COURSE TITLE: EFFECTIVE WRITING

ASSIGNMENT NO 2

Given below are questions with multiple choices/options. Select the most suitable option as your
answer.

1. The passive voice of the sentence, “He played Cricket throughout his life” will be_________.

A. Cricket was played by him throughout his life.

B. Cricket were played by him throughout his life.
C. It was he who played cricket throughout his life.
D. Cricket is played by him throughout his life.
2. Which of the following is not a relative verb?
A. Include
B. Resemble
C. Contain
D. Weave
3. Which of the following is not a source of Ambiguity?
A. Relative words
B. Words with double meaning
C. Ellipsis
D. Concrete Words
4. One of the following words is ambiguous. Find it out.
A. Reconnect
B. Car
C. Death
D. All of the Above
5. Which of the following sentences is punctuated perfectly?
A. Effective writing, I think, should be learnt right from our school days
B. Effective writing, I think should be learnt right from our school days.
C. Effective writing, I think, should be learnt right from our school days.
D. Effective writing I think should be learnt right from our school days.
6. The term essay was popularised by______________________.
A. Montaigne
B. William Temple
C. Charles Lamb
D. Walter Scott
7. Which of the following is not a component of essay
A. Introduction
B. Thesis statement
C. Conclusion
D. Prologue
8. Thesis statement can be defined as________________.
A. It mirrors a judgement about the topic
B. It gives an idea of what is to come in the paper
C. Both A and B are True
D. Both A and B are False
9. Unity in a written work cannot be attained by______________.
A. Relevancy
B. Proportion
C. Arrangement
D. Disjointedness
10. Which of the following is the characteristic of Imaginative essays?
A. Aims at creating aesthetic pleasure
B. Aims at decisiveness
C. Facts rather than thoughts
D. Observation and description