MaRRS Spelling Bee Contest Model Questions for Word Application – Part 1

MaRRS Spelling Bee International Championship is a contest held for the school children to test the spelling abilities at various levels. The Spelling Bee contest will be conducted across the country from Class I to Class XII. There are various rounds in the contest. Important among these is the Word Application round. In this round, there will be a sentence with a blank space and candidates have to identify the correct word to be filled in the blank space from the given two words. The difficulty levels of the examination change while the students go for upper levels. You can get more details of the contest from www.marrsspellingbee.com or www.marrslearningcenter.com . If you like to practice more questions, see Part – 2 and Part – 3 of the series.

1. Kindly bear with me for the —– trouble I gave you.(little, few)
2. —- people got hurt in the accident. (Much, Many)
3. The bus was only —– minutes late(few, a few)
4. Our team has —— batsmen than bowlers.(good, better)
5. Akbar was a —- Mughal king.(great, greatest)
6. Jupiter is the —– planet.(larger, largest)
7. —– are woollen gloves.( These, This)
8. —– is the mail train?( What, Which)
9. —– do you like to have for breakfast?( Which, What)
10. Mary saw —– in the mirror.( herself, myself)
11. We enjoyed —– playing in the garden.(yourselves, ourselves)
12. He locked —– inside the room.(myself, himself)
13. Where is the man —- gave you this news?( who, which)
14. This is the book —– you have been looking for.(what, which)
15. These people —– houses were destroyed in the earthquake need our help.(whose, which)
16. —– gave you the book myself yesterday. (I, me)
17. He is taller than —– (I, me)
18. Our parents care for —– (me, us)
19. We got this car in a lucky draw. Now this car is —- (mine, ours)
20. The Principal wants to see —- room. (you, your)
21. Don’t blame us as —- have not even seen your purse.( we, our)
22. The saint —— to the forest.(gone, went)
23. I —– two dictionaries.(has, have)
24. —– Susan got any story books?(Have, Has)
25. The earth —– round the sun.(revolve, revolves)
26. Leaves —— in autumn.( falls , fall)
27. Children —– fairy tales.( likes , like)
28. Cricket world cup —– place every four years.( take, takes)
29. This shop —– all kinds of books.( sell, sells)
30. I —- the school last month. (joins, joined)

Answers:

1) little 2) Many 3) a few 4) better 5) great 6) largest 7) These 8) Which 9) What 10) herself 11) ourselves 12) himself 13) Where 14) which 15) whose 16) I 17) me 18) us 19) ours 20) you 21) as 22) went 23) have 24) Has 25) revolves 26) fall 27) like 28) takes 29) sells 30) joined

Kev Nair Books on English Fluency

Here is another release from famous writer on English fluency, Prof. Kev Nair. The book titled ‘The Complete Fluency Words’ of Kev Nair was released recently at Kochin. This is a comprehensive and enlarged edition on English Word Power Builder. Prof. Kev Nair is the author of more than 30 books on English fluency and his acclaimed spiritual book is ‘The Bhagavad Gita of Inner Courage’. The Complete Fluency Words book now covers 7673 words of general utility and discusses in depth how on can achieve mastery of these words and speak and write good English.

The book is published by a Kochi based printers and is priced at Rs. 395. The details of the book and online purchase available at www.fluencybookz.com . There are several other book by Prof Nair on English language fluency, Thesaurus and Dictionaries. These can be obtained from the website mentioned above. Following is the list of other famous books of Prof Kev Nair:

1) The Complete Fluency Words
2) A Dictionary of Fluency Word Clusters
3) A Dictionary of Essential Fluency Phrases
4) A Dictionary of Active Fluency Combinations
5) Comprehensive Adjectival Fluency Dictionary
6) Narrative Fluency Dictionary
7) Core Fluency Thesaurus
8) Thesaurus of Phrasal Verbs
9) Thesaurus of Descriptive English
10) Thesaurus of Fluent English Adjectives.

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