04/06/2026
10-question English grammar quiz covering advanced grammar mechanics, including subject-verb agreement, modifiers, tenses, and parallel structure.
# # # English Grammar MCQs
**1. Neither the manager nor the employees _________ satisfied with the new scheduling system.**
* A) was
* B) is
* C) are
* D) has been
**2. Walking down the street, _________.**
* A) a brick fell on his head
* B) he was hit by a falling brick
* C) the wind blew his hat off
* D) a sudden noise startled her
**3. By the time the conference ends next week, Dr. Aris _________ lecturing for over twenty years.**
* A) will have been
* B) has been
* C) will be
* D) would have been
**4. The committee recommended that the budget _________ approved immediately.**
* A) is
* B) be
* C) was
* D) will be
**5. She is one of those rare individuals who _________ always willing to help others.**
* A) is
* B) are
* C) was
* D) has been
**6. The digital transformation initiative requires not only updating the legacy software _________ the staff.**
* A) but also to retrain
* B) but also retraining
* C) as well as retraining
* D) and also to retrain
**7. If she _________ more carefully, she would have noticed the error in the financial report.**
* A) looked
* B) would look
* C) had looked
* D) has looked
**8. Each of the participants _________ required to submit a signed waiver before entering the laboratory.**
* A) are
* B) were
* C) is
* D) have been
**9. The data collected by the research team _________ highly inconsistent with previous findings.**
* A) were
* B) was
* C) are
* D) have been
**10. To _________ did you assign the task of auditing the final quarter's inventory?**
* A) who
* B) whom
* C) whoever
* D) whomever
# # # Answer Key & Explanations
1. **C) are**
> *Rule:* When subjects are joined by *neither/nor*, the verb agrees with the closer subject (*employees*, which is plural).
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2. **B) he was hit by a falling brick**
> *Rule:* Avoids a dangling modifier. The opening phrase *Walking down the street* must modify the subject that immediately follows it (*he*). A brick or the wind cannot walk down the street.
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3. **A) will have been**
> *Rule:* The future perfect continuous tense is used to show that an action will continue up until a specific point in the future (*next week*).
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4. **B) be**
> *Rule:* The subjunctive mood is required after verbs of demand, suggestion, or recommendation (*recommended that...*), which uses the base form of the verb.
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5. **B) are**
> *Rule:* The relative pronoun *who* refers back to the plural noun *individuals*, requiring a plural verb.
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6. **B) but also retraining**
> *Rule:* Parallel structure. The phrase following *not only* (updating...) must match the grammatical form of the phrase following *but also* (retraining...).
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7. **C) had looked**
> *Rule:* Third conditional. Hypotheses about the past use *if + past perfect* in the condition clause, and *would have + past participle* in the consequence clause.
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8. **C) is**
> *Rule:* Pronouns like *each, everyone, neither,* and *either* are grammatically singular and take singular verbs.
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9. **B) was**
> *Rule:* In formal context, *data* can be treated as collective or plural, but when paired with singular modifiers or viewed as a single body of evidence, *was* is standard. More crucially, *collected by the research team* is a prepositional phrase; the core singular subject is *data*.
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10. **B) whom**
> *Rule:* Use *whom* as the object of a preposition (*To whom...*). A quick trick is to see if you would answer with "him" (to him) rather than "he".
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