Grammar Usages

Complete the following sentences with suitable alternatives.

Q-1 I cannot understand ……..he will complete this work.
(a) Which
(b) Who
(c) When
(d) How

Q-2 She refused to go out with me ……..she was willing.
(a) Even
(b) Although
(c) Yet
(d) As

Q-3 What will happen ……she decides not to answer your telephone call?
(a) Why
(b) After
(c) Before
(d) If

Q-4 I shall go by the train ……..levees Delhi at I. P.M.
(a) Which
(b) As
(c) When
(d) If It

Q-5 He met a girl ………Color was fair.
(a) Of which
(b) Who
(c) Which
(d) Whose

Q-6 It is time to know ……he told me?
(a) So that
(b) Lest
(c) Unless
(d) When

Q-7 I wonder ……she is going to pass this year.
(a) It
(b) that
(c) Then
(d) When

Q-8 She behaved ….. she were insane.
(a) If
(b) As though
(c) Whom
(d) Who

Q-9 She had waited long ……..her husband returned.
(a) Before
(b) After
(c) Till
(d) If

Q-10 She is as intelligent …..her mother is.
(a) Like
(b) As
(c) So
(d) About

Q-11 She will not wait ……her brother has returned
(a) By
(b) After
(c) Before
(d) For

Q-12 ……..I you, I would help him.
(a) Had
(b) Were
(c) Should
(d) Would

Q-13 I know all ……..you know.
(a) That
(b) What
(c) Whom
(d) Which

Q-14 ………..intelligent he may be, can’t pass.
(a) However
(b) If
(c) Even if
(d) What so ever

Q-15 He found beauty ………he went.
(a) Wherever
(b) Whenever
(c) There
(b) When

Q-16 She came in looking ………she had seen a ghost.
(a) If
(b) As if
(c) Even
(d) As

Q-17 She is taller ……….her sister.
(a) Than
(b) As
(c) Why
(d) Like
Q-18 Do it ……..your officer wishes.
(a) Because
(b) As
(c) Since
(d) If

Q-19 I have not written to her……..she left for America.
(a) Before
(b) After
(c) Till
(d) Since

Q-20 Wait …..you should fall into this trap
(a) Till
(b) So that
(c) Patiently
(d) Lest

Q-21 She ran up stairs……..she saw her father.
(a) As
(b) No sooner
(c) How
(d) When

Q-22 Take a lamp so hard …………we could not leave the school.
(a) Till
(b) As
(c) After
(d) While

Q-23 Shall not go to the party…….. they invite me.
(a) Till
(b) When
(c) If
(d) Even if
Q-24 God will help you ……..you help others.
(a) And
(b) If
(c) When
(d) When

Q-25 ……..you was a title longer, I shall fetch food for you.
(a) While
(b) When
(c) Even if
(d) If

Answers with Reasons:-

1. (d) How
2. (b) Although
3. (d) If
4. (a) Which
5. (d) Whose
6. (a) So that
7. (a) It
8. (b) As though
9. (a) Before
10. (b) As
11. (b) After
12. (b) Were
13. (a) That
14. (a) However
15. (a) Wherever
16 (b) As if
17. (a) Than
18. (b) As
19. (d) Since
20. (d) Lest
21. (a) As
22. (b) As
23. (d) Even if
24. (a) And
25. (d) If