Free Writing Skills MCQs with Answers

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21. The research study is an eye-opener and _____ us with the problems of poor nations.

  • A. Attempted to acquaint
  • B. Attempting to acquaint
  • C. Attempts at acquainting
  • D. Attempt to acquaint

Explanation: “Attempts at acquainting” is a grammatical noun phrase that can follow “is an eye-opener and,” with the study as its subject. The other choices create incorrect tense or number agreement with “study.”

Correct answer: Attempts at acquainting

22. It is _______ today.

  • A. too much hot
  • B. so much hot
  • C. too hot
  • D. more hotter

Explanation: “Hot” is an adjective modified directly by “too,” giving the correct phrase “too hot.” “Too much” modifies uncountable nouns, while “more hotter” incorrectly uses two comparative markers.

Correct answer: too hot

23. The students in our school are __________ in other schools.

  • A. smarter
  • B. smarter than
  • C. smarter than those
  • D. more smarter than

Explanation: “Smarter than those in other schools” compares the students with “those,” meaning the students in the other schools. “Smarter” alone leaves the comparison incomplete, while “more smarter” is a double comparative.

Correct answer: smarter than those

24. Though smaller than our solar system, a quasar, which looks like an ordinary star, emits more light ________ galaxy.

  • A. than an entire
  • B. than entire
  • C. than is entire
  • D. than entirely

Explanation: The comparison is between the quasar's light and the light of an entire galaxy, so than an entire galaxy completes the construction. Entire must modify the singular noun galaxy, and the other options are grammatically incomplete or illogical.

Correct answer: than an entire

25. which only one word is correctly spelt

  • A. promiscous
  • B. promiscuous
  • C. promiscuuous
  • D. promisscuous

Explanation: “Promiscuous” is the correct spelling, meaning indiscriminate or involving many casual sexual relationships. The extra or misplaced letters in the other options are spelling errors.

Correct answer: promiscuous

26. Choose the correctly written spelling from the following options?

  • A. Recrudescence.
  • B. Recrudascence
  • C. Recrudescance
  • D. Recrudescince

Explanation: The correct spelling is “recrudescence,” meaning the return or revival of something after a period of decline. The word contains “-esc-,” not “-asc-” or “-escance.”

Correct answer: Recrudescence.

27. Tick the correct spelling of the given word in options.

  • A. Condescend
  • B. Condascend
  • C. Condescand
  • D. Condiscend

Explanation: “Condescend” is spelled with “-descend,” just like the related verb “descend.” The forms using “a” or “isc” are misspellings.

Correct answer: Condescend

28. Choose the correct spelling of the following word?

  • A. Auxuliary
  • B. Auxilliary
  • C. Auxiliary
  • D. Auxuiliarye

Explanation: The correct spelling is “auxiliary,” meaning providing additional help or support. It has the sequence “auxili-,” followed by “-ary,” with no extra “l.”

Correct answer: Auxiliary

29. Identify the correct spelling:

  • A. Commision
  • B. Comission
  • C. Comision
  • D. Commission

Explanation: The correct spelling is “commission,” with double “m” and double “s.” The other forms omit one of these repeated letters.

Correct answer: Commission

30. Choose the correct spelling from the followings?

  • A. Cemetary
  • B. Cemetery
  • C. Cemmetary
  • D. Cemmetery

Explanation: The correct spelling is “cemetery,” containing “e” after the initial “c” and ending in “-tery.” The common error is writing “-etary.”

Correct answer: Cemetery