Civil Service Grammar Practice Test Results

Question 1
45% answer correctly
Which of the following sentences is not gramatically correct?
He was like a breath of fresh air.
The accident victim was fighting to breathe.
Almost all fish breathe through gills.
I know that he would fight to his last breathe.
Question 2
47% answer correctly
Which of the following sentences is gramatically correct?
Put the biscuit in to the basket.
It takes upto eight hours to prepare a meal for that many people.
After seeing the lions at the zoo, we moved onto the monkeys.
All of his books turned into best sellers.
Question 3
36% answer correctly
Which one of these sentences is not gramatically correct?
Did the new millenium begin in 2000 AD or 2001 AD?
The reign of Caesar was from 63 BC to AD 14.
The earliest recorded evidence is from 29 BC.
The empire collapsed in AD 1054.