Aptis English Usage Practice — All Questions
4 questions
Which sentence is correct?
- a.She explained me the problem.
- b.She explained the problem to me.✓
- c.She explained to me it.
- d.She me explained the problem.
'Explain' is followed by the thing explained, then 'to' plus the person: 'explain something to someone'. You cannot say 'explain me something' or place the pronoun before the object in this way.
Which sentence is grammatically correct?
- a.There are fewer cars on the road today.✓
- b.There are less cars on the road today.
- c.There is less cars on the road today.
- d.There are lesser cars on the road today.
'Cars' is a countable noun, so it takes 'fewer', not 'less'. 'Lesser' means smaller in importance and does not describe quantity here.
Choose the sentence with correct word order.
- a.Never I have seen such a view.
- b.I have saw never such a view.
- c.I have never seen such a view.✓
- d.Seen I have never such a view.
The adverb 'never' goes between the auxiliary 'have' and the past participle 'seen'. The correct participle is 'seen', not 'saw', and the subject must come before the verb.
Which sentence uses articles correctly?
- a.She is a honest person.
- b.He is engineer by profession.
- c.I saw a elephant at the zoo.
- d.She is the best student in the class.✓
Before a superlative like 'best', the definite article 'the' is required. 'Honest' begins with a vowel sound so needs 'an', 'engineer' needs an article, and 'elephant' needs 'an'.