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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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Pick the correct meaning of the expression Hit the road.

  • Chasing closely
  • Stopped gradually or completely
  • Leave or start a journey
  • Instead of
Correct answer(s):
  • Leave or start a journey

Which answer best defines Hit the sack?

  • Go to bed
  • Very clearly and directly
  • Enjoy a chance to do something freely or successfully
  • Comfortable and confident doing something
Correct answer(s):
  • Go to bed

What does the idiom Hold one’s ground mean?

  • Stopped gradually or completely
  • Get what one wants
  • Being discussed or doubted
  • Refuse to move back or change one’s position
  • Angry or annoyed
Correct answer(s):
  • Refuse to move back or change one's position

What does the idiom Hard and fast mean?

  • Make a process easier or faster
  • Fixed and not changeable
  • Stuck in a boring fixed routine
  • Go to bed
  • Hear about something secret or private
Correct answer(s):
  • Fixed and not changeable

Choose the correct meaning of Hold the fort.

  • Dishonestly or without sincere intention
  • Be responsible while someone else is away
  • Stopped gradually or completely
  • Very quickly
Correct answer(s):
  • Be responsible while someone else is away

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

Which meaning matches the phrase Go through the motions?

  • Become more accepted or successful
  • Do something without real interest or effort
  • Try any possible solution when hope is low
  • Have a complaint to discuss
Correct answer(s):
  • Do something without real interest or effort

Which meaning matches the phrase Get a foothold?

  • Every small place
  • Rare and not happening often
  • Obtain a first strong position
  • Negotiate strongly to get a good deal
Correct answer(s):
  • Obtain a first strong position

Choose the best interpretation of Good riddance.

  • Trust someone when the truth is uncertain
  • Go to bed
  • Relief that someone or something unwanted is gone
  • Mostly; generally
Correct answer(s):
  • Relief that someone or something unwanted is gone

Choose the best interpretation of Get away with.

  • Happening very quickly and energetically
  • Escape punishment or avoid the consequences
  • Have the right or chance to express an opinion
  • Do something completely and thoroughly
Correct answer(s):
  • Escape punishment or avoid the consequences

What idea does Grasp at straws usually express?

  • From one place or person to another without success
  • Do something without real interest or effort
  • Try any possible solution when hope is low
  • Refuse to move back or change one’s position
  • Relief that someone or something unwanted is gone
Correct answer(s):
  • Try any possible solution when hope is low

What idea does Get carried away usually express?

  • Obtain a first strong position
  • Have the right or chance to express an opinion
  • Become too excited and lose control
  • A subject or situation one knows well
  • Whether the result is good or bad
Correct answer(s):
  • Become too excited and lose control

Which explanation is closest to Grease the wheels?

  • Be good at noticing or judging something
  • Make the final decision or final remark
  • Have no connection or effect
  • Make a process easier or faster
Correct answer(s):
  • Make a process easier or faster