This English Language practice set is prepared as per the SSC CGL syllabus.
The questions reflect the actual exam level and focus on grammar, vocabulary, and usage commonly asked in the paper.
[
{
“question”: “Choose the correct spelling.”,
“options”: [“Occassion”, “Occasion”, “Ocassion”, “Ocasian”],
“correct_answer”: “Occasion”,
“explanation”: “The correct spelling is ‘Occasion’.”,
“difficulty”: “easy”
},
{
“question”: “Choose the correct synonym of ‘Rapid’.”,
“options”: [“Slow”, “Quick”, “Late”, “Weak”],
“correct_answer”: “Quick”,
“explanation”: “‘Rapid’ means fast or quick.”,
“difficulty”: “easy”
},
{
“question”: “Fill in the blank: She _ to the office every day.”, “options”: [“go”, “goes”, “going”, “gone”], “correct_answer”: “goes”, “explanation”: “With third-person singular (she), the verb takes ‘s’.”, “difficulty”: “easy” }, { “question”: “Choose the correct antonym of ‘Honest’.”, “options”: [“Truthful”, “Kind”, “Dishonest”, “Brave”], “correct_answer”: “Dishonest”, “explanation”: “‘Dishonest’ is the opposite of honest.”, “difficulty”: “easy” }, { “question”: “Identify the correctly punctuated sentence.”, “options”: [ “Yes he is coming.”, “Yes, he is coming.”, “Yes he, is coming.”, “Yes; he is coming.” ], “correct_answer”: “Yes, he is coming.”, “explanation”: “A comma is required after ‘Yes’ to separate it from the sentence.”, “difficulty”: “easy” }, { “question”: “Choose the correct plural of ‘Child’.”, “options”: [“Childs”, “Children”, “Childrens”, “Childes”], “correct_answer”: “Children”, “explanation”: “‘Children’ is the correct plural form of ‘child’.”, “difficulty”: “easy” }, { “question”: “Fill in the blank: He is good mathematics.”,
“options”: [“in”, “on”, “at”, “for”],
“correct_answer”: “at”,
“explanation”: “The correct preposition used with skills is ‘at’.”,
“difficulty”: “easy”
},
{
“question”: “Choose the correct one-word substitution: A person who cannot read or write.”,
“options”: [“Literate”, “Ignorant”, “Illiterate”, “Uneducated”],
“correct_answer”: “Illiterate”,
“explanation”: “An illiterate person cannot read or write.”,
“difficulty”: “easy”
},
{
“question”: “Choose the correctly spelt word.”,
“options”: [“Enviroment”, “Environment”, “Envirnoment”, “Enviornment”],
“correct_answer”: “Environment”,
“explanation”: “The correct spelling is ‘Environment’.”,
“difficulty”: “medium”
},
{
“question”: “Choose the correct passive voice: He wrote a letter.”,
“options”: [
“A letter was written by him.”,
“A letter is written by him.”,
“A letter has written by him.”,
“A letter was wrote by him.”
],
“correct_answer”: “A letter was written by him.”,
“explanation”: “Past simple active changes to ‘was written’ in passive voice.”,
“difficulty”: “medium”
},
{
“question”: “Choose the correct meaning of the idiom: ‘Break the ice’.”,
“options”: [
“To shatter ice”,
“To begin a conversation”,
“To stop talking”,
“To end friendship”
],
“correct_answer”: “To begin a conversation”,
“explanation”: “‘Break the ice’ means to start a conversation in a friendly way.”,
“difficulty”: “medium”
},
{
“question”: “Fill in the blank: Neither Ram nor his friends present.”, “options”: [“is”, “was”, “are”, “has”], “correct_answer”: “are”, “explanation”: “With ‘neither…nor’, the verb agrees with the nearest subject.”, “difficulty”: “medium” }, { “question”: “Choose the indirect form: She said, “I am tired.””, “options”: [ “She said that she is tired.”, “She said that she was tired.”, “She says that she was tired.”, “She told that she is tired.” ], “correct_answer”: “She said that she was tired.”, “explanation”: “Present tense changes to past tense in indirect speech.”, “difficulty”: “medium” }, { “question”: “Choose the correct sentence.”, “options”: [ “He did not knew the answer.”, “He did not know the answer.”, “He does not knew the answer.”, “He did not known the answer.” ], “correct_answer”: “He did not know the answer.”, “explanation”: “After ‘did not’, the base form of the verb is used.”, “difficulty”: “medium” }, { “question”: “Choose the correct word: He is senior _ me.”,
“options”: [“than”, “to”, “from”, “with”],
“correct_answer”: “to”,
“explanation”: “‘Senior’ is followed by the preposition ‘to’.”,
“difficulty”: “medium”
},
{
“question”: “Identify the part of speech of the underlined word: She spoke very softly.”,
“options”: [“Adjective”, “Adverb”, “Noun”, “Verb”],
“correct_answer”: “Adverb”,
“explanation”: “‘Softly’ describes how she spoke, so it is an adverb.”,
“difficulty”: “hard”
},
{
“question”: “Choose the correct spelling.”,
“options”: [“Accomodation”, “Acommodation”, “Accommodation”, “Accomadation”],
“correct_answer”: “Accommodation”,
“explanation”: “The correct spelling is ‘Accommodation’.”,
“difficulty”: “hard”
},
{
“question”: “Choose the correct sentence.”,
“options”: [
“Scarcely had he reached when it started raining.”,
“Scarcely he had reached when it started raining.”,
“Scarcely had he reached than it started raining.”,
“Scarcely he reached when it started raining.”
],
“correct_answer”: “Scarcely had he reached when it started raining.”,
“explanation”: “‘Scarcely’ at the beginning requires inversion of subject and verb.”,
“difficulty”: “hard”
},
{
“question”: “Choose the correct synonym of ‘Abundant’.”,
“options”: [“Scarce”, “Plenty”, “Plentiful”, “Rare”],
“correct_answer”: “Plentiful”,
“explanation”: “‘Abundant’ means available in large quantity, i.e., plentiful.”,
“difficulty”: “hard”
},
{
“question”: “Choose the correct sentence.”,
“options”: [
“No sooner did the bell ring than the students entered.”,
“No sooner the bell rang than the students entered.”,
“No sooner had the bell rang than the students entered.”,
“No sooner the bell had rung than the students entered.”
],
“correct_answer”: “No sooner did the bell ring than the students entered.”,
“explanation”: “‘No sooner’ requires auxiliary verb inversion and base form of verb.”,
“difficulty”: “hard”
}
]