Which of phrases given below each sentence should replace the phrase printed in bold type to make the grammatically correct?
Hardly had I finished writing the letter before Spandy arrived.
Answer: B
It should read when.
Hardly pairs with when, as no sooner pairs with than and scarcely with when. Before and after are not used with hardly in this construction.
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Identify the incorrect sentence or sentences:
a. In most Indian households, the man alone manages the finance.
b. It is important for the women to take stock of family asset.
c. She must learn to manage them in advance of any unfortunate situation.
d. I brief my wife periodically.
Answer: A
a and b are incorrect.
Sentence a needs the plural finances, which is the ordinary word for money matters. Sentence b needs family assets, plural, since c then refers to them as them.
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When we know that everything has two sides, let us look at the bright side only.
Answer: D
No correction is required.
Look at the bright side is the idiom, and the imperative let us look is correctly formed. Each alternative changes the tense or turns the adjective into an adverb.
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Select the grammatically correct sentence:
1. I am an optimist and therefore I generally differ with you.
2. I am an optimist and therefore I generally differ from you.
3. I am an optimist and therefore I generally differ in you.
4. I am an optimist and therefore I generally differ you.
Answer: A
It is sentence 1.
Differ with a person means to disagree with them, which is what the sentence means. Differ from means to be unlike, so sentence 2 would say the speaker is unlike you rather than in disagreement.
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Select the grammatically correct sentence:
1. The cow does not eat anything else. It lives on grass and leaves.
2. The cow does not eat anything else. It lives at grass and leaves.
3. The cow does not eat anything else. It lives in grass and leaves.
4. The cow does not eat anything else. It lives for grass and leaves.
Answer: A
It is sentence 1.
Live on is the phrasal verb for taking something as one's food. Live at names a place of residence, live in a container or a country, and live for a purpose.
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Select the grammatically correct sentence:
1. It is high time he will start earning.
2. It is high time he started earning.
3. It is high time he starts earning.
4. It is high time he has started earning.
Answer: B
It is sentence 2.
It is high time is followed by the past subjunctive, however present the sense - it is high time he started. The same pattern governs it is time you went home.
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Select the grammatically correct sentence:
1. This was the ideal book available in the market.
2. This was most ideal book available in the market.
3. This was a most ideal book available in the market.
4. This was the most ideal book available in the market.
Answer: A
It is sentence 1.
Ideal is an absolute adjective: a thing is ideal or it is not, and it cannot be more or most ideal. The same is true of unique, perfect and complete.
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Select the grammatically correct sentence:
1. I am ready to say this at her face.
2. I am ready to say this on her face.
3. I am ready to say this in her face.
4. I am ready to say this to her face.
Answer: D
It is sentence 4.
To say something to someone's face is the idiom for saying it openly in their presence. At, on and in her face all describe direction or position rather than candour.
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Select the grammatically correct sentence:
1. It is strange that you don't know swimming.
2. It is strange that you don't know how to swim.
3. It is strange that you don't know how to swimming.
4. It is strange that you don't know to swim.
Answer: B
It is sentence 2.
Know how to swim is the construction - know takes how to before a skill. Know swimming treats swimming as a subject of study rather than an ability.
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Select the grammatically correct sentence:
1. She is not as wise as his brother.
2. She is not equally wise as his brother.
3. She is not as wise like his brother.
4. She is not so wise as his brother.
Answer: D
It is sentence 4.
A negative comparison of equality takes so ... as in careful usage - not so wise as. Equally ... as doubles the comparison, and as ... like mixes two constructions.
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