Following is a set of four sentences. Choose the sentence which is most appropriate – grammatically, semantically and logically
Answer: B
It is Hi Harish. We haven't met in a long time. How is it going?
Met is the past participle the perfect requires, and the question needs its question mark. The other versions use meet after haven't, or ask how it was going about a state that still obtains.
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Following is a set of four sentences. Choose the sentence which is most appropriate - grammatically, semantically and logically
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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Following is a set of four sentences. Choose the sentence which is most appropriate – grammatically, semantically and logically.
Answer: A
It is the first option.
Discipline means a training that produces obedience - the definition needs its article and the noun training. The versions that make the word itself produce obedience confuse the term with what it names.
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Following is a set of four sentences. Choose the sentence which is most appropriate , grammatically, semantically & logically.
Answer: A
It is the first option.
It is desirable that takes the subjunctive - that you complete, with the bare form of the verb. The other versions replace that with if or for, neither of which carries the recommendation the construction expresses.
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Following is a set of four sentences. Choose the sentence which is most appropriate – grammatically, semantically and logically.
Answer: A
It is the first option.
Greater and more troublesome keeps both comparatives in the same form and supplies than those faced by previous generations, so the comparison has a second term. The fourth version drops the more before troublesome, and the second and third leave the comparison incomplete or misplace the participle.
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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.
The poor villagers had said they did not know how to use the solar powered pump, because of lack of knowledge right now.
Answer: A
Answer is “have been saying “ because this is the correct form (continuous) of the tense. The villagers have been doing this action. Had implies an action that had happened in the past, though the sentence clearly indicates the act of expressing is a present action.
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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.
They are waiting for her since the afternoon.
Answer: C
It should read have been waiting.
Since the afternoon fixes a starting point, and an action continuing from a point in the past to now takes the present perfect continuous. The present continuous says nothing about when the waiting began.
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Look at the underlined part of the sentence below with three possible replacements for the underlined part given. If one of them (a), (b) or (c) is better than the underlined part, indicate your response against the corresponding letter. If none of these substitutions improve the sentence, choose (d) as your response.
Not a word did they speak to the others about the sad turn of events.
Answer: D
No improvement is needed.
Not a word is a negative expression fronted for emphasis, and a fronted negative requires inversion of subject and auxiliary - did they speak. The versions offered undo that inversion.
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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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In the sentence given below a part is underlined. Choose the most suitable option that can replace the underlined part.
She is dancing to the music of her boss’s whims.
Answer: A
It should read tunes.
To dance to someone's tune is the idiom for doing whatever they want. Music, songs and sounds all fit the literal picture but none of them is the phrase.
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