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English Grammar

English grammar is the structure of expressions in the English language. This includes the structure of words, phrases, clauses and sentences. There are certain differences in grammar between the standard forms of British English, American English and Australian English, although these are inconspicuous compared with the lexical and pronunciation differences.

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Quizzes in English Grammar

Choose the best interpretation of Have the last word.

  • Make a process easier or faster
  • Make the final decision or final remark
  • Be wasted or lost
  • Working very closely together, often secretly
Correct answer(s):
  • Make the final decision or final remark

What idea does Heart of the matter usually express?

  • Nobody knows; it is uncertain
  • Fixed and not changeable
  • The central or most important point
  • Make the final decision or final remark
  • At the best or strongest stage
Correct answer(s):
  • The central or most important point

Which explanation is closest to Heaven knows?

  • The central or most important point
  • Nobody knows; it is uncertain
  • Get what one wants
  • Risk everything to try to succeed
Correct answer(s):
  • Nobody knows; it is uncertain

How should we understand High and dry in a sentence?

  • Act unfairly or cruelly
  • Become lost or go in the wrong direction
  • At the best or strongest stage
  • Left helpless or without support
Correct answer(s):
  • Left helpless or without support

What does the phrase Hit below the belt suggest?

  • Act unfairly or cruelly
  • Being discussed or doubted
  • In general idea, though not always in detail
  • Deliberately and without emotion
  • Very quickly
Correct answer(s):
  • Act unfairly or cruelly

How should we understand Get wind of in a sentence?

  • From one place or person to another without success
  • Start behaving badly or losing control
  • Hear about something secret or private
  • Be very busy
Correct answer(s):
  • Hear about something secret or private

What does the phrase Ground to a halt suggest?

  • Make the final decision or final remark
  • Escape punishment or avoid the consequences
  • Enjoy a chance to do something freely or successfully
  • Be good at noticing or judging something
  • Stopped gradually or completely
Correct answer(s):
  • Stopped gradually or completely

What does the phrase Give a wide berth suggest?

  • Avoid someone or something
  • Try any possible solution when hope is low
  • With just enough money or food to survive
  • Take a risk by supporting or saying something
  • Enjoy a chance to do something freely or successfully
Correct answer(s):
  • Avoid someone or something

Pick the correct meaning of the expression Half-hearted.

  • Without full interest or effort
  • Trust someone when the truth is uncertain
  • Mostly; generally
  • Have a complaint to discuss
Correct answer(s):
  • Without full interest or effort

Pick the correct meaning of the expression Give and take.

  • Become more accepted or successful
  • For a future time of need
  • Trust someone when the truth is uncertain
  • Mutual compromise
Correct answer(s):
  • Mutual compromise

Which answer best defines Hand in glove?

  • Enjoy a chance to do something freely or successfully
  • Go to bed
  • Begin discussing the most important practical details
  • Working very closely together, often secretly
Correct answer(s):
  • Working very closely together, often secretly

Which answer best defines Give the benefit of the doubt?

  • Be ignored
  • Trust someone when the truth is uncertain
  • Very healthy and strong
  • Very jealous
Correct answer(s):
  • Trust someone when the truth is uncertain

What does the idiom Go a long way mean?

  • Risk everything to try to succeed
  • With just enough money or food to survive
  • For a future time of need
  • Be very helpful or effective
  • Get what one wants
Correct answer(s):
  • Be very helpful or effective

Choose the correct meaning of Go astray.

  • Begin discussing the most important practical details
  • Become lost or go in the wrong direction
  • Avoid someone or something
  • Become too excited and lose control
Correct answer(s):
  • Become lost or go in the wrong direction

In English, what is meant by Go down the drain?

  • Mutual compromise
  • Be very helpful or effective
  • Have the right or chance to express an opinion
  • Be wasted or lost
Correct answer(s):
  • Be wasted or lost

Select the option that best explains Go for broke.

  • Risk everything to try to succeed
  • Be good at noticing or judging something
  • Become too excited and lose control
  • Leave or start a journey
  • Happening very quickly and energetically
Correct answer(s):
  • Risk everything to try to succeed

Which option gives the correct meaning of Go off the rails?

  • Act unfairly or cruelly
  • Become too excited and lose control
  • Start behaving badly or losing control
  • Fixed and not changeable
Correct answer(s):
  • Start behaving badly or losing control

For SSC English, identify the meaning of Go out on a limb.

  • Take a risk by supporting or saying something
  • Get what one wants
  • Mostly; generally
  • Nobody knows; it is uncertain
Correct answer(s):
  • Take a risk by supporting or saying something

What is the figurative meaning of Go the whole hog?

  • Start behaving badly or losing control
  • Be very busy
  • Mutual compromise
  • Do something completely and thoroughly
  • With just enough money or food to survive
Correct answer(s):
  • Do something completely and thoroughly

What is the figurative meaning of Gain ground?

  • Most importantly
  • Become more accepted or successful
  • Rare and not happening often
  • For a future time of need
  • From one place or person to another without success
Correct answer(s):
  • Become more accepted or successful