This general grammar exercise tests your understanding of grammar structures and patterns.
Complete the following sentences using an appropriate expression. Choose your answers from the given options.
1Cholera had broken out in ............... Mysore.
Wrong!
Use "the whole of" before a place name to mean all parts of it.
2I have ...............
Wrong!
Use "a headache" because headache is a countable singular noun in this expression.
3What kind of ............... are you?
Wrong!
Use "friend" after "what kind of" when asking about a type or category.
4Every Sunday evening we go to ...............
Wrong!
Use "the theater" when referring to the place as a regular leisure activity.
5We must learn to distinguish ...............
Wrong!
Use "the good from the bad": an adjective used as a noun for a general idea or group takes "the", not "a".
6They are collecting money for ...............
Wrong!
Use "the blind" to refer to blind people as a group.
7Did you hear ............... just now? I think someone is outside.
Wrong!
Use "a noise" because the question refers to one particular sound.
8I am certain that I am ...............
Wrong!
Use "in the right" to mean correct or justified.
9Is this book a Cambridge or ............... publication?
Wrong!
Use "an Oxford" because "Oxford" begins with a vowel sound and modifies the singular noun "publication".
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- Cholera had broken out in the whole of Mysore.
- I have a headache.
- What kind of friend are you?
- Every Sunday evening we go to the theater.
- We must learn to distinguish the good from the bad.
- They are collecting money for the blind.
- Did you hear a noise just now? I think someone is outside.
- I am certain that I am in the right.
- Is this book a Cambridge or an Oxford publication?