Language Skills | MCQs

Explanation

"Either you or she is responsible for it."

"Either" is a correlative conjunction that is always used with "or", not with "and", "but", or "if".

"یا تو آپ یا وہ اس کے ذمہ دار ہیں۔"

 "یا تو" ایک متعلقہ کنجکشن ہے جو ہمیشہ "یا" کے ساتھ استعمال ہوتا ہے، "اور"، "لیکن" یا "اگر" کے ساتھ نہیں ہوتا ہے۔

Explanation

Until indicates when something will happen, begin, or end.

Till means the same thing as until.

Till is not an abbreviation of until—it's actually older than until—and it should not be written with an apostrophe.

Explanation

The term "edible" refers to food that is safe for consumption.

While something edible can be delicious or easily cooked, the defining characteristic is that it can be eaten without causing harm.

Explanation

The homework has been completed by the students.

In passive voice, the focus shifts to the object, and "has been" is used with the past participle to show the homework was completed by the students recently.

Explanation

350 runs were scored by our team in the Inter-college Cricket Tournament.

In passive voice, the object of the active sentence becomes the subject, and the verb is in the past participle form, making "were scored" the correct construction.

Explanation

Bala's mother asked Bala if he would lock the door.

This is the correct way to report the original direct speech sentence in indirect speech.

When converting direct speech to indirect speech:

• The question becomes a statement
• The pronoun "you" becomes "he"
• The verb tense remains the same (would)

Explanation

The original sentence, "Let not his insulting words be minded", is a formal or old-fashioned way of saying "Don't pay attention to his insulting words" or " Ignore his insulting words".

The correct answer, "Don't mind his insulting words", is a more modern and common way of expressing the same idea.

Explanation

The core issues of the society would be highlighted by him.

This sentence is in the passive voice, and it indicates that the subject (the core issues of the society) would receive the action (be highlighted) performed by someone (him).

The original sentence, "He would highlight the core issues of the society," is in the active voice, indicating that He (the subject) would perform the action (highlight) on the core issues of the society.

Explanation

The term for the process of changing active sentences to passive is Passivation.

Explanation

This sentence belongs to Past Indefinite Tense.

We use second form of a verb in simple sentence of Past Indefinite Tense.

Get up is phrasal verb.

Got is the second form of Get. 

Ran is the second form of Run.

He got up and ran to the door. 

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