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Section 4 — Prepositions & Prepositional Phrases
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“The next flight is due ________ 6 pm.”Prepositions
[Choose the correct preposition]✅ Correct Answer: C
‘At’ is used with specific clock times. “At 6 pm”, “at noon”, “at midnight”, “at 8 o’clock”. Rule: AT = specific time; IN = months, years, seasons, parts of day (in the morning); ON = days and dates (on Monday, on 14th August).
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“He ran twelve miles ________ two hours.”Prepositions
[Choose the correct preposition]✅ Correct Answer: D
‘In’ is used to show how long it takes to complete an action. “He ran twelve miles in two hours” = he completed the distance within that time period. Compare: ‘for’ shows duration of an ongoing action — “He ran for two hours” (without mentioning completion).
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“This portrait was painted ________ an artist who lived in the eighteenth century.”Prepositions
[Choose the correct preposition]✅ Correct Answer: B
‘By’ is used in passive constructions to introduce the agent (the doer of the action). “Painted by an artist” — ‘by’ introduces who did the action. Rule: passive voice = object + be + past participle + BY + agent. ‘With’ introduces the instrument used, not the agent.
Section 5 — Modal Verbs
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“We have to stop when the traffic lights are red.” Which modal correctly replaces ‘have to’?Modal Verbs
[Choose the correct modal]✅ Correct Answer: C
‘Must’ and ‘have to’ both express obligation/necessity. “Have to stop” = “must stop” — both show compulsory action. ‘Can’ = ability; ‘may’ = permission or possibility; ‘should’ = advice (weaker than must). Only ‘must’ correctly replaces ‘have to’ for obligation.
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“You don’t have to do this exercise.” Which modal correctly expresses the same meaning?Modal Verbs
[Choose the correct modal]✅ Correct Answer: B
‘Don’t have to’ = ‘need not’ — both mean it is NOT necessary (no obligation). ‘Must not’ = prohibition (you are forbidden). ‘Should not’ = advice against doing something. ‘Cannot’ = lack of ability. Only ‘need not’ correctly replaces ‘don’t have to’ meaning no obligation.
Section 6 — Gerunds, Infinitives & Participles
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“The umbrella ________ (find) at the bus stop belongs to Abrar.”Participles
[Choose the correct participle]✅ Correct Answer: B
Past participle (found) is used as an adjective to describe the umbrella — “the found umbrella” (it was found by someone). Past participle as adjective describes a completed passive action. Present participle ‘finding’ would be active meaning: “the umbrella finding something” — which makes no sense here.
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“He is interested in ________ (make) new friends.”Gerunds
[Choose the correct verb form]✅ Correct Answer: D
After the preposition ‘in’, we always use a gerund (verb+ing). “Interested in making” is correct. Fixed expressions requiring gerund after preposition: interested in, good at, afraid of, keen on, crazy about, insist on, dream of, look forward to.
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“More than anything else, I wanted some time alone ________ (read).”Infinitives
[Choose the correct infinitive form]✅ Correct Answer: C
Here ‘to read’ is an infinitive used as an adjective modifying ‘time’ — “time to read” means time available for reading. Infinitives used as adjectives follow nouns and answer the question “what kind of time?” This is the adjective function of infinitives.
Section 7 — Nouns & Pronouns
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“Ladies and gentlemen. Here ________ the news.”Subject-Verb Agreement
[Choose the correct verb form — is or are]✅ Correct Answer: B
‘News’ is an uncountable noun and always takes a singular verb even though it ends in ‘s’. “Here is the news” is correct. Similarly: “The news is good.” Other nouns ending in ‘s’ but taking singular verbs: physics, mathematics, economics, politics, gymnastics.
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“This is not ________ jacket — ________ was blue.” (I)Pronouns
[Choose the correct pronoun forms in order]✅ Correct Answer: A
“This is not my jacket” — ‘my’ is a possessive determiner used BEFORE a noun (my jacket). “It was blue” — ‘it’ is a personal pronoun replacing ‘my jacket’. ‘Mine’ is a possessive pronoun used WITHOUT a noun: “This jacket is mine.” So: my + noun; mine = alone without noun.
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