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Voice 2
Narration (Direct and 6
Indirect)
Change of Speech 14
Spelling Check 17
Synonyms 26
Antonyms 29
One Word Substitution 32
One Word Substitutes 38
Idioms and Phrases 44
Verbal Analogies 59
Selecting Words 61
Sentence Completion 75
Completing Statements 79
Common Error Detection 85
Spotting Errors 125
Sentence Correction 196
Sentence Improvement 205
Sentence Formation 214
Ordering of Words 216
Ordering of Sentences 224
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Voice
How to change the Voice of a sentence -
Tips and Tricks
Active and Passive Voice:
A sentence is said to be in Active Voice when the subject does
something. Similarly, a sentence is said to be in Passive Voice
when something is done to the subject. Active Voice : Ram
killed Ravan.
Passive Voice : Ravan was killed by Ram.
In the above sentence Ram is the subject and Ravan is the
object. In the active voice sentence Ram i.e., the subject has
killed the object Ravan. In the second sentence Ravan is the
subject but he allowed himself to be killed by subject Ram.
Here the subject is Passive. Therefore, it is called Passive
voice.
Here it must be noted that:
I becomes me in Passive voice.
We becomes us
You remains you
He becomes him
She becomes her
It remains it
They becomes them.
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£140 Present
Tense: a)
Simple
Present:
1. I watch movies every week. - Active Voice
Movies are watched by me every week. -
Passive Voice 2. We watch movies every
week.
Movies are watched by us every week.
3. You watch movies every
week. Movies are watched by
you every week. 4. He
watches movies every week.
Movies are watched by him
every week. 5. She watches
movies every week. Movies
are watched by her every
week. 6. It watches movies
every week. Movies are
watched by it every week.
7. They watch movies every
week. Movies are watched by
them every week.
b) Present Continuous :
← I am watching a movie now.
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← We had watched a movie three years ago.
← Future
Tense a)
Simple
Future:
1. I will watch a movie tomorrow.
A movie will be watched by me tomorrow.
2. We will watch a movie tomorrow.
A movie will be watched by us
tomorrow. b) Future Perfect:
1. You will have watched a movie by 6 pm tomorrow.
A movie will have been watched by you by 6
pm tomorrow. 2. He will have watched a movie
by 6 pm tomorrow.
A movie will have been watched by him by 6 pm tomorrow.
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Important Rules
a. If the reporting verb, i.e. the main verb in the first part of
the sentence before comma is in the present or in the future
tense, the tense of the verbs in the reported speech will not
change.
Example:
Example:
Direct : The boy said to his friend. "I write everyday." (Present
Indefinite)
Indirect : The boy said to his friend that he wrote everyday.
(Past Indefinite)
Example:
Example:
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Change of person
The persons of the pronouns and of the verbs in the
reported speech undergo changes when converted into
indirect form. Thus:
Direct Indirect
You He
Your His/Her
You (Plural) They
Your (Plural) Their
You (Object) Him/Her
You (Object) Them
Yours (object) Theirs
Answer: Option A
Answer: Option B
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← He says, ''I don't want to D. Mohan said that they
play any more." A. He says that should go to see the Taj in
he doesn't want to play any moonlit night.
more.
B. He says that I don't want Answer: Option D
to play any more.
C. He says that I didn't want
to play any more.
D. He says that he didn't
want to play any more.
Answer: Option A
Answer: Option C
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← Seeta said to me, " Can you a hundred rupees untill the next
give me your pen ?" day. D. Farhan asked whether
A. Seeta asked me can I give her Geeta could lend me a hundred
my pen. B. Seeta asked me if I rupees until the next day.
can give me your pen. C. Seeta
asked me if I could give her my Answer: Option B
pen. D. Seeta asked me if i could
give her my pen.
Answer: Option C
← The father warned his son
that he should be beware of
him.
A. The father warned his son,
"beware of him !"
B. The father warned his
son, "Watch that chap !"
C. The father warned his
son, "Be careful about him."
D. The father warned his son,
"Don't fall into the trap."
Answer: Option A
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Change of Speech
← "If you don't keep quiet I ← He said to his father,
shall shoot you", he said to "Please increase my pocket-
her in a calm voice. money."
A. He warned her to shoot if A. He told his father, "Please
she didn increase the pocket-money"
B. He said calmly that I shall B. He pleaded his father
shoot you if you don to please increase my
C. He warned her calmly that pocket money.
he would shoot her if she C. He requested his father to
didn increase his pocket-money.
D. Calmly he warned her that D. He asked his father to
be quiet or else he will have to increase his pocket-money.
shoot her.
Answer: Option C
Answer: Option C
Answer: Option D
Answer: Option A
Answer: Option D
Answer: Option C
Answer: Option B
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Spelling Check: Section 1
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31. Find the 36. Find correctly 41. Find the
correctly spelt spelt word. correctly spelt
word. A. Bureacracy words.
A. Affactionately B. Bereaucracy A. Ommineous
B. Affectionately C. Buereacracy B. Omineous
C. Afectionately D. Bureaucracy C. Ominous
D. Affectionnality Answer: Option D D. Omenous
Answer: Option B Answer: Option C
37. Find correctly
spelt word.
32. Find the A. Millionair 42. Find the
correctly spelt correctly spelt
word. B. Millionnaire words.
A. Averisious C. Milionaire A. Pessenger
B. Avericious D. Millionaire B. Passenger
C. Avaricious Answer: Option D C. Pasanger
D. Avarisious D. Pesanger
Answer: Option C 38. Find the Answer: Option B
correctly spelt
word.
33. Find the A. Sychological 43. Find the
correctly spelt correctly spelt
word. B. Psychological words.
A. Enterpreneur C. Psykological A. Benefitted
B. Entreorenure D. Sykological B. Benifited
C. Entrepreneur Answer: Option B C. Benefited
D. Enterprenure D. Benefeted
Answer: Option C 39. Find the Answer: Option C
correctly spelt
words.
34. Find the A. Efficient 44. Find the
correctly spelt correctly spelt
word. B. Treatmeant words.
A. Promiscuous C. Beterment A. Treachrous
B. Promescuous D. Employd B. Trecherous
C. Promiscuos Answer: Option A C. Trechearous
D. Promescuous D. Treacherous
Answer: Option A 40. Find the Answer: Option D
correctly spelt
words.
35. Find correctly A. Foreign 45. Find the
spelt word. correctly spelt
A. Onomatopoeia B. Foreine words.
B. Onomotopoei C. Fariegn A. Forcast
C. Onomatopoia D. Forein B. Forecaste
D. Onamotipoei Answer: Option A C. Forcaust
Answer: Option A D. Forecast
Answer: Option D
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46. Find the 51. Find the 56. Find the
correctly spelt correctly spelt correctly spelt
words. words. words.
A. Rigerous A. Excessive A. Sepulchral
B. Rigourous B. Exccessive B. Sepilchrle
C. Regerous C. Exxcesive C. Sepalchrul
D. Rigorous D. Excesive D. Sepalchrl
Answer: Option D Answer: Option A Answer: Option A
47. Find the 52. Find the 57. Find the
correctly spelt correctly spelt correctly spelt
words. words. words.
A. Palete A. Indipensable A. Acommodation
B. Palet B. Indipenseble B. Accomodaton
C. Palate C. Indispansible C. Accommodation
D. Pelate D. Indispensable D. Acomodation
Answer: Option C Answer: Option D Answer: Option C
48. Find the 53. Find the 58. Find the
correctly spelt correctly spelt correctly spelt
words. words. words.
A. Bouquete A. Humorous A. Faithfuly
B. Bouquette B. Ganerous B. Sincerely
C. Bouquet C. Pupolous C. Truely
D. Boqquet D. Maretorious D. Affectionatly
Answer: Option C Answer: Option A Answer: Option B
49. Find the 54. Find the 59. Find the
correctly spelt correctly spelt correctly spelt
words. words. words.
A. Vetarinary A. Itinarery A. Klaptomania
B. Veteninary B. Itinerary B. Klepptomania
C. Vetinary C. Itenary C. Kleptemania
D. Veterinary D. Itinarary D. Kleptomania
Answer: Option D Answer: Option B Answer: Option D
50. Find the 55. Find the 60. Find the
correctly spelt correctly spelt correctly spelt
words. words. words.
A. Chancelary A. Survaillance A. Schedulle
B. Chancellery B. Surveillance B. Schedeule
C. Chancelery C. Survellance C. Schdule
D. Chancellary D. Surveilance D. Schedule
Answer: Option B Answer: Option B Answer: Option D
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61. Find the 65. Find the 69. Find the
correctly spelt correctly spelt correctly spelt
words. words. words.
A. Skillful A. Dammage A. Inoculation
B. Skillfull B. Damaige B. Innoculation
C. Skilfull C. Dammege C. Inocculation
D. Skilpull D. Damage D. Inocullation
Answer: Option A Answer: Option D Answer: Option A
62. Find the 66. Find the 70. Find the
correctly spelt correctly spelt correctly spelt
words. words. words.
A. Judicious A. Accomplish A. Velnerable
B. Cancious B. Acomplush B. Vulnarable
C. Dilicous C. Ackmplesh C. Vulnerable
D. Gracous D. Accompalish D. Valnerable
Answer: Option A Answer: Option A Answer: Option C
63. Find the 67. Find the
correctly spelt correctly spelt
words. words.
A. Gaurantee A. Puerrile
B. Guarantee B. Puerrille
C. Garuntee C. Purrile
D. Guaruntee D. Puerile
Answer: Option B Answer: Option D
64. Find the 68. Find the
correctly spelt correctly spelt
words. words.
A. Friming A. Satelite
B. Burnning B. Sattelite
C. Running C. Satellite
D. Fryng D. Sattellite
Answer: Option C Answer: Option C
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Spelling Check: Section 2
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31. Find out that 36. Find out that 41. Find out that
word, word, word,
which spelling is which spelling is which spelling is
WRONG WRONG WRONG
A. Dismiss A. Benificial A. Transmit
B. Dispel B. Regular B. Attribute
C. Disservice C. Despise C. Constitute
D. Discribe D. Deprave D. Investegate
E. All correct E. All correct E. All correct
Answer: Option D Answer: Option A Answer: Option D
32. Find out that 37. Find out that 42. Find out that
word, word, word,
which spelling is which spelling is which spelling is
WRONG WRONG WRONG
A. Period A. Psychologist A. Peaceful
B. Saggest B. Psychaitrist B. Skillful
C. Famous C. Physiologist C. Beautyful
D. Reference D. Psychoanalyst D. Hopeful
E. All correct E. All correct E. All correct
Answer: Option B Answer: Option B Answer: Option C
33. Find out that 38. Find out that 43. Find out that
word, word, word,
which spelling is which spelling is which spelling is
WRONG WRONG WRONG
A. Formulate A. Conserve A. Numerous
B. Formidable B. Reserve B. Nucleus
C. Forman C. Diserve C. Nuisence
D. Format D. Preserve D. Numismatics
E. All correct E. All correct E. All correct
Answer: Option C Answer: Option C Answer: Option C
34. Find out that 39. Find out that 44. Find out that
word, word, word,
which spelling is which spelling is which spelling is
WRONG WRONG WRONG
A. Aristocracy A. Filled A. Choclate
B. Prophecy B. Fulfiled B. Woolen
C. Beaureacuracy C. Expelled C. Parliament
D. Democracy D. Skilled D. Biscuit
E. All correct E. All correct E. All correct
Answer: Option C Answer: Option B Answer: Option A
35. Find out that 40. Find out that 45. Find out that
word, word, word,
which spelling is which spelling is which spelling is
WRONG WRONG WRONG
A. Artificial A. Seperation A. Grammer
B. Aggrevate B. Desertion B. Hammer
C. Forefront C. Rejoice C. Manner
D. Negligence D. Serenity D. Stammer
E. All correct E. All correct E. All correct
Answer: Option B Answer: Option A Answer: Option A
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46. Find out that 50. Find out that 54. Find out that
word, word, word,
which spelling is which spelling is which spelling is
WRONG WRONG WRONG
A. Deploy A. Narrator A. Permission
B. Emply B. Overseer B. Ambition
C. Supply C. Pretence C. Admision
D. Reply D. Licence D. Submission
E. All correct E. All correct E. All correct
Answer: Option B Answer: Option E Answer: Option C
47. Find out that 51. Find out that 55. Find out that
word, word, word,
which spelling is which spelling is which spelling is
WRONG WRONG WRONG
A. Approach A. Burglar A. Collision
B. Compartment B. Designation B. Superstition
C. Restaurant C. Controversy C. Conversation
D. Municipality D. Ratificasion D. Humilation
E. All correct E. All correct E. All correct
Answer: Option E Answer: Option D Answer: Option D
48. Find out that 52. Find out that 56. Find out that
word, word, word,
which spelling is which spelling is which spelling is
WRONG WRONG WRONG
A. Irritate A. Leisure A. Gentalman
B. Turmoil B. Nuisance B. Criticise
C. Ignorent C. Opineon C. Valuable
D. Terrible D. Mystery D. Continuous
E. All correct E. All correct E. All correct
Answer: Option C Answer: Option C Answer: Option A
49. Find out that 53. Find out that 57. Find out that
word, word, word,
which spelling is which spelling is which spelling is
WRONG WRONG WRONG
A. Intellectual A. Differed A. Punctuation
B. Opportunity B. Suffered B. Fashion
C. Efficiency C. Offered C. Pention
D. Responsibility D. Reffered D. Ration
E. All correct E. All correct E. All correct
Answer: Option E Answer: Option D Answer: Option C
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Synonyms
1. Fostering : 6. Cease: 11. 16.
Recuperate : Disparage :
A. A. Begin A. Rehabilitate A. Scatter
Safeguarding
B. Neglecting B. Stop B. Recover B.
Discriminate
C. Ignoring C. Create C. Reimburse C. Belittle
D. Nurturing D. Dull D. Relocate D. Waste
Answer: Answer: Answer: E. Parable
Option D Option B Option B
Answer:
Option C
2. Propel: 7. Pious: 12. Augury:
A. Drive A. Religious A. Prophecy 17. Alacrity :
B. Jettison B. B. Astronomy A. Briskness
Sympathetic
C. Burst C. Afraid C. Intention B. Fear
D. Acclimatize D. Faithful D. Future C. Frankness
E. Modify Answer: Answer: D. Alarm
Option A Option D
Answer: E. None of
Option A These
8. Cancel: 13. Delectable: Answer:
Option A
3. Massive: A. Abolish A. Nobel
A. Lump Sum B. Approve B. Enjoyable 18. Busy :
B. Strong C. Allow C. Delicious A. Active
C. Little D. Break D. Sumptuous B. Occupied
D. Gaping Answer: Answer: C.
Option A Option C Preoccupied
E. Huge D. Diligent
Answer: 9. Abandon : 14. Dielectric : E. None of
Option E These
A. Forsake A. Answer:
Argumentative Option B
4. Stumbling B. Keep B. Instructive
Block:
A. Argument C. Cherish C. 19.
Constructive Bitterness :
B. Frustration D. Enlarge D. Destructive A. Sourness
C. Advantage Answer: Answer: B. Hoarseness
Option A Option A
D. Hurdle C. Acrimony
E. Fallout 10. 15. Paltry : D. Aspersion
Germinate :
Answer: A. Decay A. E. None of
Option D Insignificant These
B. Breed B. Unfair Answer:
Option C
5. Defer : C. Produce C. Average
A. Indifferent D. Sprout D. Slovenly
B. Defy Answer: Answer:
Option B Option A
C. Differ
D. Postpone
Answer:
Option D
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← Steril ← Synopsis :
e : A. ←Index
Dry B. ←Mixture
Barren ←Summary
C. ← Puzzle Answer: Option C
Childles
s D.
Arid
E. None of
These
Answer:
Option B
← Altercati
on : A.
Choice
B. Charge
C. Heated
Dispute D.
Distribution
E. None of
These
Answer:
Option C
← Prohibit :
←Prescribe
←Forfeit
←Forbid
← Provide
Answer:
Option C
← Stupid :
A. Rude B.
Dull C.
Illiterate D.
Obstinate
Answer:
Option B
25. Graphic : Compassion :
A. Moving
B. Timid A. Gather A. Kindness A. Extirpate
C. Obvious B. Allot B. Similarity B. Provoke
C. Calm C. Contrast C. Isolation
D. Instructive D. Remit D. Cruelty D. Abrasion
Answer: Answer: Answer:
Option C Option A Option B
Answer: 29. Liberal : 35. 41.
Option C Contentment : Imperceptible
26. Showy : :
A. Broad- A. Craftiness A. Mean
A. Rowdy Minded
B. Hungry B. Generous B. Satisfaction B. Obvious
C. Greedy C. Visionary C. Idleness C. Humble
D. Gaudy D. Imaginative D. Craving D. Subtle
Answer: Answer: Answer: Answer:
Option D Option B Option B Option D
27. 30. Security : 36. Fiction : 42. See :
Annihilate :
A. Destroy A. Boldness A. Imaginary A. Talk
B. Entrain B. Safety B. Tamed B. Observe
C. Forward C. C. Novel C. Stand
D. Testify Fearlessness
Answer: D. Confidence D. Wildness D. Look
Option A Answer: Answer: Answer:
28. Pacify : Option B Option C Option B
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43. Installed : 47. Turn : 52. Duplicity : 57. Cater :
A. Prepared A. Shift A. Repetition A. Advance
B. Settled B. Curve B. Artlessness B. Develop
C. Started C. Move C. Deceit C. Provide
D. D. Rotate D. Cleverness D. Discover
Manufactured
E. Established E. Fabricate Answer: Answer:
Option C Option C
Answer: Answer:
Option E Option D
53. Vanguard : 58. Redressed
:
44. Contain : 48. A. Race Driver A. Addressed
Awakened :
A. Prevent A. Enlightened B. Officer B. Equalised
B. Limit B. Realized C. Flag Bearer C. Restored
C. Hold C. Shook D. Pioneer D. Redone
D. Express D. Briefed Answer: E. Rearranged
Option C
E. Control Answer: Answer:
Option A Option C
Answer: 54. Fortitude :
Option C
49. Diversion : A. Similarity 59. Haggle:
45. A. Amusement B. Courage A. Postpone
Eventually :
A. Suddenly B. Distortion C. Protection B. Accept
B. Ultimately C. Deviation D. Safety C. Bargain
C. Quickly D. Change Answer: D. Reject
Option B
D. Abruptly Answer: Answer:
Option A Option C
E. Initially 55.
Inadvertent :
Answer: 50. Pass : A. Ignorant 60. Abstruse:
Option B
A. Qualify B. Unexpected A. Awful
46. Essential : B. Die C. B. Irrelevant
Unintentional
A. Desirable C. Cross D. C. Shallow
Undisturbed
B. Advisable D. Elongated Answer: D. Profound
Option C
C. Beneficial Answer: Answer:
Option C Option B
D. 56. Fidelity :
Unavoidable
Answer: 51. Wretched: A. Faithfulness 61. Yob:
Option D
A. Poor B. A. Aggressive
Resourcefulne
ss
B. Foolish C. Strength B. Intelligent
C. Insane D. Weakness C. Annoyed
D. Strained Answer: D. Humble
Option A
E. Transfer Answer:
Option A
Answer:
Option A
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Antonyms
1. Foremost : 6. Last : 11. 16. Haunts :
Prosperous :
A. Hindmost A. End A. Adverse A. Permeates
B. Unimportant B. Grow B. Advanced B. Includes
C. Disposed C. Diminish C. Retarded C. Repels
D. Mature D. Finish D. Impecunious D. Attracts
E. Premature Answer: Option E. Affluent E. Invigorates
B
Answer: Option 7. Mighty : Answer: Option Answer: Option
B D C
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People living at the same time Contempora
ries
A book published after the death of its Posthumou
author s
A book written by an unknown author Anonymous
A life history written by oneself Autobiogra
phy
A life history written by somebody else Biography
People who work together Colleagues
One who eats too much Glutton
That which cannot be satisfied Insatiable
One who questions everything Cynic
A flesh eating animal Carnivorou
s
A grass eating animal Herbivorou
s
One who lives in a foreign country Immigrant
To transfer one's authority to another Delegate
One who is a newcomer Neophyte
That which is lawful Legal
That which is against law Illegal
One who is unmarried Celibate
A game in which no one wins Draw
A study of man Anthropolo
gy
A study of races Ethnology
A study of the body Physiology
A study of animals Zoology
A study of birds Ornitholog
y
A study of ancient things Archaeolog
y
A study of derivation of words Etymology
Murder of a human being Homicide
Murder of a father Patricide
Murder of a mother Matricide
Murder of an brother Fratricide
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B. Alliteration C. One Word
Transferred epithet
← A person D. Oxymoron Answer: Option Substituti
who B on
renounces the
world and 5. Person who 9. On
practices self- does not believ
discipline in believe in the
order to the existence power
attain
of
salvation: A.
Sceptic God: A. Fat
B. Ascetic C. A. Theist B. Op
Devotee D. B. Heretic C. Pes
Antiquarian C. Atheist D.
Answer: Parsim
Option B D. Fanatic Answe
Optio
← One who Answer:
abandons his
Option C
religious
faith: A. 10. A
Apostate B. who
Prostate C. 6. A lady's loves
Profane D. every
Agnostic umbrella is: A.
Answer: Cosm
Option A A. Parasol B. Fra
B. Granary C. Ath
← A hater of
knowledge C. Epitaph D. Ari
and D. Aviary Answe
learning: Optio
A. Bibliophile Answer:
B. Philologist Option A
C. Misogynist 11. O
D. Misologist 7. Story of old canno
Answer: time gods or please
Option D
heroes is: A.
← Commenc Cosm
ement of A. Lyric B.
words with Frigh
the same B. Epic C. Fas
letter: C. Legend D. Fem
A. Pun
D. Romance B. Infectious
C.
Answer: ← A person who is Contagious
indifferent to pains and D. Fatal
Option C pleasure of life: Answer:
A. Stoic B. Sadist Option C
C. Psychiatrist D. Aristocrat
8. A sad song: Answer: Option A ← A man
A. Ditty who rarely
B. Knell ← An act of speaking one's speaks the
C. Dirge thoughts aloud when by truth:
D. Lay oneself or regardless of any A.
hearers, especially by a Crook
Answer: character in a play: A. B. Liar
Option C Sinecure C. Scoundrel
B. Soliloquy C. Pessimist D. Hypocrite
D. Philanthropist Answer: Answer:
Option B Option D
← A disease which spreads by
contact: A. Incurable
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17. A remedy 22. A person 27. One who reform remai
for all who movement: unma
diseases: forsakes knows two A. Apostle A. Sp
religion:
A. Narcotics A. Apostle languages: B. Apothecary B. Art
B. Antiseptic B. Apotheosis A. Bigot
C. Panacea C. Renegade B. Bigamy C. Apotheosis C. Ba
D. Lyric D. Charlatan C. Bilingual D. Renegade D.
Answer: Answer: D. Brittle Misan
Option C Option C Answer: Answ
18. 23. One who Answer: Option A Optio
International Option C
21. A person 26. O
destruction of studies insect 28. who has
racial life: Government pretends to good
by have food:
groups: A. Geologist the more A. Go
representativ knowledge or
es skill than he B. Cu
A. Matricide B. Zoologist of the people: rally
B. Regicide C. A. Autocracy has: C. Par
Entomologist A. Crook D. Sto
C. Genocide D. Botanist B. Democracy B. Apotheosis Answ
D. Homicide Answer: C. Socialism Optio
Option C C. Renegade
Answer: D. Anarchy
Option C D. Charlatan
19. Custom of 24. A doctor Answer:
Answer:
who Option B
Option D
having many treats skin 29. A disease
wives: diseases: that
A. Misogamy A. spreads over a
Ophthalmologi large
st
B. Bigamy B. area:
Dermatologist
C. Polygamy C. A. Academic
Paediatrician
D. Monogamy D. B. Epidemic
Cardiologist
Answer: Answer: C.
Option C Option B Incorrigible
D. Invincible
20. A pioneer 25. A lady who Answer:
of a Option B
← One who able to use the right and left
hands equally well:
A. Sinister ← Murder of
B. Ambidextrous C. Ambivalent D. Amateur man: A.
Answer: Option B Regicide
B. Fratricide
← Government by rich: C. Homicide
A. Oligarchy B. Aristocracy C. Pantisocracy D. D. Genocide
Plutocracy Answer: Option D Answer:
Option C
← An independent person or body officially
appointed to settle a dispute: A. Arbiter
B. Mediator C. Agent provocateur D. Arbitrator
Answer: Option D
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36. Use of 40. To 44. A narrow
force or examine piece
threats to get one's own of land
thoughts connecting
someone to and feelings: two large
agree masses of
to something: A. Meditation land :
A. Coercion B. A. Peninsula
Retrospection
B. Conviction C. Reflection B. Isthmus
C. Confession D. C. Continent
Introspection
D. Cajolement Answer: D. Gulf
Option D
Answer: Answer:
Option A Option B
37. Animal 41. One 45. One who
that indifferent
feeds on to art and collects coins
plants: literature as
A. Carnivorous is : hobby :
B. Herbivorous A. Aromatic A. Philatelist
C. B. Critic B.
Insectivorous Ornithologist
D. C. Philistine C. Statistician
Graminivorous
Answer: D. Scholar D.
Option B Numismatist
Answer: Answer:
Option C Option D
38. Group of
stars:
A. Orbit 42. Open to
injury
B. or Criticism :
Constellation
C. Solar A. Invincible
system
D. Comet B. Vulnerable
Answer: C. Naive
Option B
D. Sensitive
39. Lasting Answer:
only for Option B
a very short
time:
A. Transparent 43.
Government by
B. Temporal a small group
of all
C. Temporary powerful
persons :
D. Temperate A. Oligarchy
Answer: B. Monarchy
Option C
C. Democracy
D. Anarchy
Answer:
Option A
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One Word Substitutes: Section 1
1. Extreme old 6. State in 10. A prima 14. One who
age which the facie
when a man few govern the case is such possesses
behaves many many
like a fool A. Monarchy A. As it seems at talents
first
A. Imbecility B. Oligarchy sight A. Versatile
B. Senility C. Plutocracy B. As it is made B. Nubile
to
C. Dotage D. Autocracy seem at first C. Exceptional
sight
D. Answer: Option C. As it turns D. Gifted
Superannuation B out to
Answer: Option be at the end Answer: Option
C A
7. A style in D. As it seems
which a to the
2. That which writer makes a court after a 15. Words
cannot number inscribed
be corrected display of his of hearings on tomb
A. knowledge Answer: Option A. Epitome
Unintelligible A
B. Indelible A. Pedantic B. Epistle
C. Illegible B. Verbose 11. A person C. Epilogue
D. Incorrigible C. Pompous pretending to D. Epitaph
be
Answer: Option D. Ornate somebody he is Answer: Option
D not D
Answer: Option A. Magician
A
3. The study of B. Rogue 16. One who
eats
ancient 8. List of the C. Liar everything
societies business
A. or subjects to D. Imposter A. Omnivorous
Anthropology be
B. Archaeology considered at a Answer: Option B. Omniscient
D
C. History meeting C. Irrestible
D. Ethnology A. Schedule 12. A person D. Insolvent
who
Answer: Option B. Timetable knows many Answer: Option
B foreign A
C. Agenda languages
4. A person of D. Plan A. Linguist 17. Malafide
good case is
understanding Answer: Option B. Grammarian one
C
knowledge and C. Polyglot A. Which is
reasoning 9. Leave or D. Bilingual undertaken in a
power remove good
A. Expert from a place Answer: Option faith
A
B. Intellectual considered B. Which is
C. Snob dangerous 13. One who undertaken in
has a bad
D. Literate A. Evade little faith in faith
human
Answer: Option B. Evacuate sincerity and C. Which is
B
C. Avoid goodness undertaken
after a
5. A person D. Exterminate A. Egoist long delay
who
insists on Answer: Option B. Fatalist D. Which is not
something B
A. C. Stoic undertaken at
Disciplinarian all
B. Stickler D. Cynic Answer: Option
B
C. Answer: Option
Instantaneous D
D. Boaster
Answer: Option
B
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18. The custom 22. A drawing 27. That which 32. One who
or on cannot
practice of transparent cannot be read be corrected
having paper
more than one A. Red print A. Negligible A. Incurable
husband at same B. Blue print B. Illegible B. Incorrigible
time
A. Polygyny C. Negative C. Ineligible C. Hardened
B. Polyphony D. D. Incorrigible D. Invulnerable
Transparency
C. Polyandry Answer: Option Answer: Option Answer: Option
D B B
D. Polychromy
Answer: Option 23. One who is 28. In a state of 33. Be the
C not
easily pleased tension or embodiment or
by anxiety or
19. Tending to anything suspense perfect
move example of
away from the A. Maiden A. Off balance A. Characterise
centre
or axis B. Mediaeval B. Depressed B. Idol
A. Centrifugal C. Precarious C. Diffused C. Personify
B. Centripetal D. Fastidious D. On D. Signify
tenterhooks
C. Axiomatic Answer: Option Answer: Option Answer: Option
D D C
D. Awry
Answer: Option 24. A remedy 29. That which 34. A person not
A for all sure
diseases cannot be seen of the
existence of
20. Teetotaller A. Stoic A. Insensible god
means
A. One who B. Marvel B. Intangible A. Cynic
abstains
from theft C. Panacea C. Invisible B. Agnostic
B. One who D. Recompense D. Unseen C. Atheist
abstains
from meat Answer: Option Answer: Option D. Theist
C C
C. One who Answer: Option
abstains B
from taking 25. One who is 30. To slap with
wine fond a flat
D. One who of fighting object 35. A paper
abstains written
from malice A. Bellicose A. Chop by hand
Answer: Option B. Aggressive B. Hew A. Handicraft
C
C. Belligerent C. Gnaw B. Manuscript
21. A person D. Militant D. Swat C. Handiwork
interested in Answer: Option Answer: Option D. Thesis
A D
collecting, Answer: Option
studying B
and selling of 26. A small shop 31. Habitually
old that silent
things sells or talking little 36. The act of
fashionable
A. Antiquarian clothes, A. Servile violating the
cosmetics, sanctity
B. Junk-dealer etc. B. Unequivocal of the church is
C. Crank A. Store C. Taciturn A. Blashphemy
D. Archealogist B. Stall D. Synoptic B. Heresy
Answer: Option C. Boutique Answer: Option C. Sacrilege
A C
D. Booth D. Desecration
Answer: Option Answer: Option
C C
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← Something ← A child born ← The raison Answer:
that can be after death of d'etre of a Option D
heard his father A. controversy is
A. Auditory Posthumous A. The ← Parts of a
B. Audio- B. Orphan C. enthusiasm country behind
visual C. Bastard D. with which it is the coast or a
Audible Progenitor kept alive river's banks
D. Audition Answer: B. The fitness A. Isthmus
Answer: Option A with which B.
Option C participants Archipelago
← The
absence of handle it C.
← A name
adopted by an law and C. The Hinterland
author in his order reason or D. Swamps
writings A. Rebellion justification Answer:
A. Nickname B. Anarchy of its Option C
B. C. Mutiny D. existence
Pseudonym Revolt D. The
C. Answer: unending
Nomenclatur Option B hostility the
e D. Title parties
Answer: concerned
Option B have towards
each other
← Study of Answer:
birds A. Option C
Orology
B. Optology ← A place
C.
where bees are
Ophthalmolog
kept in called
y D.
A. An apiary
Ornithology
Answer:
B. A mole C.
Option D
A hive D. A
sanctury
← A place Answer:
that Option A
provides
refuge A. ← A
Asylum religious
B. discourse
Sanatoriu A.
m C. Preach
Shelter B.
D. Orphanage Stanza
Answer: C.
Option A Sanctorum
D. Sermon
← Study of Naive ← A person Accustom D.
the evolution Answer: who brings Acclimatise
of man as an Option B goods illegally Answer:
animal into the country Option D
A. ← A disease of A. Importer
Archaeology mind causing B. Exporter
B. an C. Fraud D. ← One who
Anthropology uncontrollable Smuggler knows
C. desire to steal Answer: everything
Chronology A. A.
Option D
D. Ethnology Schizophrenia Literate
Answer: B. ← To take B.
Option B Claustrophobi secretly in Scholar
a C. small C.
← A person Kleptomania quantities Omnipotent
who speaks D. A. D. Omniscient
many Magolomania Answer:
Robbery
languages Answer:
B. Option D
A. Linguist Option C
Pilferag
B.
← One who e C. ← Detailed
Monolingual
sacrifices his Theft plan of
C. Polyglot D.
life for a cause D. journey
Bilingual
A. Defalcation A.
Answer:
Patriot Answer: Travelogue
Option C
B. Option B B. Travelkit
← One who Martyr C. Schedule
does not C. ← To D. Itinerary
believe in Revolutionary accustom Answer:
existence of D. Soldier oneself to a Option D
god A. Answer: foreign
Egoist Option B climate
B. Atheist C. A. Adapt B.
Stoic D. Adopt C.
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57. Giving 61. Incapable 65. A building
69. An
undue of for expression of
favours to one's being seen storing threshed
mild
own through grain disapproval
kith and kin A. Ductile A. HangarA. Warning
A. Nepotism B. Opaque B. Dockyard
B. Denigration
B. Favouritism C. Obsolete C. Store C.
Impertinence
C. Wordliness D. Potable D. Granary D. Reproof
D. Corruption Answer: Option Answer: Option Answer: Option
B D D
Answer: Option 62. One who 66. Policeman 70. One
A does riding absorbed in
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One Word Substitutes: Section 2
B. B. Pal
1. One who 6. A dramatic 11. One who Endocrinology
dabbles believes C. Gynealogy C. Tan
in fine arts for performance that all things D. D. Sum
the and Orthopaedics
love of it and A. Mask events in life Answer: Option Answe
not for are A B
monetary gains B. Mosque predetermined
is a 5. A person who 10. Th
A. Connoisseur C. Masque A. Fatalist tries
B. Amateur D. Mascot B. Puritan to deceive gover
C. Professional Answer: Option C. Egoist people by which
C claiming to be conce
D. Dilettante D. Tyrant able to
Answer: Option 7. One who Answer: do wonderful makin
B does not Option A things
marry, A. Trickster A. Cou
especially as a B. Imposter B. Tri
2. A school boy religious 12. Something C. Magician C. Bar
who obligation that D. Mountebank D. Leg
cuts classes A. Bachelor relates to Answer: Option Answe
everyone in A D
frequently is a B. Celibate the world
A. Defeatist C. Vigin A. General
B. Sycophant D. Recluse B. Common
C. Truant Answer: Option C. Usual
B
D. Martinet D. Universal
Answer: Option 8. That which Answer:
C is Option D
perceptible by
touch
3. Ready to is 13. To walk
believe with
A. Credulous A. Contagious slow or regular
Steps
B. Credible B. Contingent is to
C. Creditable C. Tenacious A. Limp
D. Incredible D. Tangible B. Stride
Answer: Option Answer: Option C. Pace
A D
D. Advance
4. Medical 9. Very Answer:
study of pleasing to Option C
skin and its eat
diseases
A. Dermatology A. Appetising 14. A style full
of
A. Canoe B.
← Having superior or intellectual interests and Yacht C.
tastes A. Elite Frigate D.
B. Highbrow C. Sophisticated D. Fastidious Dinghy
Answer: Option B Answer:
Option B
← To cause troops, etc. to spread out in readiness for
battle A. Disperse ← One who is
B. Deploy C. Collocate D. Align Answer: Option in charge of
B museum A.
Curator
← A voice loud enough to be heard A. Audible B.
B. Applaudable C. Laudable D. Oral Answer: Supervisor
Option A C. Caretaker
D. Warden
← A light sailing boat built specially for racing
Answer:
Option A
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21. A 24. The policy 27. A fixed
government by of orbit in
the nobles extending a space in
country's relation to
A. Aristocracy empire and earth
influence
B. Democracy A. Communism A. Geological
C. Autocracy B. B. Geo-
Internationalis synchronous
m
D. Bureaucracy C. Capitalism C. Geo-centric
Answer: Option D. Imperialism D. Geo-
A stationary
22. One who is Answer: Option Answer:
D Option D
3. To catch a tartar
A. To trap wanted criminal
with great difficulty
B. To catch a dangerous
person C. To meet with
disaster
D. To deal with a person who
is more
than one's match
E. None of these
Answer: Option B
4. To drive home
A. To find one's roots
B. To return to place of rest
C. Back to original position
D. To emphasize
E. None of these
Answer: Option D
← To have an axe
to grind A. A private
end to serve B. To
fail to arouse
D. To try to be
6. To cry wolf beautiful E. None
A. To listen eagerly of these Answer:
B. To give false alarm Option B
C. To turn pale
D. To keep off ← To put one's hand to
starvation E. None plough A. To take up
of these Answer: agricultural farming B.
Option B To take a difficult task
C. To get entangled into
7. To end in smoke unnecessary things
A. To make completely D. Take interest in
understand B. To ruin technical work E. None
oneself of these
C. To excite great Answer: Option B
applause D. To
overcome someone ← To pick holes
E. None of these A. To find some reason to
Answer: Option B quarrel
B. To destroy something
8. To be above board C. To criticize someone
A. To have a good height D. To cut some part of
B. To be honest in any an item E. None of
business deal C. They have these Answer: Option C
no debts
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← To leave someone in B. A very active person
the lurch A. To come to C. A worthy fellow
compromise with D. An unreasonable
someone person E. None of
B. Constant source of these Answer:
annoyance to someone Option A
C. To put someone at ease
D. To desert someone in his
difficulties E. None of these
Answer: Option D
← To beg the
question A. To
refer to
B. To take for
granted C. To
raise objections
D. To be
discussed E.
None of these
Answer: Option
B
← A black sheep
A. An unlucky person
B. A lucky person
C. An ugly person
D. A partner who takes no
share of the profits
E. None of these
Answer: Option E
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← He passed himself off as
a noble man. ← When he heard that he
A. Was had once again not been
regarded as B. selected he lost heart. A.
Pretended to be became desperate
C. Was thought B. felt sad
to be D. Was C. became angry
looked upon D. became
Answer: Option discouraged
B Answer: Option
D
← This matter has been
hanging fire for the last many
months and must therefore be
decided one way or the other.
A. going on
slowly B.
hotly debated
C. stuck up
D. ignored
Answer:
Option A
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← I am afraid he is burning A. talking
the candle at both ends and nonsense B.
ruining his life. talking ignorantly
A. wasting his money C. talking
B. becoming irresponsibly D.
overgenerous C. talking insultingly
overtaxing his Answer: Option A
energies D. losing
his objectives
Answer: Option C
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← Why must you look a gift ← He is leaving the country
horse in the mouth? for a good. A. for better
A. welcome a gift prospects
B. find fault with B. for a good
a gift C. be cause C. for
fastidious ever
D. examine a gift D. for others
carefully Answer: good Answer:
Option B Option C
← Dowry is a burning
question of the day.
A. a widely
debated issue B. a
dying issue
C. a relevant
problem D. an
irrelevant issue
Answer: Option
A
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← The party stalwarts have ← How long will the people
advised the President to take put up with the increasing
it lying down for a while. A. to economic hardships?
be cautious A.
B. to be on the welcome
defensive C. to B. take
take rest easily
D. to show no C. remain
reaction Answer: satisfied with D.
Option D tolerate
Answer: Option D
← The thief took to his heels
when he saw a policeman on
the beat.
A. had some pain in his
heels B. ran away from
the scene C. confronted
the policeman D. could
not decide what to do
Answer: Option B
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← I felt like a fish out of
water among all those ← The recent film "Secular
business tycoons. India" has tried to keep the
A. pot of Muslim women's Bill
troubled boiling
B. A. Earning enough to keep
stupid body and soul together
C. B. Keep a
uncomfortable controversy alive C.
D. inferior Boil the bill
Answer: D. Boil something
Option C in a pot Answer:
Option B
← Some people now wonder
whether we just pay lip-
service or genuinely
subscribe to democracy.
A. pay oral
tribute B.
attach no value
C. remain
indifferent
D. show only outward
respect Answer:
Option D
← Discipline is on the
wane in schools and colleges
these days.
A. declining B.
increasing C.
spreading D.
spiraling
Answer:
Option A
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← This regular ← The time is running out,
absenteeism is a bad you must look sharp.
business since on work is A. be careful B.
being completed. make haste C.
A. Bad for be punctual D.
business B. Non- be sensible
business like C. Answer:
An unfortunate Option B
event D. Creating
ill-will Answer:
Option C
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← The sight of the accident ← He intends setting up as a
made my flesh creep. lawyer in the adjoining
A. draw my district.
attention B. A. To establish
confused me himself B. To
C. frightened migrate
me D. worried C. To join D. To
me E. None settle Answer:
Answer: Option A
Option C
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← Madhuri might scream ← There has been bad blood
blue murder, but I feel between the two
Deepali should get the communities even before
promotion since she is better shouting.
qualified for the job. A. Impure
A. Someone has been blood B. Ill
murdered with some blue feeling
liquid C. bloody
B. Someone is being fights D.
murdered and has become Quarrels
blue Answer:
C. Suffer from persecution Option B
complex
D. Make a great deal of noise
and object vehemently
Answer: Option D
← Having sold off his factory,
he is now a gentleman at large.
A. Has no serious
occupation B. Is living
comfortably
C. Is respected by
everybody D. Is held
in high esteem
Answer: Option A
← Though he has lot of
money, yet all his plans are
built upon sand.
A. established on insecure
foundations B. based on
inexperience
C. resting on cheap
material D. resting on
immature ideas
Answer: Option D
← His plan was so
complicated that it floored
his listeners.
A. entertained
B. puzzled C.
annoyed D.
encouraged
Answer:
Option B
← The curious neighbours g B.
were disappointed as the backbiting
young couple's quarrel was C. gossip
just a storm in a tea cup. A. D. light
violent quarrel conversation
B. fuss about a Answer: Option
trifle C. brittle D
situation
D. quarrel about ← My car broke down on
tea cups Answer: way to the railway station.
Option B A. stopped
B. met with an
← Mohan always keeps accident C. ran
himself to himself. out of petrol D.
A. Is too failed to work
busy B. Is Answer: Option A
selfish
C. Is unsociable ← My father strained every
D. Does not take nerve to enable me to get
sides Answer: settled in life.
Option C A. worked very hard
B. spent a huge
← While the ladies continued amount C. tried
their small talk in the drawing all tricks
room, I felt bored. D. bribed several
A. persons Answer:
whisperin Option A
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← He is always picking ← The prince did not take
holes in every project. after the king.
A. creating A. run after B.
problems in B. follow C.
finding fault with precede D.
C. suggesting resemble
improvement in D. Answer: Option
asking irrelevant D
questions on Answer:
Option B
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← His friends advised him
to be fair and square in his ← The old man was cut to the
dealings. quick when his rich son
A. Careful B. Considerate refused to recognize him.
C. Polite D. Upright A. surprised B. hurt intensely
Answer: Option D C. annoyed D. irritated
Answer: Option B
← It is high time that
India did something
about the population
problem.
A. already late
B. appropriate
time C. desired
occasion D.
auspicious
moment Answer:
Option A
← He is always standing
up for the weak and
oppressed.
A. Boosting the claims of
B. Championing the
cause of C. Seeking
help of others for D.
Moving about with
Answer: Option B
← Turban is in vogue
in some communities.
A. in fashion B. out of
use
C. vaguely used D. never
used
Answer: Option A
← I requested him to put in a A. very good
word for friends B.
me. constantly
A. introduce B. assist fighting
C. support D. C. associates in
recommen some action D.
d suspicious of each
Answer: Option other Answer:
D Option A
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← You have to be a cool ← The new C.M stuck his
customer and be patient if neck out today and promised
you want to get the best buys. 10kgs. free wheat a month for
A. Be calm and not be all rural families.
excitable B. Have a cool A. took an
head oath B. took
C. Be a risk C.
uncommunicative extended
D. Be choosy help
Answer: Option A D. caused
embarrassment
← There was no opposition to Answer: Option B
the new policy by the rank
and file of the Government.
A. the official
machinery B. the
ordinary members
C. the majority
D. the cabinet
ministers Answer:
Option B
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Idioms & Phrases: Section 3
← The detective left no ← He went back on his
stone unturned to trace the promise to vote for me A.
culprit. withdrew
A. took no pains B. forgot
B. did very irrelevant things C. reinforced
C. resorted to illegitimate D. supported
practices D. used all Answer:
available means Answer: Option A
Option D
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13. Select the pair 16. Select the pair 19. Select the pair
which has which has which has
the same the same the same
relationship. relationship. relationship.
ARMY:LOGISTICS HOPE:ASPIRES HOPE:ASPIRES
A. business:strategy A. love:elevates A. love:elevates
B. soldier:students B. film:flam B. film:flam
C. war:logic C. fib:lie C. fib:lie
D. team:individual D. fake:ordinary D. fake:ordinary
Answer: Option A Answer: Option C Answer: Option C
14. Select the pair 17. Select the pair
which has which has
the same the same
relationship. relationship.
GRAVITY:PULL CORPOREAL:SPIRIT
UAL
A. iron:metal A. mesa:plateau
B. north B. moron:savant
pole:directions
C. C.
magnetism:attraction foreigner:immigrant
D. dust:desert D.
pedagogue:teacher
Answer: Option C Answer: Option B
15. Select the pair 18. Select the pair
which has which has
the same the same
relationship. relationship.
FILTER:WATER SYMPHONY:COMPOS
ER
A. curtail:activity A. Leonardo:music
B. expunge:book B. Fresco:painter
C. edit:text C. colours:pallet
D. censor:play D. art:appreciation
Answer: Option D Answer: Option B
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Selecting Words: Section 1
1. Fate smiles ...... 6. Success in this 11. Rohan and Rohit
those are
who untiringly examination depends twin brothers, but
grapple ...... they do
with stark realities of hard work alone. not look ......
life.
A. with B. over A. at B. over A. B. different
unique
C. on D. round C. for D. on C. likely D. alike
Answer: Option C Answer: Option D Answer: Option D
2. The miser 7. My uncle decided 12. To err is ...... to
gazed ...... at to take forgive
the pile of gold coins ...... and my sister to divine.
in the
front of him. market. A. B. human
beastly
A. avidly A. I B. mine C. inhuman D.
natural
B. admiringly C. me D. myself Answer: Option B
C. thoughtfully Answer: Option C
D. 13. The ruling party
earnestly will
Answer: Option A 8. If you smuggle have to put its own
goods house
into the country, they ......
may order.
3. Catching the be ...... by the A. in B. on
earlier train customs
will give us the ...... authority C. to D. into
to do .
some shopping. A. possessed Answer: Option A
A. B.
chance punished
B. luck C. confiscated 14. ...... of old
paintings is a
C. possibility D. fined job for experts.
D. Answer: Option C A. Resurrection
occasion
Answer: Option A B.
Retrieval
9. Man does not live C. Restoration
by ......
4. I saw a ...... of alone. D. Resumption
cows in
the field. A. food B. bread Answer: Option C
A. group B. herd C. meals D. diet
C. D. flock Answer: Option B 15. During Diwali
swarm the
Answer: Option B shops are ...... of
people.
10. Piyush behaves A. busy B. full
5. The grapes are strangely at times C. crowded D.
now ...... and, bubbling
enough to be picked. therefore, nobody Answer: Option B
gets ......
A. ready with
him.
B. A. about B. through 16. The paths of
mature glory lead
C. ripe C. along D. up ...... to the grave.
D. advanced Answer: Option C A. B. but
straight
Answer: Option C C. in D. directly
Answer: Option B
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← The B. ← Some regions of
telephone ...... belief our country still
several times C. substance remain ...... to the
before I D. certainty average man.
answered it. Answer: A.
A. was Option A inaccessible
ringing B. has B. impossible
rung C. had ← I hate sitting ...... C.
him as he always impermeable
rung D. would
D.
ring Answer: smells of garlic.
impenetrable
Option C A. besides B.
Answer:
along Option A
← He passed the C. at D. beside
examination in Answer: Option D ← It ...... that
the first class Prashant will not be
because he ...... selected for the post
A. was hard A. feels B. looks
working for it B. C. believes D.
worked hardly for it seems Answer:
C. had worked hard Option D
for it D. was
working hard for it ← In Bush,
Answer: Option C Saddam was
up ...... more than
← Jawaharlal his match.
spent his A. for B. into
childhood ...... C. against D.
Anand Bhawan. to Answer:
A. at B. in Option C
C. on D. across
← I haven't seen
Answer: Option A
you ...... a week.
A. within B. since
← If negotiations
C. for D. from
are to prove
Answer: Option C
fruitful, there must
not only be ← I listened, but I
sincerity on each had no idea what
side, but there he was ......
must also be ...... in about.
the sincerity of the A.
other side. saying
A. B.
faith talking
C. ← The non A. occupied
telling cooperative B. conquered
D. discussing attitude of the C. swallowed
Answer: members can D. captured
Option B only ...... the image Answer:
of the society. Option D
← The car in which A. spoil B. improve
the minister was He ...... in wearing
C. degrade D.
traveling ......
defame Answer: the old fashioned
with an accident.
Option A coat in spite of his
A. hit B. drove
wife's disapproval.
C. crashed D. met
Sonika is quite A. insists B.
Answer: Option D
intelligent but persists C.
rather ...... desists D. resists
A. idealistic B. Answer: Option
generous B
C. lazy D.
optimistic Answer: She ...... a brief
Option C appearance at the
end of party.
In a little- A. put
publicised deal, on B.
Pepsi, Cola put in
has ...... C. put across
the entire soft drink D. put up
market in Answer:
Afghanistan. Option B
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33. Life is to death as 38. His father-in- 42. A crescendo of
law ...... metallic
pleasure is to ...... him up in business. thuds arose from the
A. B. suffering A. put market, where the
poverty iron-
C. D. pain B. made smiths were ...... the
anguish pieces
Answer: Option D C. set of
metals.
D. built A.
flattenin
g
34. This, partly, Answer: Option C B.
explains striking
how the Mehta C. hammering
family has
been able to ...... its 39. ...... works of D. thrashing
lavish reference
lifestyle in recent are valuable as Answer: Option C
times,
despite the fact that Encyclopedia,
all its Brittanica.
assets have been ...... A. A few 43. I haven't eaten
an apple
A. keep, removed B. Few ...... a long while.
B. afford, attached C. The few A. from B. since
C. develop, D. Fewer C. for D. until
liquidated
D. keep up, Answer: Option B Answer: Option C
destroyed
Answer: Option D
40. This book is quite 44. The parliament
35. The machine is similar ...... invested the new
difficult
to build ...... easy to A. with the "Treasure organisation ......
judicial
maintain Island" authority
. .
A. but B. and B. of that film we A. by B. with
saw at
C. for D. if school C. from D. through
Answer: Option A C. to the one I read Answer: Option B
last
week
36. If you work D. than a story told 45. Owing to the
beyond by our power
your capacity, you teacher cut in the area,
will factories are
naturally feel ...... Answer: Option C being forced to ......
men
A. A. throw away
drowsy
B. tired 41. If our friends are B. send
not off
C. confident able to take us in C. put off
their car,
D. giddy we must make ...... D. lay off
Answer: Option B arrangements to go Answer: Option D
to the
airport.
37. If you persists in A. alternative 46. Man must ...... to
telling stop
lies to me I shall sue B. another pollution
you .
...... C. alternate A. act
slander.
A. to B. on D. possible B.
perform
C. for D. with Answer: Option A C.
operate
Answer: Option C D.
behave
Answer: Option A
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47. He was sent to 52. What is the ...... 57. Find the ...... that
the for an
prison for his ...... air accompany these
letter? cartoons
A. sin A. fare A. topics
B. vice B. value B. titles
C. crime C. C.
postage captions
D. guilt D. stamp D.
headings
Answer: Option C Answer: Option C Answer: Option C
48. The answer was 53. He became 58. I don't really
written enamored know how
...... blue ink. ...... her grace when to ...... the problem.
he first
A. with B. by saw her dance. A. tackle
C. in D. on A. with B. of B. cope
Answer: Option C C. by D. in C. draw
Answer: Option B D. erase
49. Many ...... Answer: Option A
decisions
were taken at the 54. Rama was so
meeting. badly
A. hectic injured that he 59. The English
needed ...... schemed
B. care in the hospital. to continue their
historic rule in
C. A. India by playing off
historica extensive one
l
D. histrionic B. little community ...... the
other.
Answer: Option B C. deep A. before B. upon
D. C. D. with
intensive against
50. Those who Answer: Option D Answer: Option C
persist in
the endeavor at long
last
triumph ...... the odds 55. You cannot 60. The passengers
of devise a were
life. method which ...... afraid, but the
all captain ......
A. over B. on possibility of errors. them that there was
no
C. upon D. about A. danger.
excludes
Answer: Option A B. A.
includes promised
C. avoids B.
assured
51. In the modern D. C.
ignores advised
materialistic society, Answer: Option A D. counselled
the
only aim of people Answer: Option B
appears
to be ...... money by 56. Many areas of
fair the city
means or foul. were ...... into 61. The family gave
darkness for father
A. print several hours. a gold watch on
the ...... of
B. A. his fiftieth birthday.
produce spread
C. B. A. time
acquire plunged
D. extort C. B. event
merged
Answer: Option C D. deep C.
occasion
Answer: Option B D. celebration
Answer: Option C
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62. The park ...... as 66. I was astounded 70. The manner in
far as at his which
the river. ...... lack of bombs exploded in
knowledge five
A. extends about the Continent trains with in a
of short span
B. advances Africa. of time suggests
that it is a
C. enlarges A. abundant part of a ......
D. emerges B. colossal A. game
Answer: Option A C. huge B. conspiracy
D. great C. villainy
63. Many of the Answer: Option B D. sabotage
advances
of civilisation have Answer: Option B
been
conceived by young 67. Ayesha
people always ...... the
just on the ...... of permission of her
father
adulthood before going for
movies.
A. boundary A. seeking
B. threshold B. seeks
C. peak C. sought
D. horizon D. seeker
Answer: Option B Answer: Option B
64. Arti pulled a long 68. He felt no ...... as
...... he
when she was told plunged the knife
that she into her
could not go to Agra. back.
A. mouth A. qualms
B. skirt B. scruple
C. face C. conscience
D. hand D. morals
Answer: Option C Answer: Option A
65. Brothers must 69. You haven't had
live in your
harmony. They must lunch yet, ...... you?
never
fall ...... A. are
A. off B. aren't
B. out C. have
C. apart D. haven't
D. away Answer: Option C
Answer: Option B
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Selecting Words: Section 2
1. Wheat ...... 6. She has an 11. The old Nature
aversion ...... versus
carbohydrates, taking even onion ...... debate
vitamins, and regarding crime
proteins, and dietary garlic. continues even
fibre today.
in our daily diet. A. with B. at A. Man
A. has B. gives C. D. to B.
against Universe
C. yields D. provides Answer: Option D C.
Culture
Answer: Option D D.
Nurture
7. The river Answer: Option A
overflowed its
2. The waiter hasn't ...... and flooded the
area.
brought the A. edges 12. The Sun ...... at
coffee ...... I've six this
been here an hour B. fronts morning.
already.
A. till B. up C. limits A. raised
C. yet D. still D. banks B. rose
Answer: Option C Answer: Option D C. arose
D.
aroused
3. In our zeal for 8. ...... The arrival of Answer: Option B
progress the
we should not ...... police, nobody went
near
executive with more the 13. That rule is
victim. applicable
power. A. ...... every one.
Unless
A. avoid B. give B. A. to B. for
Although
C. D. arm C. Even C. about D. with
enhance
Answer: Option D D. Till Answer: Option A
Answer: Option D
4. You've only three 14. Her parents will
never
months to complete 9. When I was a give their ...... to so
the child, I much
course, Don't ......to school an unsuitable
give ...... everyday match.
now. instead going by A. acquiescence
cycle.
A. out B. away A. had walked B.
consent
C. up D. off B. C. agreement
walked
Answer: Option C C. have walked D. willingness
D. have been walking Answer: Option B
5. The traveler slept Answer: Option B
under
the ...... shade of 15. He tried to ......
banyan himself
tree. 10. Farida sings very against a horde of
well ruffians.
A. cold and ...... does salim. A.
collect
B. cool A. even B. too B. save
C. C. also D. so C.
cooling support
D. dark Answer: Option D D.
defend
Answer: Option B Answer: Option D
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16. According to 20. People who ...... A. proper
corporate on B. abundant 23. Th
circles data is horses usually lose compr
pushing in the C. fair ...... si
through the merger end. D. peculiar A. of
to Answer: Option C B. ont
create financially ...... A. B. play C. by
gamble 19. The new D. no
company in the C. risk D. place education neede
processed policy provides a Answe
foods business, the Answer: Option A useful
group's ...... for the planners
thrust area for the to
1990's remove illiteracy. 24. Na
A. acceptable 21. About twenty found
clerks A. breakup ...... th
B. powerful were made ...... B. breakthrough qualifi
when the the jo
C. leading banks introduced C. breakaway A.
D. straight compute contai
rs. D. break-in B.
Answer: Option B A. dispensable disclo
B. redundant Answer: Option B C.
17. Indeed, all over C. expandable posse
the D.
world, more and D. acquir
more obsolete Answe
people are ...... Answer: Option B
coffee.
A. wanting
B. drinking 22. After the rain
the
C. liking weather ...... and
the sun
D. partaking came
out.
Answer: Option B A. cleared out
B. cleared up
18. Like any other C. cleared away
country
India has its ...... D. cleared off
share of
superstitions. Answer: Option B
Government buildings are ...... on the as a judge. A.
Republic day. sober B.
A. enlightened B. lightened C. drunk C.
illuminated D. glowed Answer: brave D. wise
Option C Answer:
we had ...... wonderful time at the party Option D
last night. A. such a
B. so C. such D. very The criminal seems
Answer: Option A to have acted
in ...... the three
An employment advertisement should ...... others.
the number of vacancies. A. provide A. collusion
B. specify C. contain D. declare B. coalition C.
Answer: Option B collision D.
cohesion
When varun left the Answer:
cocktail party he was as ...... Option A
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Soft minded Nobody can ...... me A sanguine outlook
individuals are ...... to do anything is associated with
to embrace all kinds which I do not want the ......
superstitions. to do. A.
A. disposed B. A. encourage rationalist
eager C. B. request C. B.
reluctant D. oppose D. socialist
prone compel C.
Answer: Answer: philanthropist
Option D Option D D. optimist
Answer:
Option D
The stenographer
is very efficient. He His conduct is bad,
is ...... to his firm. and his honesty is
A. a boon B. a not ......
credit C. a suspicion.
blessing D. an A. above B.
asset Answer: beyond C. under
Option D D. in Answer:
Option A
However, the
group's long-term It is 14 years since
strategy is to ...... i ......
on core sector him.
business connected A. have
with infrastructure seen B.
and energy. A. had seen
breed C. saw
B. develop D. see
C. Answer: Option C
concentrate
D. depend It being an ......
Answer: issue, it is not
Option C correct to introduce
questions of
The man came in a morality in to the
van to ...... the debate.
television set. A. moral B.
A. mend B. immoral C. amoral
reform C. D. irrelevant
correct D. alter Answer: Option D
Answer: Option
A Natwarlal ...... them
all for a ride by
producing false Health is too with
documents. important to be ...... C.
A. took B. cheated A. discarded upon
C. kept D. let B. despised D. of
Answer: Option A C. detested D. Answer: Option D
neglected
True brevity ...... in Answer: One major ......
saying only what Option D between the
needs to be said. Election
A. consists B. Commission and the
In hot weather I
depicts C. Union Government
like lying in
portrays D. related to the
the ...... of a tree.
resides Answer:
A. shade powers of the
Option A
B. shelter former in respect of
C. protection the deployment of
D. shadow central police forces
Answer: at places where are
Option A elections is held.
A. irritant B.
It was indeed conflict C.
unreasonable ...... pain D.
him to leave this culprit
job and start Answer:
business. Option B
A. in
B.
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We shall not to be ed C. He knew everything
able to use your longest better than anybody
ability in court D. circuitous else, and it was an
unless we can find Answer: affront to his
someone to ...... to Option D ...... vanity that you
statements. should disagree
A. He was with him.
corroborat accused ...... A. overstrung
e B. stealing his aunt's B.
avouch necklace. overweening
C. verify D. A. for B. with C.
approve C. of D. on overwhelming
Answer: Answer: Option C D.
Option A overwrought
Answer:
He is too dull ...... Option A
this problem.
A. solving B. It's very kind of you
to solving C. to
to solve D. ...... to speak
solves at the
Answer: meeting.
Option C A. accept B.
agree C. comply
D. concur
He is the person Answer: Option
who is B
...... to
blame. A. Pakistan lost a ......
mostly B. wicket just when
sure they seemed to be
C. most D. doing so well, and
bound that led to their
Answer: eventual defeat.
Option C A.
critical
B.
We had to pay more crucial
taxi fare because C.
the driver brought sensitive
us by a ...... route. D. providential
A. circular Answer:
B. Option B
circumscrib
Sita's heart ...... at Ambition is one of In high school many
the sight of the those ......which of us never realised
beautiful diamond are never the importance that
necklace. satisfied. grammar would ......
A. leapt B. stopped A. ideas B. fancies in later life.
C. slowed D. ran C. passions D. A. figure B. portray
Answer: Option A feeds Answer: C. play D. exercise
Option C Answer: Option C
He lives near a
lovely He is a person of In a changing
...... of countryside. sound character and ......
A. length B. and ...... unstructured
piece C. section disposition. business
D. stretch A. beneficent environment,
Answer: Option B. morous C. creativity and
D amiable D. innovation are
amicable being ......
Answer: demanded of
Option C executives. A.
highly, extremely
If I take a state B.
roadways bus, I'll progressivel
get late, y,
...... ? increasingly
A. isn't it B. won't I C. increasingly,
C. will I D. is it moderately D.
Answer: Option B excessively, rapidly
Answer: Option B
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60. On account of the 64. The 69. this brand of TV
American ...... is
dearth of grass on presented his quite inferior ......
the arid credentials to that one.
plains the cattle the President of A. than
became India.
...... A. B. to
adviser
A. flippant B. ambassador C. with
B. jubilant C. D. over
delegate
C. agitated D. representative Answer: Option B
D. emaciated Answer: Option B
Answer: Option D 70. It is not what you
say
65. Once he has that ...... but what
signed the you do
61. A woman came in agreement, he won't A. matches
with be
a baby who, she said, able B. implies
...... a to ......
safety pin. A. back C. matters
up
A. was just B. back D. moves
swallowing in
B. swallowed C. back Answer: Option C
at
C. had just D. back
swallowed out
D. just swallowed Answer: Option D
Answer: Option C
66. It was difficult to
62. The Hubble remove my feet as it
Space had
Telescope will search got stuck ...... in the
for mud.
planets around the A. fairly B. greatly
stars, a
key to the ...... C. widely D. firmly
extraterrestrial life, Answer: Option D
and
examine interstellar
dust
and gases out of 67. He is a very
which careful
stars are born. person, he never
takes side
A. perception but remains ......
B. discovery A.
impartial
C. enquiry B.
unbiased
D. quest C.
neutral
Answer: Option D D. prejudiced
Answer: Option A
63. She ...... Rs 80
out of
the bank every 68. West Bengal ......
Friday.
A. obtains plentiful rainfall and
is
B. draws consequently a very
green
C. pulls part of the country.
D. extracts A. B. receives
misses
Answer: Option B C. D. regrets
expects
Answer: Option B
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Selecting Words: Section 3
C. than D. after
'Please' and 'Thank Answer: Option B Besides other
you' are the little provisions, that
courtesies by which I ...... a car to be shopkeeper
we keep the ...... of absolutely deals ......
life oiled and necessary these cosmetics.
running smoothly. days. A. with B. in
A. path B. A. consider B. C. at D. for
machine regard Answer: Option B
C. garden D. C. think D. agree
river Answer: Answer: Option Leave a two
Option B A inch ...... on each
page for the
I put ...... the light teacher's remarks.
and slept. A. border B.
A. up B. down margin
C. in D. out C. blank D. gap
Answer: Option D Answer: Option B
3. ...... all intents The team was
and well trained and
purposes, the strong, but
manager is the somehow
master of the firm. their ...... was
A. in B. upon low.
C. with D. to A.
Answer: Option D feelin
g B.
The pilot had been moral
warned about the C.
storm, before consciousnes
he ...... s D. morale
A. took away Answer:
B. took up C. Option D
took over D.
took off The lovers were
Answer: meeting each
other secretly, but
Option D
their ...... affair
was soon known to
Hardly had he everyone.
arrived A.
...... it started clandesti
raining. ne B.
A. before B. when covert
C. unknown Answer: Option A
D. candid I shall call ......
Answer: you tomorrow. The more your
Option A A. at B. on action and thought
C. with D. by are allied and
The king ...... the
Answer: Option C ...... the happier
rebel. A. excused
B. you grow. A.
forgave She ...... from the diverget
C. crowd because of B. unravelled
pardone her height and C. integrated
d flaming red hair. D. invincible
D. none of A. stood out B. Answer:
these stood off C. Option C
Answer: stood up D.
Option C stood by We had a ...... of
Answer: warm weather in
Option A February.
A. time B.
spell C.
In a large cities length D.
people are cut ...... phase
from nature. Answer:
A. away B. off Option B
C. out D. down
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Physically we are do with D. Walking at 3'o clock,
now all neighbors, made good I heard the ...... of
but psychologically, Answer: thunder.
we are ...... Option B A. crackle B.
to each rumble C. ripple
other. A. The luggage D. clank Answer:
primitives was ...... Option B
B. heavy for him to lift
complimenta A. much B. as A stone that goes
ry C. C. so D. too on rolling ...... no
strangers Answer: Option D moss.
D. cowards A.
Answer: collects
Option C B. gets
C.
When their gathers
examinations are D.
over, the children accumulates
gleefully ...... the Answer:
books they had Option C
been reading.
A. shelve B. The earth is at
sidetrack C. present in great
overthrew D. danger of becoming
abandon uninhabitable
Answer: because of ......
Option D environmental
pollution which is
Chintu is ...... going on at an
small to start incredible rapid
playing cricket pace. A. gigantic
now. A. very B. inhuman C.
B. stupendous D.
much colossal
C. too Answer:
D. Option D
more
Answer: Option C Moreover, a fact
finding mission ......
The thief ...... all by BSN to India in
the money. January this year
A. made up strongly
B. made off recommended that
with C. mode the French group
should go it alone, There is a C. meaningful
and not hand over keen ...... in each D. dependable
...... to an Indian trade. Answer:
Partner. A. A. contest Option B
organised, papers B.
B. constituted, comparison The boy fell ......
authority C. C. bicycle.
sponsored, power competition A. of B. off
D. dispatched, D. C. from D. under
control Answer: cooperation Answer: Option B
Option D Answer:
Option C The French ......
reputed to have a
Now, the very good sense
management of humour.
graduate can expect A. is B. was
to have a C. are D. will be
prosperous life on a Answer: Option C
...... income without
having to depend Johny, where are
on finding a place you?
in family busiess ...... up this
having to tend the tree. A. There
paternal estates. I am B. There
A. am I C. Here
profession am I D. Here I
al B. am Answer:
regular Option D
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That the poor in C. addition D. arrival Answer:
our country, are Option C
happy is A. a
dream B. a vision The boy was cured ......
C. an ideal D. an typhoid.
illusion Answer: A. from B. of
Option D C. for D. through
Answer: Option B
The robbers
were arrested
and ...... prison
yesterday.
A. brought
into B.
brought to C.
taken into D.
taken to
Answer:
Option D
I shall take
revenge ......
you.
A. from B. with
C. on D. at
Answer: Option C
This book is a
useful
...... to our
library. A.
discovery
B. asset
37. The communalist cannot was
be verified by people able to ...... three
represents the ...... of who enemy
have no access to divisons.
everything noble that official
we records. A. tie up B. tie down
have inherited from A. veracity C. tie on D. tie with
our B. verbosity Answer: Option B
culture and history. C. ambiguity
A. antithesis D. validity 44. I purposely ......
B. antidote meet
Answer: Option A you during my last
C. immorality visit to
D. antagonism Kashmir.
40. But the A. didn't B. won't
Answer: Option A introductory
38. He is so ...... to fee does not stop C. hadn't D. wouldn't
light after the
that he never leaves initial handshake, Answer: Option A
the brokers
house without have to ...... it up
sunglasses. after each
A. insensitive transaction. 45. I have read one
B. sensitive novel
A. bring by Premchand. I
C. afraid want to
B. cough read ...... novel by
D. immune him.
Answer: Option B C. boost A. other B. another
39. The ...... of the D. give C. all D. few
Answer: Option A Answer: Option B
Minister's statement
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46. A man remains 50. Affix a revenue 54. God is ......
narrow stamp
minded, self and put your A. graceful
compliance signature ......
and ignorant unless it. B. gracious
he
visits other people A. on C. grateful
and ......
from them. B. upo D. greatful
A. earns C. above Answer: Option B
B. borrows D. over
C. learns Answer: Option A 55. He is so ......
that he
D. hears immediately
believe my
Answer: Option C 51. My first story of ghosts.
lesson ......
forgiveness came A. innocent
from my
47. My father ...... mother. B. credulous
down for
a nap. A. upon C. vociferous
A. lays B. about D. credible
B. laid C. in Answer: Option B
C. lain D. on
D. lie Answer: Option D
Answer: Option A
52. At one point, it
looked
48. I think they allow as if an area of
their agreement
children too would ...... specially
much ...... over
A. liberality the issue of
productivity
B. latitude linked wages.
C. lassitude A. develop
D. levity B. come out
Answer: Option B C. emerge
D. grow
49. Once you suspect Answer: Option C
a
person of double
dealing,
you ought to keep 53. Do you
him at know ......?
arm's ...... A. where she comes
from
A. distance B. where does she
come
B. length from
C. aim C. where from she
comes
D. width D. from where does
she
Answer: Option B come
Answer: Option A
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Sentence Completion
A. curtailed
Rajeev failed in the B. requested Although he never
examination C. stopped D. learn to read, his
because none of his warned exceptional memory
answers were Answer: and enquiring mind
eventually made
_______ to the Option C him a very _______
questions asked. man.
A. allusive B. A. dedicated
revealing C. B. erudite C.
pertinent D. pragmatic D.
referential benevolent
Answer: Answer:
Option C Option B
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13. The ....... of 18. A wise person is 23. I wonder
private one whether I
limited companies is who learns from ........ ever see him
in the his .......... again.
hands of its A. errors A. shall B. will
directors.
A. managers B. mistakes C. D. would
should
B. adminstrators C. falsities Answer: Option D
C. management D. lies
D. deparment E. bad manners 24. No sooner .........
than
E. society Answer: Option B the police
handcuffed him.
Answer: Option C A. he
came
19. Many companies B. did he came
ask
14. Ram the prince their employees to C. did he come
of sign a
Ayodhya ....... his ......... of secrecy. D. had he come
siblings.
A. adorned A. agreement Answer: Option C
B. adored B. bond
C. vitiated C. bondage 25. ''What exactly
does he
D. endangered D. espionage want ?"
E. abhored E. treaty "He would like to see
you
Answer: Option B Answer: Option B ...... a good job on
the
project."
15. The Christmas 20. Slaves were A. got B. get
tree freed from
was.......... with stars .......... only after C. to get D. will get
and they died.
other decorative A. ablution Answer: Option A
items.
A. adorned B. pilferage
B. endowed C. agreement 26. "She was sorry
she
C. encased D. bondage didn't attend her
friend's
D. enticed E. abolition wedding.
"
E. encompassed Answer: Option D "Yes, she ........."
Answer: Option A A. regretted she
can't have
21. Before the ........ gone
of the
16. The ......... of the Europeans in India, B. was regretting
state is India she does
efficient. was a free country. not go
A. administration A. entry C. will regret she
didn't go
B. democracy B. amalgamation D. was regretting
that she
C. policy C. emigration she couldn't go
D. autocracy D. advent Answer: Option D
E. plutscracy E. immigration
Answer: Option A Answer: Option D 27. "Sujata is late in
the
office."
17. There is no place 22. Some of the "She rarely comes in
for luggage time
.......... in an ......... not yet ..... ?
accountant's arrived. "
job. A. has A. don't
she
A. assets B. have B. does
she
B. asserts C. is C. doesn't she
C. errors D. are D. won't she
D. duffers Answer: Option A Answer: Option B
Answer: Option C
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28. He behaves as 34. I suffer from D. Abandoned Answe
if he no ....... Answer: Option C 37. W
....... a about my ______
king. capabilities. 32. This is oppor
A. was B. were A. illusion a ............... on they a
C. has D. had B. doubts his character. A. seiz
Answer: Option B C. hallucinations A. Blot B. Blur C. size
D. imaginations C. Slur D. Spot Answe
The dog has been ....... Answer: E. Mark
Option A by the car. Answer: Option C 38. Th
A. run 35. The cultur
out government, in a the wo
B. run bid to make Bihar, a absolu
over 33. We didn't ....... pure.
C. run preferred the
into investment programme to be A. Tha
D. run destination, has such a
for huge success. B. Tha
Answer: Option B _________ major A. B. Except C. Tha
schemes Accept is
to create C. D. Access D. Tha
infrastructure at Expect
30. ..... you different stages. Answer: Option C Answe
apologize I
shall punish you. A.
launched
A. until B.
opposed
B. unless C.
opened
C. till D.
pushed
D. None of these Answer: Option A
Answer: Option B 36. The student's
aren't
31. Lord prepared _______ the
Buddha ......... his
kingship and examinat
become a ion
hermit. A. to
give
A. Abolished B. to
listen
B. C. to
Abated work
C. Abdicated D. to
take
He took up the letter from the table
and .......... it to his friend. The lease of our
A. was reading premises has .........
B. has been reading C. has read and we have to
D. read vacate it.
Answer: Option D A. run out B. run off
C. run over D. run
He led me ......... the green laws to the down Answer:
palatial building. Option A
A. upon B. across
C. along D. about His boss .......... an
Answer: Option C explanation of his
conduct with his
The ship with all its crew ...... lost after colleagues.
the terrible storm. A. called up
A. were B. has B. called
C. have D. was upon C.
Answer: Option D called for D.
called off
We ........ start now to work for our Answer:
examination. A. had better Option C
B. better
C. has better D. are better Answer:
Option B
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45. The artist had to 48. They ______ a 51. The pen ______
sound
______ a lot before infrastructure in mightier than the
order to sword.
_______ recognized _________ with the A. shall be
for new
his talent. challenges. B. has
A. strugle, being A. want, handle C. will be
B. toil, he B. got, mets D. is
C. practise, C. have , give Answer: Option D
performing
D. effort, he was D. need, cope
E. strive , the E. had, reach 52. Rama took his
Answer: Option A Answer: Option D _______ for the wrong
done to him.
46. Most of the 49. As soon as she A. avenge
committee ______
members _____ in the branch office, B. vengeance
favour she was
of the ______ of a newasked to _____ to the C. revenge
dam in that village. head-office D. ravage
immediately.
A. was, building A. came, go Answer: Option C
B. are, proposing B. went, attend
C. were, construction C. reached, report 53. On his sudden
demise,
D. not, assembly D. found, look my emotions were
so,
E. still, breaking E. saw, remind complicated that it
was
Answer: Option C Answer: Option C ______ how I felt.
A. unreasonable
47. She _______ to 50. Please don't _____ B. impossible
learn
basic German as she when I am talking. C. intolerable
will
be ______ for A. disrupt D. unimaginable
Germany
next month. B. interface Answer: Option C
A. likes, reaching C. interrupt
B. wants, leaving D. disturb
C. intends, visiting Answer: Option C
D. tries, touring
E. knows, going
Answer: Option B
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Completing Statements
Answer: Option A
Despite his best efforts to
conceal his anger ......
A. we could detect that he
was very happy
B. he failed to give us an
impression of his agony
C. he succeeded in
camouflaging his emotions
D. he could succeed in
doing it easily E. people
came to know that he was
annoyed
Answer: Option E
Answer: Option C
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"The food in this hotel is no rare opportunity for
match to what were forced at writing letters
late hours in Hotel Kohinoor " E. remain seated in our
means ...... rooms in the bungalow
A. The food in this hotel is
quite good compared to what Answer: Option C
we ate at kohinoor B. Hotel
kohinoor served us good
quality food than what we get
here
C. Both hotels have
maintained good quality of
food
D. Both hotels serve poor
quality of food E. it is better to
eat food than remain hungry
Answer: Option B
Answer: Option D
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Although, he is reputed for
making very candid Answer: Option E
statements ......
A. his today speech was not
fairly audible B. his promises
had always been realistic C.
his speech was very interesting
D. people follow whatever he
instructs to them
E. his today
Answer: Option E
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Because he believes in Answer: Option A
democratic principles, he
always ......
A. decides all the matters
himself
B. listen to others views and
enforces his own
C. shown respect to others
opinions if they match his
own
D. reconciles with the majority
views and gives us his own
E. imposes his own views on
others
Answer: Option D
Answer: Option C
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In order to help the company A. is fond of
attain its goal of enhancing them B. hates
profit, all the employees ...... them
A. urged the management to C. is afraid of them
grant paid leave D. want to set them
B. appealed the free E. seldom
management to loves them
implement new welfare
schemes Answer: Option A
C. voluntarily offered to work
overtime with lucrative
compensation
D. voluntarily offered to
render additional services in
lieu of nothing E. decided to
enhance production at the
cost of quality of the product
Answer: Option D
Answer: Option B
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Unless you work harder you The officer who had neglected
will fail, means ...... to files his income tax returns
A. if you fail you will work had to ......
harder A. return the
B. you must at least plan files B. pay a
well than you will not fail fine
C. hardly you will fail if you do C. be
not desire so rewarded D.
D. if you do not put more play
efforts, then you will fail mischief E.
E. if you only work and work give
alone, you will fail warning
His behaviour is so
unpredictable that he ......
A. never depends upon others
for getting his work done
B. is seldom trusted by others
C. always finds it difficult to
keep his word
D. always insists on getting
the work completed on
time
E. seldom trusts others as far
as the work schedule is
concerned
Answer: Option B
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Common Error Detection
Rules of Subject Verb Agreement
Subject -Verb Agreement
Subject - Verb Agreement relates to number agreement
(singular or plural) between the subject and the verb that
follows it. E.g.
The girl plays all day. (Singular subject) The girls play all day.
(Plural subject)
•There are two important exceptions to subject-verb
agreement. Firstly, agreement only applies when the verb is in
the present tense. In the past tense, there is no overt
agreement between the subject and the verb. E.g. The girl
played all day.
The girls played all day.
•And secondly, agreement applies only to third person
subjects. There is no distinction between a first person
singular subject and a first person plural subject. E.g.
I play all day.
We play all day.
The Rules
Singular subjects need singular verbs and Plural subjects need
; plural subjects need plural verbs.
1. When subject of a sentence is composed of two or more
nouns or pronouns connected by and, we use a plural verb.
He and his friends are at the fair. This rule is not follow
when two nouns refer to the same object.
The wicket keeper and Captain was given the man of the match
award.
2. When two or more singular nouns or pronouns are
connected by or or nor, we use a singular verb. E.g.
The paper or the pencil is in the desk.
3. When a compound subject contains both a singular and a
plural noun or pronoun joined by or or nor, the verb should
agree with the part of the subject that is nearer to the verb.
E.g.
Shivin or his friends run every day.
His friends or Shivin runs every day.
4. Doesn’t is contraction of does not and should be used only
with a singular subject. Don’t is a contraction of do not and
should be used only with a plural subject. The exception to this
rule appears in the case of the first person and second person
pronouns I and you. With these pronouns, the contraction Don’t
should be used. E.g.
She doesn’t like it.
They don’t like it.
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5. A phrase between the subject and the verb should not be
misleading, the verb agrees with the subject, not with a
noun or pronoun in the phrase. E.g. The captain, as well as
his players, is anxious.
The book, in parts, is boring.
The building, with all its contents, is insured.
6. Each, each one, either, neither, everyone, everybody, anybody,
nobody, somebody, some one and no one are singular and
require a singular verb. E.g. Each of these books is good.
Everybody knows him.
Either is correct.
7. Nouns such as civics, mathematics, rupees and news require
singular verbs. E.g.
The news is on at eight.
When talking about an amount of money, it requires a
singular verb, but when referring to the rupees themselves,
a plural verb is required. E.g.
Five hundred rupees is a lot of money.
Rupees are often used instead or Rupiahs in Nepal.
8. Nouns such as scissors, trousers, shears and shorts require
plural verbs. E.g.
These shears are dull.
These shorts are made of cotton.
9. In sentences beginning with there is, there are, the subject
follows the verb. Since there is not the subject, the verb agrees
with what follows. E.g. There are many questions.
There is a question.
10. Collective nouns are words that imply more than one
person but are considered singular and take a singular verb,
such as : group, team, committee, class and family. E.g.
The family has a long history of writers.
The committee has prepared the agenda.
11. With, together with, including, accompanied by, in addition
to, or as well do not change the number of the subject. If the
subject is singular, the verb is too. The Chairman, including his
team, is travelling to China.
The boys, together with their friends, are going for a picnic.
12. The relative pronouns (who, whom, which, and that) are
either singular or plural, depending on the words they refer to.
The sales manager is good researcher who spends a great
amount of time surfing the
Web for information.
Subject : The sales manager
Verbs: is, spends
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13. A few nouns can be either plural or singular, depending on
whether they mean a group or Separate individuals. These
words are rarely used as plurals in modern writing. E.g.
The jury has decided
unanimously. Subject: jury
Verb: has decided
The jury are having an
argument. Subject: jury
Verb: are having
14. Do not be misled by a phrase that comes between the
subject and the verb. The agrees with the subject, not with a
noun or pronoun in the phrase. E.g. One of the boxes is open.
The people who listen to music are few.
15. Two singular subjects connected by either/or or
neither/nor require a singular verb as in Rule 1. E.g.
Neither John nor Abraham is available.
Either Bipasha or Neelam is helping today with stage
decoration.
16. When I is one of the two subjects connected by either/or
or neither/nor, put it second and follow it with the singular
verb am. E.g. Neither she nor I am going to the festival.
17. With words that indicate portions-percent, fraction, part,
majority, some, all, none, remainder, and so forth &ndash look
at the noun in your ‘of phrase (object of the preposition) to
determine whether to use a singular of plural verb. If the object
of the preposition is singular, use a singular verb. If the object
of the preposition is plural, use a plural verb. E.g.
1. Fifty percent of the pie has disappeared. (Pie is the object of
the preposition of.)
2. Fifty percent of the pies have disappeared.
3. One-third of the city is unemployed.
4. One-third of the people are unemployed.
NOTE: Hyphenate all spelled-out fractions.
5. All of the pie is gone.
6. All of the pies are gone.
7. Some of the pie is missing.
8. Some of the pies are missing.
18. Use a singular verb with sums of money or periods of time.
E.g.
Ten dollars is a high price to pay.
Five years is the maximum sentence for that offense.
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Identifying the subject
Word groups often come between the subject and the verb.
These word groups may contain a noun that at first appears to
be the subject. Identify the word group between the subject
and the verb in order to isolate the noun. E.g. The girl plays all
day. (Singular subject)
The slaughter of pandas for their pelts have caused panda
population to decline drastically. (Incorrect)
The slaughter of pandas for their pelts has caused the panda
population to decline drastically. (Correct)
Thus, the subject is slaughter and not pandas or pelts.
Phrases beginning with the prepositions as well as, in addition
to, accompanied by, and along with, do not make a singular
subject plural. E.g.
The Chief Minister, as well as his principal secretary, was shot.
If a customer buys a burger, he or she has to pay service tax.
(correct)
If a customer buys a burger, they have to buy a parking ticket.
(Incorrect)
Questions:
Directions : Find out the error, if any in questions given in each
practice set. If there is no error, the answer is (e), i.e No error
(ignore the errors of punctuation, if any.)
1. A few kilometers beyond (a) /that villa was seen two aliens
(b )/along with (c)/ a few Americans and Russian scientists (d)/
No error (e).
2. It is well known fact that (a)/the upper middle class have no
soft (b)/ corner for the poor and the oppressed who are the
(c)/real victims of this social system (d)/ No error (e).
3. Sheetal as well as (a)/ some of her friends (b)/have fallen
in love with a hunky fellow, who (c)/ is the eldest son of an
I.A.S. officer (d)/ No error (e).
4. More than one successful candidate of this institute
(a)/have taken the interview for one (b)/of the most popular
dailies (c)/being published from Los Angels (d)/ No error (e).
5. More than one book on life style (a)/ and motivation by this
writer (b)/have been published so far and (c)/all are selling like
a hot cake (d)/ No error (e).
6. Many a man along with (a)/a few friends of mine are going
(b)/to DevGhar to offer flowers and (c)/milk to Lord Shiva (d)/
No error (e).
7. Many an employee of this company (a)/ are supposed to be
transferred (b)/ to some other company (c)/ of the same
category because of recession (d)/ No error (e).
8. The political leader as well as (a)/ his retinues are going on a
hunger (b)/ Strike to protest this (c)/ unnecessary price hike
(d)/ No error (e).
9. Although this book as well as those (a)/ books of yours are
similar (b)/ in many ways, mine has (c)/ an edge over many a
book of yours (d)/ No error (e).
10. The prime minister along with his (a)/ attendants are
coming tomorrow (b)/ to address the sensational (c)/ and
controversial issues of terrorism (d)/ No error (e).
Answe
rs
1. b 2. b 3. c 4. b 5. c 6. b 7. a 8. b 9. b 10.
b
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Understanding of Conjunction – Tips
and Tricks
Conjunction
A conjunction is a word which merely joins together
sentences or clauses, and sometimes words.
1. That is a beautiful place and I have been there.
2. That is the beautiful place where I have been to.
Classes of Conjunctions
Conjunctions are divided into two classes: Co-ordinate
Conjunction : It joins together clauses of equal ranks. For
eg. He is slow, but he is sure.
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Correct: He asked me which was the way to the station.
Rule : Although goes with yet or a comma (,) in the other
clause.
Incorrect: Although Manohar is hardworking, but he does not
get a job.
Correct: Although Manohar is hardworking, yet he does not get
a job.
Note : Though/Although is used with contradictory sentences
(sentences expressing opposite views).
Incorrect: Since she was sick, she attended the party.
Correct: Though she was sick, she attended the party.
Rule : Nothing else should be followed by but, not by than.
Incorrect: Mr Bureaucrat! This is nothing else than red-tapism.
Correct: Mr Bureaucrat! This is nothing else but red-tapism.
Rule : The correlative conjunctions indeed... but are used to
emphasis the contrast between the first and the second parts
of the statement.
Incorrect: I am indeed happy with my school but it produces
famous men.
Correct: I am indeed happy with my school that it produces
famous men.
Rule : In a "not only ... but also ... "sentence, the verb should
agree with the noun or pronoun mentioned second, that is, the
one after but also because this is the part being emphasised.
Incorrect : Not only the students but also the teacher were
responsible for what happened in the class.
Correct: Not only the students but also the teacher was
responsible for what happened in the class.
Rule : Not only ... but also always comes before the same part
of speech.
Incorrect: They not only gave me standing ovation but also a
cash prize of `1000.
Correct: They gave me not only standing ovation but also a
cash prize of `1000.
Rule : Such...as is used to denote a category whereas
such...that emphasises the degree of something by
mentioning its consequence.
Incorrect : Each member of the alliance agrees to take
such action as it deems necessary.
Correct: Each member of the alliance agrees to take such
action that it deems necessary.
Rule : The conjunction “lest” is followed by “should”.
Incorrect: Work hard lest you would fail.
Correct: Work hard lest you should fail.
Note: “Lest” is a negative word. There should be no use of
“not”, “nothing”, “never”, “no” with lest”.
Incorrect: Word hard lest you should not fail.
Correct: Word hard lest you should fail.
Rule : The conjunction so-as is used for comparison in a
negative sentence whereas-as is used in a positive or
affirmative sentence. Incorrect: He is not as tall as his brother.
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Correct: He is not so tall as his brother.
Rule : The conjunction, “both” is followed by “and” and not
by “as well as” or “along with”.
Incorrect: Both the boys as well as the girls were absent.
Correct: Both the boys and the girls were absent.
Rule : The conjunction “unless” denotes condition whereas
“until” denotes time.
Incorrect: Until you work hard, you will not succeed.
Correct: Unless you work hard, you will not succeed.
Note : “Unless” and “Until” are negative words. There should
be no use of “not” “nothing”, “never” with unless and until.
Questions based on above concepts.
Directions : In each of the following questions, find out which
part of the sentence has an error. The error may be
grammatical or idiomatic. If there is no mistake, the answer is
‘No error’.
1. The managing director well as (a)/ the Board members
was in (b)/ favour of taking strict action (c)/ against the
striking workers. (d)/ No error (e)
2. Unless he does not return (a)/ all the library books (b)/ he will
not be relieved (c)/ from the service.(d)/ No error (e)
3. You must either tell me (a)/ the whole story or (b)/, at least,
the (c)/ first half of it. (d)/ No error (e)
4. The old woman has had the (a)/ best medical facilities
available (b)/ but she will not be cured unless she does not have
(c)/ a strong desire to live.(d)/ No error (e)
5. Hardly had I reached (a)/ the airport where (b)/ I learnt
about the powerful (c)/ bomb explosion.(d)/ No error (e)
6. The manager of the bank (a)/ was busy; so he asked them
(b)/ to come and see him between two to (c)/ three in the
afternoon.(d)/ No error (e)
7. Because he is physically (a)/ strong, therefore he was (b)/
selected for the school (c)/ boxing team.(d)/ No error (e)
8. Being a strict (a)/ vegetarian he depended (b)/ on milk and
fruit and (c)/ had to cook for himself.(d)/ No error (e)
9. Even though the shirt (a)/ is rather expensive but (b)/ I wish
to purchase (c)/ it with my own money.(d)/ No error (e)
10. Unless Ashish does not (a)/ return all the library books,
(b)/ he will not be awarded (c)/ the pass certificate. (d)/ No
error (e)
Answers
a; Add ‘as’ before ‘well’
a; Replace ‘does not return’ with ‘returns’
e; No error
c; Replace ‘does not have’ with ‘has’
b; Replace ‘where’ with ‘when’
c; Replace ‘to’ with ‘and’
b; Remove ‘therefore’
c; Replace ‘and’ with ‘or’
b; Remove ‘but’
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10. a; Replace ‘unless’ with ‘if’
Understanding of Adjective – Tips and
Tricks
What is Adjective?
An adjective is a word used with a noun ( or a pronoun) to
add something for its meaning. The adjective may be used
Attributively: when it is used along with the noun as an
epithet or attribute; for example,
There were dark clouds in the sky.
Predicatively: when it forms part of the predicate; for example.
The clouds in the sky were dark.
Rule: The adjective is correctly used with a verb when some
quality of the subject rather than of the action of the verb, is
to be expressed. Incorrect: Flowers were plucked freshly.
Correct: Flowers were plucked fresh.
Rule: Due to and prior to should be used as predicative
adjectives. When prepositional functions are to be performed,
use because of in place of due to, and before in place of prior
to.
Incorrect: Wickets fell due to superb bowling.
Correct: Wickets fell because of superb bowling.
Kinds of Adjective
Adjective of Quality : Also known as Descriptive Adjective,
it shows the kind of quality of a person or a thing. For
example,
He loves her soft skin.
Adjective of Quantity: It is an adjective which shows how
much of a thing is meant. For example,
There is little sense in it.
Adjective of Number: Also known as Numeral Adjective, it
shows how many persons or things are meant, or in what
order a person or a thing stands. For example,
The face of a clock has sixty divisions.
Numeral Adjectives are of three kinds:
Definite Numeral Adjective: It denotes an exact number. It
may be a cardinal denoting how many; as, one, two, three, etc.
It may be an ordinal denoting the order, as first, second, third
etc.
Rule: When a number together with a unit of measurement
is to be used as an adjective, it is a compound word and the
unit of measurement is taken in the singular.
Incorrect : It is a twenty-kilometres walk.
Correct : It is a twenty-kilometre walk.
Rule: Definite Numeral Adjective always takes plural countable
noun.
Incorrect: When I was in Punjab, I had twenty money.
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Correct: When I was in Mumbai, I had twenty rupees.
Rule: If in a sentence one noun is used for all ordinals and the
first ordinal has 'the' while, other not, the noun will be in the
plural.
Incorrect: I have read the literature of the seventeenth and
eighteenth century.
Correct: I have read the literature of the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries.
Indefinite Numeral Adjective : It does not denote an exact
number. For example.
There are many petitions lying on the tables.
Rule: Many takes plural noun while "Many a/an singular noun.
Incorrect: He has observed many an uncommon phenomena.
Correct: He has observed many an uncommon phenomenon.
Rule: The few is used before plural countable noun and the
little before uncountable noun. Both follow a clause.
Incorrect: I gave the beggar a little coins I had.
Correct: I gave the beggar the few coins I had.
Distributive Numeral Adjective : It refers to each one of a
number. Distributive numeral adjectives are the same as
distributive pronouns (see Pronoun). They only differ in
function. For example,
Each time he missed the bus.
Demonstrative Adjective: It points out which person or
thing is meant. For example,
This table is made of wood.
Rule: The plural forms these and those are often wrongly
used with the singular nouns kind and sort.
Incorrect: These kind of clothes are not acceptable.
Correct: This kind of clothes are not acceptable.
Interrogative Adjective: When an interrogative pronoun is
used with a noun to ask a question, it is called an interrogative
adjective. For example,
What options are available after graduation?
Exclamatory adjective: It is used with a noun in-exclamatory
sentence. For
example,
What a show!
Confusing Words
Later, latter, latest, last: Later and latest refer to time.
Latter and last refer to position.
Incorrect: The later part of the novel is not neatly written.
Correct: The latter part of the novel is not neatly written.
Incorrect: What is the last news?
Correct: What is the latest news?
Elder, older, eldest, oldest: Elder and eldest are used of
members of the same family. Besides, both of them are used
only attributively (that is, before the noun). Older and Oldest
are used in the general sense.
Incorrect: I have an older brother.
Correct : I have an elder brother.. (Since brother is a member
of the same family)
Incorrect : Mohan is the eldest boy in the town.
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In a town there may be so many families. We are talking of boys
in general sense. So eldest should be replaced by oldest.
Correct : Mohan is the oldest boy in the town.
Degree of Comparison
Degrees are of three kinds.
1. Positive Degree
2. Comparative Degree
3. Superlative Degree
Rule: When a selection is made out of the two, and two is given
in the sentence, the is used before the adjective denoting
comparison. Incorrect: Shikha is better of the two sisters.
Correct: Shikha is the better of the two sisters.
Rule: Preferable takes to and is not preceded by more.
Incorrect: Coffee is more preferable than tea in Brazil.
Correct: Coffee is preferable to tea in Brazil.
Rule: When two adjectives in different degrees of comparison
are used in the same sentence, each should be complete in
itself.
Incorrect: My father is as rich if not richer than your mother.
Correct: My father is as rich as if not richer than your mother.
Rule: If two adjectives are connected by and, they should be
in the same degree throughout.
Incorrect: Raj is more intelligent and most active.
Correct: Raj is more intelligent and more active.
Rule: The comparative in -er is not used when we compare two
qualities of the same person or thing.
Incorrect: Mohan is wiser than strong.
Correct: Mohan is more wise than strong.
Rule: When two objects are compared with each other,
the latter term of comparison must exclude the former.
Incorrect: Satish is cleverer than any student in his class.
Correct : Satish is cleverer than any other student in his class.
Rule: The comparative degree is generally followed by than
but the following comparative adjectives are followed by the
preposition to : inferior, superior, prior, anterior, posterior,
senior, junior.
Incorrect: India's fielding is inferior than South Africa's.
Correct: India's fielding is inferior to South Africa's.
Rule: Adjectives expressing qualities that do not admit of
different degrees cannot be compared.
Incorrect: Our field is more square.
Correct: Our field is square.
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Rule: Double comparatives and superlatives are to be avoided.
Incorrect: Zarda mangoes are more sweeter than Maldah
ones.
Correct: Zarda mangoes are sweeter than Maldah ones.
Test Yourself
Directions : In the following questions, some of the sentences
have errors and some have none. Find out which part of the
sentence has an error. The letter corresponding to that part is
your answer. If there is no mistake, the answer is ‘No error’.
1. Firstly you should a)/ think over the meaning of the words b)/
and then use them. c)/ No error d)
2. The driver tried his best a)/ to avert the accident by b)/
bringing the car to a suddenly stop. c)/ No error d)
3. The Sunrise Hotel was a)/ fully equipped to offer b)/ leisure
stay c)/ to its clients. d)/ No error e)
4. The technician reminded a)/ them to have a thoroughly
cleaning of the b)/ machine after each use. c)/ No error d)
5. I am much glad a)/ that you have b)/ won the prize. c)/ No
error d)
6. My observation is that a)/ between Vivek and Shashi, b)/
Vivek is the most intelligent. c)/ No error d)
7. It very often a)/ happens that b)/ a man who talks most does
little. c)/ No error d)
8. From all accounts a)/ I learn that b)/ he is the best and
honest member of the new Cabinet. c)/ No error d)
9. He is a)/ too intelligent b)/ to make a mistake. c)/ No error d)
10. The flood situation this year a)/ is worst than b)/ that
prevailed in the last year, c)/ No error d)
Answers
1.a; Replace ‘Firstly’ with ‘First’
c; Replace ‘suddenly’ with ‘sudden’
c; Replace ‘leisure’ with ‘leisurely’
b; Replace ‘thoroughly’ with ‘thorough’
a; Replace ‘much’ with ‘very’
c; Replace ‘the most’ with ‘more’
c; Replace ‘most’ by ‘much’
c; The correct form is ‘he is the best and most honest
member....’
d; No error
b; Replace ‘worst’ with ‘worse’
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Understanding of Verb – Tips and Tricks
Verb
A Verb is a word that tells or asserts something about a person
or thing. It tells about the person or thing in the state of (a)
doing, (b) being or (c) being acted up on. Thus a verb is a doing
or being word.
Kinds of verbs :
A Transitive verb is a verb that denotes an action which
passes over from the doer or agent to an object, Transitive
means passing over. For example, India won the World Cup.
An Intransitive verb is a verb that denotes an action which
does not pass over to an object, or that expresses a state of an
object, or that expresses a state of being. Intransitive means not
passing over. For example, The sun shines brightly.
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Rule: Two or more singular subjects connected by and
usually take a verb in the plural.
Incorrect: Computer and telecommunication has
metamorphosed information technology.
Correct: Computer and telecommunication have
metamorphosed information technology.
Error of Proximity
The verb is made to agree in number with a noun near it
instead of with its proper subject. This is wrong and should be
avoided.
Incorrect : The behaviour of the students were not proper.
Correct: The behaviour of the students was not proper.
Rule: Words joined to a singular subject by with, as well as, etc.
are parenthetical.
The verb should therefore be put in the singular.
Incorrect: The guru as well as his disciples are committed to
celibacy.
Correct : The guru as well as his disciples is committed to
celibacy.
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Rule: Either, neither, each, everyone, many a must be followed
by a singular verb.
Incorrect: Many a man have resigned in crisis.
Correct: Many a man has resigned in crisis.
Rule: When a plural noun denotes some specific quantity or
amount considered as a whole, the verb is generally singular.
Incorrect: Five hours are too short a time to judge one's
character.
Correct: Five hours is too short a time to judge one's
character.
The Infinitive
Usually a verb is limited by the number and person of its
subject. For example,
He plays cricket.
They play cricket.
A verb, which is not limited by person and number as a verb
that has a subject, is called the verb infinite or the infinitive.
Infinitives are of two kinds.
1. Simple Infinitive and
2. Gerundial or Qualifying Infinitive.
Simple Infinitive - When the infinitive is used like a noun.
as the subject of a verb. To name is to give an identity.
as the object of a verb. I have decided to leave the place.
as the complement of a verb. Her hobby is to dance.
as the object of a preposition. He is about to go.
as the complement of the object. She heard her weep.
Gerundial or Qualifying Infinitive-when the infinitive is
used for the following purposes:
to qualify a verb. He slept to refresh himself.
to qualify an adjective. Tea is easy to prepare.
to qualify a noun. He has a point to make.
to qualify a sentence. To be very frank, I hate your smile.
Rule: The infinitive is used without to after verbs like help,
watch, bid, dare, hear, let, make, need and see.
Incorrect : I bid him to quit the organisation.
Correct: I bid him quit the organisation.
Rule: If, however, the structure is do + dare or do + need, the
infinitive is used with to.
Incorrect: You do not need worry about us.
Correct: You do not need to worry about us.
Rule: The following verbs are followed by the infinitive.
Agree, arrange, attempt, care, cease, consent, decide,
determine, endeavour, fall, forget, hesitate, hope,learn,
manage, neglect, prepare, promise, propose, refuse, regret,
remember, seem, swear, undertake. Incorrect: I agree for
helping you out in trouble.
Correct: I agree to help you out in trouble.
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Rule: Prepositions but and except take the infinitive without to.
Incorrect: There is no alternative but to help him out.
Correct : There is no alternative but help him out.
Rule: Expressions would rather, would sooner, rather than,
sooner than, had better
are followed by infinitive without to.
Incorrect : I would rather to go for batting.
Correct : I would rather go for batting.
Participle
1. Present Participle
2. Past Participle
3. Perfect Participle
Rule: Present participle is used when all the parts of a
sentence have the same subject;
Incorrect: Opened the drawer, he took out his gun.
Correct: Opening the drawer, he took out his gun.
Rule: When a sentence has two different subjects, avoid using
present participle.
Instead a clause should be used in such instances.
Incorrect: While going to school, a dog jumped at me.
Correct: While I was going to school, a dog jumped at me.
Rule: Some past participles are used only as adjectives and
qualify a noun. They can be used as past participles with
changed spellings. For example, shrunken, drunken, sunken,
graven, molten.
Incorrect: He and his brother have drunken wine last night.
Correct: He and his brother have drunk wine last night.
Rule : Perfect participle is used when one activity is completely
over. Having worked hard, he felt tired.
Auxiliary Verb
Auxiliary literally means giving help, So an auxiliary verb is
one that helps the main verb form in tenses, moods, voices
etc. The following verbs are auxiliaries: is, are, am, was, were,
be, can, could, dare, do, does, did, have, has, had, may, might,
must, need, ought, shall, should, will, would, used to.
1. May implies permission, doubt or possibility.
May I come in? (permission)
It may rain tonight. (possibility)
2. Might is the past form of “may” and it implies more doubt
than “may”.
If the clouds are salted, the rains might come.
3. Can is used to express ability.
Ex. He can do the work.
4. Could is the past form of can but it does not necessarily
represent past time. Often
it implies a more uncertain condition.
He could refuse, but she never does.
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5. Should expresses the idea that something must be done or is
important.
Should and ought to have similar meanings, but ought is
followed by “to” “Ought to” has a more objective force and is
used when we are talking about laws, duties and regulations.
We ought to see her tomorrow.
6. Must is used to give strong advice or orders. Ex. He really
must stop drinking.
7. Do is used to make question and negative forms of ordinary
verbs.
Do you know him? I don’t like swimming.
“Do” is always used in question-tags. You know painting, do
you?
The Subject
A subject is one of the two parts into which every sentence
may be divided. The other part is the predicate.
The Subject of a sentence is what or whom we are talking about
and the predicate of a sentence is what we are saying about the
subject.
Consider these examples:
The Goa summit was held in
October. What are we talking
about? The Goa summit.
What we are talking about: (It) was held in October.
Thus the sentence is divided in this way: "The Goa summit"
[subject] "was held in October." [predicate].
Truman was elected Vice-President of the United States in
1944.
Whom we are talking about: Truman [subject].
What we are talking about him: (he) was elected Vice-President
of the United States in 1944 [predicate].
The subject of a sentence may consist of single noun or
pronoun, as in:
Rumi was operated for tumour.
Richa is beautiful.
Houses could once be built in eight weeks.
Flower blooms in spring.
This single noun or pronoun is called the subject of the verb.
Subject of the verb is the single word (noun or pronoun) which
is directly, and exclusively, influences the number of the verb.
The subject of the sentence (don’t confuse with the subject
of the verb though they frequently identical) may contain not
only the subject of the verb, but also one or more adjectives,
conjunctions, adverbs, prepositional phrases, or other assorted
parts of speech.
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To spot the difference between subject of the verb and subject
of the sentence, see the build up a sentence in below
examples. Women are fascinating creatures.
So, The subject of the verb need not precede the verb.
To find subject of the sentence is a bit easy; however, finding the
subject of the verb &ndash that is, the single noun or pronoun
which drives the number of the verb- is a bit difficult. So, note
these important points:
The subject of a sentence may, and often does, contain one or
more prepositional phrases.
The single noun or pronoun subject of the verb is never found
in within or as part of the prepositional phrase.
Go through the each of the sentences
given below: 1. In China’s Civil War,
Nanking claimed further gains.
The verb is claimed and its subject is Nanking.
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Business and industrial leaders in Kolkata predicted a rush
of applications for price adjustments.
Here we have a rather long subject of the sentence (all the
words up to the verb predicted) but usual one word subject
of the verb is Leaders.
The cost of automobiles has just risen 27 per cent.
The subject of the verb is Cost. Note cost is singular and that
the verb has risen is also singular.
There go my brothers.
Subject of the verb is Brothers. This is an instance in which the
subject of the verb follows the verb (go) i.e. verb preceded the
subject of the verb. There is an adverb.
One of my best friends was killed yesterday.
One of my best friends is prepositional phrase. One is pronoun
and so subject of the verb. Note the both subject and verb are
singular.
The captain, with all his sisters, brothers, aunts, and cousins
by dozens, is going abroad.
The subject of the sentence is made up of all words up to is,
the subject of the verb is single word captain. Since, captain is
singular, is going is singular.
Ram, like his mother and father, has brown hair.
Like is a preposition, and so nouns mother and father have
no influence on the number of the verb. Ram is singular so
the verb has is also singular.
Has either of your parents married since divorce?
Of your parents is a prepositional phrase. Either in this
sentence means either one ; therefore it is singular and takes
singular verb has married.
Was each of the criminals tried separately?
Like either, each means each one. It is a singular pronoun
and takes singular verb was tried.
Divya’s beauty, as well as her versatility and charm, has made
her a very popular girl in the college.
As well as her versatility and charm is a prepositional phrase
introduced by the triple-ply preposition as well as. So, subject of
the verb is Divya.
Important Principles
• The subject of the verb is usually a single-word noun or
pronoun.
• Such noun or pronoun is not found with a prepositional
phrase.
• Generally, the subject precedes the verb but in certain
sentence patterns may follow the verb.
• The number of the verb depends on the number of the single-
word subject
• Singular subjects take singular verbs and plural subjects take
plural verb.
Back to the starting Problem
"The cost of new books is dropping," or "The cost of new
books are dropping"? Subject of the sentence: The cost of
new books
• Subject of the verb : cost
Cost is singular so it must take singular verb.
• Hence correct sentence: The cost of new books is dropping.
The Conclusion
A verb must agree in number with single-word subject - noun or
pronoun.
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Understanding of Noun
NOUN
Kinds of Noun:
Proper Noun: a proper noun is the name of some
particular person or place. Ex- Ram , Shyam, Delhi.
Common Noun: A Common noun is a name given in common
to every person or thing of the same kind or class.
Ex- boy, girl, teacher etc.
Collective noun: A collective noun is the name of a group of
persons or things. Ex- army, committee, crowd etc.
Abstract Noun: a noun denoting an idea, quality, or state
rather than a concrete object.
Ex- strength, innocence, fear, judgment. Etc.
Material Noun:Material noun is the name given to the
material, substance or things made up of The alloy.
Ex- cotton, gold, silver etc.
NOUN for Gender
Masculine Gender: A noun that denotes male animal is
said to be of the Masculine Gender.
Ex- Man, boy, Tiger, Sun etc.
Feminine Gender: A noun that denotes a female animal is
said to be of the Feminine Gender.
Ex- woman, girl, nature, lioness etc.
Common Gender: A noun that denotes either a male or a
female is said to be of the common gender.
Ex- Parent, child, student, cousin etc.
Neuter Gender: A noun that denotes a thing without life ,
neither male nor female , is said to be of the Neuter gender.
Ex- Book, Pen, room etc.
NOUN for NUMBER
Singular Noun: A noun that denotes one person or thing, is
said to be in the Singular Number.
Ex- pen, cow, boy etc.
Plural Noun: A noun that denotes more than one person or
thing , is said to be in the plural Number.
Ex- Pens, Boys, Cows etc
NOUN: Countable / Uncountable
Countable nouns are the names of objects, people etc that we
can count.
Ex- book, apple, doctor, horse etc.
Uncountable nouns are the names of things which we can’t
count. They mainly denote substance and abstract things.
Ex- milk, oil, sugar, gold, honesty etc.
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NOUN for CASES
The case of a noun tells us about the position of that noun or
pronoun in a sentence.
In English, there are five cases.
Nominative case: A noun is said to be in the nominative case if
it is the subject of a
verb.
Ex- Ram is an intelligent boy.
Objective case: Nouns or Pronouns are said to be in objective
case if they are the direct object of verbs or the objects of the
preposition.
Dative case: A noun is said to be in Dative case if it is the
indirect object of the verb.
Rohan brought me a flower. (‘Me’ is in dative case)
Possessive case: A noun is said to be in the possessive case if
it denotes possession
or ownership.
Ex- This is your pencil. (‘your’ is in possessive case)
Vocative case :A noun or pronoun is said to be in vocative case
if it is used to call ( or to get attention of a person or persons)
Ex- Mr. Mallya , people are waiting for you in the hall. (Mr.
Mallya is in vocative case)
NOUN in Apposition
When one noun follows another to describe it, the noun which
follows is said to be in apposition to the noun which comes
before it. Ex- Ram , our captain, made fifty runs.
Kabir , the great reformer, was a weaver.
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There are some nouns that indicate length, measure,
money, weight or number. When they are preceded by a
numeral, they remain unchanged in form.
Foot, meter, pair, score, dozen, head, year, hundred, thousand,
million.
(A) It is a five years degree course. (correct use- year)
(A) I have seven dozens of shoes. (correct use- dozen)
Collective nouns such as jury, public, team, committee,
government, audience, orchestra, company, etc. are
used both as singular and Plural. It depends on the
usage.
(A) The jury was divided in their opinion. (correct use- were)
(A) The team have not arrived yet. (correct use- has)
Some nouns have one meaning in the singular and
another in the plural: a. Advice = counsel,
advices =
information
b.Air =
atmosphere, airs
= proud
c. Authority =
command, authorities
= persons in power d.
Good = wise,
goods =
property e. Iron
= metal, irons =
fetters, chains f.
Force =
strength forces
= army
g. Content =
satisfaction, contents
= things contained h.
Respect = regards,
respects =
compliments
i. Work = job
works = compositions, factories.
People are often confused or they commit mistakes in
the use of certain nouns.
(A) Lecturership is wrong: lectureship is correct.
(B) Freeship is wrong; free studentship is correct.
(C) Boarding is wrong; boarding house is correct.
(D) Family members is wrong; members of the family is
correct.
(E) English teacher is wrong; the teacher of English is correct.
(F) Cousin - brother or sister is wrong; only cousin is correct.
(G) Wages means punishments when used
in the singular. Ex- The wages of sin is
death.
(H) It also means charges for the labour when used
in the plural sense. Ex- The wages of daily workers
have been raised.
A pronoun must agree with its antecedent in person,
number and gender. Ex- Every student must bring his
luggage.
All students must do their
home work. Each of the boys
must carry his own bag.
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While using ‘everybody’ ‘everyone’, ‘anybody’, and
‘each’ the pronoun of the masculine or the feminine
gender is used according to the context.
I shall be happy to help each of the boys in this practice.
But when the sex is not mentioned, we use the pronoun of
the masculine gender. Anyone can qualify this exam if he
tries.
Each of the six boys in the class has finished their
tasks. (Incorrect) Each of the six boys in the class
has finished his task. (Correct)
The pronoun ‘one’ must be followed by ‘one’s’.
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23. Use of elder, older.
‘Elder’ is used for persons of same family.
‘Older’ refers to persons as well as things and is followed by
‘than’.
Rohan is elder than all other boys of this area. (Incorrect)
Rohan is older than all other boys of this area. (Correct)
Sabu is my older brother. (Incorrect)
Sabu is my elder brother. (Correct)
Normally ‘than’ is used in the comparative degree, but
with words like superior, inferior, senior, junior, prior,
anterior, posterior and prefer ‘to’ is used.
Sara is junior than Neeta.
( Incorrect) Sara is junior
to Neeta. (Correct)
I prefer reading than walking.
(Incorrect) I prefer reading to
walking. (Correct)
when a comparison is made by using a comparative
followed by ‘than’, the word ‘other’ must exclude the
thing compared form the class of things with which it is
compared.
He is better than any man. (Incorrect)
He is better than any other man. (Correct)
‘Any man’ includes the man himself and thus the sentences will
be awkward.
In some cases, the comparison is subtle and must
be given proper attention.
Ex- The climate of Delhi is better than Mumbai. (Incorrect)
Here the comparison should be between the climate of Delhi
and the climate of Mumbai.
The climate of Delhi is better than the climate of
Mumbai. (Correct) Or The climate of Ranchi is better
than that of Gaya. (Correct)
(Here, ‘That of’ means ‘the climate of’)
If the traits are in plural, it will be ‘those of'.
The products of Reliance are better than
those of Suzuki. The scenery of Kashmir is
better than Shimla. (Incorrect)
The scenery of Kashmir is better than that of shimla. (Correct)
‘many a’ is always followed by the singular verb.
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Common Error Detection Practice Set-2
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The gambling stall / If you saw / the
was a grand Every man, woman amount of Samosas /
success / because and child / is now he consumed at
almost everyone / aware / of the breakfast this
tried their luck. terrible morning,/ you would
A. The gambling consequences of / understand why he is
stall B. was a habit of smoking. so over-weight.
grand success A. Every man, A. If you saw
C. because almost woman and child B. the amount of
everyone D. tired B. is now Samosas C. he
their luck aware C. of consumed at
E. No Error the terrible breakfast this
Answer: consequences morning,
Option D of D. habit of D. you would
smoking E. understand why he
Little water / that No Error is so over-weight E.
was left / in the Answer: No Error
bottle was not Option D Answer: Option B
enough / to quench
the thirst of two As our room was /
persons. upstairs, so we/
A. Little didn't hear him.
water B. A. As our
that was room was B.
left upstairs, so
C. in the bottle we C. didn't
was not enough hear him D.
D. to quench the No error
thirst of two Answer:
persons Option B
E. No Error
Answer: There are / no
Option E conducted tours /
for tourist to visit all
The father / as well the / important
as the sons were / places.
mysteriously A. There are
missing / from the B. no conducted
house. A. The father tours
B. as well as the C. for tourist to
sons were C. visit all the D.
mysteriously important places
missing D. from the E. No Error
house Answer:
E. No Error Option C
Answer:
Option B
On Friday This girl / wrote Answer:
evening / Mamta an essay / so well Option A
and me / took a that / her teacher
coach / for Patna was exceedingly The doctor said /
and arrived at pleased with her. that patient /
Amit's house. A. A. This girl should not have
On Friday evening B. wrote an essay wasted / before
B. Mamta and me C. so well that D. coming for help.
C. took a coach A. The doctor
her teacher was
D. for Patna and said B. that
arrived at Amit's exceedingly patient
house pleased with her C. should not have
E. No Error E. No Error
wasted D. before
Answer: coming for help E.
Answer:
Option B No Error
Option B
Answer: Option B
Everyone of the
students / has In my youth / I used
bought / his / to / visit / Sharma's
identity card. and Chawla's
A. Everyone company.
of the A. In my
youth B. I
students
used to C.
B. has
visit
bought C.
D. Sharma's and
his
Chawla's company
D. identity
E. No Error
card E. No
Answer:
Error
Option D
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As he stood / below A. I told him Cattles / were
the shower / the B. the story grazing / in the
sharp jets of / ice C. in details meadows / near our
cold water revived D. to make farm.
his spirit. him A. Cattles
A. As he stood B. were
understand it
B. below the grazing C. in
shower C. the fully. E. No the meadows
sharp jets of Error D. near our
D. ice cold water Answer: farm. E. No
revived his spirit Option C Error Answer:
E. No Error Option A
Answer:
Option D Many a man / have
/ been working /
Many a person / under me. A. Many
have lost / their life a man
/ and all property B. have
in the riots. C. been
A. Many a working D.
person B. under me E.
have lost No Error
C. their life Answer:
D. and all property Option B
in the riots
E. No Error The cricket / is a /
Answer: game of change.
Option B A. The
cricket B.
I have / two sister- is a
in-laws / whose C. game of
husbands / are all change D. No
well settled. Error Answer:
A. I have Option C
B. two sister-in-
laws C. whose Mr Alexgander / has
husbands D. purchased / new
are all well furnitures from
settled E. No Metro-Mall.
Error Answer: A. Mr
Option B Alexgander B.
has
I told him / the story purchased
/ in details / to make C. new
him understand it furnitures from
fully. Metro-Mall
D. No Error Both the / girls B. me as
Answer: helped / one though C. an
Option C another. old friend D.
A. Both the B. No error
Last year / many girls helped Answer:
people / died from
C. one Option B
cholera epidemic.
A. Last year another D.
B. many people No Error I'll go with you /
C. died from Answer: as long as/ I won't
cholera Option C have to sing.
epidemic A. I'll go with
D. No Error Vijay is / very you B. as
Answer: much / sorry about long as
Option D her misconduct. C. I won't have
A. Vijay to sing D. No
is B. very error Answer:
much Option C
C. sorry
about her She'll pay you / as
misconduct soon as she / receive
D. No Error the parcel. A. She'll
Answer: pay you
Option B B. as soon as she
C. receive the
She treated/ me parcel D. No
as though / an error Answer:
old friend. A. Option C
She treated
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I don't have a car / My grandfather Our history can be
and I don't want / owns / fifty acre / of seen / as a long
one as well. A. I wet land. evolutionary
don't have a car A. My grandfather dialectical
B. and I don't owns B. fifty acre development / in
want C. one as C. of wet land which there have
well D. No error been / a painstaking
D. No error Answer: forgiving of rational
Answer: Option B and moral self.
Option C A. Our history can
be seen B. as a long
Indian scientists evolutionary
are no way / dialectical
inferior than / any development C. in
other scientists in which there have
the world. been
A. Indian scientists D. a painstaking
are no way forgiving of
B. inferior than rational and moral
C. any other self E. No error
scientists in the Answer: Option C
world
D. No error Our knowledge of
Answer: history does not
Option B come to / Our help
and some times we /
Belgium chocolate even fail to
is considered / by remember / who
many to be finger / invented America.
than any others in A. Our knowledge of
the world. history does not
A. Belgium come to B. Our help
chocolate is and some times we
considered C. even fail to
B. by many to be remember D. who
finger C. than any invented America
others in the E. No error
world Answer: Option D
D. No error
Answer: The Committee has
Option C made / significant
changes in / the
rules which / will
help to banks.
A. The This Project which A. The number of
Committee has is funded / by the tourists B. is
made united nations / expected to rise
B. significant has helped over C. from seven
change in C. the four / lakh Indians to ten percent
rules which overcome poverty. D. in the next ten
D. will help to A. This Project years E. No error
banks E. No which is funded Answer: Option C
error Answer: B. by the united
Option D nations C. has I enquired / of him
helped over four D. / whether he
lakh Indians would /
overcome poverty accompany me to
E. No error Dharmsala.
Answer: A. I
Option E enquired
B. of him
The number of C. whether he
tourists / is expected would D.
to rise / from seven accompany me
to ten percent / in to Dharmsala
the next ten years. E. No error
Answer:
Option E
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48. Being that my car 51. The website, 53. The Moon may
is which be the
getting / its annual does not / accept best place / to look
check for
up. / I will not be / advertisement and is aliens as their /
able to footprints
pick you up funded / entirely by on their surface
tomorrow would /
morning. donations, describes last far longer than
itself radio
A. Being that my car / as the fifth most signals.
is popular
getting website on the A. The Moon may be
planet. the
B. its annual check A. The website, best place
up. which
C. I will not be does not B. to look for aliens
as
D. able to pick you B. accept their
up advertisement
tomorrow morning and is funded C. footprints on their
E. No error C. entirely by surface would
donations,
Answer: Option A describe itself D. last far longer
than
D. as the fifth most radio signals
49. We can't hardly popular website on E. No error
believe the
that the / situation is planet Answer: Option C
so
serious as / to justify E. No error
such
precautions / as you Answer: Option D
have
taken. 54. The judge
advised the
A. We can't hardly 52. As sharing crime Government to /
believe have
that the statistics for / the metered auto-
year rickshaw
B. situation is so 2011, the across the state
serious as Commissioner while /
C. to justify such admitted that / there recounting his
had personal
precautions been an undue delay experience where an
in / auto-
D. as you have taken the setting up of an rickshaw driver /
anti- made
E. No error narcotics cell. him to wait and also
Answer: Option A A. As sharing crime demanded Rs. 100.
A. The
statistics for judge advised the
50. The third season B. the year 2011, the Government to
of /
the popular Commissioner B. have metered
television admitted auto-
show will ends / on a that rickshaw across the
state
grand note with / C. there had been an while
undue
celebrities dancing delay in C. recounting his
and personal
having fun. D. the setting up of experience where an
an auto-r
A. The third season anti-narcotics cell D. made him to wait
of and
B. the popular E. No error also demanded Rs.
television 100
show will ends Answer: Option E E. No error
C. on a grand note Answer: Option D
with
D. celebrities
dancing and
having fun
E. No error
Answer: Option B
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55. The company 58. The Minister will jail
aims / to have / a E. No error libera
nearly double / its tough task on his 1991
hand / Answer: Option D E. No
revenues on the back where three 57. Rose growers in / Answe
/ of different the
a strongest product recommendations / city are waking up / 60. In
for this to the kind st
pipeline. year's rate reach his benefits / of / a tea
desk. collective have
A. The company aims A. The Minister will action. tried t
have stem
B. to nearly double B. a tough task on A. Rose growers in cells i
his hand get
C. its revenues on C. where three B. the city are damag
the back different waking up
D. of a strongest recommendations C. to the benefits A. In a
product study,
pipeline D. for this year's D. of collective action B. a te
rate reach scient
E. No error his desk E. No error tried t
Answer: Option D E. No error Answer: Option C C. 'gro
56. The woman that Answer: Option B cells i
had / D. the
kidnapped a child 59. The current damag
has now economic with a
/ been apprehended scenario / could E. No
and is possibly Answe
being / held in the undo / the growth
city's that
jail. followed / the
economic
A. The woman that liberalization of 1991.
had A. The
B. kidnapped a child current economic
has scenario
now B. could possibly
undo / the
C. been apprehended growth that followed
and
is being C. the growth that
followed
D. held in the city's D. the economic
If successful, the research could / pave After a complaint
the way towards / the prevention in was filed, / police
untimely deaths / due to fatal illnesses. teams was given
A. If successful, the research could the photograph / of
B. pave the way towards C. the the accused from
prevention in untimely deaths the CCTV footage /
D. due to fatal illnesses E. No error recorded at the
Answer: Option D hotel.
A. After a
The Ministry has directed banks / to do complaint was
away with their / separate promotion filed,
policies, a move / strongly opposed by the B. police teams
officers' unions. was given the
A. The Ministry has directed banks photograph
B. to do away with their C. separate C. of the accused
promotion policies, a move from the CCTV
D. strongly opposed by the officers' unions footage
E. No error Answer: Option D D. recorded at the
hotel E. No error
Answer: Option B
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64. Activists 67. The education 70. Teaching in this
opposing the Council school
rail project said / / is consisted of ten / would certainly
that the improve
eleven new flyovers members / all of / if it had less boys /
to be whom / in all
built / would are experienced the high classes.
practically men.
ring / the death knell A. The education A. Teaching in this
for Council school
the city. B. is consisted of ten B. would certainly
improve
A. Activists opposing members C. if it had less boys
the
rail project said C. all of whom D. in all the high
classes.
B. that the eleven D. are experienced E. No error
new men.
flyovers to be built E. No error Answer: Option C
C. would practically Answer: Option B
ring
D. the death knell for
the
city 68. The woman who /
has
E. No error been perpetually
hesitating
Answer: Option E / which of the two
books
/ she will read first
will
65. It is common / probably read none
and
knowledge that will suffer.
each / of
us / loves our home. A. The woman who
A. It is common B. has been
perpetually
B. knowledge that hesitating
each
C. of us C. which of the two
books
D. loves our home D. she will read first
will
E. No error probably read none
and wi
Answer: Option D E. No error
Answer: Option D
66. The teacher
repeatedly
warned / the 69. Summons were /
students not
to make / noise but issued yesterday / by
students / did not Sessions judge /
obey. against
A. The teacher the suspected thief.
repeatedly
warned A. Summons were
B. the students not to B. issued yesterday
make C. by Sessions judge
C. noise but students D. against the
suspected
D. did not obey. thief.
E. No error E. No error
Answer: Option C Answer: Option A
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Common Error Detection: Section 2
Answer: Option A
Answer: Option C
Answer: Option C
125 | P a g e
Find out whether there is any A. If you lend him a book
grammatical error in below B. he will lend it to some
sentence. One of the members / one else C. and never
expressed doubt if / the you will get it back D.
Minister was an atheist. No error
A. One of the
members B. Answer: Option C
expressed doubt
if
C. the Minister was
an atheist D. No error.
Answer: Option B
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Find out whether there is stopped aching / out of fear
any grammatical error in that I might lose my tooth.
below sentence. The A. When the dentist came in
students were / awaiting for B. my tooth was stopped
/ the arrival of the chief aching
guest. C. out of fear that I might
A. The lose my tooth D. No error.
students were
B. awaiting for Answer: Option B
C. the arrival of the
chief guest D. No
error.
Answer: Option B
Answer: Option B
Answer: Option A
Answer: Option B
Answer: Option C
Answer: Option B
Answer: Option D
Answer: Option C
129 | P a g e
Find out whether there is
any grammatical error in Answer: Option A
below sentence. He is not
coming tomorrow / as he is
having a pain in the chest /
and has to see a doctor.
A. He is not coming tomorrow
B. as he is having a pain in
the chest C. and has to see
a doctor
D. No error.
Answer: Option C
Answer: Option D
130 | P a g e
Find out whether there is any C. from leaving the
grammatical error in below hostel D. No error.
sentence. Arun's parents died
when he was young and / he Answer: Option D
looked after his aunt / who had
no children.
A. Arun's parents died
when he was young and
B. he looked after
his aunt C. who had
no children D. No
error.
Answer: Option B
131 | P a g e
Find out whether there is summer afternoon / a mad
any grammatical error in dog suddenly attacked him
below sentence. from behind A. While walking
All the furnitures have been / slowly in the park
sent to the new house / located B. on a quiet summer
in a village. afternoon
A. All the furnitures C. a mad dog suddenly
have been B. sent to attacked him from behind
the new house D. No error.
C. located in a
village D. No Answer: Option A
error.
Answer: Option A
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Find out whether there is any A. He has not been
grammatical error in below attending B. English
sentence. The crews were on classes
board, / and they soon busied C. since one
themselves / in preparing to month D. No
meet the storm. error.
A. The crews were on board,
B. and they soon busied Answer: Option C
themselves C. in preparing
to meet the storm D. No
error.
Answer: Option C
133 | P a g e
Find out whether there is any A. If she will be
grammatical error in below promoted B. she
sentence. In a report issued by will get
Indian Statistical Institute, / C. A higher
the Iron and Steel Industry is salary D. No
investing more than any error.
other / Indian industry in
fighting pollution. Answer: Option A
A. In a report issued by Indian
Statistical Institute,
B. the Iron and Steel Industry
is investing more than any
other
C. Indian industry in fighting
pollution D. No error.
Answer: Option C
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Spotting Errors: Section 2
Answer: Option A
Find out whether there is
any grammatical error in
below sentence.
He managed to make sense of
the book / even though it was
the first time / he read
anything on the subject.
A. He managed to make
sense of the book
B. even though it was the
first time C. he read
anything on the subject D.
No error.
Answer: Option C
Answer: Option C
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Find out whether there is C. though very weak, is out of
any grammatical error in danger D. No error.
below sentence. My friend
asked me / if I can lend him Answer: Option B
my Parker pen / for a few
days.
A. My friend asked me
B. if I can lend him my
Parker pen C. for a few
days
D. No error.
Answer: Option B
136 | P a g e
Find out whether there is just fall back on / the tools you
any grammatical error in had been
below sentence. He loved / A. In management, as you rise
none but / his neighbour's higher, B. the problems you
daughter. face becomemore and more
A. He unstructured and you can't just
loved B. fall back on
none but C. the tools you
C. his neighbour's had been D. No
daughter D. No error.
error.
Answer: Option B
Answer: Option D
137 | P a g e
Find out whether there is any B. I would have
grammatical error in below seen to it C. that I
sentence. He is not to blame / won the prize D.
for what has happened / for he No error.
is in no way connected with it. Answer: Option A
A. He is not to blame
B. for what has happened
C. for he is in no way
connected with it D. No error.
Answer: Option A
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Find out whether there is B. no longer popular as
any grammatical error in she has C. a friends
below sentence. At the D. No error.
station, / I'll hire a coolie /
to carry my baggages Answer: Option C
A. At the
station, B. I'll
hire a coolie
C. to carry my
baggages D. No
error.
Answer: Option C
139 | P a g e
Find out whether there is any A. The tall three girls B. had
grammatical error in below left
sentence. No sooner did the C. the day before. D. No error.
sun rise / when we took a
hasty breakfast / and resumed Answer: Option A
the journey.
A. No sooner did the sun rise
B. when we took a hasty
breakfast C. and resumed
the journey
D. No error.
Answer: Option B
Answer: Option C
140 | P a g e
Find out whether there is any meaning of the words / and
grammatical error in below then use them.
sentence. It is an established A. Firstly you should
fact that the transcendental B. think over the meaning of
American poets and the words C. and then use
philosophers. / who lived in the them
latter half of the nineteenth D. No error.
century. / were more
influenced by Indian Answer: Option A
philosophy, in particular by
Upanishadic Philosophy.
A. It is an established fact
that the transcendental
American poets and
philosophers
B. who lived in the latter
half of the nineteenth
century
C. were more influenced by
Indian philosophy, in
particular by Upanishadic
Philosophy
D. No error.
Answer: Option C
Answer: Option B
Answer: Option C
Answer: Option D
Answer: Option A
142 | P a g e
Find out whether there is any A. Not one of the
grammatical error in below hundreds B. of
sentence. We are four brothers striking workers.
and sisters living in this C. were allowed to go near
house / but neither of us is / the factory. D. No error.
satisfied with it.
A. We are four brothers and Answer: Option C
sisters living in this house
B. but neither of
us is C. satisfied
with it. D. No
error.
Answer: Option B
Answer: Option C
144 | P a g e
Spotting Errors: Section 3
C. that can penetrate into the
Find out whether there is any biological tissue.
grammatical error in below D. No error.
sentence. The scientist must
follow / his hunches and his Answer: Option C
data / wherever it may lead.
A. The scientist must
follow B. his hunches
and his data C.
wherever it may lead.
D. No error.
Answer: Option C
Answer: Option B
Answer: Option C
Find out whether there is any
grammatical error in below
Find out whether there is any sentence.
grammatical error in below The person which was /
sentence. recommended for the
He asked me / why did I call / position / did not fulfil the
him a rogue. prescribed qualifications.
A. He asked me B. why did I A. The person which was
call B. recommended for the
C. him a rogue. D. No error. position
C. did not fulfil the prescribed
Answer: Option B qualifications. D. No error.
Answer: Option A
145 | P a g e
Find out whether there is any A. Sheela has scored a
grammatical error in below first class B. in her final
sentence. What does Professor exams,
Dhavan / spend so many hours C. isn't
/ in the laboratory? it? D. No
A. What does Professor error.
Dhavan B. spend so
many hours Answer: Option C
C. in the
laboratory? D.
No error.
Answer: Option A
Find out whether there is any Find out whether there is any
grammatical error in below grammatical error in below
sentence. Scarcely had / I sentence. One of my favourite
arrived than / the train left. actor / is acting / in this play
A. Scarcely had B. I also.
arrived than C. the train A. One of my
left. D. No error. favourite actor B. is
acting
Answer: Option B C. in this play
also. D. No
Find out whether there is any error.
grammatical error in below
Answer: Option A
146 | P a g e
C. that neither the spoken nor
Find out whether there is any the written word can match.
grammatical error in below D. No error.
sentence. Emphasis on equality
of life ensures / for the health Answer: Option D
and happiness / of every
individual.
A. Emphasis on equality of
life ensures B. for the health
and happiness
C. of every
individual. D. No
error.
Answer: Option B
Answer: Option B
147 | P a g e
Find out whether there is any C. in
grammatical error in below shame.
sentence. Do you know / D. No
A. Do you know B. to play error.
C. the guitar? D. No error.
Answer: Option B
Answer: Option B
Answer: Option A
Answer: Option A
148 | P a g e
Find out whether there is any sentence. My wife has got / a
grammatical error in below new job / a month ago.
sentence. Will you lend me / A. My wife has got B. a new job
little money / to tide over this C. a month ago. D. No error.
crisis.
A. Will you Answer: Option A
lend me B.
little money
C. to tide over this
crisis. D. No error.
Answer: Option B
Answer: Option C
Answer: Option D
151 | P a g e
Find out whether there is any A. Even though the shirt
grammatical error in below is rather expensive
sentence. A free press is not a B. but I wish to
privilege / but the organic C. purchase it with my
necessity / in a free society. A. own money. D. No error.
A free press is not a privilege
B. but the organic Answer: Option B
necessity C. in a free
society.
D. No error.
Answer: Option B
153 | P a g e
Find out whether there is Find out whether there is
any grammatical error in any grammatical error in
below sentence. He is wiring below sentence. Were he / to
/ for the / last four hours A. see you, / he would have
He is wiring been surprised.
B. for the A. Were
C. last four he B. to
hours D. No see you,
error. C. he would have been
surprised. D. No error.
Answer: Option A
Answer: Option A
Answer: Option A
Answer: Option C
Answer: Option D
Answer: Option C
Find out whether there is any Find out whether there is any
grammatical error in below grammatical error in below
sentence. Nitin's nephew, who sentence. The institute /
lives / in Bangalore, is eager to imparts training / in / the
travel to / Delhi to have / a French.
glimpse of the capital. A. The institute B. imparts
A. Nitin's nephew, who lives training
B. in Bangalore, is eager C. in D. the French.
to travel to C. Delhi to E. No error.
have
Answer: Option D
156 | P a g e
Find out whether there is any of opportunities to display
grammatical error in below their art
sentence. His father promised C. upcoming dancers suffer
to / give him anything what from D. an unfortunate
he / wants if he / passes in lack of exposure. E. No
the examination. error.
A. His father promised to
B. give him anything Answer: Option B
what he C. wants if
he
D. passes in the
examination. E. No
error.
Answer: Option B
Answer: Option B
157 | P a g e
Find out whether there is any We decided not tell to / the
grammatical error in below patient about / the disease he
sentence. The environment in was / suffering from.
which / companies operating / A. We decided not
today is / undergoing Frenetic tell to B. the
changes. patient about
A. The environment in C. the disease
which B. companies he was D.
operating suffering from.
C. today is E. No error.
D. undergoing Frenetic
Answer: Option A
changes. E. No error.
Answer: Option B
159 | P a g e
Find out whether there is any C. cleared by
grammatical error in below clouds D. and
sentence. Our school is lightning. E.
making / every possible No error.
effort / to provide best
facilities / and personal Answer: Option C
attention for each child.
A. Our school is
making B. every
possible effort C. to
provide best
facilities
D. and personal attention for
each child. E. No error.
Answer: Option D
Answer: Option E
160 | P a g e
Find out whether there is any C. my best to
grammatical error in below convince him D. but
sentence. The Head of the without success.
Department along with his E. No error.
colleagues / are coming to
attend / the conference which Answer: Option A
is / the conference which is
A. The Head of the
Department along with his
colleagues
B. are coming to
attend C. the
conference which is
D. the conference
which is E. No
error.
Answer: Option B
Answer: Option B
Answer: Option C
161 | P a g e
Find out whether there is any consideration D.
grammatical error in below and necessary
sentence. The mission provides decision. E. No
/ able service to all / the needy error.
people in this area / during last
few years. Answer: Option A
A. The mission
provides B. able
service to all
C. the needy people in
this area D. during last
few years.
E. No error.
Answer: Option A
Answer: Option B
162 | P a g e
Find out whether there is
any grammatical error in Find out whether there is
below sentence. any grammatical error in
We admired the way / he had below sentence.
completed all his work / and No girl / in her troupe is / so
appreciating the method / sprightly as / your daughter.
adopted by him. A. No girl B. in her troupe is
A. We admired the way C. so sprightly as D. your
B. he had completed daughter.
all his work C. and E. No error.
appreciating the Answer: Option C
method D. adopted by
him.
E. No error.
Answer: Option C
164 | P a g e
Spotting Errors: Section 5
A. Of the
Find out whether there is any two B.
grammatical error in below sisters
sentence. As it was C.
Ramesh's / first interview he Meena
dressed him / in his most / is D. the
formal suit. A. As it was elder. E.
Ramesh's No
B. first interview he error.
dressed him C. in his
most Answer: Option D
D. formal
suit. E. No
error.
Answer: Option B
Answer: Option B
165 | P a g e
Find out whether there is any Find out whether there is
grammatical error in below any grammatical error in
sentence. No country can long below sentence. He ought /
endure / if its foundations / not have / done such a /
were not laid deep / in the filthy thing.
material prosperity. A. He ought B. not have
A. No country can long C. done such a D. filthy
endure B. if its thing.
foundations E. No error.
C. were not laid deep
Answer: Option B
D. in the material
prosperity. E. No
error.
Answer: Option C
166 | P a g e
Find out whether there is any bring my book. E. No
grammatical error in below error.
sentence. In spite of toiling /
very hardly he / realised that Answer: Option C
he had / not earned anything
substantial.
A. In spite of
toiling B. very
hardly he
C. realised that he had
D. not earned anything
substantial. E. No error.
Answer: Option B
Answer: Option D
167 | P a g e
Find out whether there is any D. in almost every part
grammatical error in below of India. E. No error.
sentence. Somewhere along
the / line I lost / track of what Answer: Option C
Ashish / says about heart
ailments
A. Somewhere
along the B. line I
lost
C. track of what Ashish
D. says about heart
ailments E. No error.
Answer: Option D
Answer: Option A
Answer: Option B
168 | P a g e
Find out whether there is any didn't play whole
grammatical error in below hearted. E. No error.
sentence. After toiling very
hard / over a long period / he Answer: Option D
found / he had hardly made no
profit at all.
A. After toiling
very hard B. over a
long period
C. he found
D. he had hardly made no
profit at all. E. No error.
Answer: Option D
Answer: Option C
Answer: Option C
169 | P a g e
Find out whether there is any in getting D. his
grammatical error in below car to start up.
sentence. Having learn my
lessons / I was very careful / in Answer: Option D
dealing with him / in front of
his room-mate.
A. Having learn my
lessons B. I was very
careful
C. in dealing with him
D. in front of his
room-mate. E. No
error.
Answer: Option A
Answer: Option D
170 | P a g e
Find out whether there is C. of that bicycle and
any grammatical error in whether D. it is really
below sentence. made in Germany? E.
I do not recall / exactly what No error.
he said to me / but when I
was quit / he said something Answer: Option B
to me.
A. I do not recall
B. exactly what he
said to me C. but
when I was quit
D. he said something
to me. E. No error.
Answer: Option B
Answer: Option B
171 | P a g e
Find out whether there is in the team. E.
any grammatical error in No error.
below sentence.
I asked him / whom he thought Answer: Option C
/ would be able to / get the
first prize.
A. I asked him
B. whom he
thought C.
would be able
to D. get the
first prize. E.
No error.
Answer: Option B
Answer: Option B
172 | P a g e
Find out whether there is any Answer: Option A
grammatical error in below
sentence. The job is much
worse than I expected / If I
would have realised / how
awful it was going to be / I
would not have accepted it.
A. The job is much
worse than I expected
B. If I would have realised
C. how awful it was
going to be D. I would
not have accepted it. E.
No error.
Answer: Option B
Answer: Option E
Answer: Option B
174 | P a g e
Find out whether there is A. Since I had
any grammatical error in been gone B.
below sentence. Neither of through the book
the plans / suits him and C. long back, I could
therefore / he decided not D. not remember the
to / go out yesterday. contents. E. No error.
A. Neither of the
plans B. suits him Answer: Option A
and therefore C. he
decided not to
D. go out
yesterday. E.
No error
Answer: Option B
Answer: Option A
175 | P a g e
Spotting Errors: Section 6
Find out whether there is Answer: Option B
any grammatical error in
below sentence.
He is / a mason / who / built
my house.
A. He is B. a mason
C. who D. built my
house.
E. No error.
Answer: Option B
Answer: Option B
176 | P a g e
Find out whether there is any sentence. Looking forward / to
grammatical error in below / meet you / here.
sentence. His speech was / A. Looking forward B. to
judged by many / as one of the C. meet you D. here.
most important speech / given E. No error
in the function.
A. His speech Answer: Option C
was B. judged
by many
C. as one of the most
important speech D. given in
the function.
E. No error.
Answer: Option C
Answer: Option D
177 | P a g e
Find out whether there is A. Are you awarefor along
any grammatical error in time that B. by making me
below sentence. According waiting
to one survey / only those C. for a long time
forests which were / not D. my schedule is
under village management / getting upset? E. No
succumbed from fires error.
recently.
A. According to one survey Answer: Option B
B. only those forests
which were C. not under
village management D.
succumbed from fires
recently. E. No error.
Answer: Option D
Answer: Option B
178 | P a g e
Find out whether there is D. is too
any grammatical error in expensive. E.
below sentence. This book No error.
is / designed to increase / a
working knowledge of / Answer: Option A
spoken and written English.
A. This book is
B. designed to increase
C. a working knowledge of
D. spoken and written
English. E. No error.
Answer: Option C
Answer: Option A
179 | P a g e
Find out whether there is any democratic way of
grammatical error in below life. E. No error.
sentence. Since I meet /
Dinesh last Saturday / he has Answer: Option A
been contacting me / everyday
over phone.
A. Since I meet
B. Dinesh last Saturday
C. he has been
contacting me D.
everyday over phone.
E. No error.
Answer: Option A
Answer: Option A
Answer: Option A
180 | P a g e
Find out whether there is any policy C. the private
grammatical error in below institutions had D. run
sentence. Unintentionally I into heavy weather.
let / out the secret / by talking E. No error.
about / it loudly in the library.
A. Answer: Option C
Unintentionally I
let B. out the
secret
C. by talking about
D. it loudly in the
library. E. No
error.
Answer: Option E
Answer: Option B
181 | P a g e
Find out whether there is any D. all major
grammatical error in below cities. E. No
sentence. Ketan had a lot / of error.
work to complete yesterday /
and wishes / that he had my Answer: Option C
help
A. Ketan had a lot
B. of work to complete
yesterday C. and wishes
D. that he had
my help E. No
error.
Answer: Option C
Answer: Option C
182 | P a g e
Find out whether there is A. No sooner had the
any grammatical error in jeep B. arrives the
below sentence. The recent station
study has / indicated that C. than a young police
there is / perceptible change officer D. jumped out of
in / the attitudes of the it.
people. E. No error.
A. The recent
study has B. Answer: Option B
indicated that
there is C.
perceptible
change in
D. the attitudes of the
people. E. No error.
Answer: Option C
Answer: Option B
183 | P a g e
Find out whether there is any C. impose their
grammatical error in below desires D. on
sentence. The student / their wards.
answered to / the question / E. No error.
asked by the Inspector.
A. The Answer: Option A
student B.
answered
to C. the
question
D. asked by the
Inspector. E. No
error.
Answer: Option B
Answer: Option C
184 | P a g e
Find out whether there is sentence. We will pack not
any grammatical error in only / the material properly /
below sentence. but will also deliver it / to
He being the eldest son, / his your valued customers.
father expects him / to take care A. We will pack
of several things / not only B. the
A. He being the material properly
eldest son, B. his C. but will also
father expects him deliver it
C. to take care of D. to your valued
several things D. customers. E. No
besides his regular error.
studies. E. No error.
Answer: Option A
Answer: Option E
Answer: Option B
Answer: Option A
186 | P a g e
Spotting Errors: Section 7
waiting for him
Find out whether there is any D. since eight
grammatical error in below o'clock. E. No
sentence. We fail to error.
understand / why do most
educated people / lose their Answer: Option A
temper even / without any
apparent reason.
A. We fail to understand
B. why do most
educated people C. lose
their temper even
D. without any apparent
reason. E. No error.
Answer: Option B
Answer: Option B
Answer: Option B
187 | P a g e
Find out whether there is any B. different jobs to
grammatical error in below different people C. should
sentence. They have been / be based on
struggling with the D. their strengths and
management / from the past weaknesses. E. No error.
five years / but their demands
are not considered. A. They Answer: Option D
have been
B. struggling with the
management C. from the
past five years
D. but their demands are not
considered. E. No error.
Answer: Option C
Answer: Option D
188 | P a g e
Find out whether there is any D. had secured higher
grammatical error in below marks. E. No error.
sentence. Twenty-five
kilometres / from Answer: Option E
Bhubaneswar to Cuttack /
are / a long distance.
A. Twenty-five kilometres
B. from Bhubaneswar to
Cuttack C. are
D. a long
distance. E.
No error.
Answer: Option C
Answer: Option A
Answer: Option C
189 | P a g e
Find out whether there is any B. some water on the
grammatical error in below electric heater C. when it
sentence. So longer as / you catches fire
are honest / and forthright I D. and she got
will / support you in this a shock. E. No
task. error.
A. So longer
as B. you are Answer: Option C
honest
C. and forthright I will
D. support you in
this task. E. No
error.
Answer: Option A
Answer: Option A
190 | P a g e
Find out whether there is any A. We have helped
grammatical error in below them not only B. with
sentence. Ten kilometres / money but also
are / a / long distance. C. with new
A. Ten kilometres B. are machinery D.
C. a D. long and raw
distance. material. E. No
E. No error. error.
Answer: Option B Answer: Option E
191 | P a g e
Find out whether there is any through the report / yesterday
grammatical error in below I find / several factual
sentence. Whatever work / mistakes. A. While going
that which you undertake / B. through the
put your best / efforts in it. A. report C.
Whatever work yesterday I find
B. that which you D. several factual
undertake C. put mistakes. E. No
your best error.
D. efforts
in it. E. No Answer: Option C
error.
Answer: Option B
Find out whether there is
any grammatical error in
below sentence.
I personally feel that /
cleanliness in the city / is one
proof of the / efficiently civic
administration.
A. I personally
feel that B.
cleanliness in the
city C. is one
proof of the
D. efficiently civic
administration. E. No
error.
Answer: Option D
192 | P a g e
Find out whether there is Find out whether there is
any grammatical error in any grammatical error in
below sentence. On below sentence.
resuming his duty, / he A detailed inquiry / in the
asked his Superiors / that incident / has been initiated /
whether he would be / by the Central Government. A.
permitted to leave early. A detailed inquiry
A. On resuming his B. in the
duty, B. he asked incident C. has
his Superiors C. been initiated
that whether he D. by the Central
would be D. Government. E. No
permitted to leave error.
early. E. No error. Answer: Option B
Answer: Option C
Answer: Option D
Answer: Option B
194 | P a g e
Find out whether there is any Find out whether there is any
grammatical error in below grammatical error in below
sentence. Since it was a sentence. Neither the
memory test / the students earthquake / nor the
were instructed / to learn the / subsequent fire / was able to
passage with heart. dampen / the spirit of the
A. Since it was a residents.
memory test B. the A. Neither the
students were earthquake B. nor
instructed C. to learn the subsequent fire
the C. was able to
D. passage dampen
with heart. E. D. the spirit of the
No error. residents. E. No
error.
Answer: Option D Answer: Option C
Answer: Option B
195 | P a g e
Sentence Correction: Section 1
The small child The man to who I They were all shocked
does whatever sold my house was a at his failure in the
his father was cheat. competition. A. were
done. A. to whom I shocked at all
A. has sell B. to who B. had all
done B. I sell C. who shocked at C.
did was sold to D. had all shocked
C. does to whom I by
D. had done sold D. had been all
E. No correction E. No correction shocked on E. No
required Answer: required Answer: correction required
Option C Option D Answer: Option E
196 | P a g e
13. The intruder 17. He found the 21. Acquisition of
stood gold coin certain
quietly for few as he cleans the specific skills can be
moments floor.
A. for few time A. as he had cleaned facilitated from
general
B. for the few B. while he cleans awareness,
moments education to
C. for moments C. which he is novel situations
cleaning
D. for a few moments D. while cleaning A. can be facilitated
by
E. No correction E. No correction B. may facilitate
required required through
Answer: Option D Answer: Option D C. can be felicitated
with
D. may be felicitated
with
14. The police has so 18. He admired the E. No correction
far speed required
succeeded in with which he Answer: Option A
recovering only completed the
a part of the stolen work and
property. appreciating the
A. thus far method adopted by 22. He never has
succeeded for him and ever
recovery A. appreciate the will take such strong
method
B. so far succeeded being adopted measures.
in
recovery of B. appreciated the A. had taken nor will
method ever
C. as for as adopted take
succeeded in
recovery of C. appreciate the B. had taken and
method of will ever
D. so far succeeded adoption take
to
recover D. appreciated the C. has and never will
method take
E. No correction adopting method D. had and ever will
required take
Answer: Option E E. No correction E. No correction
required required
15. He confidentially Answer: Option B Answer: Option A
asked
the crowd if they 19. Maria 23. Technology must
thought he unnecessarily use to
was right and the picked up a quarrel feed the forces of
crowd with Rani change.
shouted that they and left the party A. must be used to
did. hurried. feed
A. that he did A. has picked up B. must have been
using to
B. that they had B. picked on feed
C. that he is C. picked C. must use having
fed
D. that he didn't D. picking up D. must be using to
feed
E. No correction E. No correction E. No correction
required required required
Answer: Option E Answer: Option C Answer: Option A
16. Why should the 20. She cooks, washes 24. Anyone interested
dishes, in the
candidates be afraid does her homework use of computers
of and can learn
English Language is then relaxing. much if you have
not access to a
clear. A. relaxing then personal computer.
A. the candidates B. then is relaxing A. they have access
should be
B. do the candidates C. relaxing is then B. access can be
be available
C. should be the D. then relaxes C. he or she has
candidates access
D. are the candidates E. No correction D. one of them have
required access
E. No correction Answer: Option D E. No correction
required required
Answer: Option A Answer: Option C
197 | P a g e
They are not A. are deferred Despite of their
beware of all the till B. were differences on
facts deferred till C. matters of
A. are not aware were deferred principles, they all
for B. are not to D. had agree on the
aware of C. are deferred with demand of hike is
not to be aware E. No correction salary? A. Despite
D. must not to be required Answer: their
aware for E. No Option B B. Despite of
correction required the C. Despite
Answer: Option B for their D.
Despite off
We can not always their
convey ourselves E. No correction
in simple required Answer:
sentences. Option A
A. cannot always
convey B. can not The man who has
always express C. committed such a
cannot always serious crime must
express D. can not get the mostly
always severe punishment.
communicate A. be getting the
E. No correction mostly severely
required Answer: B. get the most
Option C severe
C. have got the most
What does agonise severely D. have
me most is not this been getting the
criticism, but the severe most
trivial reason behind E. No correction
it. A. most agonising required Answer:
me Option B
B. agonises me
most C.
agonising me For many centuries
most D. I most in Indian History
agonised there was no city so
E. No correction famous like the city
required Answer: of Ujjain.
Option B A. as
B. such
As there was no as C.
time, the remaining likewise
items were deferred D. so
into the next like
meeting.
E. No correction He is a singer of C. to make both
required Answer: repute, but his ends meet D. for
Option A yesterday's making both ends
performance was to meet
We don't know how quite E. No correction
did the thief made disappointing. required Answer:
an escape. A. how A. performances of Option C
the thief did make B. yesterday were
how the thief does B. yesterday He has received no
make C. how the performance was other message than
thief made C. yesterday an urgent telegram
D. how was the thief performance asking him to rush
made E. No were his village
correction required D. immediately.
Answer: Option C performances A. asked him to
about yesterday rush his village
were B. asking him to
E. No correction have rush his
required Answer: village
Option E C. asking him to
rush to his village
Their earnings are D. asking him
such that they find rushing at his
it difficult to make village
both ends to meet. E. No correction
A. to makings required Answer:
both ends meet Option C
B. to make both
ends for meeting
198 | P a g e
One of the most Anand has the guts If you are thinking
significant to rise from the about investigation
phenomenons of occasion and come overseas, isn't it
our time has been out successfully. makes sense to find
the development of A. in rising an experience guide?
cinema. from B. to A. it is not
A. raise with C. making B.
phenomenon to rise to doesn't it
B. phenomena D. to rise against make C. does
C. E. No correction it make D. is it
phenomenonn required Answer: making
a D. Option C E. No correction
phenomenonn required Answer:
s Option B
E. No correction
This is one of the
required Answer:
most important
Option B inventions of this
century.
Had you been told
A. invention of this
me about your
century B. invention
problem, I would
of these century C.
have helped you.
invention of centuries
A. If you would
D. invention of the
have told B. Had
centuries E. No
you have told
correction required
C. had you Answer: Option E
told D. If you
have told The orator had
E. No correction been left the
required Answer: auditorium before
Option C the audience stood
up.
It was until many A. had been
years later that leaving B.
Gandhi became a was left
rebel against C. had left
authority. D. would leave
A. It was not E. No correction
until many years required Answer:
B. It was till many Option C
years C. It was not
many years D. Until He dislikes the
It was many years word dislike,
E. No correction isn't he
required Answer: A. didn't he B.
Option A doesn't he C. hasn't
he D. does he E. No
correction required The research study correction required
Answer: Option B is an eye-opener and Answer: Option D
attempts to acquaint
We must take it us with the They continued to
granted that Madhu problems of poor work in the field
will not come for nations. A. despite of the
today's function. attempted to heavy rains.
A. take it for acquaint B. A. even though
granted B. attempts at there is heavy
taking it acquainting C. rain
granted C. took attempt to acquaint B. although
it as granted D. D. attempting to heavily rains C. in
have it granted acquaint E. No spite the heavy
E. No correction correction required rains D. even
Answer: Option B though it rained
required Answer: heavily
Option A E. No correction
It was
unanimously required Answer:
resolved that the Option D
parties should
unitedly It is always better to
undertook make people realise
launching of the importance of
popular discipline than to
programmes. impose them on it.
A. should be A. impose it with
united them B. impose
undertook them with it C.
B. should be imposing them
unitedly on it D. impose it
undertaken on them
C. should be E. No correction
unitedly required Answer:
undertake Option D
D. should unitedly
undertake E. No
199 | P a g e
My doctor knew that A. are The drama had
I would eventually actively to many scenes which
recover and do kind safeguardi were so humorous
of work I would be ng that it was hardly
doing before B. have been possible to keep a
A. would have been actively straight face.
doing B. would safeguarding A. hardly
have done C. have to possible for
C. had been active in keeping
done D. had safeguarding B. hardly
been doing D. are impossible for
E. No correction actively in keeping
required Answer: safeguardi C. hardly impossible
Option D ng for keep D. hardly
E. No correction possible keeping E.
Later he became required Answer: No correction
unpopular because Option B required Answer:
he tried to lord it Option E
on his followers. A.
to lord it for Hardly does the sun
B. to lord over rise when the stars
C. to lord it disappeared. A. have
over D. to lord the sun rose
it over on B. had the sun
E. No correction risen C. did the
required Answer: sun rose D. the
Option C sun rose
E. No correction
The crops are required Answer:
dying; it must not Option B
had rained.
A. must had You will be late if
not B. must you do not leave
not be C. now
must not A. did not
have leave B.
D. must not have left
been E. No C. will not leave
correction required D. do not happen to
Answer: Option C leave E. No
correction required
The courts are Answer: Option E
actively to
safeguard the The train will leave
interests and the at
rights of the poor. 8.30 pm, we have
been ready by
7.30pm so that, we All the allegations listening D. is
can reach the station levelled against him hesitated to listen
in time. were found to be to E. No correction
were baseless. required Answer:
must be A. level Option E
are against B.
should have level with The prosecution
No correction C. levelling failed in establish in
required Answer: with D. every case today. A.
Option B levelled for to
E. No correction B. on
required Answer: C. as
Option E D.
upon
Ramesh is as tall if E. No correction
not, taller than required Answer:
Mahesh. Option A
A. not as tall
but B. not so One of my
tall but as C. drawbacks is that I
as tall as, if do not have
not D. as if totolerance of
not ambiguity. A. do
E. No correction not have
required Answer: B. cannot
Option C have C. am
not
He hesitated to listen D. did not have to
to what his brother E. No correction
was saying. A. required Answer:
listened to hesitate Option A
B. hesitated listen
to C. hesitates to
200 | P a g e
They should have Because of his We met him
calmly thought of the mastery in this field, immediately after the
advantages that his suggestions are session in which he
would accrue to wide accepted. had been given a nice
them. A. should have A. are widely speech. A. would be
been calm in thinking accepted B. giving
about widely B. has been
B. should be calmly acceptance C. given C. will
thought of have widely have given
C. shall have to accepted D. had given
calmly thought D. have been wide E. No correction
of accepted E. No required Answer:
D. should have correction required Option D
calmly think of Answer: Option A
E. No correction For some days the
required Answer: They felt new professor
Option E humiliated lectured above the
because they heads of his pupils.
The easiest of the realised that they A. over the head
thing to do is to ask had cheated. of B. over the
the address to the A. have been heads of C. on
postman. cheated B. had the heads of D.
A. of the things to been cheated C. through the
do B. among the had been heds of
things did C. of the cheating D. were E. No correction
thing to be done D. to be cheated required Answer:
of all the things E. No correction Option B
done E. No required Answer:
correction required Option B The accused now
Answer: Option A flatly denies have
Tax evaders should admitted his guilt in
We demonstrated to heavily punished as his first statement.
them how we were they do it A. having
prepared the artistic intentionally. admitted B.
patterns. A. should be heavy had admitted
A. are fined B. should have C. have been
prepared B. heavily fined C. shall admitting D. has
have have heavy fine admitting
prepared C. D. should be heavily E. No correction
are fined E. No required Answer:
preparing D. correction required Option A
had Answer: Option D
prepared
E. No correction
required Answer:
Option D
201 | P a g e
Sentence Correction: Section 2
E. No correction
required Answer:
We were still Option B They failed in their
standing in the attempt to repair
queue when the film the demolished
was beginning. portion of that
A. film began building.
B. film had begun A. for their
C. beginning of attempt to repair
the film was over B. in their
D. film begins attempting to
E. No correction repair
required Answer: C. with their
Option B attempt to repair
D. in their
If I would have attempt for
realised the nature repairs
of job earlier, I E. No correction
would not have required Answer:
accepted it. A. If I Option E
have had
B. In case I would I earnestly believe
have C. Had I that you will visit
been our relatives during
D. Had I your forthcoming
E. No correction trip to Mumbai.
A. had hardly
required Answer:
believe that B.
Option A
sincerely would
believe C. certainly
The crime has believing that D.
growth rapidly in could not believe
Russia since the E. No correction
disintegration of required Answer:
the communist Option E
system.
A. rapid crime has By such time you
grown B. crime has finish that
grown rapidly C. chapter, I will
crimes grow rapidly write a letter.
D. crimes have been A. The time
rapidly grown when B. By
the time C.
By that time
D. The time
E. No correction such mess thereis
required Answer: no leader to set the
Option B Though we have things right.
kept in mind to try A. in such a mess
and maintainmost here
facilities, we would B. in a such mess
like to request you that here C. in
to kindly bear with such a mess that
us any there D. with such
inconvenience that a mess that there
may be caused. E. No correction
A. must keep in required Answer:
mind to try and Option C
maintain
B. have kept in They examined both
mind trying and the samples very
maintain carefully but failed
C. would keep in to detect any
mind to try and to difference in them.
maintain A. some difference
D. should have kept in
in mind to try and to B. some difference
maintain between C. any
E. No correction difference between
required Answer: D. any difference
Option E between E. any
difference between
The tea-estate Answer: Option C
administration is in
202 | P a g e
"Friends and on the ship was Making friends is
comrades, the light not known? more rewarding
has gone away from A. What than to make
our lives and there is happened of B. enemies.
darkness What happened
A. to be
everywhere" in
C. What is that unsociable B.
A. off
B. out happens to D. to be sociable
of What happened to C. being
C. out E. No correction unsociable D.
from D. required Answer: making
out off Option D enemies
E. No correction E. No correction
required Answer: required Answer:
Option B Option D
203 | P a g e
22. My hair stood off 25. The people 28. Most of the
ends generally try Indian
when I saw the to curry favour with workers are as
horrible the healthy as, if
sight. corrupt but not healthier than,
influential British
A. stood at ends person. workers.
B. stood on ends A. cook favour A. as if healthy as
not
C. stood to ends B. seek favour healthier
D. stands on ends C. extract favour B. healthier but not
as
E. No correction D. display favour healthy
required
Answer: Option B E. No correction C. as healthy, if not
required healthier
Answer: Option E D. so healthy, if not
healthier
23. The long or short E. No correction
of it is required
that I do not want to 26. I have got some Answer: Option E
deal tea, but I
with that new firm. do not have a sugar.
A. The long and A. some
short of it
B. The long and B. got
short for it
C. The long or short C. more
for it
D. The shot and long D. any
for it
E. No correction E. No correction
required required
Answer: Option A Answer: Option D
24. Can you tell me 27. Had I realised
why did how close
you not speak the I was to the edge of
truth? the
A. why did not you valley, I would not
speak have
B. that why did you carried the bags
not there.
speak A. Had I been
realised
C. why you did not B. If I would have
speak realised
D. why did you not C. When I realised
spoke
E. No correction D. Had I had realised
required
Answer: Option C E. No correction
required
Answer: Option E
204 | P a g e
Sentence Improvement: Section 1
D. No improvement
The workers are The record for the
hell bent at getting Answer: Option C biggest tiger hunt
what is due to has not been met
them. since 1911 when
A. hell bent on Lord Hardinge, the
getting B. hell then Viceroy of
bent for getting C. India, shot a tiger
hell bent upon than measured 11
getting D. No feet and 6 inches.
improvement A.
improved
B. broken
Answer: Option C
C.
bettered
When it was feared D. No improvement
that the serfs might Answer: Option B
go too far and gain
their freedom from His powerful
serfdom, the desire brought
protestant leaders about his
joined the princes downfall.
at crushing them. A. His intense
A. into desire B. His
crushing B. desire for power
in crushing C. His fatal desire
C. without D. No improvement
crushing D. No
improvement Answer: Option B
205 | P a g e
He found a wooden C. hoping not to be
broken chair in the down disturbed, I sat
room. A. wooden D. No improvement down in my easy
and broken chair chair to read the
B. broken wooden Answer: Option C book. I won as a
chair C. broken prize.
and wooden chair A. I had won as a
D. No improvement prize B. I have won
as prize C. I had to
Answer: Option B win as a prize D.
No improvement
206 | P a g e
You cannot forbid D. No improvement It became clear that
him leaving. the strangers were
A. he Answer: Option C heading into a
leaving B. serious disaster.
his leaving A. along
C. him to B.
leave towards
D. No improvement C. for
D. No improvement
Answer: Option C
Answer: Option B
207 | P a g e
Whenever my B. set If you are not clear
students come aside C. about the meaning
across new words, I laid out of a word, it is wise
ask them to look for D. No improvement to look to a
them in the dictionary.
dictionary. Answer: Option B A. look
A. to look it up for B.
B. to look them look at
up C. to look at C. look
them D. No up
improvement D. No improvement
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As she was achieved anything in Mr. Smith arrived
suffering from high life. at India in June
fever, she could not A. remarkable last year. A. to
face the advice B. B.
examination. A. valuable advices by
bear C. priceless C.
B. suggestion D. in
suffer No improvement D. No improvement
C.
take Answer: Option D Answer: Option C
D. No improvement
Answer: Option C
His father won't
be able to leave
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If I stood alone in B. The cloud of
defence of truth, regular misfortunes
and the whole C. appears to have
world is banded accurat blown out.
against me and e A.
against truth. I D. No improvement over
would fight them B. up
all. Answer: Option C C.
A. will be away
banded B. D. No improvement
were banded
C. banded Answer: Option A
D. No improvement
While we would
Answer: Option B like that all Indian
Children to go to
He has not and can school, we need to
never be in the good ponder why they do
books of his not. A. that all the
employer because Indian children
he lacks honesty. B. if all the
A. has not and children of India
cannot be B. has C. all Indian
not and can never children D. No
been improvement
C. has not been
and can never be Answer: Option C
D. No improvement
In India today many
Answer: Option C of our intellectuals
still talk in terms of
the French
When the Revolution and the
examinations were Rights of Man, not
over Anil and me appreciating that
went to our native much has happened
town. A. me and Anil since then.
B. Anil A. much has
and I C. I been
and Anil happening
D. No improvement B. much had
Answer: Option B happened C.
much might
happen D. No
Our office clock is improvement
not so correct as it
should be it is Answer: Option D
usually five minutes
fast. A. right
I shall be grateful The logic of Berlin A. eradicated
to you if you are of wall already had B. had
help to me now. been undermined eradicated C.
A. help but when the news did eradicated
B. would came through that D. No
help C. the wall itself had improvement
helped been opened I
D. No improvement jumped into a car. Answer: Option A
A. had been
Answer: Option B undetermined
already Young men and
B. had already women should get
been habituated to
undetermined reading and
C. had been writing about
already current affairs.
undetermined A. used
D. No improvement B.
prepare
Answer: Option B d C.
trained
Other countries D. No improvement
have eradicated
this disease ten Answer: Option D
years ago.
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Sentence Improvement: Section 2
A. you
The poor villagers clearly to He was fined for
have waited in the understand careless driving.
bitter cold for more B. you to A. got
than 4 hours now. A. understand fined B.
have been waiting clearly fined
B. had waited C. to clearly C. was to be
C. has been understand you fined D. No
waiting D. No D. No improvement improvement
improvement
Answer: Option D Answer: Option D
Answer: Option A
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If you had attended Please remind me nothing D. No
the meeting, you of posting these improvement
would have letters to my
benefited a great relatives. Answer: Option A
deal. A. by
A. could posting B.
benefit B. to post
would C. for posting
benefit C. D. No improvement
benefited
D. No improvement Answer: Option B
Answer: Option D
Not a word they
spoke to the
This matter admits unfortunate wife
of no excuse. about it.
A. admits A. did they
to B. speak B. they
admits will speak C.
from C. they had
admits spoken D. No
D. No improvement improvement
Answer: Option D Answer: Option A
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24. I have lived in 26. I shall not go
28. Due to these
Delhi untill I reason we
since I was four. am invited. are all in favour of
A. am living A. till I am invited universal
compulsory
B. lived B. Unless I am education.
invited
C. had lived C. if not I am invited A. Out of these
reasons
D. No improvement D. No improvement B. For these reasons
C. By these reasons
Answer: Option D Answer: Option B D. No improvement
25. This telephone 27. He died in the Answer: Option B
number year
is not existing. 1960 at 11pm on 14
July.
A. has not existed A. on 14 July in the
year
B. does not exist 1960 at 11pm
C. has not been B. in the year 1960
existing on 14
D. No improvement July at 11pm
C. at 11pm on 14
July in
Answer: Option B the year 1960
D. No improvement
Answer: Option C
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Sentence Formation
1. 4. 7.
1. I 1. medicine 1. him
2. immediately 2. a 2. the
3. salary 3. Neeta 3. to
4. my 4. given 4. charge
5. want 5. was 5. handover
A. 43152 A. 51423 A. 42531
B. 15432 B. 25431 B. 51342
C. 25143 C. 15423 C. 41352
D. 42351 D. 42531 D. 45231
E. 45132 E. 35421 E. 52431
Answer: Option B Answer: Option E Answer: Option E
2. 5. 8.
1. do 1. of 1. seen
2. today 2. we 2. going
3. you 3. heard 3. you
4. must 4. him 4. him
5. it 5. had 5. have
A. 34152 A. 42351 A. 35214
B. 25413 B. 52341 B. 35142
C. 12543 C. 25341 C. 32514
D. 51324 D. 25431 D. 35124
E. 45213 E. 25314 E. 53124
Answer: Option A Answer: Option E Answer: Option B
3. 6. 9.
1. left 1. at 1. bag?
2. the 2. it 2. you
3. house 3. take 3. seen
4. he 4. once 4. have
5. suddenly 5. away 5. my
A. 12435 A. 23514 A. 51432
B. 21354 B. 14352 B. 43512
C. 45123 C. 32514 C. 42351
D. 52341 D. 53214 D. 42153
E. 24135 E. 42315 E. 21435
Answer: Option C Answer: Option C Answer: Option C
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10. 12. 14.
1. killed 1. tea 1. I
2. a 2. have 2. help
3. Jaswant 3. that 3. not
4. bear 4. some 4. you
5. wild 5. before 5. did
A. 31254 A. 43251 A. 24351
B. 53124 B. 24315 B. 15324
C. 23145 C. 24153 C. 45231
D. 43125 D. 52431 D. 43152
E. 15234 E. 41325 E. 52431
Answer: Option A Answer: Option C Answer: Option B
11. 13. 15.
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Ordering Of Words
1. 3. 5.
When he Then Since the beginning
of
P : did not know P : it struck me history
Q : he was nervous Q : of course P : have managed to
and catch
R : heard the hue R : suitable it was Q : the Eskimos and
and cry Red
at midnight S : how eminently Indians
S : what to do R : by a very
difficulty
The Proper sequence method
The Proper sequence should be: S : a few specimens
of this
should be: A. SPQR aquatic animal
A. RQPS B. QSRP
B. QSPR C. PSRQ The Proper sequence
C. SQPR D. QPSR should be:
D. PQRS A. QRPS
Answer: Option C B. SQPR
Answer: Option A C. SQRP
D. QPSR
4. Answer: Option D
2. I read an
advertisement
It has been that said
established that
P : Einstein was P : posh, air- 6.
conditioned
Q : although a great Q : gentleman of A French woman
taste
scientist R : are available for P : committed
suicide
R : weak in S : fully furnished Q : where she had
arithmetic rooms put up
S : right from his R : who had come to
school
days The Proper sequence Calcutta
should be: S : by jumping from
the
The Proper sequence A. PQRS first floor balcony of
the
should be: B. PSRQ hotel
A. SRPQ C. PSQR
B. QPRS D. SRPQ The Proper sequence
C. QPSR should be:
D. RQPS Answer: Option B A. PRQS
B. QSRP
Answer: Option B C. RPSQ
D. SRQP
Answer: Option C
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7. 9. 11.
The national unity of They felt safer If you need help
a free
people P : to watch the P : promptly and
mountain politely
P : to make it Q : of more than five Q : ask for
impracticable miles attendants
Q : for there to be an R : as they settled R : to help our
down customers
arbitrary S : from a distance S : who have
administration instructions
R : depends upon a
sufficiently even The Proper sequence The Proper sequence
balance of
political power should be: should be:
S : against a A. RPSQ A. SQPR
revolutionary
opposition that is B. RSQP B. QPSR
irreconcilably C. PQSR C. QSRP
opposed to it
The Proper sequence D. PRSQ D. SQRP
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13. 15. 17.
It was to be In the darkness When it began to
rain
P : before their P : the long, narrow suddenly on the first
school beard of
examination Q : was clearly January
visible with
Q : which was due to R : the tall stooping P : to celebrate the
start figure new
R : the last of the doctor year
expedition
S : in a month's S : and the aquiline
Q : we ran for
nose shelter
R : to the
neighbouring
The Proper sequence The Proper sequence house
should be: should be: S : where many
people had
A. SRQP A. RQPS gathered
B. RQSP B. PSQR
C. RPQS C. RSQP The Proper sequence
D. SPRQ D. QPRS should be:
A. QRPS
Answer: Option C Answer: Option A B. PSQR
C. PRSQ
D. QRSP
14. 16. Answer: Option D
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19. 21. 23.
He knew that Of many artists It is easy to excuse
P : and then to save P : those who P : but it is hard
impressed
himself me the most Q : in a boy of
fourteen
Q : was to save all Q : I was a child R : the mischief of
the lives early
R : entrusted to hisR : but those with childhood
care unique
S : the duty of a personalities off S : to tolerate even
captain stage
S : were not always unavoidable faults
the
The Proper sequence successful ones
should be: The Proper sequence
A. PQRS The Proper sequence should be:
B. SQRP should be: A. RPQS
C. SPRQ A. SRQP B. QRSP
D. QSRP B. QRSP C. QRPS
C. RSPQ D. RPSQ
Answer: Option B D. QPSR Answer: Option D
Answer: Option D
20.
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25. 27. 29.
Education is He was so kind and There was
P : of the proper generous that P : needed for it
sense of everyday
responsibilities P : he not only life
Q : the first need Q : made others do Q : a time when each
so
R : in a citizen R : but also family
S : for the S : helped them R : for itself most of
development himself the
things it
The Proper sequence The Proper sequence S : actually produced
should be: should be:
A. SQPR A. PSRQ The Proper sequence
B. QSRP B. SPQR should be:
C. QSPR C. PRSQ A. QRSP
D. PQRS D. QPRS B. RQPS
C. RSPQ
Answer: Option C Answer: Option A D. QSRP
Answer: Option D
26. 28.
It would We went
P : appear from his P : along the railway 30.
line
statement Q : and had a right to Little
Q : about the policy R : where other P : that he had been
of people not let
management allowed to go down
R : in dealing with S : but daddy Q : stood by all these
the belonged to years
strike the railway R : did he realise
S : that he was quite S : by a colleague
in the whom he
dark The Proper sequence had
should be:
The Proper sequence A. RPQS The Proper sequence
should be: B. PRSQ should be:
A. RPSQ C. RSQP A. RPSQ
B. PSQR D. PRQS B. RSQP
C. RQPS C. QSRP
D. PRQS Answer: Option B D. QSPR
Answer: Option B Answer: Option A
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31. 33. 35.
I saw that I was The appearance
P : but seeing my P : and stay fro few P : this dinosaurs
host in days in were at
this mood Delhi their peak
Q : I deemed it Q : when my father Q : of the first
proper to told mammals
take leave me on the earth
R : as I had R : very excited R : at the time when
frequently
done before S : that I could go S : went almost
with him unnoticed
S : it had been my
intention to pass the The Proper sequence The Proper sequence
night
there should be: should be:
A. PQRS A. SRPQ
The Proper sequence B. RQSP B. QSRP
should be: C. QRSP C. QRPS
A. QPSR D. SPQR D. RPQS
B. QRPS
C. SPQR Answer: Option B Answer: Option C
D. SRPQ
Answer: Option D
34. 36.
work is the one thing By this time
P : and without it P : at the railway
station
32. Q : that is necessary Q : reported mass
looting
It is very easy R : to keep the world R : reports of
going violence
P : a great deal more S : we should all die were flooding in
than
one realises S : which police
dispatches
Q : may mean The Proper sequence
R : that a phrase that should be: The Proper sequence
one
does not quite A. QPSR should be:
understand
S : to persuade B. RPQS A. RSPQ
oneself
C. SRPQ B. SPRQ
The Proper sequence D. QRPS C. SQRP
should be: D. RSQP
A. RSQP Answer: Option D
B. SPQR Answer: Option C
C. SRQP
D. RQPS
Answer: Option B
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37. 39. 41.
Then the women Though he dialled He sat
P : lamenting their frequently P : through the Town
evil Hall
desire P : on telephone Park
Q : that had brought Q : my brother could Q : which flanked a
not path
R : wept loudly contact me running
S : this sorrow upon R : and had left no R : under the boughs
them
information S : of a spreading
tamarind
The Proper sequence S : as I had gone out tree
of
should be: office
A. RPQS The Proper sequence
B. RQPS The Proper sequence should be:
C. PQSR should be: A. PQSR
D. PRQS A. QPRS B. RSQP
B. SQRP C. RSPQ
Answer: Option A C. QPSR D. PRSQ
D. SPQR
Answer: Option B
38. Answer: Option C
Women
P : till the other day 42.
Q : who were content 40. I don't remember
being housewives He said P : I saw a man
dying in
R : about spending P : here is the cat front of a hospital
their
time cooking Q : throughout the Q : but when I left
night
S : now sound R : which had been lucknow in 1984
apologetic paying
havoc with things R : hit apparently by
a fast
The Proper sequence S : that ate the rat moving car
should be: S : the exact date
A. PQRS The Proper sequence
B. RSPQ should be: The Proper sequence
C. QPSR A. PSQR should be:
D. RQPS B. PSRQ A. SQRP
C. QPRS B. SQPR
Answer: Option C D. QRPS C. QRPS
Answer: Option B D. SPRQ
Answer: Option B
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43. 45. 47.
It was The master P: We must read
P : in keeping with P : who was very P : if we want to
my loyal to absorb
mood him the fruits of great
literature
Q : a soft summer Q : punished the Q : but with
evening servant
R : as I walked R : without giving concentration
sedately any valid
S : in the direction reason R : them not as we
of new do
house S : when he left the cricket stories
work
unfinished S : undefined
The Proper
sequence
should be: The Proper sequence The Proper
sequence
A. SRPQ should be: should be:
B. QRPS A. RQPS A. QPSR
C. QPRS B. RQSP B. PSQR
D. SQPR C. QPSR C. PRSQ
Answer: Option C D. QRPS D. PRQS
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Ordering Of Sentences: Section 1
can call this force of
1. attraction gravity.
S1: Smoke oozed up between
the planks. The Proper sequence should
P : Passengers were told to be:
be ready to quit the ship. PRQS
Q : The rising gale PRSQ
fanned the QSRP
smouldering fire. QSPR
R : Everyone now knew there
was fire on board. Answer: Option D
S : Flames broke out here and
there.
S6: Most people bore the shock
bravely.
Answer: Option D
2.
S1: A force of exists between
everybody in the universe.
P : Normally it is very small
but when the one of the bodies
is a planet, like earth, the force
is considerable.
Q : It has been investigated by
many scientists including
Galileo and Newton. R :
Everything on or near the
surface of the earth is attracted
by the mass of earth. S : This
gravitational force depends on
the mass of the bodies
involved.
S6: The greater the mass,
the greater is the earth's
force of attraction on it. We
4.
3. S1: For some time in his youth
S1: Calcutta unlike other Abraham Lincoln was
cities kepts its trams. manager for a shop.
P : As a result there P : Then a chance Customer
horrendous congestion. would come. Q : Young Lincoln
Q : It was going to be the first way of keeping shop was
in South Asia. entirely unlike anyone else's.
R : They run down the centre of R : Lincoln would jump up and
the road. S : To ease in the city attend to his needs and then
decided to build an revert to his reading. S : He
underground railway line. used to lie full length on the
S6: The foundation stone was counter of the shop eagerly
laid in reading a book.
1972. S6: Never before had
Lincoln had so much time
The Proper sequence should
for reading as had then.
be:
PRSQ The Proper sequence should
PSQR be:
SQRP SRQP
RPSQ QSPR
SQRP
Answer: Option D QPSR
Answer: Option B
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5. The Proper sequence should
S1: All the land was be:
covered by the ocean. SRQP
P : The leading god fought the QPSR
monster, killed it and chopped RSPQ
its body in to two halves. QSRP
Q : A terrible monster
prevented the gods from Answer: Option A
separating the land from the
water.
R : The god made the sky out
of the upper part of the body
and ornamented it with stars.
S : The god created the
earth from the lower part,
grew plants on it and
populated it with animals.
S6: The god moulded the first
people out of clay according to
his own image and mind.
Answer: Option D
6.
S1: Smoke oozed up between
the planks.
P : Passengers were told to
be ready to quit the ship.
Q : The rising gale
fanned the
smouldering fire.
R : Everyone now knew there
was fire on board.
S : Flames broke out here and
there.
S6: Most people bore the shock
bravely.
7.
S1: You know my wife,
Madhavi, always urged me to 8.
give up smoking. P : I really S1: When a satellite is
gave it up. launched, the rocket begins
Q : And so When I went to jail I by going slowly upwards
said to myself I really must through the air.
give it up, if for no other P : However, the higher it
reason than of being self- goes, the less air it meets.
reliant. Q : As the rocket goes higher,
R : When I emerged from jail, it travels faster.
I wanted to tell her of my R : For the atmosphere
great triumph. becomes thinner.
S : But when I met her, S : As a result there is less
there she was with a packet friction. S6: Consequently,
of cigarettes. the rocket still does not
S6: poor girl!. become too hot.
10.
S1: The city is almost a slum
and stinks most of time.
P : The slush on the road did
not deter them.
Q : The occasional slips and
falls were considered a small
price to pay for the trip.
R : They were excited,
fascinated by the sight of
fresh snow on the roads.
S : Even so, it looked beautiful
to tourists of various
categories.
S6: But some visitors came
away with the unforgettable
sight of young labours scantily
clad.
11. 12.
S1: Venice is a strange and S1: The Hound of Baskervilles
beautiful city in the north of was feared by the people of the
Italy. area.
P : There are about four P : Some people spoke of
hundred old stone bridges seeing a huge, shadowy form
joining the island of Venice. Q : a Hound at midnight on the
In this city there are no motor moor.
cars, no horses, no buses. Q : But they spoke of it in
R : These small islands are tones of horror.
near one another. R : Nobody had actually seen
S : It is not an island but a the hound. S : This shadowy
hundred and seventeen form did not reveal any details
islands. about the animal.
S6: This is because Venice has S6: The Hound of
no streets. Baskervilles remains an
unsolved mystery.
The Proper sequence should
be: The Proper sequence should
PQRS be:
PRQS SPQR
SRPQ SPRQ
PQSR PSRQ
PQRS
Answer: Option C
Answer: Option A
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13. The Proper sequence should
S1: A gentleman who lived be:
alone always had two plates SQPR
placed on the table at dinner SPRQ
time. SQRP
P : One day just as he sat SRQP
down to dine, the cat rushed
in to the room. Answer: Option A
Q : One plate was for himself
and other was for his cat.
R : she drooped a mouse into
her own plate and another
into her master plate.
S : He used to give the cat a
piece of meat from his own
plate.
S6: In this way the cat
showed her gratitude to
her master.
Answer: Option A
14.
S1: Ants eat worms,
centipedes and spiders.
P : They are usually much
quicker than the ant itself.
Q : Nevertheless, these
animals do not make easy
game for ants.
R : Besides, they have an
extraordinary number of
ways of escaping.
S : They also eat larvae and
insect adults such as flies,
moths and spring tails.
S6: Some jump, and some
give out a pungent
repellent substance.
15. S1: Hungary, with a population
S1: Satyajit Ray made of about 10 million, lies
several films for children. between Czechoslovakia to the
P : Later film makers have north and Yugoslavia to the
followed his lead. south. P : Here a great deal of
Q : Today other nations are grain is grown. Q : In recent
making the children's film in years, however, progress has
a big way. been made also in the field of
R : This was at a time when no industrialisation.
director considered children as R : Most of this country
potential audience. S : Ray consists of an extremely fertile
was, thus, a pioneer in the plain, through which the river
field. S6: But today few think of Danube flows.
Ray as a maker of children's S : In addition to grain,
films. the plain produces
potatoes, sugar, wine and
The Proper sequence should livestock.
be: S6: The new industries
PSRQ derive mainly from
RSQP agricultural production.
RSPQ
SQRP The Proper sequence should
be:
Answer: Option C QRSP
RPSQ
PRSQ
16. RQSP
Answer: Option B
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17. S : We had been cautioned
S1: Palaeobotany is the study about beggars and were told
of fossil plants preserved in to ignore them.
rocks dating back in millions S6: Finally a man walked over
of years. to me and whispered, "Hey
P : Records of the history of buddy this guy is your waiter
the world are contained in and he wants your order".
fossils. The Proper sequence should
Q : Through the ages, plants
be:
have evolved from simple to
A. SQRP B. SQPR
more complex forms.
R : First there were water C. QSRP D. QSPR
plants then land plants Answer: Option C
appeared during the Paleozoic
era. S : But since the fossil
remains appear locked in rock
layers, they are closely related
to the geologist area of
investigation.
S6: The fossil plants indicate
the age of the rock, and also
point to facts regarding
climate, temperature and
topography.
The Proper sequence should
be:
RQSP
SQRP
PSQR
QRPS
Answer: Option D
18.
S1: On vacation in Tangier,
Morocco, my friend and I sat
down at a street cafe.
P : At one point, he bent over
with a big smile, showing me,
a single gold tooth and a
dingy fez.
Q : soon I felt the presence of
someone standing alongside
me.
R : But this one wouldn't
budge.
19. S1: Biological evolution has
S1: And then Gandhi came. not fitted man to any specific
P : Get off the backs of these environment.
peasants and workers, he told P : It is by no means a
us, all you who live by their biological evolution, but it is a
exploitation. cultural one. Q : His
Q : He was like a powerful imagination, his reason, his
current of fresh air, like a emotional subtlety and
beam of light, like a toughness, makes it possible
whirlwind that upset many for him not to accept the
things. environment but to change.
R : He spoke their language R : And that series of
and constantly dre their inventions by which man from
attention to their appalling age by age has reshaped his
conditions. environment is a different kind
S : He didn't descent from of evolution.
the top, he seemed to S : Among the multitude of
emerge from the masses of animals which scamper,
India. burrow swim around us he is
S6: Political freedom took new in the only one who is not
shape and then acquired a new locked in to his environment.
content. S6: That brilliant sequence of
cultural peaks can most
The Proper sequence should appropriately be termed the
be: ascent of man.
A. QSRP B. SRQP
C. RSQP D. PRSQ The Proper sequence should
be:
Answer: Option B A. QPRS B. SRQP
C. QRSP D. SQRP
20.
Answer: Option C
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21. RSPQ
S1: The dictionary is the QPSR
best friend of you task. PSQR
P : That may not be possible
always. Answer: Option C
Q : It is wise to look it up
immediately. R : Then it must
be firmly written on the
memory and traced at the first
opportunity.
S : Never allow a strange
word to pass unchallenged.
S6: soon you will realize that
this is an exciting task.
Answer: Option D
22.
S1: The Bhagavadgita
recognises the nature of
man and the needs of man.
P : All these three aspects
constitute the nature of man.
Q : It shows how the human
being is rational one, an ethical
one and a spiritual one.
R : More than all, it must be
a spiritual experience.
S : Nothing can give him
fulfilment unless it satisfies
his reason, his ethical
conscience.
S6: A man whom does not
harmonise them, is not truly
human.
Answer: Option A
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25. The Proper sequence should
S1: The future beckons to us. be:
P : In fact we have hard QRPS
work ahead. Q : Where do QSPR
we go and what shall be our QRSP
endeavour? QPRS
R : We shall also have to
fight and end poverty, Answer: Option A
ignorance and disease.
S : It will be to bring
freedom and oppurtunity
to the common man.
S6: There is no resting for any
one of us till we redeem our
pledge in full.
Answer: Option C
26.
S1: Most of the universities in
the country are now facing
financial crisis.
P : Cost benefit yardstick thus
should not be applied in the
case of universities.
Q : The current state of affairs
cannot be allowed to continue
for long.
R : Universities cannot be
equated with commercial
enterprises.
S : Proper development of
universities and colleges
must be ensured.
S6: The Government should
realise this before it is too
late.
27. Answer: Option B
S1: While talking to a group,
one should feel self-confident
and courageous. 28.
P : Nor is it a gift S1: A ceiling on urban
bestowed by property.
providence on only a P : No mill-owner could own
few. factories or mills or plants.
Q : One should also learn how Q : And mass circulation
to think calmly and clearly. papers.
R : It is like the ability to R : Would mean that.
play golf. S : It is not as S : No press magnate could
difficult as most men own printing presses.
imagine. S6: since their value would
S6: Any man can develop his exceed the ceiling fixed by
capacity if he has the desire to the government.
do so.
The Proper sequence should
The Proper sequence should be:
be: QSRP
SQPR RPSQ
QSPR SRPQ
QRSP QPSR
RSQP
Answer: Option B
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29. QPSR
S1: The art of growing old is QPRS
one which the passage of time PSRQ
has forced upon my attention.
P : One of these is undue Answer: Option B
absorption in the past.
Q : One's thought must be
directed to the future and to
things about which there is
something to be done.
R : Psychologically, there are
two dangers to be guarded
against in old age.
S : It does not do to live in
memories, in regrets for the
good old days, or in sadness
about friend who are dead.
S6: This is not always easy
one's own past is gradually
increasing weight.
Answer: Option C
30.
S1: I keep on flapping my big
ears all day. P : They also fear
that I will flip them all away.
Q : But children wonder why I
flap them so.
R : I flap them so to make
sure they are safely there on
either side of my head. S :
But I know what I am doing.
S6: Am I not a smart,
intelligent elephant?
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33. The Proper sequence should
S1: We speak today of self- be:
determination in politics. A. RQSP B. QRPS
P : So long as one is conscious C. SRPQ D. PQRS
of a restraint, it is possible to
resist it or to near it as a Answer: Option A
necessary evil and to keep free
in spirit.
Q : Slavery begins when one
ceases to feel that restraint
and it depends on if the evil is
accepted as good.
R : There is, however, a
subtler domination
exercised in the sphere of
ideas by one culture to
another.
S : Political subjection
primarily means restraint on
the outer life of people.
S6: Cultural subjection is
ordinarily of an unconscious
character and it implies
slavery from the very start.
Answer: Option C
34.
S1: Once upon a time an ant
lived on the bank of river.
P : The dove saw the ant
struggling in water in a
helpless condition.
Q : All its efforts to come up
is failed. R : One day it
suddenly slipped in to water.
S : A dove lived in the tree on
the bank not far from the
spot.
S6: She was touched.
35.
S1: The December dance 36.
and music season in S1: There is a touching story of
Madras is like the annual Professor Hardy visiting
tropical cyclone. Ramanujan as he lay
P : A few among the new desperately ill in hospital at
aspirants dazzle witht he Putney.
colour of youth, like fresh P : 'No Hardy, that is not a
saplings. dull number in the very least.
Q : It rains an abundance of Q : Hardy, who was a very shy
music for over a fortnight. man, could not find the words
R : Thick clouds expectation for his distress. R : It was
charge the atmosphere with 1729.
voluminous advertisements. S : The best he could do, as he
S : At the end of it one is left got to the beside was "I say
with the feeling that the music Ramanujan, I thought the
of only those artists seasoned number of taxi I came down in
by careful nurturing, stands was a very dull number".
tall like well-routed trees. S6: It is the lowest number
S6: Many a hastily planed that can be expressed in two
shrub gets washed away in different ways as the sum of
the storm. two cubes.
The Proper sequence should The Proper sequence should
be: be:
A. RQPS B. QRPS A. RPQS B. RPSQ
C. RQSP D. QRSP C. PRQS D. QPRS
Answer: Option B Answer: Option B
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37. C. QSRP D. PSRQ
S1: Politeness is not a quality
possessed by only one nation Answer: Option D
or race.
P : One may observe that a
man of one nation will remove
his hat or fold his hands by
way of greetings when he
meets someone he knows.
Q : A man of another country
will not to do so.
R : It is a quality to be found
among all peoples and
nations in every corner of the
earth.
S : Obviously, each person
follows the custom of his
particular country.
S6: In any case, we should
not mock at others habits.
Answer: Option B
38.
S1: Throughout history man
has used energy from the
sun.
P : Today, when we burn wood
or use electric current we are
drawing an energy. Q :
However we now have a new
supply of energy.
R : All our ordinary life
depends on sun.
S : This has come from the sun.
S6: This energy comes from
inside atoms.
Answer: Option C
40.
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41. country into a top power of the
S1: Growing up means not only world.
getting larger, but also using S : No free government can
our sense and our brain is to call for compulsory sacrifice
become more aware of things and suffering from the whole
around us. people.
P : Not only does he have a S6: Nehru himself became the
memory but he is able to think chairman of the commission.
and reason. The Proper sequence should
Q : In this, man differs be:
from all other animals.
R : Before we spray our A. PSQR B. SRQP
roadside plants or turn sewage C. QPRS D. RQSP
in to our rivers, we should Answer: Option D
pause to think what the results
of our action are likely to do.
S : This is to say, he is able to
plan what he is is going to do
in the light of his experience
before he does it.
S6: In other words, we must
develop and use our ability to
reason, because the
destruction or the preservation
of the places in which we live
depend on us.
The Proper sequence should
be:
A. QRSP B. SPQR
C. SPRQ D. QPSR
Answer: Option D
42.
S1: Jawaharlal Nehru was the
greatest plan-enthusiast.
P : Under Nehru's advice,
the pre-Independent
congress set up National
Planning Commission in
1938.
Q : But he forgot that what
could be achieved by force
under the communist
dictatorship of Russia was not
possible under the democratic
set up of India.
R : He took the idea from Russia
where Five year plans
transformed a very backward
43.
S1: Duryodhana was a wicked Answer: Option C
prince.
P : one day Bhima made
Duryodhana fall from a tree 44.
from which Duryodhana was S1: Jawaharlal Nehru
stealing fruits. was born in Allahabad on
Q : He did not like that 14 Nov 1889.
Pandavas should be loved and P : Nehru meet Mahatma
respected by the people of Gandhi in February 1920.
Hastinapur Q : In 1905 he was sent to
R : Duryodhana specially hated London to study at a school
Bhima. called Haroow.
S : Among the Pandavas, R : He became the first Prime
Bhima was extraordinary Minister of Independent India
strong and powerful. on 15 August 1947. S : He
S6: This enraged Duryodhana married Kamla Kaul in 1915.
so much that he began to S6: He died on 27 May 1964.
think of removing Bhima
The Proper sequence should
from his way.
be:
The Proper sequence should QRPS
be: QSPR
PSQR RPQS
QPRS SQRP
QSPR
PSRQ Answer: Option B
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45. PQSR
S1: It was a dark moonless RQPS
night. SRPQ
P : He turned over the
pages, reading passages Answer: Option B
here and there.
Q : He heard them on the
floor.
R : The poet took down his
books of poems from his
shelves.
S : Some of them contained
his earliest writings which he
had almost forgotten. S6:
They all seemed to him to be
poor and ordinary mere
childish words.
Answer: Option D
46.
S1: I had halted on the road.
P : As soon as I saw the
elephant I knew I should not
shoot him.
Q : It is a serious matter
to shoot a working
elephant.
R : I knew that his 'must'
was already passing off.
S : The elephant was
standing 8 yards from the
road.
S6: I decided to watch him
for a while and then go
home.
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49. S6: Many Indian Institutes of
S1: Once upon atime there science and Technology run
lived three young men in a special programmes on
certain town of Hindustan. polymer science.
P : All the people of the
The Proper sequence should
neighbourhood were mortally
afraid of them. be:
Q : They were so powerful A. QRSP B. RSQP
that they could catch growing C. RQSP D. QRPS
lions and tear them to pieces. Answer: Option A
R : Someone told them that
they would become immortal
if they killed Death. S : The
young men believed
themselves to be very good
friends.
S6: All of them set out in
search of their foe called
Death.
50.
S1: Metals are today being
replaced by polymers in
many applications.
P : Above all, they are cheaper
and easier to process making
them a viable alternative to
metals.
Q : Polymers are essentially a
long chains of hydrocarbon
molecules.
R : Today polymers as strong
as metals have been
developed.
S : These have replaced the
traditional chromium-plated
metallic bumpers in cars.
51. C. QSPR D. RSPQ
S1: Since the sixties there has Answer: Option A
been an increasing interest in
neurophysiology, which deals
with the neural bases of 52.
mental activity and behaviour. S1: An elderly lady suddenly
P : It has format which is very became blind. P : The doctor
similar to that of Brain and called daily and every time he
Language, a sister journal. took away some of her
Q : Since then, a number of furniture he liked. Q : At last
journals devoted entirely to she was cured and the doctor
this area of research have demanded his fee.
appeared. R : She agreed to pay a
R : Before the 1960's when large fee to the doctor
this field was the concern of a who would cure her.
small number of investigators, S : On being refused, the
research articles were doctor wanted to know the
scattered in various reason.
neurological journals. S6: The lady said that she had
S : Brain and cognition is one not been properly cured
such journal. because she could not see all
S6: So far the journal has his furniture.
published the mixture of The Proper sequence should
articles including reports be:
and investigations. A. PQRS B. RPQS
The Proper sequence should C. RSPQ D. RQPS
be:
A. RQSP B. QRSP Answer: Option B
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53. a certain part of the brain,
S1: What are the causes of while animals had no souls.
our chronic food shortage ? S6: Therefore some scientists
P : To find for these think that life is just a very
growing new millions is complicated mechanism.
desperate task. The Proper sequence should
Q : every year, we add more
than a crore of persons to our be:
population. A. PRSQ B. RPQS
R : Despite stupendous C. PSQR D. RQPS
efforts by our government, Answer: Option C
the population is growing
unabated.
S : The chief cause is the
population explosion.
S6: This unprecedented
growth can drag us to the
doors of starvation very soon.
The Proper sequence should
be:
A. QRSP B. SQPR
C. QPRS D. PSQR
Answer: Option B
54.
S1: Our ancestors thought
that anything which moved
itself was alive.
P : The philosopher
Descartes thought that both
men and animals were
machines.
Q : But a machine such as a
motorcar or a steamship
moves itself, as soon as
machines which moved
themselves had been made,
people asked "Is man a
machine?"
R : And before the days of
machinery that was a good
definition.
S : He also thought that the
human machine was partly
controlled by the soul action on
55.
S1: Payment for imports and 56.
exports is made through a S1: Moncure Conway devoted
system called foreign his life to two great objects
exchange. freedom of thought, and
P : The value of the money of freedom of the individual.
one country in relation to the P : They threaten both kinds of
money of other countries is freedom.
agreed upon. Q : But something also has
Q : These rates of exchange been lost. R : There are now
vary from time to time. dangers, somewhat different
R : For instance, an American in form from those of the past
dollar or a British pound ages.
sterling is worth certain S : In regard to both these
amounts in the money of other objects, something has been
countries. S : Sometimes a gained since his time. S6:
United States dollar is worth Unless a vigorous and vigilant
12 pesos in Mexico. public opinion can be aroused
S6: Another time it may be in defence of them, there will
worth eight pesos. be much less of both a hundred
years hence then there is now.
The Proper sequence should
be: The Proper sequence should
A. PQRS B. QPRS be:
C. PRQS D. RPQS A. PQRS B. QSPR
C. SQRP D. RSPQ
Answer: Option C
Answer: Option C
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57. The Proper sequence should
S1: The study of speech be:
disorders due to brain injury A. PSQR B. RPSQ
suggests that patients can C. QRPS D. SQRP
think without having adequate
control over their language. Answer: Option A
P : But they succeed in
playing games of chess.
Q : Some patients, for
example fail to find the
names of objects presented
to them.
R : They can even use the
concepts needed for chess
playing, though they are
unable to express many of the
concepts in ordinary language.
S : They even find it difficult to
interpret long written notices.
S6: How they manage to do
this we do not know.
Answer: Option C
58.
S1: A black haired, young
woman came tripping along.
P : She was leading a
young woman wearing a
hat.
Q : The woman swept it off and
tossed it in the air.
R : The child jumped up to
catch the hat.
S : The young man tossed
his head to shake the hat
back.
S6: Both disappeared from
view.
59. 60.
S1: We now know that the S1: Minnie went shopping one
oceans are very deep. morning.
P : For example, the Indian P : Disappointed She turned
ocean has a range called the around and returned to the
Indian Ridge. Q : Much of it parking lot.
is fairly flat. Q : She got out and walked to
R : However, there are great the nearest shop.
mountain ranges as well. R : She drove her car into the
S : On average the bottom is parking lot and stopped.
2.5 miles to 3.5 miles down. S : It was there that she
S6: This reaches from the realised that she'd forgotten
India to the Antarctic. her purse at home.
S6: She drove home with
The Proper sequence should an empty basket.
be:
SQPR The Proper sequence should
PQSR be:
RSQP RSQP
QPRS RQSP
PQRS
Answer: Option A QPRS
Answer: Option B
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61. QPSR
S1: Far away in a little
street there is a poor house. Answer: Option C
P : Her face is thin and worn
and her hands are coarse,
pricked by a needle, for she is
a seam stress.
Q : One of the windows is
open and through it I can
see a poor woman.
R : He has a fever and asking
for oranges.
S : In a bed in a corner of the
room her little boy is lying ill.
S6: His mother has nothing
to give but water, so he is
crying.
Answer: Option C
62.
S1: A noise started above their
heads.
P : But people did not take it
seriously. Q : That was to show
everyone that there was
something wrong.
R : It was a dangerous thing to
do.
S : For, within minutes the
ship began to sink.
S6: Nearly 200 lives were
lost on the fateful day.
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65. Answer: Option C
S1: In India marriages
are usually arranged by
parents.
P : Sometimes boys and girls
do not like th idea of arranged
marriages.
Q : Most young people
accepts the state of affairs.
R : Shanta was like that.
S : They assume their parents
can make good choices.
S6: She felt she was a modern
girl and not subject for
bargaining.
Answer: Option C
66.
S1: She said on the phone that
she would report for duty next
day.
P : We waited for few days
then we decided to go to
her place. Q : But she did
not.
R : we found it locked.
S : Even after that we waited
for her quite a few days.
S6: Eventually we reported to
the police.
2.
S1: For decades, American
society has been calling a
melting pot.
P : Differences remained - in
appearence, mannerisms,
customs, speech, religion and
more.
Q : The term has long been a
cliche and half-truth.
R : But homogenisation was never
acheived.
S : Yes, immigrants from diverse
cultures and traditions did cast off
vestiges of their native lands and
become almost imperceptibly
woven in to the American fabric.
S6: In recent years, such
differences accentuated by the
arrival of immigrants from Asia
3. 4.
S1: I took cigarettes from my S1: There is difference between
case. Gandhiji's concept of secularism
P : But when the fit of and that of Nehru's. P : Nehru's
coughing was over, he idea of secularism was equal
replaced it between his lips. indifference to all religions and
Q : I lit one of them and bothering about none of them.
placed it between the lips. Q : According to Gandhiji, all
R : Then with a feeble hand he religions are equally true and
removed the cigarette. each scripture is worthy of
S : Slowly he took a pull at it respect.
and coughed violently. R : Such secularism which
means the rejection of all
S6: Then he continues to draw
religions is contrary to our
on it. culture and tradition.
S : In Gandhiji's view,
The Proper sequence should
secularism stands for equal
be: respect for all religions.
PSQR S6: Instead of doing any
QPSR good, such secularism can do
QSRP harm instead of good. The
SRPQ Proper sequence should be:
A. SQPR B. PSQR
Answer: Option C
C. QSPR D. PRSQ
Answer: Option A
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5. several offenders were
S1: As a dramatist brought to book, but they
Rabindranath was not what were not given deterrent
might be called a success. punishment.
P : His dramas were moulded on S6: This is indeed a
the lines of the traditional tragedy of great
Indian village dramas than the magnitude.
dramas of modern world.
Q : His plays were more a The Proper sequence should
catalogue of ideas than a be:
vehicle of the expression of A. QSRP B. SQRP
action. R : Actually the drama C. RSQP D. PQSR
has always been the life of
Indian people, as it deals with Answer: Option A
legends of gods and
goddesses.
S : Although in his short
stories and novels he was able
to create living and well
defined characters, he did not
seem to be able to do so in
dramas.
S6: Therefor, drama forms the
essential part of the traditional
Indian Culture.
The Proper sequence should
be:
A. SRQP B. QPSR
C. QSPR D. RSQP
Answer: Option C
6.
S1: It is regrettable that there is
widespread corruption in the
country at all levels.
P : So there is hardly
anything that the
government can do about it
now.
Q : And there are graft
and other malpractices
too.
R : The impression that
corruption is universal
phenomenon persists and the
people not cooperate in
checking this evil. S : Recently
7. C. SQPR D. SRPQ
S1: The heart is pump of life.
P : They have even Answer: Option A
succeeded in heart
transplants.
Q : Nowadays surgeons are 8.
able to stop a patients heart S1: Your letter was big relief.
and carry out complicated P : How did you exams go?
operations. Q : After your result, you
R : A few years ago it was must come here for a week.
impossible to operate on a R : You hadn't written for
patient whose heart was not over a month. S : I am sure
working properly. you will come out with flying
S : If heart stops we die in colours.
about five minutes. S6: But don't forget to bring
S6: All this was made chocolate for Geetha.
possible by the invention of
heart-lung machine. The Proper sequence should
be:
The Proper sequence should A. PSRQ B. QRPS
be: C. RPSQ D. RSPQ
A. SRQP B. SPRQ
Answer: Option C
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