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TNPSC Group 4 2024 – General English Questions 1 to 25

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
Answer: A. Deep Respect

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
Answer: C. Glance

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
Answer: 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
Answer: 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
Answer: B. a

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
Answer: B. since

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

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

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

  • A. will earn
  • B. shall have earned
  • C. had earned
  • D. earned
Answer: B. shall have 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
Answer: A. The car has 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?
Answer: A. Why was such a letter written by your brother?

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

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

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

  • A. study
  • B. read
  • C. write
  • D. knights
Answer: 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
Answer: B. down on

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
Answer: C. in, at

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
Answer: A. She has written a novel

16. Choose the correct Plural form of word Luggage

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

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
Answer: B. 3 4 2 1

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

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

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

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

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
Answer: B. forward, face

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
Answer: 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
Answer: B. Simile

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
Answer: C. His words are Pearls of wisdom

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
Answer: A. slack, 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
Answer: B. Transferred epithet
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