Dear PaGaLGuy readers, English Comprehension and English Language skills form an integral part of a number of competitive examinations, such as the SSC CGL, SSC CHSL exams, Banking Entrance exams, UPSC Civil Services Preliminary Examination, MBA entrance exams, Combined Defence Service Examination, etc. Given the importance of this section, we bring you this English Language Quiz to help you practise and improve your English language skills.

This quiz has questions from the SSC Combined Graduate Level (Tier – I) exam held in July 2012. Solve this quiz and leave your responses/ answers in the comments section below. We will soon let you know the correct answers!

In these questions a part of the sentence is underlined. Below are given alternatives to the underlined part at (a), (b), (c) which may improve the sentences. Choose the correct alternative. In case no improvement is needed, your answer should be (d).

1. His life is hanging with a thread

(a) from              (b) by                 (c) to                    (d) No improvement

2. After twenty years of exile, the prisoner was in the end of his tether.

(a) On                (b) though           (c) at                   (d) No improvement

3. Grandfather is often so tired that he drops off in his armchair.

(a) Slides away     (b) falls out     (c) slips in           (d) No improvement

4. The court was forced to respect the profundity of the learned judge’s knowledge.

(a) Probity           (b) Proximity    (c) Prodigality     (d) No improvement

5. He has lost his nearly all many pets.

(a) all his nearly many pets 

(b) his many pets nearly all of them

(c) nearly all his many pets

(d) No improvement

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