TNPSC TRB TET ENGLISH 100 QUESTION AND ANSWER | 1101-1200
A Compilation of Questions and Answers on English Language and Linguistics
Phonetics and Phonology (Questions 1-13)
- Question: Which part of the tongue is positioned opposite the hard palate?
Answer: The front of the tongue. - Question: Which part of the tongue is positioned opposite the soft palate?
Answer: The back of the tongue. - Question: What is the term for the tapered section of the tongue facing the teeth-ridge?
Answer: The blade of the tongue. - Question: What is the very end of the tongue blade called?
Answer: The tip of the tongue. - Question: What lip shape is used to produce the vowel sound in 'see'?
Answer: Spread. - Question: What lip shape is used to produce the vowel sound in 'park'?
Answer: Open. - Question: What lip shape is used to produce the vowel sound in 'get'?
Answer: Neutral. - Question: What lip shape is used to produce the vowel sound in 'got'?
Answer: Open rounded. - Question: What lip shape is used to produce the vowel sound in 'do'?
Answer: Close rounded. - Question: What are vowels produced with the tongue positioned as high as possible categorized as?
Answer: Close vowels or high vowels. - Question: What are vowels produced with the tongue positioned as low as possible categorized as?
Answer: Low vowels or open vowels. - Question: What type of sounds are produced without any obstruction in the oral cavity?
Answer: Vowels. - Question: Are vowels typically voiced or voiceless sounds?
Answer: All vowels are soft, voiced, and have a musical quality.
| Phrasal Verb | Meaning |
|---|---|
| fret over (14) | Worry |
| take away (15) | Remove |
| come back (16) | Return |
| roll by (17) | Pass |
| ask for (18) | Request |
| set up (19) | Arrange |
| look up (20) | Improve |
| strive for (21) | Struggle for |
| take off (22) | Start |
| go on (23) | Continue |
| reel off (24) | Recite |
| move out of (25) | Leave |
| Prepositional Phrase | Meaning |
|---|---|
| in order to (58) | With the purpose of |
| in the face of (59) | While facing |
| in addition to (60) | Adding to |
| instead of (61) | In place of |
| in the wake of (62) | After |
- Question: What prefix can be added to the word 'urban'?
Answer: sub- (suburban). (26) - Question: What prefix can be added to the word 'nutrition'?
Answer: mal- (malnutrition). (27) - Question: What suffix can be added to the word 'slave'?
Answer: -ish (slavish). (28) - Question: What suffix is suitable for 'technology' to describe a person who works with it?
Answer: -ist (technologist). (29) - Question: What prefix suits 'national' in the context of a global company?
Answer: inter- (international). (30) - Question: What prefix suits 'cycle' for a two-wheeled vehicle?
Answer: bi- (bicycle). (31) - Question: What suffix suits 'hand' to denote a small amount of people?
Answer: -ful (handful). (32) - Question: Which suffix converts the verb 'intend' into a noun?
Answer: -tion (intention). (33) - Question: What prefix is used with 'understood' to mean an incorrect understanding?
Answer: mis- (misunderstood). (34) - Question: What suffix is added to 'child' to denote the time period of being a child?
Answer: -hood (childhood). (35) - Question: What suffix is added to 'enjoy' to make it an adjective describing a hobby?
Answer: -able (enjoyable). (36) - Question: What suffix makes 'comfort' an adverb describing how someone sleeps?
Answer: -ably (comfortably). (37) - Question: What prefix makes the word 'legal' its exact opposite?
Answer: il- (illegal). (38) - Question: What suffix should be added to the word 'king' to transform it into an abstract noun?
Answer: -dom (kingdom). (96) - Question: What is the diminutive form of the word 'leaf'?
Answer: Leaflet. (98) - Question: What is the diminutive form of the word 'stream'?
Answer: Streamlet. (99)
- Question: Which prepositions are used to indicate the location of a person or object close to another?
Answer: Near & beside. (39) - Question: Which preposition is used for larger areas, covered surfaces, and years?
Answer: In. (40) - Question: Which preposition indicates the 'time-limit' of an action?
Answer: Till. (41) - Question: Which preposition indicates resting and covering, such as spreading a cloth?
Answer: Over. (42) - Question: Which preposition means 'higher,' as in the sun positioned over the horizon?
Answer: Above. (43) - Question: Which preposition is used to express a place limit, such as walking up to a specific point?
Answer: Upto. (44) - Question: Which preposition means 'at the farther side of'?
Answer: Behind. (45) - Question: Which preposition describes movement in a path passing on all sides?
Answer: Round. (46) - Question: Which preposition indicates presence beneath a thing?
Answer: Under. (47) - Question: Which preposition indicates presence or movement in front of someone or something?
Answer: Before. (48)
- Question: What is the scientific study of the physiology, structure, and classification of plants called?
Answer: Botany. (49) - Question: What is a group of things that have been hidden in a secret place called?
Answer: Cache. (50) - Question: What is a system of government by the entire population or all eligible members of a state called?
Answer: Democracy. (51) - Question: What do you call a person who sells and arranges cut flowers?
Answer: Florist. (52) - Question: What is a state, society, or group governed by old people called?
Answer: Gerontocracy. (53) - Question: What is a group of domestic mammals like cattle or sheep called?
Answer: Herd. (54) - Question: What do you call a person of intellectual or erudite tastes?
Answer: Highbrow. (55) - Question: Who is a person primarily concerned with making money, often at the expense of ethics?
Answer: Mercenary. (56) - Question: What is a building or buildings occupied by a community of monks called?
Answer: Monastery. (57) - Question: What is the young one of a boar called?
Answer: Porking. (88) - Question: What is the correct term for the young one of a swan?
Answer: Cygnet. (89) - Question: What is the collective noun for a group of chairs?
Answer: A stack of chairs. (90) - Question: What is the collective noun used for a group of pearls?
Answer: A string of pearls. (91) - Question: What is the specific word for the loud noise made by an elephant?
Answer: Trumpet. (92) - Question: What is the masculine form of the bird 'duck'?
Answer: Drake. (93) - Question: What is the noun form of the adjective 'rare'?
Answer: Rarity. (94) - Question: What is the noun form of the word 'invade'?
Answer: Invasion. (95) - Question: What is the correct collective noun for a group of ships?
Answer: A fleet of ships. (100)
- Question: What is the correct way to write "Chennai is one of the hottest city"?
Answer: Chennai is one of the hottest cities. (63) - Question: What is the grammatically correct form of "He has grey hairs"?
Answer: He has grey hair. (64) - Question: Which preposition correctly follows the word "prefer" in a sentence like "I prefer mangoes..."?
Answer: I prefer mangoes to grapes. (65) - Question: What is the correct plural form of the word 'sister-in-law'?
Answer: Sisters-in-law. (66) - Question: In grammar, is the word 'scenery' typically countable or uncountable?
Answer: Uncountable. (67) - Question: Which article should correctly precede the word 'university'?
Answer: A. (68) - Question: What is the structure for changing Present Continuous tense into the passive voice?
Answer: Present Continuous + being + III form V (Past Participle of the verb). (69) - Question: In indirect speech, what does the modal verb 'will' change to?
Answer: It changes to 'would'. (70) - Question: What is the correct plural form of the compound noun 'manservant'?
Answer: Menservants. (97)
- Question: Which figure of speech uses a negative statement to emphasize the opposite or an affirmative?
Answer: Litotes. (71) - Question: Which literary source is alluded to in the line "Dust thou art to dust returnest"?
Answer: The Bible. (72) - Question: What figure of speech is used in the line "Still like muffled drums are beating"?
Answer: Simile. (73) - Question: What is the term for an attempt or a trial in writing a piece of composition?
Answer: An essay. (78) - Question: What type of vocabulary is generally more permissible in poetry than in prose?
Answer: Archaic words. (79) - Question: Does a typical poem focus on multiple concepts or a single idea?
Answer: One idea. (80)
- Question: In a dictionary, what grammatical term does the abbreviation 'V (pp)' stand for?
Answer: Verb past participle. (74) - Question: What rule dictates the specific length of a paraphrased passage compared to the original?
Answer: There is no hard and fast rule for the length. (75) - Question: In body language, what does it mean if a person leans forward?
Answer: Wishing to get involved. (76) - Question: What refers to the links or connections between successive clauses in writing?
Answer: Cohesion. (77)
| American English Term | British English Equivalent |
|---|---|
| apartment (81) | Flat |
| guy (82) | Fellow |
| elevator (83) | Lift |
| truck (84) | Lorry |
| flashlight (85) | Torch |
| apologize (spelling) (86) | Apologise |
| jewelry (spelling) (87) | Jewellery |
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