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Idioms and Phrases
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Question
The detective
left no stone unturned
to trace the culprit.
Options
A. took no pains
B. did very irrelevant things
C. resorted to illegitimate practices
D. used all available means
Correct Answer
used all available means
More questions
1. (solve as per the direction given above)
Options
A. The
attractive
B.
scene
painted by him
C.
fetched
the first
D.
price
E. All correct
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Correct Answer:
price
Explanation:
prize
2. (solve as per the direction given above)
Options
A. A group of friends
B. want to visit
C. the new plant as early as possible.
D. No error.
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Correct Answer: want to visit
Explanation:
wants to visit
3. (solve as per the direction given above)
Options
A. Last month we celebrated
B. the wedding of our sister for whom
C. we have been looking for a suitable alliance for three years.
D. No error.
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Correct Answer: we have been looking for a suitable alliance for three years.
Explanation:
we had been looking for a suitable alliance for three years.
4. (solve as per the direction given above)
Options
A. Looking forward
B. to seeing
C. you
D. soon.
E. No error.
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Correct Answer: to seeing
Explanation:
to see
5. They felt safer
P :
to watch the mountain
Q :
of more than five miles
R :
as they settled down
S :
from a distance
The Proper sequence should be:
Options
A. RPSQ
B. RSQP
C. PQSR
D. PRSQ
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Correct Answer: RPSQ
6. That which cannot be corrected
Options
A. Unintelligible
B. Indelible
C. Illegible
D. Incorrigible
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Correct Answer: Incorrigible
Explanation:
Incorrigible (Adjective): (of a person or their tendencies) Not able to be corrected, improved, or reformed.
7. (solve as per the direction given above)
Options
A. I am pleased to sanction
B. one special increment
C. to all the employees
D. with this month.
E. No error.
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Correct Answer: with this month.
Explanation:
from this month
8. I thought about her a lot during the
following
months.
Options
A. succeeding
B. proceeding
C. preceding
D. receding
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Correct Answer: preceding
9. His friends
let
him down.
Options
A. failed
B. comforted
C. succeeded
D. stood by
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Correct Answer: failed
10. (solve as per the direction given above)
Options
A. I fail to understand
B. why he replied in negative
C. when the proposal was in his favour.
D. No error.
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Correct Answer: I fail to understand
Explanation:
I failed to understand
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