAbhors (detest, hate)
Question 492003

The musk rose attracted a large number of bees. (crowd, horde, mob)

  1. Swarm
  2. Flock
  3. Pack
  4. Group
Answer: ASwarm
Question 502003

They began the clean-up campaign discarding these. (throw away, throw out)

  1. Throwing them off
  2. Throwing them over
  3. Throwing them out
  4. Throwing them up
Answer: CThrowing them out
Question 512002

“Concrete” is a substance used to erect buildings but “concrete” can also mean

  1. Solid fact
  2. Reason
  3. Argument
  4. Essay
Answer: ASolid fact
Question 522002

A “transparent” object allows us clear vision but “a transparent person” is one who is

  1. Scrupulously honest
  2. Smiling
  3. Pleasing
  4. Clever
Answer: AScrupulously honest
Question 532000

“Gravity” can mean the pull of the earth and also

  1. Fear
  2. Thickness
  3. Seriousness
  4. Fame
Answer: CSeriousness
Question 542000

“Industry” can mean production in factories and also

  1. Invention
  2. Commerce
  3. Ingenuity
  4. Hard work
Answer: DHard work
Question 552000

Deliberate disruption of work

  1. Sabotage (destroy, obstruct)
  2. Devastation
  3. Terrorism
  4. Violence
Answer: ASabotage (destroy, obstruct)
Question 562000

Goods prohibited by law

  1. Smuggling
  2. Contraband (smuggling, illegal traffic)
  3. Narcotics
  4. Excise
Answer: BContraband (smuggling, illegal traffic)
Question 572000

In deep thought

  1. Ponderous
  2. Pensive (thoughtful, thinking)
  3. Philosophical
  4. Perturbed
Answer: BPensive (thoughtful, thinking)
Question 581999

Mr. Advani announced that he would soon release a white paper on the activities of the I.S.I.

  1. A government announcement
  2. A party notice
  3. A party report party notice
  4. A government report
Answer: DA government report
Question 591999

After years of service as managing director Mr. X prefers to take a back seat now.

  1. To retire
  2. To control covertly
  3. To play an unimportant role or a less important role than before
  4. To be completely immobilized
Answer: CTo play an unimportant role or a less important role than before
Question 601999

The trade union leader, after much deliberation, ordered a work to rule for their workers.

  1. Going back to work
  2. An abstaining from work
  3. Strict following of the rules laid down for the job and thus slowing down the pace of the work
  4. Taking up the full work load
Answer: CStrict following of the rules laid down for the job and thus slowing down the pace of the work
Question 611999

Things had come to such a head that immediate action was necessary.

  1. Reached a deadlock
  2. Reached a crisis
  3. Reached a happy ending
  4. Reached a tragic ending
Answer: BReached a crisis
Question 621999

It is not for a political person to go much against the wind.

  1. Air
  2. Surroundings
  3. A spiral
  4. Breeze
Answer: BSurroundings

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