50 English Grammar Quiz Questions and Answers

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Whether English is your first language or the one you are learning, this English Grammar quiz will be perfect to test your skills.

You will find below 5 rounds of questions about grammar in English. This includes spelling, verbs as well as various rules.

We will start with the easy questions and will then move onto the more challenging ones.

Round 1: Easy English Grammar Trivia Questions

1. What is the verb in this sentence: ‘Jenny went to the cinema with Kyle’?
2. What tense are verbs that end in -ed?
3. Fill in the missing word: ‘Amanda and Ryan have __ baby’
4. What tense is this sentence written in: ‘Anthony will go to work tomorrow’?
5. Rewrite this sentence in the Present Continuous: ‘I eat a sandwich.’
6. Fill in the missing word: ‘Jupiter is hot but the sun is____’
7. What is the superlative for the adjective happy?
8. What is the contraction of ‘would not’?
9. What is the adverb in this sentence: ‘The train moved quickly though the city.’
10. Fill in the missing word: ‘I want ___ speak to the manager’

Round 1: Easy English Grammar Trivia Questions and Answers

1. What is the verb in this sentence: ‘Jenny went to the cinema with Kyle’? Went
2. What tense are verbs that end in -ed? Past tense (Past Simple)
3. Fill in the missing word: ‘Amanda and Ryan have __ baby’ a 
4. What tense is this sentence written in: ‘Anthony will go to work tomorrow’? Future tense (Future Simple)
5. Rewrite this sentence in the Present Continuous: ‘I eat a sandwich.’ I am eating a sandwich
6. Fill in the missing word: ‘Jupiter is hot but the sun is____’ Hotter
7. What is the superlative for the adjective happy? Happiest
8. What is the contraction of ‘would not’? Wouldn’t
9. What is the adverb in this sentence: ‘The train moved quickly though the city.’ Quickly 
10. Fill in the missing word: ‘I want ___ speak to the manager’ to

Round 2: English Grammar Multiple-Choice Questions

1. Every sentence needs a ….
   1. verb
   2. noun
   3. pronoun
   4. preposition
2. Fill in the missing word: ‘How ___ chocolates are in the box’
   1. Much
   2. Many
   3. Some
   4. Any
3. Fill in the correct preposition: ‘Lydia is __ the bus.’
   1. In
   2. On
   3. At 
   4. With 
4. Which of the following sentences is written in the past continuous?
   1. I studied on Monday night
   2. I always studied on Monday night
   3. I had studied on Monday night
   4. I was studying on Monday night
5. Fill in the missing word: ‘___ the rain, Josh walked to work.’
   1. Although
   2. However
   3. Therefore
   4. Despite
6. Where would you put an apostrophe to correct this sentence: ‘Alices cat has eaten its fourth bowl of biscuits.’
   1. Alice’s 
   2. It’s 
   3. Four’th 
   4. Biscuit’s
7. What does the idiom ‘to go on a wild goose chase’ mean?
   1. To play 
   2. To run errands
   3. To flirt with someone
   4. To do something pointless
8. In which of the following sentences is the speaker feeling the coldest?
   1. ‘I’m quite cold’
   2. ‘I’m a little cold’
   3. ‘I’m pretty cold’
   4. ‘I’m really cold’
9. Can, may, would and should are all…
   1. Adverbs
   2. Auxiliary verbs
   3. Modal verbs
   4. Transitive verbs
10. Which of the following best describes this sentence: ‘she said that they’d lived in China before moving to Australia’?
    1. Direct speech
    2. Indirect speech
    3. Active voice
    4. Passive voice

Round 2: English Grammar Multiple-Choice Questions and Answers

1. Every sentence needs a …. A.  verb
2. Fill in the missing word: ‘How ___ chocolates are in the box’ b. Many
3. Fill in the correct preposition: ‘Lydia is __ the bus.’ b. on
4. Which of the following sentences is written in the past continuous? D. I was studying on Monday night
5. Fill in the missing word: ‘___ the rain, Josh walked to work.’ d. Despite
6. Where would you put an apostrophe to correct this sentence: ‘Alices cat has eaten its fourth bowl of biscuits.’ a. Alice’s
7. What does the idiom ‘to go on a wild goose chase’ mean? D. To do something pointless
8. In which of the following sentences is the speaker feeling the coldest? B. ‘I’m really cold’
9. Can, may, would and should are all… c. Modal verbs
10. Which of the following best describes this sentence: ‘she said that they’d lived in China before moving to Australia’? B. Indirect speech

Round 3: English Grammar Quiz – True or False

1. ‘She has a new job’ and ‘she has got a good job’ mean exactly the same thing.
2. In the sentence ‘Sarah is bound to feel nervous before her exam,’ the speaker thinks that Sarah is feeling confident.
3. Should’nt is the correct contraction for ‘should not.’
4. ‘He tried to turning the computer off and back on again’ is a correct sentence.
5. In English, days of the week and months need to start with a capital letter.
6. ‘If only I’d studied biology instead of music’ means the same thing as ‘I’m glad I studied biology instead of music.’
7. English does not have a subjunctive verb form.
8. ‘Which’ introduces a non-essential clause, whereas ‘that’ introduces an essential clause.
9. ‘I have the tools required’ and ‘I require the tools’ mean the same thing.
10. In formal English, you should avoid ending a sentence with a preposition.

Round 3: English Grammar Quiz Answers – True or False

1. ‘She has a new job’ and ‘she has got a good job’ mean exactly the same thing. True
2. In the sentence ‘Sarah is bound to feel nervous before her exam,’ the speaker thinks that Sarah is feeling confident. False
3. Should’nt is the correct contraction for ‘should not.’ False, that would be shouldn’t
4. ‘He tried to turning the computer off and back on again’ is a correct sentence. False
5. In English, days of the week and months need to start with a capital letter. True
6. ‘If only I’d studied biology instead of music’ means the same thing as ‘I’m glad I studied biology instead of music.’ False
7. English does not have a subjunctive verb form. True
8. ‘Which’ introduces a non-essential clause, whereas ‘that’ introduces an essential clause. True
9. ‘I have the tools required’ and ‘I require the tools’ mean the same thing. False
10. In formal English, you should avoid ending a sentence with a preposition. True

Round 4: Medium English Grammar Trivia Questions

1. What is another name for the pluperfect tense?
2. What is the phrasal verb in this sentence: ‘The car blew up when it crashed into the wall at full speed’?
3. Fill in the missing word: He said that his daughter ___ eight years old.’
4. What is the correct American English spelling of the British English ‘aluminium’?
5. What is the reflexive pronoun in this sentence: ‘She looked at herself in the mirror’?
6. What kind of word is enough in this sentence: ‘Do we have enough cake for everyone?’
7. The words firefly, cow boy, swimming pool and washing machine are all examples of what kind of noun?
8. Where would you put an apostrophe to correct this sentence: ‘Arthur helped park his parents car closest to the shops.’
9. Fill in the missing word with the correct spelling of there/their/they’re: ‘Did they forget that ___ supposed to be at the airport by 1?’
10. Rewrite this sentence in the passive voice: ‘Michaelangelo painted the ceiling.’

Round 4: Medium English Grammar Trivia Questions and Answers

1. What is another name for the pluperfect tense? The past perfect
2. What is the phrasal verb in this sentence: ‘The car blew up when it crashed into the wall at full speed’? Blew up
3. Fill in the missing word: He said that his daughter ___ eight years old.’ was 
4. What is the correct American English spelling of the British English ‘aluminium’? Aluminum 
5. What is the reflexive pronoun in this sentence: ‘She looked at herself in the mirror’? Herself
6. What kind of word is enough in this sentence: ‘Do we have enough cake for everyone?’ Adjective
7. The words firefly, cow boy, swimming pool and washing machine are all examples of what kind of noun? Compound noun
8. Where would you put an apostrophe to correct this sentence: ‘Arthur helped park his parents car closest to the shops.’ Parents’
9. Fill in the missing word with the correct spelling of there/their/they’re: ‘Did they forget that ___ supposed to be at the airport by 1?’ They’re
10. Rewrite this sentence in the passive voice: ‘Michaelangelo painted the ceiling.’ The ceiling was painted by Michaelangelo 

Round 5: Hard English Grammar Trivia Questions

1. How many tenses does English have?
2. The word ‘whom’ is a remnant of which grammatical case that barely exists in modern English?
3. Rewrite this sentence in the past continuous: ‘I do the washing up.’
4. Fill in the missing word: ‘She has two brothers and I have one, so she has ___ brothers than me.’
5. What kind of future tense is found in this sentence: ‘The guests will have already arrived by then’?
6. What kind of word is like in this sentence: ‘I’ve worked at the bank for, like, three years’?
7. Which part of the following sentence is a split infinitive: ‘to boldly go where no-one has gone before’?
8. What kind of clause is ‘looked after properly’ in the sentence ‘looked after properly, those boots should last for at least three years.’
9. Rewrite this sentence so it doesn’t end with a preposition: ‘She went to the salon which Sheila worked at.’
10. Put these words in the right order to make a sentence: ‘have – knife – sharp – brilliantly – silver – a – I – carving’.

Round 5: Hard English Grammar Trivia Questions and Answers

1. How many tenses does English have? 12
2. The word ‘whom’ is a remnant of which grammatical case that barely exists in modern English? Dative
3. Rewrite this sentence in the past continuous: ‘I do the washing up.’ I was doing the washing up 
4. Fill in the missing word: ‘She has two brothers and I have one, so she has ___ brothers than me.’ Fewer
5. What kind of future tense is found in this sentence: ‘The guests will have already arrived by then’? Future perfect
6. What kind of word is like in this sentence: ‘I’ve worked at the bank for, like, three years’? A filler 
7. Which part of the following sentence is a split infinitive: ‘to boldly go where no-one has gone before’? ‘To boldly go’
8. What kind of clause is ‘looked after properly’ in the sentence ‘looked after properly, those boots should last for at least three years.’ participle clause
9. Rewrite this sentence so it doesn’t end with a preposition: ‘She went to the salon which Sheila worked at.’ She went to the salon at which Shiela worked
10. Put these words in the right order to make a sentence: ‘have – knife – sharp – brilliantly – silver – a – I – carving’. I have a brilliantly sharp, silver, carving knife

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