Which of phrases given below each sentence should replace the phrase printed in bold type to make the grammatically correct?
I wish my train did not arrive so late; then I could have reached home before lunch.
Answer: C
It should read had not arrived.
I wish about something already past takes the past perfect. The second clause, could have reached, confirms that the train has already come and gone.
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Identify the incorrect sentence or sentences:
a. When Zach was born,he was perfect.
b. He weighted three kilos and was 53 centimeters long.
c. He had fine blond hair and murky blue infant eyes.
d. He did all things he was supposed at all the right times.
Answer: A
Only d is incorrect.
Sentences a to c are sound; d carries the fault. Note that weighted in b is the correct form only if something was added as a weight, but the sense there is weighed - the question treats it as acceptable and marks d alone.
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Select the grammatically correct sentence:
1. I went yesterday to the bank to collect the pass book.
2. I went to the bank to collect the pass book.
3. Yesterday to collect the pass book I went to the bank.
4. To collect the pass book yesterday I went to the bank.
Answer: A
It is sentence 1.
Adverbs of time normally follow the verb or close the sentence, and yesterday sits comfortably after went. Sentence 3 fronts two adverbials before the subject, which reads as clumsy rather than wrong.
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When his boss rebuked him, he decided to take revenge until he became ready to realise his guilt.
Answer: C
It should read until he became ready.
The main verb decided is past, so the time clause must be past too. Until is the right conjunction for the point at which the revenge would stop; as long as would make it conditional on his readiness continuing.
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Select the grammatically correct sentence:
1. By June next year Ajax will be twenty years working in the office.
2. Till June next year Ajax will work in the office for twenty years.
3. Till June next year Ajax will be working in the office for twenty years.
4. By June next year Ajax will have been working in the office for twenty years.
Answer: D
It is sentence 4.
A period of work completed by a future date takes the future perfect - will have worked. By marks the deadline; till marks a duration, which is not what a completed span requires.
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Select the grammatically correct sentence:
1. He went to the wholesale market and bought the cheap rations.
2. He went to the wholesale market and bought the rations cheap.
3. He went to the wholesale market and bought rations cheaply.
4. He went to the wholesale market and cheaply bought rations.
Answer: B
It is sentence 2.
Cheap here is an adverb meaning at a low price, and it follows the verb - bought the rations cheap. Placed before rations it would be an adjective describing the rations themselves as inferior.
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Rightly it has been said that man's real enemy is his idleness.
Answer: A
It should read rightly has it been said.
When an adverb like rightly, seldom or never is placed at the front for emphasis, the subject and auxiliary invert. Without the inversion the fronted adverb has no work to do.
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Some peoples feels that without discipline no progress is possible in this world.
Answer: A
It should read some people feel.
People is already plural, so peoples would mean nations or races. A plural subject takes the plural verb feel.
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The boy told his teacher to explain the passage.
Answer: C
It should read asked his teacher.
A boy does not tell his teacher to do something; tell carries the force of an instruction from a superior. Ask is the verb for a request, and takes the same object-plus-infinitive pattern.
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Select the grammatically correct sentence:
1. Our school had won the match if only we have concentrated.
2. Our school would have won the match if only we would have concentrated.
3. Our school would have won the match if only we had concentrated.
4. Our school had won the match if only we would have concentrated.
Answer: C
It is sentence 3.
A third conditional takes the past perfect in the if-clause and would have in the main clause. Sentences 1 and 2 put would into the if-clause or drop the perfect from the main one.
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