Which of phrases given below each sentence should replace the phrase to make the grammatically correct?
The small child does whatever his father was done.
Answer: D
It should read does.
The main verb is present - the child does whatever - so the subordinate clause must be present too. Whatever his father does is the habitual action being copied; was done is passive and past, and fits neither.
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You need not come unless you want to.
Answer: C
It should read you don't need to come unless you want to.
Need not is the modal, and need to is the ordinary verb. Both are correct English, but the modal form takes no to before come, so need not come is right as it stands - and the option offered restates the same sense with the ordinary verb, which the question treats as the improvement.
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Why did you not threw the bag away?
Answer: A
It should read did you not throw.
Did already carries the past tense, so the main verb stays in the base form. Threw is the past tense and thrown the past participle; neither can follow did.
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Why should the candidates be afraid of English Language is not clear.
Answer: B
It should read the candidates should be.
The clause is the subject of is not clear, so it is a noun clause, not a question, and takes statement word order: why the candidates should be afraid. Inversion belongs only to direct questions.
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The man to who I sold my house was a cheat.
Answer: D
It should read to whom I sold.
Whom is the object form, and after a preposition the object form is required - to whom, not to who. The tense must stay past, since the main verb was is past.
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The police has so far succeeded in recovering only a part of the stolen property.
Answer: D
No correction is required.
Succeeded in recovering is correct: succeed in takes a gerund. So far is the right adverbial for an action continuing to the present, and only a part correctly limits what has been recovered.
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She cooks, washes dishes, does her homework and then relaxing.
Answer: D
It should read then relaxes.
The sentence lists four things she does, and the first three are present simple - cooks, washes, does. The fourth must match: relaxes. This is parallelism, and a participle breaks it.
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He admired the speed with which he completed the work and appreciating the method adopted by him
Answer: C
It should read appreciated the method adopted.
Two verbs joined by and must take the same form: he admired and appreciated. Appreciating would need a different construction altogether, and adopted alone is enough for the passive participle.
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It was until many years later that Gandhi became a rebel against authority.
Answer: C
It should read it was not until many years.
The idiom is it was not until X that Y - the negative is essential, since the sentence means Gandhi did not become a rebel for many years. Without not the sentence says the opposite of what it means.
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Anyone interested in the use of computers can learn much if you have access to a personal computer.
Answer: D
It should read he or she has access.
The subject is anyone, a third-person indefinite pronoun, so the pronoun referring back to it must also be third person. Shifting to you in mid-sentence breaks the agreement.
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