Topic-wise English practice: grammar (articles, prepositions, tenses, agreement, modals), error spotting, sentence improvement, voice and narration, vocabulary, idioms, spelling, rearrangement, cloze tests and comprehension. It is useful for OPSC ASO, OSSC, OSSSC, banking and other exams with an English section. Each topic will get its own 30-question sets with worked solutions.
Grammar
The rules behind most of the English paper
Coming soonParts of speechIdentifying the part of speech of a wordQuestion types
- Part of speech of the underlined word
- The same word used as noun, verb or adjective
- Kinds of nouns: common, proper, collective, abstract, material
- Pronoun or adjective (this, that, which)
- Adverb or adjective (fast, hard, late)
Coming soonArticlesA, an, the and no articleQuestion types
- A or an by sound (an hour, a university, a one-eyed man)
- The with unique objects, rivers, superlatives, instruments
- No article with games, meals, languages
- Articles with abbreviations (an M.A.)
- Article error in a sentence
Coming soonNouns and pronounsNumber, gender, case and pronoun useQuestion types
- Plural forms and nouns used only in the plural
- Collective nouns with singular or plural verbs
- Pronoun case (between you and me)
- Relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which, that
- Reflexive and emphatic pronouns
- Pronoun agreement with its noun
Coming soonAdjectives and adverbsDegrees of comparison and positionQuestion types
- Positive, comparative, superlative forms
- Comparison errors (more better, superior than)
- Order of adjectives
- Position of adverbs (only, even, enough)
- Adjective or adverb after linking verbs (feels good)
Coming soonDeterminers and quantifiersFew, little, much, many and othersQuestion types
- Few / a few / the few; little / a little
- Much / many, less / fewer
- Each, every, either, neither, none
- Some / any, all / both
- Determiner in fill-in-the-blanks
Coming soonPrepositionsTime, place and fixed prepositionsQuestion types
- Time: at, on, in, since, for, by, during
- Place and movement: in, into, on, onto, across, through
- Fixed prepositions after verbs, nouns and adjectives (consist of, different from)
- Confusing pairs: beside / besides, between / among
- Preposition error in a sentence
Coming soonConjunctionsJoining words and correlativesQuestion types
- Coordinating and subordinating conjunctions
- Correlatives: not only … but also, either … or, neither … nor
- No sooner … than, hardly … when, scarcely … when
- Although / though, unless, until, lest
- Conjunction in fill-in-the-blanks
Coming soonTensesPresent, past and future formsQuestion types
- Simple, continuous, perfect and perfect continuous
- Tense markers: since, for, already, yet, by the time
- Sequence of tenses
- Future forms (will, going to, present continuous)
- Correct verb form in a blank
- Tense error in a sentence
Coming soonSubject-verb agreementSingular and plural verbsQuestion types
- Each, every, either, neither with singular verbs
- As well as, along with, together with
- Collective and plural-looking nouns (news, mathematics, police)
- Two subjects joined by and, or, nor
- One of the + plural noun
- The number of / a number of
Coming soonModalsCan, may, must, should and othersQuestion types
- Can / could, may / might
- Must, have to, should, ought to
- Had better, would rather, used to
- Need and dare
- Modals for past possibility (must have, should have)
Coming soonGerund, infinitive and participleNon-finite verb formsQuestion types
- Gerund or infinitive after a verb (enjoy, want, stop)
- To + verb-ing (look forward to, used to)
- Bare infinitive (make, let, help)
- Present and past participles
- Dangling participle errors
Coming soonConditionals and wishIf-clauses and unreal situationsQuestion types
- First, second and third conditional
- Mixed conditionals
- Wish, if only
- It is time, would rather, as if
Coming soonQuestion tags and framing questionsTags and making a question for an answerQuestion types
- Question tags after positive and negative sentences
- Tags with let's, imperatives, I am
- Framing a question for the given answer
- Choosing the correct question word
Sentence skills
Errors, improvement and transformation
Coming soonCommon errors (error spotting)Find the part with an errorQuestion types
- Sentence split into parts: find the part with the error
- Find the incorrect or correct sentence
- Tense, agreement, article and preposition errors
- Pronoun, adjective and adverb errors
- Redundancy and wrong word errors
- No error option
Coming soonSentence improvementReplace the underlined partQuestion types
- Improve the underlined part or choose no improvement
- Substitute the underlined segment
- Choose the most appropriate phrase
- Redundancy and wrong idiom use
Coming soonActive and passive voiceChanging the voiceQuestion types
- Correct passive form in all tenses
- Correct active form of a passive sentence
- Modals in passive
- Imperative and interrogative sentences
- Let sentences and verbs with two objects
Coming soonDirect and indirect speechReported speechQuestion types
- Correct indirect form of the given sentence
- Correct direct form of the given sentence
- Tense, pronoun, time and place word changes
- Questions, commands and requests
- Exclamations and wishes
Coming soonSentence transformationRewriting without changing the meaningQuestion types
- Simple, compound and complex sentences
- Combining two sentences into one
- Rewriting with too … to, so … that, unless, what, let
- Degrees of comparison
- Affirmative and negative, assertive and interrogative
Coming soonPunctuation and word orderCommas, capitals and order of wordsQuestion types
- Correctly punctuated sentence
- Use of capital letters, apostrophes and commas
- Correct order of words in a sentence
- Position of adverbs and phrases
Vocabulary
Words, meanings and usage
Coming soonSynonymsWords with similar meaningQuestion types
- Synonym of a given word
- Synonym of the underlined word in a sentence
- Word closest in meaning in context
- Odd word out among synonyms
Coming soonAntonymsWords with opposite meaningQuestion types
- Antonym of a given word
- Antonym of the underlined word in a sentence
- Antonyms formed with prefixes (un-, in-, dis-)
Coming soonOne-word substitutionOne word for a group of wordsQuestion types
- One word for the given expression
- Words for people, places and fields of study
- Collective nouns (swarm, pack, covey)
- Group of words for a given word
Coming soonIdioms and phrasesFigurative and literal meaningsQuestion types
- Meaning of an idiom
- Meaning of a phrase in a sentence
- Idiom to fill a blank
- Proverbs and their meanings
Coming soonPhrasal verbsVerb + preposition or adverbQuestion types
- Meaning of a phrasal verb (take after, look into, put off)
- Correct phrasal verb in a blank
- Phrasal verbs with the same base verb (give in, give up, give away)
Coming soonSpellingMisspelt and correctly spelt wordsQuestion types
- Select the misspelt word
- Select the correctly spelt word
- Spelling error inside a sentence
- Common confusions: -ance / -ence, -able / -ible, double letters
Coming soonWords often confusedHomonyms and similar wordsQuestion types
- Pairs such as affect / effect, principal / principle
- Fewer / less, lay / lie, lately / late
- Homonyms in fill-in-the-blanks
- Words with several meanings (bar, fast, bank)
Coming soonVerbal analogy and word formationWord relations and derived formsQuestion types
- Word-pair analogy (doctor : hospital)
- Forming nouns, adjectives and verbs from a word
- Odd word out by meaning
- Prefixes and suffixes
Passage skills
Blanks, order and reading
Coming soonFill in the blanksGrammar and vocabulary blanksQuestion types
- The most suitable word for the blank
- Grammar blank: verb, article, preposition, conjunction
- Homonym and confusing-word blanks
- Double blanks
Coming soonSentence rearrangement (PQRS)Putting sentences in orderQuestion types
- First and last sentences given, arrange P, Q, R, S
- Choose the correct order from four options
- Jumbled paragraph: form a meaningful paragraph
- Jumbled parts of a single sentence
Coming soonCloze testPassage with blanksQuestion types
- Grammar blanks in a passage
- Vocabulary blanks in a passage
- Linking words in a passage
Coming soonReading comprehensionPassages with questionsQuestion types
- Factual questions from the passage
- Main idea and suitable title
- Inference and author's view
- Meaning of a word from the passage
- Tone of the passage
Previous year papers
OPSC ASO English sections, attempted as tests with answers
2025-26 ASO (Advocate General office)English, 100 questionsQuestion types
- Full 100-question English section
- Answers and explanations by EduSaint
2021-22 ASOEnglish, 100 questionsQuestion types
- Full 100-question English section
- Prepositions, tenses, agreement and articles heavy
- Answers and explanations by EduSaint
Special Recruitment ASOEnglish, 100 questionsQuestion types
- Full 100-question English section
- Prepositions, tenses, agreement and articles heavy
- Answers and explanations by EduSaint
2012-13 ASOEnglish, 100 questionsQuestion types
- Full 100-question English section
- Functional and office English heavy
- Answers and explanations by EduSaint
2018-19 ASOEnglish, 100 questionsQuestion types
- Full 100-question English section
- Fill-in-the-blanks, idioms and transformation heavy
- Answers and explanations by EduSaint
The tests open topic by topic. Each one will have a timer, scoring and explanations as the other tests on this site.