English problems
- 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. Your services are dispensed for.
Options- A. from
- B. with
- C. off
- D. no improvement Also asked in: Bank Exams
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.
- 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 Also asked in: Bank Exams
Correct Answer: no improvement
Explanation:
No improvement required. Illness is a condition and not a feeling.
- 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. The angry neighbours never passed from each other without making rude remarks.
Options- A. passed on
- B. passed against
- C. passed
- D. no improvement Also asked in: Bank Exams
Correct Answer: passed
Explanation:
Here ?passed each other? means crossed each other?s path. No preposition is required by ?passed?.
- 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. 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 Also asked in: Bank Exams
Correct Answer: is touring
Explanation:
The main subject ?The Chairman? is singular, hence singular verb ?is touring? will be used.
- 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. 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 Also asked in: Bank Exams
Correct Answer: No improvement
Explanation:
No improvement required. Sentence is idiomatically correct.
- 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. Poor Tom laid in the shade of a tree before he could walk further.
Options- A. lied
- B. lain
- C. lay
- D. no improvement Also asked in: Bank Exams
Correct Answer: lay
Explanation:
The sentence is in simple past tense. The past tense of ?lie? is ?lay?. Lie mean to take a position.
- 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. You must accustom yourself with new ideas.
Options- A. accustomed with
- B. accustom to
- C. accustom yourself to
- D. No improvement Also asked in: Bank Exams
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?.
- 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. This telephone number is not existing.
Options- A. does not exist
- B. has not been existing
- C. has had no existence
- D. No improvement Also asked in: Bank Exams
Correct Answer: does not exist
Explanation:
Use of ?is? is incorrect, the correct usage should be ?does not exist?.
- 9. 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 Also asked in: Bank Exams
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.?
- 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 :We do not know, after 60 years of equation, how to protect ourselves against epidemics like cholera and plague. S6 :This is the disastrous result of the system under which we are educated. P :If our doctors could have started learning medicine at an earlier age, they would not make such a poor show as they do. Q : I have seen hundreds of homes. I cannot say that I have found any evidence in them of knowledge of hygiene. R : I consider it a very serious blot on the state of our education that our doctors have not found it possible to eradicate these diseases. S :I have the greatest doubt whether our graduates know what one should do in case on is bitten by a snake. The correct sequence should be
Options- A. R Q S P
- B. P R Q S
- C. Q R P S
- D. P Q S R Also asked in: Bank Exams
Correct Answer: R Q S P
Explanation:
RQSP is the correct order in which sentences should be arranged.
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