English Trivia - Preliminaries

1. Which of the following is a preposition?

• And

• Or

• With

• However

2. The most used adjective in the English language is ….

• bad

• good

• beautiful

• well

3. What ___ when I called?

• you were doing

• did you do

• you did

• were you doing

4. Which word form is not correct?

• clotheful

• clothe

• clothing

• clothed

5. Which of the following is a synonym for the word "penultimate"?

• last

• first

• second to the last

• best

6. Which of the following sentences is grammatically correct?

• Their going to the park tomorrow.

• There going to the park tomorrow.

• They're going to the park tomorrow.

• none of the above

7. What is the name for the study of the sound and structure of language?

• phonetics

• semantics

• syntax

• linguistics

8. The only students left in the classroom were the monitors, Marie and me.

      Identify the error in the sentence above.

• only students

• were the monitors

• Marie and me

• No error

9. My friend has a good ___ of English.

• expertise

• command

• efficiency

• authority

10. Nobody should think they’re above ____.

• approach

• reproach

• blame

• responsibility