Match the underlined words in Column A with their parts of speech in Column Band select the correct answer from the options given below:
Column A                                      ColumnB
(a) He walks quickly                      1. Subject
(b) Reena taught him Hindi        2. Object
(c) Rani ate ice cream                   3. Verb
(d) Radha is a doctor                    4. Compliment

Choose correct prepositions from the options given :
____________ the cupboard, very ___________ the wall, there is a narrow gap, ________ which a few charts .have been kept.

Identify the sentence pattern :
One of the boys had been singing well.

Which of the following phrasal verbs suits the given sentence?
_________ your bad habits.

Identify the incorrect sentence from the following:

Find out the correct sentence:

Find out the correct question tag:
"She goes to school by van"

Which of the following sentences is wrong?

Choose the correct 'Synonym' of the underlined word from the given options.
Sivasubramania Iyer's wife was very conservative.

What is "Possessive Adjectives"?

Match the following identifying the phrase to complete the sentence and mark the correct code:
Column A                                          ColumnB
(a) The cream Cake is                     1. harder and harder
(b) The new sweets are                  2. more expensive
(c) The new waiters are                 3. so costly
(d) It is getting                                4. better

Find out the sentence where gerund is used:

"If you can't be a highway, just be a trail,
If you can't be the Sun, be a Star;
It is not the si~e that you win or you fail
Be the Best of whatever you are! ..... "
The Rhyme Scheme in the above-given lines is......

The Giant's final journey was to

"The attainment of a developed status by 2020 does not mean that we can. then rest on our laurels"
Laurels mean

"To my immediate right the Nanda Pal glacier slopes down sharply _________ of course for the fact that ends in a cold and menacing snout-with icy waters flowing below".
In the given passage the word menacing means

Match the British English words under Column A with their American English equivalents under Column B and choose the correct code.
Column A                                     Column B
(a) chips                                       1. garbage can
(b) dtj.stbin                                 2. jelly
(c) jam                                          3. guy
(d) fellow                                     4. french fries

The American English equivalent of the word 'washbasin' is

The first step in the.road to success, according to Edwin C Bliss, is to

Gopala Krishna Gokhale was

"Or, all day, we drive the wheels of iron
In the factories, round and round"
In which poem do these lines occur?

Which of the following is not a poem?

"I won't look down. No I will not
With speed of wings I hasten past".
In whose poem do the following lines occur?

The Poem 'Laugh and be Merry' is written by

What is the theme observed in the story "The mark of Vishnu"?

Walt Whitman wrote the poem "O Captain! My Captain!" as a dirge for the death of

Identify the figure of speech used in the following poetic line.
In the world's broad field of battle

"A note as from a single place,
A slender tinkling fall that made"
These above lines occur in the poem

Match the names of the poets under column A with the names of the poems., under column B and choose the correct code.
Column A                                                                Column B
(a) Thomas Hardy                                               1.  My Grandmother's house
(b) Elizabeth Barrett Browning                        2. Piano
(c) D.R. Lawrence                                                3. The Cry of the Children
(d) Kamala Surayya                                             4. The Man He Killed

Which of the following is a poem?
Choose the right answ~r from the options given below.

In the poem "Migrant Bird" the poet contrasts the life of a migrant bird with that of the

Which of the following is a drama?

In which of the poem the following line occurs?
"And You 0 my soul where you stand"

Which of the following lines belongs to "Robert Frost"?

Select the correct answer from the options given below :
A statement tells something. But actually it means the opposite is known as

Who among the following is a Bengali poet and has won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913?

During the Sepoy Mutiny, the queen who fought against ~he British was

Which of the following literary works exhibits the theme of optimism?

Which of the following is not a Prose?

Which of the following works is not a poem?

Whose autobiography is named "Wings of Fire"?

Identify the nationality of the author, of the story "The Lottery Ticket".

Match the characters under Column 'B' with the relevant story titles under Column 'A'.

Column A                                        Column B
(a) The Necklace                             1. Behrman
(b) Lottery Ticket                           2. Morissot
(c) The Last Leaf                            3. Matilda
(d) Two friends                              4. Masha

Match the short stories with the authors:
(a) Swami and the Sam          1. Mackinlay Kantor
(b) Sam                                      2. Rex Coker
(c) A man who had no eyes    3. Tammy Ruggles ..
(d) A Close Encounter             4. R.K. Narayan

Identify the author who uttered the following sentence :
"Man is born free but is everywhere in chains".

From the given options, choose the poet who has written "Don't Quit"

Match the folk arts under Column A with their states under Column B :

Column A                                              Column B
(a) Bihu                                             1. TamilNadu
(b) Dandya Das                               2. Maharashtra
(c) Kolattam                                     3. Assam
(d) Tamasha                                    4. Gujarat

Which one of the following pairs is matched correctly?

Which of the following is adapted from a short story written by Oscar Wilde?

Match the characters given under Column 'A' with the stories given under Column 'B' and select the correct option from those given below :
Column A                                        Column B
(a) Vera                                            1. Holiday
(b) Johnsy                                       2. The Last Leaf
(c) Phatik Chakrabarthi               3. The Selfish Giant
(d) The Cornish Ogre                   4. Open Window

Which of the following sentences are in active voice?
I. They sing songs in the assembly.
II. A notice was sent by the manager.
III. You gave him your pen.
IV. He has built a house in his native place.

Match the sentences in Column A with Column B and select the correct answer from the options given:
Column A                                                                  Column B
(a) I lost my purse                                                      1. Compound Sentence
(b) A book was written by Meera                            2. Active Voice
(c) The mountain is very steep and                        3. Complex Sentence
I cannot climb it
(d) Though he is old, he walks quickly                  4. Passive Voice

Choose the correct antonyms for the underlined word.
Knowledge is an exacting mistress.

Fill in the blanks with suitable articles :

_____________ Woodcock flies from Himalayas to _____________ Nilgiris without _____________ pause.

Find the sentence from options given, which is in proper Reported Speech form

Identify the simple sentence from the given options:

Identify the gerund form from the options given below:

Blend the following words and select the correct codes given below :
(a) handy                                         1. pen
(b) fountain                                    2. music
(c) kilo                                             3. cam
(d) pop                                            4. gram

Identify the past perfect tense from the options given below:

Find the odd ONE from the following sentences:

Identify the character who is n.ot portrayed in 'The Merchant of Venice'.

Fluttering and twittering are the admirable actions of birds. Here twittering means

Match the following suffixes with the rootward and mark the codes given below:

Column A                                               Column B
(a) migrate                                            1. ment
(b) notice                                              2. ern
(c) north                                               3. ion
(d) excite                                              4. able

Match the following phrases/idioms given under Column A with their meanings under Column B and select the correct ans~er from the codes given below :
Column A                                                  Column B
(a) to cash in on                                         1. tell me what you are thinking about
(b) as good as gold                                    2. a very slim chance
(c) a chance in a million                          3. to take advantage
(d) a penny for your thoughts                4. very well behaved

'Which of the following plural forms is correct?

Will no one tell me what she sings?
Perhaps the plaintive n umbers flow _________ "She" refers to

"The reddest flower would look as pale as snow for, all day, we drag our burden tiring".
Mention the figure of speech employed in the above lines.

Hugh Erskine got ________ pounds as his wedding present from Baron Hausberg.

When Gangadhar Rao married the Rani of Jhonsi, she was only ____________ years old.

Read the passage arid select the correct answer from the options given below :
The selfish giant in the short story of Oscar Wilde, finally longs for

"Envy is ignorance and imitation is suicide"
The above are the words of

Which of the following is a poem?

"The duty to Yourself is two fold", said

___________ said, "Don't let anyone tell you 'You can't do it!"

The speech in response to the student's address was rendered by Gokhale at the Victoria Hall in

Read the lines and select the correct answer from the options given below
"How often I think of going there, to peer through ....... "
Where does Kamala Surayya think of going?

What is the name of the British born poetess who wrote "Women's Rights"?

Identify the odd pair

Identify the poem in which the following lines occur
'You loved me with a never-failing love
You gave me strength and sweet security'

The Monolith, Yaanai Malai looks like an elephant only when it is viewed from this direction

"I was not born for one corner, the whole world is my native land" .
Who said this?

What is the theme of the poem, 'A Psalm of Life'?

The theme portrayed in Elizabeth Barret Browning's poem "The Cry of the Children" is

David Herbert Lawrence occupies a unique position among the leading _________ of England.

Match the poems in Column A with the poets in Column B:

Column A                                              Column B
(a) Solitary Reaper                               1. Khalil Gibran
(b) Is Life but a Dream?                     2. D.H. Lawrence
(c) The Earth                                        3. Lewis Carroll
(d) Snake                                               4. William Wordsworth

Which of the following is not a poem?

Fill in the blank from the options given below:
ZIP codes are a system of Postal code used by _________ postal service.

How old is the Brihadeesvarar Temple?

Choose th e best answer and complete the sentence :
"Girl Star" a UNICEF project is a series of __________

Complete the sentence choosing the correct answer:
Mr. Parsons is the character found in the lesson

Match the following phrasal verbs with their meanings :

Column A                                                   Column B
(a) Look after                                         1. Wear
(b) Put on                                               2. Take care of
(c) Keep on                                            3. Cancelled
(d) Called off                                         4. Continue

Robert Frost who wrote the poem "Going For Water" is from

Rabindranath Tagore won the _______ for his 'Gitanjali'.

Olivier Messiaen composed the

One morning the giant was lying awake in bed and he heard some lovely music of a bird.
The bird was

Khalil Gibran is from

The .line, "It blesseth him that gives and him that takes". Occurs in the play

Who among the poets given below, is not from England?

To which nationality does the poet Walt Whitman belong?

"Empoli is a town in central __________".