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Andhra Pradesh SSC (Class 10) English Grammar — practice questions

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Choose the word **closest in meaning** to the underlined word. "Such a **prophetic** greeting might well amaze him."Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the word **closest in meaning** to *abhorrent*. "She would not have undertaken a deed so **abhorrent** to her sex."Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the word **closest in meaning** to *fatigue*. "There lay Duncan in a sound sleep after the **fatigues** of his journey."Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the word **closest in meaning** to *contrived*. "That it was too full of the milk of human kindness, to do a **contrived** murder."Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the word **closest in meaning** to *ambitious*. "She was a bad, **ambitious** woman."Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the correct article: "I saw ___ elephant at the zoo."Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the correct article: "She is ___ honest person."Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the correct article: "He is ___ university professor."Read the answer and worked solution →Which sentence uses the **definite article** correctly?Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the correct article: "___ Ganga is a sacred river."Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the correct form: "Each of the boys ___ a prize."Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the correct form: "The team ___ playing well."Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the correct form: "Neither of the answers ___ correct."Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the correct form: "Mathematics ___ my favourite subject."Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the correct form: "Neither he nor his friends ___ available."Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the correct tense: "By the time he arrived, the train ___."Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the correct tense: "She ___ in Delhi since 2010."Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the correct tense: "He ___ his homework before the teacher came."Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the correct tense: "Water ___ at 100°C."Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the correct tense: "I will call you when I ___ home."Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the correct preposition: "She is married ___ a doctor."Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the correct preposition: "I have been waiting ___ you for an hour."Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the correct preposition: "He is jealous ___ his brother's success."Read the answer and worked solution →Convert to passive voice: "He writes a letter."Read the answer and worked solution →Convert to passive voice: "They built this bridge in 1980."Read the answer and worked solution →Convert to passive voice: "Who broke the window?"Read the answer and worked solution →Identify the **part of speech** of the underlined word: "He runs **quickly**."Read the answer and worked solution →Identify the **part of speech** of *but* in: "She is poor **but** honest."Read the answer and worked solution →Which is a **simple sentence**?Read the answer and worked solution →Which is a **complex sentence**?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Choose the word **closest in meaning** to the underlined word. "Such a **prophetic** greeting might well amaze him."

  1. flattering
  2. trivial
  3. silent
  4. predicting the future
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Correct answer: D. predicting the future

*Prophetic* — foretelling the future (from *prophet*). **Predicting the future** is the direct meaning.

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Choose the word **closest in meaning** to *abhorrent*. "She would not have undertaken a deed so **abhorrent** to her sex."

  1. attractive
  2. repugnant
  3. ordinary
  4. fashionable
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Correct answer: B. repugnant

*Abhorrent* — repugnant, deeply objectionable. **Repugnant** is the synonym. - **A** is the antonym.

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Choose the word **closest in meaning** to *fatigue*. "There lay Duncan in a sound sleep after the **fatigues** of his journey."

  1. weariness from exertion
  2. pleasures
  3. plans
  4. failures
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Correct answer: A. weariness from exertion

*Fatigue* — weariness from physical or mental exertion. Duncan was tired from travelling.

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