Parts of Speech, Articles & Determiners

A high-yield practice questionset designed for Kerala PSC aspirants covering fundamental Parts of Speech (Nouns, Pronouns, Adjectives, Adverbs), use and omission of Articles (A, An, The), and Determiners (few, little, each, every, some, any).

പഠനപരിധി (Study Scope)

• Countable and Uncountable Nouns (furniture, advice, luggage, information)
• Collective Nouns (flock, fleet, pride, pack, jury, herd)
• Irregular Plural Nouns and Latin/Greek borrowings (criteria, phenomena, crises)
• Pronoun cases, relative pronouns (who vs whom), and reflexive pronouns
• Adjectives: Degrees of Comparison (comparative, superlative, Latin comparatives with 'to')
• Adverbs of frequency, degree, and confusing pairs (hard/hardly, late/lately)
• Indefinite Articles: 'a' vs 'an' based on phonetic vowel sounds (European, honest, MLA)
• Definite Article 'the': Unique entities, superlative forms, mountain ranges, musical instruments
• Omission of articles before abstract nouns, materials, sports, and languages
• Determiners: Quantitative distinctions (few/a few/the few, little/a little/the little)

പരിശീലിക്കുന്ന കഴിവുകൾ (Tested Competencies)

• Identify correct grammatical categories and parts of speech in standard English
• Apply rules of article usage based on phonetic sounds rather than spelling letters
• Select appropriate quantifiers and determiners based on countability and context
• Avoid common error pitfalls in noun number and adjective comparison