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MAT English Grammar Questions
Practise english grammar (english) for the Management Aptitude Test: 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 correct tag question: She can swim, ___?
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Answer: D — can’t she
A positive statement takes a negative tag with the same auxiliary: “can’t she?”.
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Q2.Choose the correct option: He insisted ___ paying the bill.
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Answer: C — on
“Insist” takes the preposition “on” + gerund.
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Q3.Choose the correct option: She is senior ___ me by two years.
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Answer: B — to
Latin comparatives (senior, junior, superior, inferior) take “to”, not “than”.
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Q4.Choose the correct option: Neither the manager nor the clerks ___ present.
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Answer: A — were
With neither…nor, the verb agrees with the nearer subject (“clerks”, plural) → were.
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Q5.Choose the correct option: There is no ___ in crying over spilt milk.
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Answer: C — use
Fixed expression: “There is no use (in) doing something”.
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Q6.Choose the correct option: The train ___ by the time we reach the station.
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Answer: B — will have left
An action completed before a future point takes the future perfect: “will have left”.
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Q7.Choose the correctly punctuated sentence.
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Answer: C — It’s a lovely day.
“It’s” is the contraction of “it is”; “its” is possessive.
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Q8.Choose the correct form: By the time we arrived, the film ___.
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Answer: C — had already started
An action completed before another past action takes the past perfect: “had already started”.
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Q9.Choose the correct conditional: If it rains tomorrow, we ___ the match.
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Answer: A — will cancel
First conditional (real future possibility): if + present, will + base verb.
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Q10.Choose the correct article: He is ___ honest man.
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Answer: A — an
“Honest” begins with a vowel sound (silent h), so “an”.
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.
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