All Free English MCQs with Answers

3011. The news of his father's death _ declared so far.

• A. Was not declared
• B. Have not been declared
• C. Has not been declared
• D. Is not declared

Explanation: The sentence talks about news that has not declared up to now, which is a situation connecting the past to the present. For such cases, we use the present perfect tense. Hence, "has not been declared" is correct.

3012. Choose the correct one:Do not beat the dog.

• A. Let the dog be not beaten.
• B. Let the dog be beaten not.
• C. Not let the dog be beaten.
• D. Let the dog not be beaten.

Explanation: The sentence is a negative imperative in active voice "Do not beat the dog". Its passive form uses "let" + object + "not" + past participle. So, "Let the dog not be beaten" correctly conveys the meaning.

3013. Choose the correct one:Harry ate six shrimp at dinner.

• A. At dinner, six shrimp were eaten by Harry.
• B. At dinner, six shrimp had been eaten by Harry.
• C. At dinner, six shrimp was eaten by Harry.
• D. At dinner, six shrimp had eaten by Harry.

Explanation: The original sentence is in active voice, where the subject "Harry" performs the action of eating. To convert it to passive voice, we need to make the shrimp the subject, and the action (eating) is performed on them. Hence, the correct passive voice construction is "At dinner, six shrimp were eaten by Harry".

3014. Choose the correct one:I think that someone built the house in 1814.

• A. I think that the house was built in 1814.
• B. By think that the house was built in 1814.
• C. I think that the house built in 1814.
• D. I think that the house had been built in 1814.

Explanation: The active sentence 'someone built the house in 1814' is in the simple past. Its correct passive is the simple past passive 'the house was built in 1814', with the indefinite agent 'someone' dropped. Hence option A is correct; option D wrongly shifts to the past perfect.

3015. Choose the correct one:The murderer killed him by a knife.

• A. He was killed with knife by murderer.
• B. He was a killed from a knife by murderer.
• C. He was killed by a knife by murderer.
• D. He was killed with a knife by the murderer.

Explanation: In passive voice, the object of the active sentence becomes the subject: "him" → "He". The agent (the doer) is mentioned with "by": "by the murderer". We use "with a knife" to show the instrument used to commit the action. So the sentence correctly becomes: He was killed with a knife by the murderer.

3016. Choose the correct one:George Eliot wrote "The Mill on the Floss"

• A. "The Mill on the Floss" is writen by George Eliot.
• B. "The Mill on the Floss" was written by George Eliot.
• C. "The Mill on the Floss" had been written by George Eliot.
• D. "The Mill on the Floss" was being written by George Eliot.

Explanation: Option B is in correct passive voice because the focus is on the book, not the author. It uses the past tense since the writing was completed in the past.

3017. Choose the correct passive voice:How did she defraud him of his savings?

• A. How had he been defrauded of his savings?
• B. How had he been defrauded by her?
• C. How was he defrauded of his savings?
• D. How was he defrauded by her of his savings?

Explanation: Option D is the only sentence, that has all the components of the main sentence, hence we will go with that option.

3018. You are called names by him.[Choose the correct voice:]

• A. He is calling you names.
• B. He calls you names.
• C. He called you names.
• D. You are being called names by him.

Explanation: When the passive voice is in past simple tense the active voice is written in present simple tense. Hence B is the correct answer.

3019. The principal has forbidden smoking on the campus.Select the correct passive voice:

• A. Smoking has been forbidden on the campus by the principal.
• B. Smoking had been forbidden on the campus by the principal.
• C. Smoking was being forbidden on the campus by the principal.
• D. It is forbidden by the principal to smoke on campus.

Explanation: When active voice is converted into passive voice the place of subject and object are interchanged in the sentence and there is no change in the tense however 3rd form of the verb is used in the passive voice. Hence the best possible answer is A.

3020. Saba was sick on the bus.[The underlined prepositional phrase functions as a _ in this sentence:]

• A. Adjunct
• B. Disjunct
• C. Conjunct
• D. Adverbial

Explanation: Adverbials give more information about verbs and even if dropped, it won't have a significant impact on the sentence hence D is the right answer.