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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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. 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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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’.
The teacher made the students to write the essay again.
Answer: A
Correct answer: write
After make in the active voice, the verb that follows takes the bare infinitive - no to. So made the students write. The verbs that behave this way form a small group: make, let, bid, see, hear, watch, feel and help, along with the modal auxiliaries. Hence let him go, I saw her leave, he helped me carry it. The curious exception is that make takes the full infinitive in the passive: the students were made to write the essay again. The to reappears when the sentence is turned round, which is why both forms are heard and why the two are confused. Writing fails because a gerund cannot follow make in this construction, and written would make the students the thing written rather than the writers.
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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 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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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.
Poland’s new president, Andrzej Duda, has complained about “dictates” from the European Union to accept migrants flowing onto the Continent from the Middle East and Africa.
Answer: D
No improvement is required.
Dictates from the European Union to accept migrants is correct: complained about takes the noun, from names the source, and the infinitive states what was dictated.
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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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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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Rearrange the following parts (1, 2, 3 and 4) in proper sequence to obtain a correct sentence.
1. and he who has hope,
2. has hope
3. has everything
4. the person who has health
Answer: D
The order is 4, 2, 1, 3.
The person who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything - the proverb builds a chain from health to hope to everything, each clause handing its last word to the next.
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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.
Her performance is steadily improving over the past few weeks.
Answer: A
It should read has been steadily.
Over the past few weeks reaches from a point in the past up to now, which the present perfect continuous expresses. The simple present cannot cover a stretch of past time.
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