Aberration
Aberration (noun) If something is an aberration, it is not typical; it is a deviation from the standard. James has always been a nice guy. His bad behavior at his wife’s birthday party was...
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Reading comprehension exercise 6
Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow. Time was when people looked heavenward and prayed, “Ye Gods, give us rain, keep drought away.” Today there are those who pray, “Give us...
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...
Reading comprehension exercise 5
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...
Reading comprehension exercise 4
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,...
Active and passive voice exercise 2
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...
SSC Combined Graduate Level Exam | English Language and Comprehension
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...
Reading Comprehension Exercise 3
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...
Reading comprehension exercise 2
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...
Reading comprehension exercise 1
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...