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English BCS
Identify the plural form of the word ‘corpus’:
A corpora
B corpii
C corpi
D corpus
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17 Aug 2026
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English BCS
That is the mountain that we are going to climb. Here the underlined part is-
A An adjective clause
B A noun clause
C An adverbial clause
D None of the three
2
Medium
17 Aug 2026
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English BCS
What is the meaning of ‘Don't beat a dead horse’?
A Do a good job
B Don’t be cruel
C To keep talking on a subject that is already discu...
D Don’t try too much
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Medium
17 Aug 2026
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English BCS
To establish the connections between paragraphs in a paper you-
A Use the phrase ‘I am connecting this’
B Make the first sentence lengthy
C Use transitional words or phrase at the beginning...
D Use last line of the previous paragraph
1
Medium
17 Aug 2026
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English BCS
Select the word that is the most closely opposite in meaning to the capitalized word : ABERRATION-
A peculiarity
B deviation
C Regularity
D eccentricity
1
Medium
17 Aug 2026
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English BCS
Which one is not a literary work of ‘Magic Realism’ by genre -
A One Hundred Years of Solitude
B Midnight's Children
C Gulliver's Travels
D Kafka on the Shore
2
Medium
17 Aug 2026
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English BCS
The Modern Period began in-
A 1938
B 1901
C 1939
D 1900
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Medium
17 Aug 2026
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English BCS
'Love and Friendship' is written by
A Jane Austen
B Francis Bacon
C Jonathan Swift
D Jane Austen
2
Medium
17 Aug 2026
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English BCS
Rudyard Kipling was born in -
A South Africa
B Wales
C Ireland
D India
2
Medium
17 Aug 2026
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English BCS
Fill in the blank with appropriate use of tense:Neither the Chairman nor the members present.
A Has been
B are
C is
D had
1
Medium
17 Aug 2026
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English BCS
An unmarried woman is known as-
A widower
B bachelor
C spinster
D widow
2
Medium
17 Aug 2026
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English BCS
‘No, you may not complete the task in time.’ The underlined word is-
A Interjection
B Pronoun
C Conjunction
D Noun
1
Medium
17 Aug 2026
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English BCS
'Abel Magwitch' is a character from -
A Great Expectations
B The Tempest
C All for Nothing
D David Copperfield
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Medium
17 Aug 2026
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English BCS
The word “erudite” means:
A Lovable
B Talkative
C knowledgeable
D Arrogant
2
Medium
17 Aug 2026
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English BCS
Who is the author of the famous play 'Caesar and Cleopatra'?
A William Shakespeare
B Christopher Marlowe
C G. B. Shaw
D Alexander Phleming
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Medium
17 Aug 2026
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English BCS
The antonym for ‘consolidation’ is-
A synthesis
B coalescence
C dissolution
D amalgamation
2
Medium
17 Aug 2026
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English BCS
'The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jury-men may dine;' - Who is the writer of these lines...
A William Shakespeare
B Alexander Pope
C Robert Browning
D Alfred Tennyson
2
Medium
17 Aug 2026
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English BCS
'Man is the maker of his own fate' is stated by-
A Alexander Pope
B William Wordsworth
C Thomas Gray
D Christopher Marlowe
2
Medium
17 Aug 2026
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English BCS
Which “but” is an adverb?
A The stick was thin but it was strong.
B This is nothing but an insult.
C He stumbled but he did not fall.
D He is but a shadow of his former self.
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17 Aug 2026
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English BCS
A Lyric poem mourning for the death of an individual or lamenting over a tragic event is called-
A Comedy
B Elegy
C Tragedy
D Epic
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17 Aug 2026
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