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Verbal Ability
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Selecting Words
See What Others Are Saying!
Question
A woman came in with a baby who, she said, ...... a safety pin.
Options
A. was just swallowing
B. swallowed
C. had just swallowed
D. just swallowed
Correct Answer
had just swallowed
More questions
1. He sold his house for a
song
.
Options
A. at a reasonable price
B. at a discount
C. very cheaply
D. at a premium
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Correct Answer: very cheaply
2. (solve as per the direction given above)
Options
A. I could not put up in a hotel
B. because the boarding and lodging charges
C. were exorbitant.
D. No error.
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Correct Answer: I could not put up in a hotel
Explanation:
'I could not put up at a hotel'
3. The logic of Berlin wall
already had been undermined
but when the news came through that the wall itself had been opened I jumped into a car.
Options
A. had been undetermined already
B. had already been undetermined
C. had been already undetermined
D. No improvement
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Correct Answer: had already been undetermined
4. With her body
P :
dragging her unwilling feet
Q :
weak and infirm
R :
doubled with age
S :
she persisted in her mission
The Proper sequence should be:
Options
A. PQRS
B. QPRS
C. RQPS
D. SRPQ
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Correct Answer: RQPS
5. Most donors would seriously
protest
any effort to extrapolate from such limited data.
Options
A. protest against
B. protest at
C. protest to
D. No improvement
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Correct Answer: protest against
6. They greet me cheerfully every morning.
Options
A. Every morning I was greeted cheerfully.
B. I am greeted cheerfully by them every morning.
C. I am being greeted cheerfully by them every morning.
D. Cheerful greeting is done by them every morning to me.
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Correct Answer: I am greeted cheerfully by them every morning.
7. The research study is an eye-opener and
attempts to acquaint
us with the problems of poor nations.
Options
A. attempted to acquaint
B. attempts at acquainting
C. attempt to acquaint
D. attempting to acquaint
E. No correction required
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Correct Answer: attempts at acquainting
8. Not long back, in Japan, a mysterious nerve gas
affected
a large number of people.
Options
A. effected
B. infected
C. infested
D. No improvement
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Correct Answer: infected
9. (solve as per the direction given above)
Options
A. He persisted
B. to do it
C. in spite of my advice
D. No error.
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Correct Answer: to do it
Explanation:
in doing it
10. (solve as per the direction given above)
Options
A. Quarreled
B. Rebellious
C. Commission
D. Mirraculous
E. All correct
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Correct Answer: Mirraculous
Explanation:
Miraculous
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