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IBPS RRB PO English Grammar Questions
Practise english grammar (english) for the IBPS RRB Officer Scale I Examination: 10 multiple-choice questions, each with the correct answer and a worked explanation. Click an option to check it, or “New questions” for another set.
English Grammar practice
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Q1.Choose the word that fits: The news ___ surprising.
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Answer: D — is
“News” is an uncountable noun and takes a singular verb.
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Q2.Choose the correct form: By the time we arrived, the film ___.
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Answer: D — had already started
An action completed before another past action takes the past perfect: “had already started”.
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Q3.Choose the correct option: Neither the manager nor the clerks ___ present.
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Answer: B — were
With neither…nor, the verb agrees with the nearer subject (“clerks”, plural) → were.
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Q4.Identify the correct sentence.
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Answer: C — He and I went to the market.
Subject pronouns (he, I) are needed for the subject of the verb.
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Q5.Choose the correct option: There is no ___ in crying over spilt milk.
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Answer: D — use
Fixed expression: “There is no use (in) doing something”.
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Q6.Choose the correct option: I look forward to ___ from you.
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Answer: B — hearing
In “look forward to”, “to” is a preposition, so it takes a gerund: “hearing”.
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Q7.Choose the correctly punctuated sentence.
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Answer: A — It’s a lovely day.
“It’s” is the contraction of “it is”; “its” is possessive.
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Q8.Choose the correct option: Hardly had he left ___ it started raining.
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Answer: C — when
The correlative pair is “hardly … when” (also “no sooner … than”).
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Q9.Choose the correct option: The furniture in the house ___ new.
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Answer: B — is
“Furniture” is uncountable and takes a singular verb.
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Q10.Choose the correct option: The train ___ by the time we reach the station.
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Answer: D — will have left
An action completed before a future point takes the future perfect: “will have left”.
How to approach english grammar questions
Find the subject first and make the verb agree with it, ignoring phrases in between. Watch fixed prepositions (good at, insist on, prefer to) and tense sequence in reported speech.
About IBPS RRB PO
IBPS RRB Officer Scale I Examination — conducted by Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS). Recruits officers for Regional Rural Banks across India.
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