All MCQs

'Running' is an -ing form functioning as the subject of the sentence.
A verb form used as a noun is called a gerund.

'Those' points out which books are meant and appears before the noun.
Demonstratives functioning before nouns are determiners.

'Him' is the objective form required after the verb 'praised.'
Object pronouns receive the action of a verb.

'Alas!' expresses sudden emotion, especially sorrow or regret.
Such standalone emotional expressions are interjections.

'Honesty' names a quality rather than a physical object.
Names of qualities, ideas, or states are abstract nouns.

'But' joins two independent clauses of equal grammatical importance.
It is one of the standard coordinating conjunctions.

'Under' shows the spatial relationship between the keys and the cushion.
Words that express such relationships are prepositions.

In this sentence, 'light' names a thing that can be turned off.
Therefore, it functions as a noun rather than a verb or adjective.

The word 'happily' describes how the children played.
A word that modifies a verb in this way functions as an adverb.

Pig Latin expresses pipelines such as load, filter, group, and join.
The system translates them into distributed execution jobs.

ZooKeeper provides a small, consistent coordination service.
Distributed applications use it to manage shared state safely.

Oozie defines workflows and time- or data-triggered coordinators.
It can sequence MapReduce, Hive, Sqoop, and related actions.