English MCQs – Page 48 (Q471-480)

The correct answer is 'He entered the room quietly' because 'enter' is a transitive verb that already means 'to go into', making any additional preposition like 'into', 'inside', or 'in' entirely redundant and grammatically unnecessary. This mirrors the identical redundant-preposition pattern seen with verbs like 'discuss' (never 'discuss about') and 'reach' (never 'reach to'), all of which already incorporate directional or locational meaning within the verb itself, requiring a direct object rather than a following preposition.

The correct answer is 'Please repeat that instruction' because 'repeat' already means 'to say or do again', making the additional word 'again' redundant and unnecessary in this sentence. This mirrors the identical redundancy pattern seen in 'return back' and 'revert back', all cases where a verb's built-in meaning already fully expresses what an extra word attempts to add. Recognizing and eliminating these unnecessary repetitions is a key skill tested in redundancy and conciseness-focused exam questions.

The correct answer is 'The two twins look identical' because, among the given options, it avoids the layered redundancies present in the alternatives, such as pairing 'both' with 'two' and 'each', or repeating 'identical twins... look identical'. While 'twins' technically already implies a pair of two, making 'two' arguably unnecessary, this option remains the most natural and least redundant compared to the other choices, which stack multiple unnecessary qualifiers together. Recognizing degrees of redundancy, not just its presence, is an important skill for these comparative redundancy questions.

The correct answer is 'She likes reading, writing, and painting' because parallel structure requires that all items in a list share the same grammatical form, here all three items correctly use the gerund '-ing' form, 'reading', 'writing', and 'painting'. The distractor options inconsistently mix gerunds with infinitives, such as 'to write' or 'to paint', breaking the parallel pattern. Maintaining consistent grammatical form across all elements of a list, whether gerunds, infinitives, or adjectives, is a fundamental principle of clear, correct sentence construction frequently tested in exams.

The correct answer is 'He is intelligent, hardworking, and honest' because parallel structure requires that all items in a list share the same grammatical form, here all three items are correctly expressed as adjectives, 'intelligent', 'hardworking', and 'honest'. The distractor options break this consistency by substituting a verb phrase, 'works hard', a noun, 'honesty', or an incorrect word form, 'intelligence', in place of the expected adjective. Recognizing and correcting shifts in grammatical form within a list is essential for both grammatical accuracy and stylistic clarity in written English.

The correct answer is 'This road is wider than that one' because 'wide', a short one-syllable adjective, forms its comparative by adding '-er', and the comparison of exactly two items requires 'than', not the superlative form reserved for comparing three or more. The distractor options incorrectly add 'more' to an adjective that already has an '-er' ending, wrongly use the superlative 'widest' for a two-item comparison, or mix the 'as...as' equative structure with 'than', none of which fit the standard two-item comparative pattern this sentence requires.

The correct answer is 'Everest is the highest mountain in the world' because superlative adjectives comparing three or more items, here all mountains in the world, always require the definite article 'the' immediately before them, as in 'the highest'. The distractor options either create a redundant double superlative by combining 'more' or 'most' with the already-superlative '-est' ending, or omit the required article 'the' entirely, both common and frequently tested superlative formation errors in competitive English grammar sections.

The correct answer is 'She is as tall as her brother' because the 'as...as' equative structure, used to show two things are equal in some quality, requires the base form of the adjective, 'tall', not its comparative form, and must use 'as' on both sides of the adjective, never mixed with 'than'. The distractor options incorrectly use the comparative 'taller' within the 'as...as' frame, mix 'as' with 'than', or substitute 'so' for the first 'as', which is only correct in negative equative sentences like 'not so tall as'.

The correct answer is 'There are fewer students in this class than in that one' because 'fewer' is used with plural countable nouns like 'students', while 'less' is reserved for uncountable nouns; the plural subject also requires the plural verb 'are'. The distractor options either incorrectly use 'less' with a countable noun, mismatch a singular verb 'is' with a plural noun, or incorrectly singularize 'student' after 'fewer', all violating the fewer-versus-less distinction that is one of the most frequently tested countable-versus-uncountable noun rules.

The correct answer is 'He has less money than I do' because 'less' is the correct comparative quantifier for uncountable nouns like 'money', while 'fewer' is reserved for countable plural nouns. The distractor options incorrectly use 'fewer' with the uncountable 'money', substitute 'lesser', which describes importance or degree rather than quantity, or wrongly pluralize 'money' as 'moneys', which is grammatically nonstandard in this context. This less-versus-fewer distinction directly parallels and contrasts with the identical rule tested for countable nouns.