Grammar Detectives
Sharpen your skills with this English grammar quiz for Classes 5 to 8. Fifteen quick questions on parts of speech, tenses, apostrophes and tricky verbs, each with a one-line rule to remember.
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This English grammar quiz is a quick check-up in 15 questions. It covers the building blocks that come up again and again in school: parts of speech, verb forms and tenses, active and passive voice, subject and verb agreement, articles, apostrophes, prepositions, plurals, collective nouns and comparing with adjectives.
It is pitched at students in Classes 5 to 8, but it also makes a good five-minute starter for older classes and a handy refresher for parents helping with homework. Each question is short enough to read on a phone, and every answer comes with a one-line rule, so a wrong answer still teaches something you can use in your next essay.
Most grammar slips in school writing come from a few patterns: verbs that don't agree with their subject, irregular past tenses, and apostrophes in the wrong place. A simple habit catches many of them. Read your sentence aloud, find who or what is doing the action, and check that the verb matches it. Then look at every word with an apostrophe and ask who owns what, or which letters have been left out.
English Grammar questions with answers
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"The dog barked loudly." Which word in this sentence is the adverb?
- The
- dog
- loudly
- barked
Answer: loudly. "Loudly" tells us how the dog barked, so it is an adverb. Many adverbs of manner end in -ly.
One rule for judging something is a criterion. What do you call two or more of them?
- criteria
- criterias
- criterions
- criterium
Answer: criteria. Criterion comes from Greek, and its plural is criteria, just like phenomenon and phenomena.
Only one of these would get a tick from your English teacher. Which?
- She not like mangoes.
- She doesn't like mangoes.
- She doesn't likes mangoes.
- She don't like mangoes.
Answer: She doesn't like mangoes.. With he, she or it we use "doesn't" followed by the base verb: doesn't like, not doesn't likes.
Their, there and they're trip up even grown-ups. What do we call words that sound alike but differ in meaning or spelling?
- Antonyms
- Synonyms
- Homophones
- Prefixes
Answer: Homophones. Homophones sound the same but mean different things. Homo means 'same' and phone means 'sound' in Greek.
Which of these sentences is in the present perfect tense?
- I will finish my homework.
- I am finishing my homework.
- I have finished my homework.
- I finished my homework.
Answer: I have finished my homework.. The present perfect uses has or have plus the past participle: have finished.
Ravi broke the window. Which sentence says that in the passive voice?
- The window was broken by Ravi.
- Ravi will break the window.
- Ravi broke the window.
- Ravi is breaking the window.
Answer: The window was broken by Ravi.. In the passive voice the thing acted on, the window, becomes the subject, and the doer comes after "by".
Fill the gap: "Each of the players ___ a new jersey for the final."
- have
- has
- are having
- were having
Answer: has. "Each" means every single one, so it takes a singular verb, even when a plural noun like "players" follows it.
Which of these words takes 'an' before it, even though its first letter is a consonant?
- honest
- university
- useful
- one
Answer: honest. The h in honest is silent, so the word starts with a vowel sound. 'A' or 'an' depends on the sound, not the letter.
In "She is a quick runner", what part of speech is the word "quick"?
- Adverb
- Noun
- Verb
- Adjective
Answer: Adjective. "Quick" describes the noun "runner", so it is an adjective. "She runs quickly" would need the adverb.
Wolves hunt in a pack. What is a group of lions called?
- troop
- pride
- pack
- herd
Answer: pride. A group of lions is a pride. Monkeys come in troops and cattle in herds.
In "Meena was tired, so she went to bed early", which word is the conjunction?
- Meena
- tired
- went
- so
Answer: so. A conjunction joins two parts of a sentence. "So" links the reason (she was tired) to the result (she went to bed).
Three sisters share one bedroom. Which is the correct way to write that it belongs to all of them?
- the sister's room
- the sisters's room
- the sister room
- the sisters' room
Answer: the sisters' room. For a plural noun ending in s, the apostrophe goes after the s: the sisters' room. "The sister's room" means one sister owns it.
Pick the right word: "My birthday is ___ 5 March."
- in
- at
- by
- on
Answer: on. We use "on" for days and dates, "in" for months and years, and "at" for clock times.
Fill the gap: "Yesterday Arjun ___ a kite on the terrace."
- flied
- flew
- flown
- flyed
Answer: flew. Fly is an irregular verb: fly, flew, flown. "Flown" needs a helper, as in "has flown".
Fill the gap: "Raju's essay was good, but Neha's was even ___."
- gooder
- more good
- better
- best
Answer: better. Good is irregular: good, better, best. We compare two essays here, so the comparative "better" fits.
Frequently asked questions
What are the parts of speech in English?
Traditional grammar lists eight: noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction and interjection. Many modern grammars also treat determiners such as 'a', 'the' and 'this' as a separate class.
What is a collective noun?
A collective noun names a group of people, animals or things as one unit, such as a flock of sheep, a swarm of bees, a team of players or a bunch of grapes.
How can I use this grammar quiz in class?
Put it on the board as a warm-up, let students answer on their phones or in their notebooks, then go through the one-line rule under each answer. It takes about five minutes.