Question Tags, Conditional Clauses & Prepositions

A high-yield practice questionset designed for Kerala PSC aspirants covering Question Tag rules and exceptions, Conditional Clauses (Types 0, 1, 2, 3 and Inversion), and Prepositions of time, space, and Fixed Appropriate Prepositions.

പഠനപരിധി (Study Scope)

• Question Tags: Basic polarity rules (positive statement takes negative tag, and vice-versa)
• Special Question Tag rules: 'I am' takes 'aren't I?', 'Let's' takes 'shall we?'
• Question tags with negative adverbs (hardly, scarcely, seldom, rarely) taking positive tags
• Question tags for imperative requests and commands ('will you?')
• Question tags with indefinite pronouns (everybody, nobody) taking plural pronoun 'they'
• Conditional Clauses: Zero Conditional (scientific and timeless truths)
• First Conditional (open real conditions: If + present, will + V1)
• Second Conditional (hypothetical/imaginary: If + were/past, would + V1)
• Third Conditional (unfulfilled past: If + had + V3, would have + V3)
• Inversion in conditional structures ('Had you informed me...')
• Prepositions of Time (at, on, in) and Place (between vs among, into, onto)
• Fixed Prepositions: accuse of, congratulate on, prefer to, abstain from, angry with/at, die of/from

പരിശീലിക്കുന്ന കഴിവുകൾ (Tested Competencies)

• Accurately construct question tags observing auxiliary contraction and pronoun agreement
• Select correct conditional verb patterns according to degree of reality and time reference
• Recognize fixed prepositional collocations frequently tested in PSC competitive exams
• Avoid common interference errors in preposition usage after verbs and adjectives