English Grammar CHAPTER 8: THE NOUN: CASE

{ "questions": [ { "question": "When a noun is the subject of a verb, it is in the:", "options": [ "Nominative Case", "Objective Case", "Possessive Case", "Apposition Case" ], "answer": 0 }, { "question": "In the sentence \"The horse kicked the boy\", what case is \"boy\" in?", "options": [ "Nominative", "Objective (Accusative)", "Possessive", "Genitive" ], "answer": 1 }, { "question": "A noun coming directly after a preposition is in the:", "options": [ "Nominative Case", "Possessive Case", "Accusative Case", "Genitive Case" ], "answer": 2 }, { "question": "In English, how do we usually distinguish between the Nominative and Objective case of a noun?", "options": [ "By changing the spelling of the noun", "By adding an apostrophe", "By adding \"-es\" to the noun", "By the order of words (its position in the sentence)" ], "answer": 3 }, { "question": "In the sentence \"Rama gave Hari a ball\", what is \"Hari\"?", "options": [ "Indirect Object", "Direct Object", "Subject", "Object of a preposition" ], "answer": 0 }, { "question": "Where is the Indirect Object usually placed in a sentence?", "options": [ "After the Direct Object", "Immediately after the Verb and before the Direct Object", "Before the Verb", "At the very end of the sentence" ], "answer": 1 }, { "question": "The Possessive Case answers which of the following questions?", "options": [ "Who?", "Whom?", "Whose?", "What?" ], "answer": 2 }, { "question": "Which of the following is correct?", "options": [ "The table's leg", "The house's roof", "The book's cover", "The leg of the table" ], "answer": 3 }, { "question": "In the phrase \"A mother's love\", the possessive case denotes:", "options": [ "A feeling or origin", "Ownership of a physical object", "Authorship", "A period of time" ], "answer": 0 }, { "question": "Which is a correct use of the possessive case for a non-living thing?", "options": [ "The car's wheel", "A week's holiday", "The pen's ink", "The door's handle" ], "answer": 1 }, { "question": "\"I am going to the baker's.\" What does \"baker's\" mean here?", "options": [ "The baker's hat", "The baker's wife", "The baker's shop", "The baker's recipe" ], "answer": 2 }, { "question": "How do you form the possessive of a singular noun ending in a heavy hissing sound (like Jesus or Moses)?", "options": [ "Add 's (Jesus's)", "Do not change the word at all", "Add -es (Jesuses)", "Just add an apostrophe (') (Jesus')" ], "answer": 3 }, { "question": "Choose the correct possessive form for a plural noun ending in \"s\" (like boys).", "options": [ "Boys'", "Boys's", "Boy's", "Boies'" ], "answer": 0 }, { "question": "Choose the correct possessive form for a plural noun NOT ending in \"s\" (like children).", "options": [ "Childrens'", "Children's", "Children'", "Childrens's" ], "answer": 1 }, { "question": "How do you write the possessive for a multi-word title, like \"The King of Bhutan\"?", "options": [ "The King's of Bhutan visit", "The King's of Bhutan's visit", "The King of Bhutan's visit", "The Kings of Bhutans visit" ], "answer": 2 }, { "question": "If Karim and Salim own a bakery together, how is it written?", "options": [ "Karim's and Salim's bakery", "Karim's and Salim bakery", "Karims and Salims bakery", "Karim and Salim's bakery" ], "answer": 3 }, { "question": "If Raja Rao and R.K. Narayan wrote their own separate novels, how is it written?", "options": [ "Raja Rao's and R.K. Narayan's novels", "Raja Rao and R.K. Narayan's novels", "Raja Raos and R.K. Narayans novels", "Raja Rao's and R.K. Narayan novel" ], "answer": 0 }, { "question": "In \"Rama, our captain, made fifty runs\", the phrase \"our captain\" is an example of:", "options": [ "A Direct Object", "A noun in apposition", "An Indirect Object", "A possessive noun" ], "answer": 1 }, { "question": "A noun in apposition is always in:", "options": [ "The Nominative Case", "The Objective Case", "The same case as the noun it explains", "The Possessive Case" ], "answer": 2 }, { "question": "Which sentence correctly shows nouns in apposition in the possessive case?", "options": [ "That is Tagore's the poet's house.", "That is Tagore's the poet house.", "That is Tagore the poets house.", "That is Tagore the poet's house." ], "answer": 3 } ] }