Adverb
1. An adverb does not modify ……….
a) nouns
b) adjectives
c) verbs
d) adverbs
Ans: a
2. What are the four questions that adverbs can answer? [BSMRSTU: 15-16]
a) Why? When? Where? Why?
b) When? Where? How? Why?
c) Why? Where?
d) To what extent/degree/What?
Ans: b
3. Which of the following does an adverb usually answer?
a) When
b) Where
c) How
d) All of these
Ans: d
4. An adverb doesn’t ………….
a) modify a pronoun
b) modifies an adjective
c) modifies a preposition
d) none of above
Ans:A
5. Which is not true about the function of an adverb?
a) qualifying a verb
b) qualifying an adverb
c) qualifying a sentence
d) qualifying an adjective
Ans: c
e
6. My mother always dresses ………….. (beautiful).
a) beauty
b) beautify
c) beautiful
d) beautifully
Ans: d
7. He did …………. in the test. [RU: 17-18]
a) badly
b) imaginative
c) good
d) bad
Ans: a
8. Poor people usually take meal twice. [RU: 06-07]
a) Adverb of degree
b) Adverb of frequency
c) Adverb of time
d) Adverb of reason
Ans:b
9. ‘The boy has been treated badly’. Here the word ‘badly’ is- [KUET: 116-17]
a) Intensifier
b) Adverb of manner
c) Adverb of degree
d) Adverb of purpose
Ans: b
10. He stood first. Here ‘first’ is-
a) Adverb of time
b) Adverb of place
c) Adverb of cause
d) Adverb of order
Ans: d
11. Although he felt very …………., he smiled ……….
a) angrily, friendly [DU: 03-04]
b) angry, friendly
c) angry, friendly way
d) angry, in a friendly way
Ans: d
12. Identify the correct sentence. [RU: 10-11]
a) She behaved with me in a friendly way.
b) She behaved with me friendly.
c) She behaved with me in friendly way.
d) She behaved with me friendly way.
Ans: a
13. Choose the correct sentence.
a) He acted in cowardly.
b) He acted coward manner.
c) He acted in a cowardly manner.
d) He acted in coward manner.
Ans: c
14. Although he felt very …………. he smiled ……..
a) hungrily, friendly
b) hungrily, in a friendly
c) hungry, friendly
d) hungry, in a friendly manner
Ans: d
15. He is ……….. weak to hear what we say.
a) very
b) quiet
c) quite
d) too
Ans: d
16. His fever is ………. to ignore.
a) too much high
b) much too high
c) so high
d) high to much
Ans: b
17. English language is not ………….. difficult to understand.
a) as
b) so
c) very
d) too
Ans: d
18. Don’t worry. English grammar is not ………. to understand. [13th BCS]
a) so difficult
b) too difficult
c) very difficult
d) difficult enough
Ans: b
19. The branch of tree is …….. high for the boy ……. climb.
a) so, that
b) too, to
c) so, very
d) so, to
Ans: b
20. Choose the correct sentence.
a) I am very busy to talk to you.
b) I am very much busy to talk to you.
c) I am so busy to talk to you.
d) I am too busy to talk to you.
Ans: d
