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452.

 In the question below, a part of the sentence has been underlined. Replace the underlined part with the most appropriate choice from the four options provided below. In case no improvement is required, choose the option d.) no improvement required.

With the announcement of the election schedule for the Bihar Assembly polls, the Grand Old Party wants to put all the leading lights of the grand alliance on a common platform send hereto a message of unity.
 

Answer: B

It should read get all the leading lights of the grand alliance on a common platform.

To get people on a platform is the idiom for bringing them together in agreement. Put would suggest physical placing, and achieve cannot take people as its object.

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453.

In the sentence given below a part is underlined. Choose the most suitable option that can replace the underlined part.

He appeared to be unaware about how to see the human resources logjam at the company office.
 

Answer: C

It should read how to break.

A logjam is broken - the image is of jammed logs on a river being freed. One does not see, mend or meet a logjam.

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Answer: B

It is the second option.

Allow takes an object and an infinitive - allows you to give. The third option has a plural verb with a singular subject, and the first uses atleast, which is two words in English.

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456.

In the sentence given below a part is underlined and for that part options are given. Choose the most suitable option that can replace the underlined part.

He was not bothered about putting up with appearances because he was leaving the company soon.
 

Answer: C

The right choice is (c) because you keep up with appearances. This is an English phrase. For example: She kept up with appearances because she was desperate for recognition at the office.
Putting in an appearance is another English phrase Note that appearances cannot be met, pushed or pulled hence these three options are wrong.

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Answer: B

It is Sorry to keep you. How long have you been waiting?

The waiting began earlier and is still going on, which the present perfect continuous expresses; the present continuous would ask only about this moment. The sentence also needs its question mark, which the other close contender lacks.

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458.

In the sentence given below a part is underlined and for that part options are given. Choose the most suitable option that can replace the underlined part.

Inspite mother’s milk is vital to a child’s health, many FMCG companies wrongly advertise artificially prepared infant formulas as being the best for the child.
 

Answer: C

It should read though mother's milk.

The two halves of the sentence are in contrast, so a concessive conjunction is needed to introduce a clause. Inspite is not a word, and despite is a preposition, which cannot take the clause that follows.

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460.

In the sentence below, a part is printed in bold. Choose the alternative that improves it. If the sentence needs no change, choose ‘No improvement’.

He is knowing the answer to this question.

Answer: B

Correct answer: knows

Know is a stative verb, describing a state rather than an activity, and stative verbs are not used in continuous tenses. The simple present is required: he knows the answer. The group is worth learning, since the error is extremely common in Indian English: know, believe, understand, remember, forget, want, like, love, hate, prefer, own, belong, contain, consist, seem and need. A few verbs are stative in one sense and dynamic in another, and then the continuous becomes correct: I am thinking about it means considering, while I think it is true expresses an opinion; he is having lunch means eating, while he has a car means possessing. The test is whether the verb describes something you do or something that simply is.

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