- 1. Choose the correct option from the given alternatives.
The boys .......football every afternoon.
A) Play
B) Playing
C) Played
D) Plays
- 2. Choose the correct option from the given alternatives.
She has not eaten anything........ morning.
A) From
B) Since
C) For
D) At
- 3. Choose the correct option from the given alternatives.
If I ....... enough money, I will buy a bicycle.
A) Have
B) Had
C) Has
D) Having
- 4. Choose the correct option from the given alternatives.
The teacher asked us to keep....... during the lesson.
A) quietly
B) queiteness
C) quiet
D) quite
- 5. Choose the correct option from the given alternatives.
Neither Ade nor his friend....... present yesterday.
A) Be
B) Was
C) Were
D) Are
- 6. Choose the option that best answers the question.
Which of these is a formal letter?
A) A letter to your friend about her last trip
B) A letter to the principal to request for a transfer certificate
C) A letter to your sister about your exam
D) A letter to your cousin about your holiday
- 7. The address of the writer in a formal letter is written at the ...... of the page.
A) Middle
B) Bottom left
C) Bottom right
D) Top Right
- 8. Which of the following is a good topic for a narrative essay?
A) The day I will never forget
B) How to Wash your cloth
C) The use of water
D) The importance of education
- 9. The closing of a friendly letter is usually........
A) Yours affectionately
B) Yours faithfully
C) Your obedient servant
D) Yours yours
- 10. What should come immediately after the date of a formal letter?
A) Signature
B) Subject
C) Receiver's address
D) Salutation
- 11. Choose the word with the correct sound as the one capitalised.
The vowel sound in SHIP is the same as in
A) Heat
B) Seat
C) Sheep
D) Hit
- 12. The word WRITE begins with a ......sound.
A) /t/
B) /r/
C) /w/
D) /i/
- 13. Which of these words has the silent letter?
A) Kind
B) Knife
C) King
D) Kick
- 14. Which of the following words has three syllables?
A) School
B) Table
C) Teacher
D) Banana
- 15. The stress in the word "photograph" falls on.......
A) Last syllable
B) Third syllable
C) Second syllable
D) First syllable
- 16. From the options provided, choose the word that has the same consonant sound as the one CAPITALISED.
maCHine
A) Measure
B) Chuff
C) Chief
D) shoulder
- 17. From the options provided, choose the word that has the same vowel sound as the one CAPITALISED.
kIng
A) Break
B) Greet
C) Graph
D) Fill
- 18. From the options provided, choose the word that has the same vowel sound as the one CAPITALISED.
bUy
A) Come
B) Ugly
C) Fry
D) Pant
- 19. The following are types of nouns except_______
A) Common noun
B) Collective noun
C) Abstract noun
D) Feature noun
- 20. _______is a term used to describe work of creative imagination.
A) Writing
B) Narrative
C) Literature
D) Composition
- 21. Literature is divided into _______genres
A) Four
B) Five
C) Two
D) Three
- 22. _________is a short well known statement that gives advice or expresses something that is generally true.
A) Descriptive writing
B) Proverb
C) Prose
D) Literature
- 23. What comes immediately after the closing remark in a formal letter?
A) Yours faithfully
B) Full name
C) You're sincerely
D) Signature
- 24. Fill in the possessive form of the nouns given in the options provided below.
Femi enjoys playing with the_____brigade.
A) Boy's
B) Boys's
C) Boys'
- 25. Fill in the possessive form of the nouns given in the options provided below.
You can use the ____room on the floor.
A) Ladies'
B) Ladie's
C) Lady's
- 26. Fill in the possessive form of the nouns given in the options provided below.
Mrs Bako is______mother
A) Rolands'
B) Rolands's
C) Roland's
- 27. Fill in the possessive form of the nouns given in the options provided below.
Everyone praised the ________performance.
A) Dancers
B) Dancer's
C) Dancer
- 28. Fill in the possessive form of the nouns given in the options provided below.
The mean guard threw away the _____bags.
A) Girls'
B) Girl
C) Girls
- 29. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate options from the options provided below.
I've drunk all _______juice, so can I have some of _______?
A) Mine, your
B) My, yours
C) You, yours
- 30. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate options from the options provided below.
Tell Dayo not to forget ______homework. And you mustn't forget _______
A) Is. your
B) His, Yours
C) You, your
- 31. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate options from the options provided below.
I just heard from that friend of _____i told you about.
A) mine
B) me
C) my
- 32. While in Durban, we stayed with a South African friend of ________
A) you
B) my
C) ours
- 33. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate options from the options provided below.
We've had ______lunch. Have they had________?
A) ours, yours
B) our, theirs
C) my, yours
- 34. From the options provided below, choose the word that best completes the sentence.
My mother and my sister ____travelling to Kano next week.
A) Was
B) Are
C) Am
D) Is
- 35. From the options provided below, choose the word that best completes the sentence.
You____well today
A) Were looking
B) Is looking
C) Are looking
D) Am looking
- 36. From the options provided below, choose the word that best completes the sentence.
We have to leave now, it____ late.
A) Is got
B) Was getting
C) Is getting
D) Has gotten
- 37. From the options provided below, choose the word that best completes the sentence.
They _______their homework when they fell asleep.
A) Did
B) Is doing
C) Are doing
D) Were doing
- 38. From the options provided below, choose the word that best completes the sentence.
He____his leg when he was playing
A) Hurt
B) Is hurting
C) Was hurting
D) Hurts
- 39. From the options provided below, choose the word that best completes the sentence.
You should not allow anything interefere ______your studies
A) For
B) With
C) In
D) On
- 40. From the options provided below, choose the word that best completes the sentence.
The children were tired _____excited.
A) Yet
B) If
C) Or
D) And
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