Grammar and Structure Revision MCQ Test With Answers

Your task, should you accept it, is to trace down and apprehend the odd-man-out !! A Mission Impossible? Hardly…

Grammar and Structure Revision MCQ Test With Answers - Odd One Out Exercise 1

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Question 1

Choose the odd one out.

A	Last year, tens of thousands of people claimed that they had sighted a UFO in the region.
B	Houses have roofs. All sorts of roof construction are possible to the carpenter who is able and willing.
C	These peoples are not indigenous Europeans. They are the descendants of several migrant tribes who settled in these parts in the tenth century.
D	A dog is good friend to a man.
E	I come from northern Turkland. She comes from the South. This summer, I will be travelling south; and she will be travelling north.

Question 1 Explanation:

A dog is a good friend to a man.

Question 2

Choose the odd one out.

A	I can write in ink or with a pencil.
B	Fruit is very good for the brain. Apples and other fresh fruits are indispensable for your health and work wonders for your teeth.
C	Most later breeds of these sheep now give us some really superior quality wool.
D	Coffee is a drink. Tea is another drink.
E	Put a lemon in your soup instead of salt.

Question 2 Explanation:

Put some lemon in your soup instead of salt.

Question 3

Choose the odd one out.

A	What a pity your friend couldn't come!
B	What thoughtless of him!
C	What a clever boy you are!
D	Oh, God! There's no limit to how stupid one can get!
E	How gracefully she walks!

Question 3 Explanation:

How thoughtless of him!

Question 4

Choose the odd one out.

A	He took up swimming as a sport last year.
B	I should like a house in a country.
C	"May I walk you home?" was the next question he asked.
D	The bodies of most animals (all except sponges) are made up of cells organized into tissues.
E	I am fatuously fond of raw kangaroo meat sprinkled with parmesan cheese.

Question 4 Explanation:

I should like a house in the country.

Question 5

Choose the odd one out.

A	Just between you and me, it's her I'm afraid of, not him.
B	Do you really believe him -- now that you know he is the root cause of all that trouble -- is more suitable for the job than I am?
C	What! Me accept a present from him! I never even speak to him!
D	Surely, it's him you mean, not me!
E	I think you're far prettier than them all.

Question 5 Explanation:

Do you really believe (that) he -- now that you know he is the root cause of all that trouble -- is more suitable for the job than I am?

Question 6

Choose the odd one out.

A	A club for women = A womens' club... Toys for children = Children's toys
B	The parents of all the other boys = All the other boys' parents
C	The glass of someone else = Someone else's glass
D	The name of my sister-in-law = My sister-in-law's name
E	The son of Pharaoh's daughter was the daughter of Pharaoh's son.

Question 6 Explanation:

A club for women = A women's club... Toys for children = Children's toys

Question 7

Choose the odd one out.

A	That's too much money for a simple toy like that!
B	The wind proved strong enough to blow the roof off.
C	This soup is too hot for me to drink it.
D	I don't have enough money on me to pay the bill.
E	He is too unpopular to win the elections.

Question 7 Explanation:

This soup is too hot for me to drink.

Question 8

Choose the odd one out.

A	You may come and see me any day, but you must come some day.
B	"Please give me some more." "I'm sorry, but there isn't some left."
C	Didn't you do some work yesterday? I feel certain you did.
D	You aren't expecting anyone to call, are you?
E	These aren't my books. Did I take some of yours by mistake?

Question 8 Explanation:

"Please give me some more." "I'm sorry, but there isn't any left."

Question 9

Choose the odd one out.

A	What were you two talking about out there in the garden?
B	Can you tell us how many of those aren't yours?
C	Who phoned this morning? You hear me? I'm asking you who phoned this morning.
D	Sergen is a great player. One never knows which feet he is going to kick the ball with?
E	Who told you not to do it? Why should they do such a thing?

Question 9 Explanation:

Sergen is a great player. One never knows which foot he is going to kick the ball with?

Question 10

Choose the odd one out.

A	He is much less cooperative than we had expected he would be.
B	She's not so ugly as you said she was.
C	She is so stupid as I thought she would be.
D	You'd be less well-off if you were married and had children.
E	It is safer to tease a lion than scorn a woman.