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- Question
Look at the underlined part of each sentence. Below each sentence are given three possible substitutions for the underlined part. If one of them (a), (b) or (c) is better than the underlined part, indicate your response on the Answer Sheet against the corresponding letter. If none of the substitutions imporves the sentence, indicate (d) as your response on the Answer Sheet. The chairman with the other members of the board are touring Europe these days.
Options- A. have been on touring
- B. is touring
- C. have toured
- D. no improvement
- Correct Answer
- is touring
ExplanationThe main subject ?The Chairman? is singular, hence singular verb ?is touring? will be used.
- 1. Look at the underlined part of each sentence. Below each sentence are given three possible substitutions for the underlined part. If one of them (a), (b) or (c) is better than the underlined part, indicate your response on the Answer Sheet against the corresponding letter. If none of the substitutions imporves the sentence, indicate (d) as your response on the Answer Sheet. The angry neighbours never passed from each other without making rude remarks.
Options- A. passed on
- B. passed against
- C. passed
- D. no improvement Discuss
- 2. Look at the underlined part of each sentence. Below each sentence are given three possible substitutions for the underlined part. If one of them (a), (b) or (c) is better than the underlined part, indicate your response on the Answer Sheet against the corresponding letter. If none of the substitutions imporves the sentence, indicate (d) as your response on the Answer Sheet. I didn?t go to office because I was ill.
Options- A. felt
- B. had become
- C. had felt
- D. no improvement Discuss
- 3. Look at the underlined part of each sentence. Below each sentence are given three possible substitutions for the underlined part. If one of them (a), (b) or (c) is better than the underlined part, indicate your response on the Answer Sheet against the corresponding letter. If none of the substitutions imporves the sentence, indicate (d) as your response on the Answer Sheet. Your services are dispensed for.
Options- A. from
- B. with
- C. off
- D. no improvement Discuss
- 4. Look at the underlined part of each sentence. Below each sentence are given three possible substitutions for the underlined part. If one of them (a), (b) or (c) is better than the underlined part, indicate your response on the Answer Sheet against the corresponding letter. If none of the substitutions imporves the sentence, indicate (d) as your response on the Answer Sheet. I didn?t fell like going out yesterday, but on account of my son?s illness I had to go to the doctor.
Options- A. have
- B. might have
- C. ought
- D. no improvement Discuss
- 5. Look at the underlined part of each sentence. Below each sentence are given three possible substitutions for the underlined part. If one of them (a), (b) or (c) is better than the underlined part, indicate your response on the Answer Sheet against the corresponding letter. If none of the substitutions imporves the sentence, indicate (d) as your response on the Answer Sheet. I was living in Chennai for ten years when I was a child.
Options- A. had lived
- B. lived
- C. had been living
- D. No improvement Discuss
- 6. Look at the underlined part of each sentence. Below each sentence are given three possible substitutions for the underlined part. If one of them (a), (b) or (c) is better than the underlined part, indicate your response on the Answer Sheet against the corresponding letter. If none of the substitutions imporves the sentence, indicate (d) as your response on the Answer Sheet. Mahatma Gandhi is called as the Father of the Nation.
Options- A. called Father of the Nation
- B. called the Father of the Nation
- C. Father of the Nation
- D. No improvement Discuss
- 7. Look at the underlined part of each sentence. Below each sentence are given three possible substitutions for the underlined part. If one of them (a), (b) or (c) is better than the underlined part, indicate your response on the Answer Sheet against the corresponding letter. If none of the substitutions imporves the sentence, indicate (d) as your response on the Answer Sheet. Poor Tom laid in the shade of a tree before he could walk further.
Options- A. lied
- B. lain
- C. lay
- D. no improvement Discuss
- 8. Look at the underlined part of each sentence. Below each sentence are given three possible substitutions for the underlined part. If one of them (a), (b) or (c) is better than the underlined part, indicate your response on the Answer Sheet against the corresponding letter. If none of the substitutions imporves the sentence, indicate (d) as your response on the Answer Sheet. You must accustom yourself with new ideas.
Options- A. accustomed with
- B. accustom to
- C. accustom yourself to
- D. No improvement Discuss
- 9. Look at the underlined part of each sentence. Below each sentence are given three possible substitutions for the underlined part. If one of them (a), (b) or (c) is better than the underlined part, indicate your response on the Answer Sheet against the corresponding letter. If none of the substitutions imporves the sentence, indicate (d) as your response on the Answer Sheet. This telephone number is not existing.
Options- A. does not exist
- B. has not been existing
- C. has had no existence
- D. No improvement Discuss
- 10. Each item consists of six sentences of a passage. The first and sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up and labelled as P, Q, R and S. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly on the Answer Sheet. S1 : He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his wife. S6 : He urinated outside the shack and then went up the road to wake the boy. P : He never dreamed about the boy. Q : He only dreamed of places and of the lions on the beach now. R : He simply woke, looked out through the open door at the moon and unrolled his trousers and put them on. S : They played like young cats in the dusk and he loved them as he loved the boy. The correct sequence should be
Options- A. R Q P S
- B. S R Q P
- C. Q R P S
- D. P R S Q Discuss
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Correct Answer: passed
Explanation:
Here ?passed each other? means crossed each other?s path. No preposition is required by ?passed?.
Correct Answer: no improvement
Explanation:
No improvement required. Illness is a condition and not a feeling.
Correct Answer: off
Explanation:
?dispensed? should be followed by ?off?. Dispensed off means given away, therefore the sentence means that his services are no longer needed.
Correct Answer: no improvement
Explanation:
The given sentence is in simple past. No improvement required.
Correct Answer: had lived
Explanation:
The event of living in Chennai is over long back, hence the sentence is in past perfect tense. ?had lived? will be the correct expression.
Correct Answer: No improvement
Explanation:
No improvement required. Sentence is idiomatically correct.
Correct Answer: lay
Explanation:
The sentence is in simple past tense. The past tense of ?lie? is ?lay?. Lie mean to take a position.
Correct Answer: accustom yourself to
Explanation:
Accustom is followed by ?to?. So, the correct idiomatic expression will be ?accustom yourself to? or ?get accustomed to?.
Correct Answer: does not exist
Explanation:
Use of ?is? is incorrect, the correct usage should be ?does not exist?.
Correct Answer: Q R P S
Explanation:
QSPR is the correct order in which sentences should be arranged.When arranged in the correct sequence, they read as ?He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his wife. He simply woke, looked out through the open door at the moon and unrolled his trousers and put them on. He only dreamed of places now and of the lions on the beach. They played like young cats in the dusk and he loved them as he loved the boy. He never dreamed about the boy.He urinated outside the shack and then went up the road to wake the boy.?
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