TNPSC Group 4 2024

1. Choose the correct synonym for the underlined word
The Poor Farmer loved his aged mother with tender Reverence.

• A. Deep Respect
• B. Cruel
• C. Desert
• D. Brutal

2. Choose the correct "Antonym" for the underlined word from the options
given
He sat in his chair Gazing at one thing.

• A. Admire
• B. Bore
• C. Glance
• D. Dislike

3. Match the correct antonyms:
(a) Kind 1. Distaste
(b) Usually 2. Cruel
(c) Possessed 3. Unusually
(d) Taste 4. Lacked

• A. 2 3 1 4
• B. 2 1 4 3
• C. 2 4 1 3
• D. 2 3 4 1

4. Choose the appropriate preposition :
My Neighbour was afflicted _________ a serious illness and was
hospitalised __________ more than two months.

• A. from, for
• B. by, for
• C. by, since
• D. with, for

5. Fill in the blanks with suitable Article :
Vishal drew ________ wonderful picture on the board yesterday.

• A. an
• B. a
• C. the
• D. at

6. Fill in the blanks by choosing the appropriate preposition from the given options:
The construction of this building has been going on ________ January.

• A. for
• B. since
• C. during
• D. from

7. Fill in the blanks with suitable preposition :
The cricket ball was hidden _______ the leaves.

• A. among
• B. inside
• C. after
• D. between

8. Select the correct tense :
In two years time, I _______ my degree.

• A. will earn
• B. shall have earned
• C. had earned
• D. earned

9. Choose the correct passive form of the given sentence from the given options:
Someone has stolen the car.

• A. The car has been stolen
• B. The car had stolen
• C. The car had been stolen
• D. The car will have been stolen

10. Choose the best Passive Voice for the given sentence:
Why did your brother write such a letter?

• A. Why was such a letter written by your brother?
• B. Why such a letter is written by your brother?
• C. Did your brother wrote such a letter?
• D. Why your brother have written such a letter?

11. Fill in the blanks with Infinitive word from the option given :
We intended _______ early.

• A. leave
• B. left
• C. to leave
• D. leaving

12. Homophones :
There lived a man who loved to read about ______

• A. study
• B. read
• C. write
• D. knights

13. Fill in the blanks with suitable preposition.
Thumbi lay ______ the gunny bags and looked contentedly at me
and my brother.

• A. down up
• B. down on
• C. down with
• D. down in

14. Choose the correct preposition :
We underwent our basic SAIL training courses ______ Mumbai ________ the Indian Naval Watermanship Training Centre (INWTC)

• A. at, in
• B. at, from
• C. in, at
• D. in, from

15. Select the correct sentence:

• A. She has written a novel
• B. She is written a novel
• C. She is write a novel
• D. She has been written a novel

16. Choose the correct Plural form of word Luggage

• A. Luggages
• B. Luggage
• C. Lugage
• D. Luggagese

17. A B
(a) Crisis 1. Fish
(b) Fungus 2. Media
(c) Medium 3. Crises
(d) Fish 4. Fungi

• A. 2 3 1 4
• B. 3 4 2 1
• C. 1 4 2 3
• D. 1 3 2 4

18. Identify the sentence:
On seeing the teacher, the children stood up

• A. complex
• B. compound
• C. simple
• D. above all

19. Which of the following is not a comparative degree?:

• A. longer
• B. taller
• C. layer
• D. weaker

20. Pick out the words in alliteration in the below line :
"With forward face and unreluctant soul";

• A. with, forward
• B. forward, face
• C. unreluctant, soul
• D. with, soul

21. With the green world they live in; and clear rills,
That for themselves a cooling covert make.
Pick out the alliterated words.

• A. clear - rills
• B. covert - make
• C. green - world
• D. cooling - covert

22. River, river, little river!
Bright you sparkle on your way;
O'er the yellow pebbles dancing,
Through the flowers and foliage glancing,
Like a child at play.
Identify the figure of speech :

• A. Metaphor
• B. Simile
• C. Rhyming
• D. None

23. Which one of the given options is a Metaphor?

• A. Life is like a Chocolate box
• B. Raj is like his twin brother
• C. His words are Pearls of wisdom
• D. The bus is slow as a snail

24. And though his efforts never slack
And though he twist, and twirl, and tack
Pick out the rhyming words in the above lines

• A. slack, tack
• B. efforts, twist
• C. though, twist
• D. twirl, tack

25. Are fed by peaceful harvest, by war's long winter starv'd
Identify the figure of speech employed in the above line

• A. Metaphor
• B. Transferred epithet
• C. Personification
• D. Simile