Exam on Adjective and Adverb

1. ‘Our blessings come from above. Here above is a/an-----.

a. preposition
b. adverb
c. noun
d. adjective

2. ‘Jeans are nowadays in across the globe. Here ‘in’ is a/an-----.

a. adjective
b. preposition
c. adverb
d. conjunction

3. A preposition used with a verb is an-------

A. adjective
B. adverb
C. appositive
D. none

4. We should not see his face again. Here ‘face’ is a/an¬¬¬__

a. adverb
b. noun
c. preposition
d. adjective

5. What are the four questions that adverb can answer?

a. Who? When? Where? Why?
b. When? Where? how? why?
c. When? where? to what extent/ degree/why?
d. To what extent/ degree? when? where? how?

6. Give me the white coloured dress. Here ‘white’ is a/an ------.

a. noun
b. adverb
c. adjective
d. conjunction

7. What is all this noise? The underlined word is a/an ------.

a. Adverb
b. Adjective
c. Noun
d. Pronoun

8. Which ‘up’ in the following sentences is adverb?

(a) Our system should be up by the noon.
(b) They live up in the mountains.
(c) The up train will come soon Ans: B
(d) We had ups and downs of fortune.

9. Which of the following sentences is having the word ‘like’ as adjective?

a. We shall not see his like again
b. Children like sweets
c. They are men of like build and stature
d. Do not talk like that

10. I was simply impressed to see ----- majestic place.

(a) a ten-years-old
(b) a ten-year-old
(c) ten-year-old
(d) ten-years-old

11. Which is not true about the function of an adverb?

a. qualifying a verb
b. qualifying an adverb
c. qualifying a noun
d. qualifying an adjective

12. Choose the correct one:

(a) Rahim ate almost the whole fish.
(b) Rahim almost ate the whole fish
(c) Almost ate the whole fish
(d) Rahim ate the whole fish almost

13. Identify the correct sentence.

a. She behaved with me in a friendly way
b. She behaved with me friendly
c. She behaved with me in friendly way
d. She behaved with me friendly way

14. My mother made my tea hot. The underlined word acts as -----

(a) noun
(b) adjective
(c) adverb
(d) present participle

15. He has lost all his wealth. Here ‘all’ is -------.

a. Adjective of Quality
b. Demonstrative Adjective
c. Distributive Numeral Adjective
d. Adjective of Quantity

16. The function of an adjective is to modify a---

a. noun
b. pronoun
c. noun phrase
d. noun and anything equivalent to a noun

17. The two types of Adjectives are:

(a) Attributive and relative
(b) Predicative and collective
(c) Attributive and predicative
(d) Predicative and alternative

18. ‘One’, ‘two’, ‘four’ are

a. Cardinal number
b. ordinal number
c. Composite number
d. none

19. Which of the following does an adverb usually answer?

a. when
b. where
c. how
d. all of these

20. The sun went down. The underlined word is used here as a/an:

a. preposition
b. adverb
c. noun
d. conjunction

21. The mother sat vigilantly beside the sick baby. Here ‘vigilantly' is-

(a) a noun
(b) an adverb
(c) an adjective
(d) none of the three

22. The day of my sister’s marriage is drawing near. The underlined word is a/ an. [25th BCS

(a) pronoun
(b) verb
(c) adjective
(d) adverb.

23. “He was a rather disagreeable man”. Here the underlined word is a/an-

a. Noun
b. Adjective
c. Adverb
d. Preposition

24. Depression is often hereditary. The underlined word is a/an-

a. Adverb
b. Adjective
c. Noun
d. Verb

25. What is the adjective of the word ‘Heart’?

a. Heart
b. Hearten
c. heartening
d. Heartful

26. Adjective form of the word 'moon' is–

a. liner
b. loner
c. lunar
d. lunatic

27. ‘Man cannot live alone’ in the sentence the word ‘alone’ is-

a. adverb
b. pronoun
c. adjective
d. preposition

28. This is his pen. What kind of adjective ‘his’ is?

A. Numeral adjective
B. Pronominal adjective
C. Quantitative adjective
D. Descriptive adjective

29. The man was carrying a ---- bag.

a. black small plastic
b. small and black
c. small black plastic
d. plastic small black

30. ----- did kamal realize that there was danger.

A. Upon entering
B. When he entered the bank
C. Only after entering the bank
D. After he had entered the bank

31. Which sentence is correct?

A. Never I have seen such a mess ?
B. Neither such a mess I have seen
C. Neither a mess I have seen
D. Never have I seen such a mess

32. Never --- do it again.

a. I will
b. will I
c. I’ll
d. I would

33. Not once has our neighbor invited us into his house… means

a. our neighbor has invited us into his house not once but many times.
b. our neighbor has never invited us into his house.
c. occasionally our neighbor has invited us into his house.
d. our neighbor has not always invited us his house.

34. ‘He has just arrived.’ The word ‘just’ is---- .

(a) verb
(b) pronoun
(c) adverb
(d) preposition

35. ‘The bill was passed yesterday’. The word ‘yesterday’ is----.

(a) adjective
(b) noun
(c) adverb
(d) pronoun