Which of phrases given below each sentence should replace the phrase to make the grammatically correct?
They examined both the samples very carefully but failed to detect any difference in them.
Answer: D
It should read any difference between.
Between is used of two things, among of more than two, and there are two samples. Any is right in a negative context; some would be wrong after failed to detect.
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We were still standing in the queue when the film was beginning.
Answer: D
It should read film had begun.
The film started before the standing, so the past perfect marks the earlier event. Was beginning suggests the start was still in progress, which contradicts still standing in the queue.
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We demonstrated to them how we were prepared the artistic patterns.
Answer: D
It should read had prepared.
The preparing happened before the demonstrating, and the demonstrating is past, so the earlier action takes the past perfect. Were prepared is passive and says the patterns prepared us.
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Because of his mastery in this field, his suggestions are wide accepted.
Answer: B
It should read are widely accepted.
Accepted is a participle and needs an adverb to modify it, so widely, not wide. The suggestions are the thing accepted, so the verb stays passive.
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The crime has growth rapidly in Russia since the disintegration of the communist system.
Answer: A
It should read crime has grown rapidly.
The verb is grown, not the noun growth, and the adverb rapidly modifies it. Crime is uncountable here, so it takes no article and a singular verb.
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The tea-estate administration is in such mess there is no leader to set the things right.
Answer: D
It should read in such a mess that there.
Mess is a countable noun and needs the article - such a mess. And such ... that is the correlative pair, so the that cannot be dropped before the result clause.
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Though we have kept in mind to try and maintain most facilities, we would like to request you to kindly bear with us over any inconvenience that may be caused.
Answer: D
Correct answer: No correction required
The clause is already well formed. Have kept is a present perfect describing an effort that began earlier and still holds, and to try and maintain is a standard idiomatic pairing in which and links two bare infinitives after to.
The alternatives each damage it: would keep shifts a settled fact into the conditional, have kept in mind trying and maintain mismatches a gerund with a bare infinitive, and should have kept turns the sentence into a reproach the writer plainly does not intend.
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One of my drawbacks is that I do not have to tolerance of ambiguity.
Answer: D
It should read do not have.
Have to means must; the sentence needs the plain verb have, taking tolerance as its object. The stray to turns a statement about what the speaker lacks into an obligation that never completes.
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We met him immediately after the session in which he had been given a nice speech.
Answer: A
It should read had given.
He delivered the speech, so the verb is active. Had been given would mean someone presented a speech to him. The past perfect is right, since the speech came before the meeting.
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The accused now flatly denies have admitted his guilt in his first statement.
Answer: A
It should read having admitted.
Deny takes a gerund, and since the admission was earlier than the denial the perfect gerund having admitted is required. Deny cannot be followed by a bare infinitive.
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