1. Which type of speech is delivered for the first time by a person?
a) free speech
b) extempore speech
c) maiden speech
d) rousing speech
Answer: maiden speech
2. Which one has the identical singular and plural form?
a) Memorandum
b) Stimulus
c) Dice
d) Oasis
Answer: Dice
Explanation: Memorandum (sing.) → Memoranda (pl.) Stimulus (sing.) → Stimuli (pl.) Dice (sing.) → Dice (pl.) Oasis (sing.) → Oases (pl.)
3. Select the sentence in which ‘fast’ is an adverb:
a) Don't drive so fast!
b) Technology is expanding at a fast pace.
c) Muslims fast during Ramadan
d) Ushashi went on a 24-hour fast to detox.
Answer: Don't drive so fast!
Explanation: fast (adv.) = quickly → option (ক) fast (adj.) = fast pace fast (verb) = Muslims fast fast (noun) = a 24-hour fast
4. “It was a cowardly attack on a defenceless man.” Here ‘cowardly’ is a/an—
a) adverb
b) adjective
c) noun
d) conjunction
Answer: adjective
Explanation: Cowardly describes the noun attack → describing word = adjective
5. “The river flows past the village.” Here ‘past’ is a/an—**
a) noun
b) verb
c) adverb
d) preposition
Answer: preposition
Explanation: Past + object (the village) → preposition always takes an object
6. “Ihana sleeps only for four hours a night.” The verb ‘sleeps’ is—**
a) causative
b) intransitive
c) transitive
d) factitive
Answer: intransitive
Explanation: Sleep (verb) does not take an object → intransitive verb (যে সকল এর object বা কর্ম থাকে না ). Causative verb: subject যখন নিজে কাজ না করে অন্যকে দিয়ে করিয়ে নেয়। Causative verb: help, get, have. let, make. Ex: I shall get the work done by him. Transitive verb: subject+verb+object. বাক্যে verb এর পরে object থাক এবং তা noun অথবা pronoun হয় ।Example: She reads a book. Factitive Verb: Object বসানোর পরও অর্থ সম্পূর্ণ করতে objective complement লাগে। Example: They elected him captain.
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7. “He started teaching Hamlet.” Here ‘teaching’ is a/an—
a) participle
b) infinitive
c) verbal noun
d) gerund
Answer: gerund
8. Fill in the blank with the appropriate preposition: “She was married ___ a rich man.”
a) with
b) to
c) of
d) off
Answer: to
9. Which gender is the word ‘sibling’?
a) Mascuiline
b) Feminine
c) Neuter
d) Common
Answer: Common
Explanation: Sibling = brother or sister
10. Find out the correctly spelt word:
a) reminiscence
b) reminescence
c) remeniscence
d) reminicence
Answer: reminiscence
Explanation: reminiscence= remembering past events
