R4RIN – MCQs, Mock Tests | TET AP TET English Language MCQ

Where do these people come ……….. ? Choose the correct preposition to complete the meaning of the sentence.

1. at
2. under
3. under
4. since

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Choose the correct spelling of the word.

1. buffeloo
2. bufello
3. bufelloo
4. buffalo

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The weaver said to Ramya, "Do you like this saree?" The reported speech of this sentence is:

1. The weaver told Ramya he liked this saree.
2. The weaver asked Ramya that she liked this saree.
3. The weaver asked Ramya if she liked this saree.
4. The weaver asked Ramya if she liked that saree.

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The teacher explained the problem ………. the students. Choose the correct preposition that fits the blank.

1. with
2. to
3. by
4. up

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Choose the sentence that has a noun clause.

1. Mohan said that he wanted to go there.correct
2. Mohan told me a story.
3. Mohan told me a story with five characters.
4. That was not an interesting movie.

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Could you lend me your book? In the sentence above, 'could' is used:

1. as the past participle
2. to express politeness
3. as the past tense of 'can'
4. to express obligation

✅ Correct Answer: 2

I’ve grown old and feeble. Choose the antonym of the word “feeble”.

1. happy
2. strong
3. active
4. serious

✅ Correct Answer: 2

I sat at the window and looked out at my cold white garden. Choose the meaning of the phrasal verb “looked out”.

1. admired
2. praised
3. placed
4. watched

✅ Correct Answer: 4

My brother has gone to Chennai." "When …….. to Chennai"?

1. he has gone
2. has he gone
3. did he go
4. had he gone

✅ Correct Answer: 3

He feels as if he were a Prime Minister.

1. A simple sentence
2. A compound sentence
3. A complex sentence
4. A compound complex sentence

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What are you mumbling over there?” Amma said loudly. Choose the meaning of the word “mumbling”.

1. speaking unclearly and quietly
2. not willing to do something
3. hanging downward
4. admiring

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Andrew’s parents were moving into a smaller house because they could not afford to stay in the present house after paying doctors bill. They gave up their efforts. Choose the word in the sentence that should contain an apostrophe :

1. parents
2. efforts
3. doctors
4. present

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Change this damaged magnifying glass at once.” Choose the sentence that can be used to express the above sentence politely.

1. Why do you change this damaged magnifying glass at once ?
2. You should change this damaged magnifying glass at once.
3. You must change this damaged magnifying glass at once.
4. Could you please change this damaged magnifying glass at once ?

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Choose the word with wrong spelling.

1. dispair
2. scorpion
3. faint
4. terrible

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Choose the noun phrase with the correct order of adjectives.

1. A dirty black crow
2. A crow dirty black
3. A crow black dirty
4. A black dirty crow

✅ Correct Answer: 1

With the tree grown tall, we get more shade. The part of the sentence. 'we get more shade' is

1. a finite clause
2. a non-finite clause
3. a relative clause
4. a subordinate clause

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which of the following is an Acronym?

1. USA
2. AIDS
3. LAN
4. Both 2 & 3

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Even though my husband had a good job, I took up one as well.’ Choose the meaning of the phrasal verb ‘took up”.

1. offered
2. started doing
3. managed
4. brought

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The pen ………. is on the book is mine. Choose the conjunction that fits the context.

1. who
2. when
3. which
4. where

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The train ………. before we reached the station. Choose the correct form of the verb that fits the blank.

1. left
2. had left
3. is leaving
4. would have left

✅ Correct Answer: 2

I am not a student, ………………. . Choose the correct question tag to complete this sentence: D.

1. are I ?
2. aren't I ?
3. am I ?
4. isn't it ?

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Please give me your pen. Identify the part of speech of the underlined word.

1. Verb
2. Adjective
3. Interjection
4. Adverb

✅ Correct Answer: 3

My situation is similar ……. yours. Choose the correct preposition that fits that context

1. of
2. with
3. by
4. to

✅ Correct Answer: 4

We discussed the new plan at length. In the above sentence, the expression 'at length' gives the meaning of: A. fast B. beyond the limits C. in short We discussed the new plan at length. In the above sentence, the expression 'at length' gives the meaning of:

1. fast
2. beyond the limits
3. in short
4. in detail

✅ Correct Answer: 4

shall have ………. this novel by the end of next week. Choose the correct form of verb that fits the blank.

1. had read
2. read
3. has read
4. reads

✅ Correct Answer: 2

I have completed my work, I went to bed. These two sentences can be combined as:

1. Going to bed, I have completed my work
2. I went to bed to complete my work
3. Having completed my work, I went to bed
4. To go to bed, I complete your work

✅ Correct Answer: 3

If I ………….. asked to stay at home, I would not accept it. Choose the correct verb to fill in the blank.

1. was been
2. am
3. were
4. have been

✅ Correct Answer: 3

I am sorry, I can’t let you go in without a ticket. This sentence indicates;

1. Apologising
2. efusing permission
3. Ordering
4. Refusing help

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The Happy Prince and Other Tales is a collection of:

1. Children's stories
2. Adult stories
3. Women's stories
4. Men's stories

✅ Correct Answer: 1

You can eat as much as you like. Choose the part of speech of the word ‘much’.

1. a common noun
2. a noun
3. an adjective
4. a conjunction

✅ Correct Answer: 3

A language is

1. a broad term simply referring to human patterned verbal behaviour in general
2. a set of specific rules for generating speech
3. another word for a dialect
4. None of These

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The best time to learn a second language is in

1. early childhood
2. junior school
3. senior secondary school
4. college

✅ Correct Answer: 1

verbal communication means:

1. sending a message in words including writing
2. informal communication
3. exact limited message the speaker wants to convey
4. actual words said

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Metalinguistic awareness is

1. the ability to think and talk about language
2. the ability to connect the distinctive sounds in words to letters
3. the ability to recognize writing from other visual marks
4. understanding of the mapping principles between sounds and meaning

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which skills are receptive

1. listening and speaking
2. )listening and reading
3. reading and writing
4. writing and speaking

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The following statements that are true about language is

1. all languages use essentially the same number of sounds
2. all native speakers of a language learn the basic rules of grammar in school
3. While the different languages may use different phonemes, they all essentially share the same syntax
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The statement that best describes the linguistic concept of words is

1. words are inherent units of meaning that every child is born with,and learns to attach specific sounds to specific words
2. words are sounds that we only attach meaning to through the context of syntax, and are by themselves devoid of useful information
3. words are written pieces of language that are defined via long-cultural consensus, andterm recorded in dictionaries to main-uniformity of expression, without which words would be arbitrary and meaning
4. words are arbitrary sounds that are memorized through brute force and are associated in the mental lexicon with the word itself, its sound, and its meaning

✅ Correct Answer: 4

______is the study of language from a cognitive and developmental law

1. psycholinguistics
2. sociolinguistics
3. comparative linguistics
4. linguistics

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The following definition best describes language acquisition

1. The process by which a society’ svernacular varies
2. The process by which linguistics is applied to sociology
3. The process by which the linguistic ability develops in a human
4. the process by which the origin of language is developed

✅ Correct Answer: 3

“A student recommends the reading of the latest best-seller, saying that it is very interesting. You listen, trying to make out whether the student’s observation is sincere or not.” This type of listening can be described:

1. critical
2. comprehension
3. sympathetic
4. active

✅ Correct Answer: 1