English MCQs – Page 88 (Q871-880)

The correct answer is 'Gone' because 'go' is an irregular verb whose past participle, 'gone', differs entirely from its simple past tense form, 'went', both irregular forms that must be memorized rather than derived from a regular '-ed' ending. The past participle 'gone' is used with auxiliary verbs to form perfect tenses, as in 'has gone' or 'had gone', while 'went' is used alone as the simple past tense, as in 'He went home yesterday', a distinction frequently tested in verb form questions.

The correct answer is 'Written' because 'write' is an irregular verb whose past participle, 'written', differs from its simple past tense form, 'wrote', both forms requiring memorization since they do not follow the regular '-ed' pattern. The past participle 'written' is used with auxiliary verbs in perfect and passive constructions, as in 'has written' or 'was written', while 'wrote' functions alone as the simple past tense, as in 'She wrote a letter', a distinction essential for correct tense formation.

The correct answer is 'Broken' because 'break' is an irregular verb whose past participle, 'broken', differs from its simple past tense form, 'broke', both irregular forms requiring memorization. The past participle 'broken' is used with auxiliary verbs in perfect and passive constructions, as in 'has broken' or 'was broken', while 'broke' functions alone as the simple past tense, as in 'He broke the glass', a commonly tested distinction since many learners mistakenly use 'broke' after auxiliary verbs like 'has'.

The correct answer is 'Begun' because 'begin' is an irregular verb whose past participle, 'begun', differs from its simple past tense form, 'began', both irregular forms requiring memorization rather than a regular '-ed' ending. The past participle 'begun' is used with auxiliary verbs in perfect constructions, as in 'has begun' or 'had begun', while 'began' functions alone as the simple past tense, as in 'The meeting began at nine', a frequently confused pair in verb form questions.

The correct answer is 'Swum' because 'swim' is an irregular verb whose past participle, 'swum', differs from its simple past tense form, 'swam', both irregular forms requiring memorization. The past participle 'swum' is used with auxiliary verbs in perfect constructions, as in 'has swum' or 'had swum', while 'swam' functions alone as the simple past tense, as in 'She swam across the river', a distinction frequently tested alongside similar irregular verbs like 'begin/began/begun' that follow the same three-part vowel-change pattern.

The correct answer is 'Laid' because 'lay', meaning to place something down, is a regular-irregular verb whose past tense is 'laid', not the nonstandard 'layed'. This verb is frequently confused with the unrelated 'lie', meaning to recline, whose own past tense happens to be 'lay', creating one of the most notoriously confusing verb pairs in English: 'lay, laid, laid' (to place something) versus 'lie, lay, lain' (to recline), a distinction tested repeatedly across multiple related questions.

The correct answer is 'Lay' because 'lie', meaning to recline or rest in a horizontal position, has the irregular past tense 'lay', which confusingly looks identical to the base form of the entirely different verb 'lay' (meaning to place something down). This creates one of English's most famously tricky verb confusions: 'lie, lay, lain' for reclining versus 'lay, laid, laid' for placing an object, with the distractor 'lied' actually being the past tense of a third, completely unrelated verb 'lie' meaning to tell a falsehood.

The correct answer is 'small red Japanese' because English adjectives follow a conventional order when multiple adjectives modify the same noun, generally following the sequence: opinion, size, age, shape, color, origin, material, purpose, commonly remembered through the acronym OSASCOMP. Here, 'small' (size) correctly precedes 'red' (color), which correctly precedes 'Japanese' (origin). Native speakers apply this order intuitively, but non-native learners must consciously memorize the sequence, making adjective order a frequently and specifically tested grammar point in competitive exams.

The correct answer is 'The new policy will affect many employees' because 'affect' functions as a verb meaning to influence or have an impact on something, correctly used here in its base form after the modal 'will'. This is one of the most commonly confused word pairs in English, since 'effect' is usually a noun meaning a result, though it can rarely function as a verb meaning 'to bring about'. The distractor options either incorrectly substitute the noun 'effect', add an unnecessary '-s' after the modal 'will', or shift the tense incorrectly to past.

The correct answer is 'The medicine had a positive effect on his health' because 'effect', in this sentence, correctly functions as a noun meaning a result or outcome, paired appropriately with the verb 'had' and the adjective 'positive'. This contrasts with 'affect', which functions as a verb meaning to influence, the reverse grammatical role from 'effect' in its standard noun usage. The distractor options either misuse 'affect' as a noun or incorrectly apply 'effect' as a verb, both reversing the standard noun-verb roles of this frequently confused word pair.