Reported speech exercise
This grammar exercise tests your ability to convert direct speech into indirect speech. An example is given below. Direct speech: ‘Do you think you know better than your father?’ asked his angry mother. Indirect...
English Grammar Lessons And Worksheets
This grammar exercise tests your ability to convert direct speech into indirect speech. An example is given below. Direct speech: ‘Do you think you know better than your father?’ asked his angry mother. Indirect...
Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow. In the world have we made health an end in itself? We have forgotten that health is really a means to enable a person...
Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. If you are a poet, you will have no difficulty seeing the cloud floating in this sheet of paper. If there are no clouds,...
A sentence has been given in Active/Passive Voice. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Passive/Active voice. An example is given below. 1. The teacher...
The Combined Graduate Level Exam conducted by the Staff Selection Commission has a paper on English Language and Comprehension. This paper typically includes exercises on active and passive voice. A sentence will be given...
The shoemaker had for ages suffered from a heart condition and five years ago, after an attack, it had appeared as though he would either have to sacrifice his business upon the auction block...
So Tiziano continued to draw. But one thing troubled him greatly- all the pictures he made were black, drawn with his piece of black charcoal, yet round about him glowed a perfect glory of...
I was lying on a ridge scanning with field glasses a rock cliff opposite me. On a ledge halfway up the cliff, a tahr, the most sure-footed of all Himalayan goats, and her kid...
A complex sentence contains one main clause (independent clause) and one or more subordinate clauses. A compound sentence contains two or more independent clauses. You can change a complex sentence into a compound sentence...
Here is a list of idiomatic expressions using the word wit. At one’s wit’s end When you are at your wit’s end, you are at the limits of your intellectual resources. She didn’t know...