English — All MCQs

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Q761.Change to Indirect: "He said, 'I have done my homework.'"

Medium
A He said that he did his homework.
B He said that he has done his homework.
C He said that he had done his homework.
D He told that he had done his homework.
Voice & Narration PPSC

Correct Answer: C

Present perfect → past perfect in reported speech.

Q762.Change to Indirect: "She asked, 'Can you help me?'"

Medium
A She asked if I can help her.
B She asked if I could help her.
C She asked whether I helped her.
D She asked that I could help her.
Voice & Narration CSS

Correct Answer: B

Modal "can" → "could" in reported speech.

Q763.Change to Indirect: "She said, 'I will come tomorrow.'"

Medium
A She said she will come tomorrow.
B She said she would come the next day.
C She said she would come tomorrow.
D She told that she comes the next day.
Voice & Narration PPSC

Correct Answer: B

"Will" → "would", "tomorrow" → "the next day" in reported speech.

Q764.Change to Indirect: "She said, 'It is raining.'"

Easy
A She said that it is raining.
B She said that it was raining.
C She told it was raining.
D She said that it rained.
Voice & Narration CSS

Correct Answer: B

Present continuous → past continuous in reported speech.

Q765.Change to Indirect: "She said, 'May God help you!'"

Hard
A She prayed that God might help him.
B She said may God help him.
C She wished that God helps him.
D She told that God may help him.
Voice & Narration CSS

Correct Answer: A

Wish/prayer: "said" → "prayed/wished that"; "may" → "might".

Q766.Change to Passive: "He had written three novels."

Medium
A Three novels were written by him.
B Three novels have been written by him.
C Three novels had been written by him.
D Three novels are written by him.
Voice & Narration CSS

Correct Answer: C

Past perfect passive: had been written.

Q767.Change to Passive: "She will have completed the task."

Hard
A The task will be completed by her.
B The task would be completed by her.
C The task will have been completed by her.
D The task is completed by her.
Voice & Narration PMS

Correct Answer: C

Future perfect passive: will have been completed.

Q768.Change to Passive: "Someone has stolen my bicycle."

Medium
A My bicycle has been stolen.
B My bicycle was stolen.
C My bicycle is stolen.
D My bicycle had been stolen.
Voice & Narration CSS

Correct Answer: A

When agent is "someone", it is dropped in passive. Present perfect passive.

Q769.Change to Passive: "They are repairing the road."

Medium
A The road is being repaired by them.
B The road was being repaired.
C The road has been repaired.
D The road will be repaired.
Voice & Narration PPSC

Correct Answer: A

Present continuous passive: is/are being + V3.

Q770.Which verb cannot be used in the continuous tense?

Medium
A Run
B Know
C Swim
D Write
Voice & Narration PPSC

Correct Answer: B

"Know" is a stative verb and does not normally appear in continuous tense.

Q771."Don Quixote" was written by:

Medium
A Dante Alighieri
B Miguel de Cervantes
C Voltaire
D Giovanni Boccaccio
Literature & Literary Terms PMS

Correct Answer: B

"Don Quixote" was written by the Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes.

Q772."I have told you a million times" is an example of:

Easy
A Simile
B Metaphor
C Hyperbole
D Personification
Literature & Literary Terms PMS

Correct Answer: C

Hyperbole means deliberate exaggeration for effect.

Q773."Iqbal Namah" was written by:

Easy
A Faiz Ahmad Faiz
B Allama Iqbal
C Ahmad Faraz
D Habib Jalib
Literature & Literary Terms PPSC

Correct Answer: B

"Iqbal Namah" is a work by Allama Iqbal.

Q774."Things Fall Apart" was written by:

Hard
A Chinua Achebe
B Wole Soyinka
C Ngugi wa Thiong'o
D Ama Ata Aidoo
Literature & Literary Terms CSS

Correct Answer: A

"Things Fall Apart" (1958) was written by Chinua Achebe.

Q775.A play with a sad ending is called a:

Easy
A Comedy
B Satire
C Tragedy
D Farce
Literature & Literary Terms CSS

Correct Answer: C

A tragedy ends in disaster, especially for the protagonist.

Q776.A sonnet has how many lines?

Easy
A 12
B 14
C 16
D 18
Literature & Literary Terms CSS

Correct Answer: B

A sonnet is a 14-line poem.

Q777.The repetition of initial consonant sounds is called:

Easy
A Assonance
B Rhyme
C Alliteration
D Onomatopoeia
Literature & Literary Terms PPSC

Correct Answer: C

Alliteration is the repetition of the same initial consonant sound.

Q778.What literary device is used in "Life is a journey"?

Easy
A Simile
B Metaphor
C Personification
D Alliteration
Literature & Literary Terms PPSC

Correct Answer: B

A metaphor makes a direct comparison without "like" or "as".

Q779.What literary device is used in "She is as brave as a lion"?

Easy
A Metaphor
B Simile
C Hyperbole
D Irony
Literature & Literary Terms CSS

Correct Answer: B

A simile uses "like" or "as" to compare.

Q780.Which period of English literature came first?

Hard
A Renaissance
B Romantic
C Victorian
D Elizabethan
Literature & Literary Terms PMS

Correct Answer: D

The Elizabethan period preceded the Renaissance in literary history.