ENGLISH LANGUAGE QUIZ

Choose the underlined word which has a different vowel sound.

• A

• B

• C

• D

Mr Smith, my next door neighbor, is the most _____ man I know. Every year, he invites everyone to his birthday party.

• agile

• hostile

• affectionate

• miserable

Peter drove his car _______ into the bridge and damaged it.

• merrily

• carefully

• recklessly

• cautiously

The ball belongs to Alex. The ball is

• hers

• his

• mine

• its

• his's

Neither Mr Joseph _____ his children are going to attend the party.

• or

• aren't

• not

• nor

Choose the correct preposition to make the sentence complete and correct.

She came _____ with a brilliant suggestion at the conference.

• on

• of

• out

• after

Choose the function of the underlined word in the sentence below.

Spectators screamed in excitement as the muscular batsman struck the ball

and it flew to the boundary.

• Noun

• Adjective

• Verb

• Pronoun

Choose the sentence in which the comma is correctly used.

• If you join, the reading club, you can win, stickers, pencils and books.

• If you join the reading club you can win stickers, pencils and books.

• If you join the reading club you can win stickers, pencils and books.

• If you join the reading club, you can win stickers pencils and books.

The phrase "retraced his steps" in line 4 means that Omari

• Drew his footsteps on the road.

• Walked the route that he took before.

• Walked a different route from the first one.

• Looked for his footsteps and walked in them.

In which of the following sentences does the reader learn that Omari was scared?

• He could hear himself breathing heavily as she approached him.

• He retraced his steps to the head of his street.

• It was nowhere to be found.

• She looked angry.