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Idioms & Phrases for Competitive Exams

Advantages of Idioms and Phrases (For competition) 

Mini Test:

Choose the correct option: 

Uphill task:

• Easy task
• Difficult task
• Different task
• Boring task

Ans: Difficult task

Well - to - do

• Catchy
• Penniless
• Affluent
• Uncourteous

Ans: Affluent

Talk big:

• To repeat
• To boost
• Long talk
• Chatter box

Ans: To boost

Yeoman's service

• Hard work
• Smart work
• Difficult work
• Excellent work

Ans: Excellent work

Queer fish:

• Strange person
• Ordinary person
• Foolish person
• Shrewd person

Ans: Strange person

Spick and span:

• Messy
• Neat and clean
• Stale
• Decompose

Ans: Neat and clean

Miss the beat:

• Continue
• Pulse
• Heartbeat
• To lose an opportunity

Ans: To lose an opportunity

Oily tongue: 

• Blunt
• Outspoken
• Natural
• Flattering words

Ans: Flattering words

In a nutshell:

• In very brief form
• Inside a shell
• In detail
• First of all

Ans: In very brief form

Loin's share:

• Whole part
• Half part
• Tierce
• Large part

Ans: Large part

Apple - pie - order:

• In worst condition
• In strange condition
• In good condition
• In vague condition

Ans: In good condition

At ease:

• Free from work
• Free from imprisonment
• Free from impurities
• Free from pain and anxiety

Ans: Free from pain and anxiety

Body and soul:

• Immaterial soul
• Half heartedly
• Psyche
• Wholeheartedly

Ans: Wholeheartedly

An iron - will:

• Strong will power
• Weak will power
• Lack of will power
• Increase will power

Ans: Strong will power

Draw a line:

• Set a goal
• Set a journey
• Set a plan
• Set a limit

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Ans:  Set a limit

Forty winks

Ans: A short nap 

At draggers drawn:

Ans: In open conflict

Burning question:

• Trivial issue
• Minor issue
• Insignificant issue
• Hot issue

Ans: Hot issue

Article Rules | Articles A, An, The Rules with Examples, Uses | Articles MCQ (A,/An /The) - Daily Practice Set with Answers

 

Definite and Indefinite Articles: Rules and Examples

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Boost your grammar skills - understand articles through this 
flowchart:

Exceptional cases in English Articles:

Generally, we do common error while using articles in a sentence:

   The maidservant is a honest lady. (wrong) 

The maidservant is an honest lady.  (correct)

"An" is used before words starting with a vowel sound. In this word,

"honest' 'h ' is silent. So, we use an honest lady.

   The money does not give inner contentment. (wrong)

    Money does not give inner contentment. (correct)

When talking about money in a general sense, it is uncountable

 noun, so "the money" is incorrect.

     She has the milk to make tea. (correct)

It means she possesses the specific milk required to prepare tea.

Though "milk" is an uncountable noun so, no article is used but

 here it is referring to a specific carton, that is why, we use here 'the'.

Understand English articles at a glance with visual chart:

Let's clarify through the table (Rules & Examples)

Practice Set with Answers:

Error Detection: Articles 

MCQ on Phrasal Verbs with Answers for Competitive Exams | English Grammar Phrasal Verbs: Separable, Non - Separable

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What are Phrasal Verbs?

Here are 15 MCQ questions of separable phrasal verbs:

Separable Phrasal Verbs

A phrasal verb = verb + particle(preposition/adverb)

Example: turn off, look after, give up

First and foremost, let's know about separable phrasal verb:

These can be split (object can come in between).

👉Structure:

Verb + Object + Particle
Verb + particle+ Object

👉Examples:

Turn on the lights.

Turn the lights on

👉With pronouns (him, it, them) must be separated:

Turn it on✔️

Turn on it❌

Non - Separable Phrasal Verbs

These cannot be split.

👉Structure:

Verb + Particle + Object (always together)

Let's clarify this by the following examples:

Look after the baby✔️

Look the baby after❌

Run into a friend✔️

Run a friend into❌

Now, the question is how to identify them

Check - separable phrasal verbs (can split) 

We can check this through the following example:

Example: Turn on the light

Use the pronoun test: Turn it on✔️

Here, we have written " it" in place of " the light", so we can say it can split.

Check - non-separable phrasal verbs (can split)

We can check this through the following example:

Example: Look after the baby

Use the pronoun test: Look it after❌

Here, we have written "it" in place of " the baby ", so we can say it cannot split.

In dictionaries like Oxford Learner's Dictionaries or Cambridge Dictionary) 

phrasal verbs are marked.

• (T) separable
• (I) inseparable

We can use the following methods to identify them:

Replace object with it/them:

If sentence becomes: 

Verb + pronoun+ particle then it is separable   👉Turn it on

If it sounds wrong: 👉Look it after ❌  non-separable

Check the meaning

If the meaning is literal, sometimes it is separable

👉Take off your socks (you can separate)

If the meaning is idiomatic (fixed meaning) often non-separable

👉Look after = take care of (cannot separate)

 

Here are 15 MCQ questions of inseparable and non-separable phrasal verbs: