English problems
- 1. Which of the following phrases (i), (ii), and (iii) given below each sentence should replace the phrase printed in bold letters to make the sentence grammatically correct? Choose the best option among the five given alternatives that reflect the correct use of phrase in the context of the grammatically correct sentence. If the sentence is correct as it is, mark (E) i.e., "No correction required" as the answer "I need you to give me a ballparks worth of figures of how much this event is going to cost us in the next two months." i. give me a ballpark figure of how much this event is going to cost ii. give me the biggest ballpark of your figure, how much this event is going to cost iii. give me a ballpark figure of how much this event is coming to cost
Options- A. A. Only i
- B. B. Only ii
- C. C. Only iii
- D. D. ii and iii Also asked in: CAT, GRE, TOEFL
Correct Answer: A. Only i
Explanation:
Ans. A.
The answer is 'give me a ballpark figure of how much this event is going to cost.' A ballpark figure is a rough numerical estimate or approximation.
- 2. Four statements are given below at A, B, C and D. There may be some errors in the given statement(s). The incorrect statement is your answer.
Options- A. A. The deceased soldier?s family is banking upon the government for justice and support.
- B. B. The government is being banked upon by the deceased soldier?s family for justice and support.
- C. C. For justice and support, the deceased soldier?s family is banking upon the government.
- D. D. The family of the deceased soldier is the banking of the government for justice and support. Also asked in: CAT, GRE, TOEFL
Correct Answer: D. The family of the deceased soldier is the banking of the government for justice and support.
Explanation:
Ans. D.
Solution: In the given sentences banking upon is the correct phrasal verb which means basing hopes on someone/something or depending on someone for something.
Option D is incorrect because the bank does not have any relevant meaning in the given context.
- 3. Four statements are given below at A, B, C and D. There may be some errors in the given statement(s). The incorrect statement is your answer.
Options- A. A. The war of succession ultimately boiled over to who had more power.
- B. B. The war of succession ultimately boiled below to who had more power.
- C. C. The war of succession ultimately boiled upon to who had more power.
- D. D. The war of succession ultimately boiled down for who had more power. Also asked in: CAT, GRE, TOEFL
Correct Answer:
Explanation:
Ans. E.
In the given sentences, boiled down is the phrasal verb that should have been used which means summarizing something, to reduce or simplify
(something) to the most basic, essential, or fundamental element(s). In this context it means that the one who had more power succeeded. 'Boiled down' should be followed by 'to' and not 'for', hence option D is incorrect.
- 4. Four statements are given below at A, B, C and D. There may be some errors in the given statement(s). The incorrect statement is your answer.
Options- A. A. People as many as those in a small nation can be seen, at stations, commuting from faraway places every day.
- B. B. People from faraway places are poured out by the stations of numerical small nations.
- C. C. The stations pour out people commuting from faraway places every day, of the numerical magnitude of small nations.
- D. D. People of a numerical magnitude of small nations commuting from faraway places are poured out by the stations every day. Also asked in: CAT, GRE, TOEFL
Correct Answer: B. People from faraway places are poured out by the stations of numerical small nations.
Explanation:
Ans. B.
Option B- ?stations of numerical small nations? is incorrect.
The other statements make complete sense, hence are correct.
- 5. Four statements are given below at A, B, C and D. There may be some errors in the given statement(s). The incorrect statement is your answer.
Options- A. A. The result is the ostensible setting aside of the writer from the reporter triptych of travelogue, diary entries, and philosophical.
- B. B. What results is a triptych of travelogue diary entries, and philosophical asides that ostensibly set the writer apart from the reporter?
- C. C. Triptych of travelogues, diary entries and philosophical asides are the results that genuinely set the reporter apart.
- D. D. Setting the writer apart from the reporter ostensibly the triptych of travelogue, diary entries and philosophical asides. Also asked in: CAT, GRE, TOEFL
Correct Answer:
Explanation:
Ans. E.
Triptych means a set of three associated artistic, literary, or musical works intended to be appreciated together.
- 6. Four statements are given below at A, B, C and D. There may be some errors in the given statement(s). The incorrect statement is your answer.
Options- A. Dark web transactions were initially carried out using legally state-issued currencies.
- B. The initial dark web transactions were carried out by legal state-issues currencies.
- C. The legal state-issued currencies were used to initially carry in the transactions between the dark webs.
- D. Legal state-issued currencies were initially used to carrying out dark web transactions. Also asked in: CAT, GRE, TOEFL
Correct Answer:
Explanation:
Ans. E.
Option A: ?legally state-issued currencies? is incorrect. The word describes the state-issued currencies; hence it should be an adjective and not an adverb. Option B: ?state-issues? is incorrect and should be replaced by ?state-issued?. Option C: ?carry-in? is grammatically incorrect. Option D: ?to carrying out? is grammatically incorrect.
- 7. Four statements are given below at A, B, C and D. There may be some errors in the given statement(s). The incorrect statement is your answer.
Options- A. The Trump administration is intensifying its effort to crack down the so-called sanctuary cities that refuse to comply with federal immigration authorities.
- B. Efforts were intensified by the Trump administration to crack down the sanctuary cities that refused to comply with federal immigration authorities.
- C. The so-called sanctuary cities that refused to abide by the federal immigration authorities will be cracked down by the intensified efforts of the Trump administration.
- D. Federal immigration authorities must be complied into by sanctuary cities if the efforts of the Trump Administration must be intensified. Also asked in: CAT, GRE, TOEFL
Correct Answer: Federal immigration authorities must be complied into by sanctuary cities if the efforts of the Trump Administration must be intensified.
Explanation:
We have to find the incorrect statement. All the sentences except D have been correctly structured. In option D, the phrase ?complied into by? is incorrect. You "comply with" a rule or a law and not by cities.
- 8. Four statements are given below at A, B, C and D. There may be some errors in the given statement(s). The incorrect statement is your answer.
Options- A. Racing for the bus, her bag flew open and all the documents were lost.
- B. As she raced for the bus, her bag flew open making the documents lost.
- C. Racing for the bus, her bag flung open and all the documents were lost.
- D. The documents were lost, when racing for the bus, her bag flung open. Also asked in: CAT, GRE, TOEFL
Correct Answer:
Explanation:
Options A, C and E in the absence of a proper subject add the ?bag? automatically to the verb ?racing for the bus?. So, it does not make any sense as it would mean that the bag is racing for the bus. Option B is incorrect because of the fragment ?making the documents lose?. Option D doesn't convey the proper meaning.
- 9. Four statements are given below at A, B, C and D. There may be some errors in the given statement(s). The incorrect statement is your answer.
Options- A. Archaeological research in Sarasota documents more than ten thousand years of seasonal occupation by native people.
- B. More than ten thousand years of seasonal occupation by native people have been documented in the archaeological research in Sarasota.
- C. Sarasota?s archaeological research has recorded more than ten thousand years of seasonal occupation by native people.
- D. The seasonality in native people has been documented in Sarasota?s archaeological research. Also asked in: CAT, GRE, TOEFL
Correct Answer: The seasonality in native people has been documented in Sarasota?s archaeological research.
Explanation:
?Documentation of the seasonality in native people? doesn?t make sense.
- 10. Four statements are given below at A, B, C and D. There may be some errors in the given statement(s). The incorrect statement is your answer.
Options- A. Many Japanese cities had extensive tram systems until the 1960s, when increased motorization started to make some lines disappear.
- B. Increased motorization started to make some lines disappear after the1960s until when many Japanese cities had extensive tram systems.
- C. When increased motorization started to make lines disappear, many Japanese cities have extensive tram systems until the 1960s.
- D. Until the 1960s, when increased motorization started to make some lines disappear, many Japanese cities had extensive tram systems. Also asked in: CAT, GRE, TOEFL
Correct Answer: When increased motorization started to make lines disappear, many Japanese cities have extensive tram systems until the 1960s.
Explanation:
?has? is incorrectly used since the sentence is in past tense. Moreover, the subject is cities, which is plural.
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