📘 To-Infinitive vs Bare Infinitive📚 Verbs + Object + to-infinitive- advise, allow, permit, ask, tell, order, command, persuade, encourage, urge, request, force, tempt, teach, invite, warn, remind, cause, mean, dare, etc.

Q1

Identify the segment in the sentence which contains the grammatical error.

Nobody is allowed to entered the colony during the lockdown.

🎯 SSC Selection Post Phase-VIII (H.L.) 09.11.2020 (Shift-I)

📘 General Uses of Indefinite Article A/An📚 A/An before a singular countable noun introduced for the first time

Q2

Select the grammatically correct sentence.
A. I would like to spend an evening near pool with a cup of coffee.
B. I would like to spend an evening near pool with cup of coffee.
C. I would like to spend a evening near a pool with a cup of coffee.
D. I would like to spend an evening near a pool with a cup of coffee.

🎯 SSC Selection Phase XI-28/06/2023 (Shift-III)

📘 Prepositions of Place and Position📚 Beside vs Besides

Q3

Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to substitute it, select ‘No substitution required’.
Ria sits right <u>besides</u> Shimona in the craft class.

🎯 SSC Selection Phase XI-28/06/2023 (Shift-III)

📘 Fixed Prepositions (Verb/Adj/Noun)📚 Words taking 'From'- abstain from, refrain from, prevent from, debar from, recover from, etc.

Q4

Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to substitute it, select 'No substitution'
The lockdown prevented people to go out from their homes.

🎯 SSC Selection Post Phase-VIII (G.L.) 09.11.2020 (Shift-II)

📘 Need and Dare📚 Need and Dare as Main Verbs in Positive Sentences + To-Infinitive- You need to work hard

Q5

Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to substitute it, select 'no substitution'.
I need someone very strong to lift this heavy bag.

🎯 SSC Selection Post Phase-VIII (H.L.) 09.11.2020 (Shift-I)

📘 Past Indefinite Tense (Simple Past)📚 Definite past time markers take Past Indefinite, never Present Perfect- ago, yesterday, last night, in 1990, etc.

Q6

Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
Yesterday, after a nice walk, we _____ to sit on the bench, watch the birds, and rest for a while.

🎯 SSC Selection Post Phase-VIII (M.L.) 09.11.2020 (Shift-III)

📘 Relative Pronouns- Who, Whom, Whose📚 'Who' used as the subject of the subordinate clause

Q7

Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank in the given sentence.
The girl _____ stood first in the class is a close friend.

🎯 SSC Selection Post Phase-VIII (H.L.) 09.11.2020 (Shift-I)

📘 Basic Degrees of Comparison📚 Use of 'the' before Superlative Degree

Q8

Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
The Jupiter is the ______ planet in our solar system.

🎯 SSC Selection Post Phase-VIII (M.L.) 09.11.2020 (Shift-III)

📘 Verb Form after Modals (Structure Rules)📚 Modal followed by Bare Infinitive (V1) only- would broke, would break

Q9

Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
You must _____________ what you cannot cure.

🎯 SSC Selection Phase XI-27/06/2023 (Shift-I)

📘 Gerund after Prepositions📚 Gerund (V1+ing)after prepositions- of, in, etc. (confident of passing, insist on going, etc.)

Q10

Fill in the blank with the most appropriate word that can be used here based on the given context.
We as human beings usually tend to forget that life itself is an accumulated process of .

🎯 SSC Selection Phase XI-27/06/2023 (Shift-I)

📘 Prepositions of Reason, Purpose, etc.📚 In spite of vs Despite- no 'of' after despite

Q11

Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
________ being an officer, he lives in a very tiny apartment.

🎯 SSC Selection Phase XI-28/06/2023 (Shift-III)

📘 Comparative & Superlative Formation📚 Adding 'er' and 'est' to Positive Degree (bold-bolder-boldest)

Q12

Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
The propaganda was made to invade ________ neighbouring countries.

🎯 SSC Selection Phase XI-30/06/2023 (Shift-IV)

📘 Forms of Verbs (Regular and Irregular)📚 Correct choice of V2/V3 in Fill-ups and Error Spotting (slain, ridden, etc.)

Q13

Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
I hope you ___________ what I taught you today.

🎯 SSC Selection Phase XI-30/06/2023 (Shift-IV)

📘 Types of Noun and their Identification📚 Identifying Common Nouns (boy, city, etc.)

Q14

Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
That night the dinner was special, and the _________ himself came out to read out the menu list.

🎯 SSC Selection Phase XI-28/06/2023 (Shift-III)

📘 Fixed Prepositions (Verb/Adj/Noun)📚 Words taking 'In'- interested in, succeed in, persist in, excel in, indulge in, etc.

Q15

Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
The Thar desert is __________ in the state of Rajasthan.

🎯 SSC Selection Phase XI-30/06/2023 (Shift-IV)

📘 Verbs Confused by Meaning📚 Misc

Q16

Select the alternative that is appropriate to fill the blank.

The baby bird was _____ by its mother.

🎯 SSC Selection Post Phase-VII (M.L.) 15.10.2019 (Shift-I)

📘 Confusing Pairs of Adjectives📚 Misc

Q17

Select the alternative that is appropriate to fill the blank.

In case it rains, what______ arrangements have been made?

🎯 SSC Selection Post Phase-VII (M.L.) 15.10.2019 (Shift-I)

📘 Verbs Confused by Meaning📚 Misc

Q18

Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.

The doctors hope that the soldier’s wounds will soon____.

🎯 SSC Selection Post Phase-VIII (G.L.) 09.11.2020 (Shift-II)

📘 Confusing Pairs of Adjectives📚 Misc

Q19

Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.

The family made _____ enquiries about his background.

🎯 SSC Selection Post Phase-VIII (G.L.) 09.11.2020 (Shift-II)

📘 Voice of Continuous Tenses📚 Past Continuous Tense- Active and Passive conversion

Q20

Select the option that expresses the given sentence in active voice.

The manager was being scolded by Rushikesh.

🎯 SSC Selection Phase XI-27/06/2023 (Shift-I)

English Grammar - MOST IMPORTANT SSC Selection Phase Previous Year Questions