Which of phrases given below each sentence should replace the phrase printed in bold type to make the grammatically correct?
I love the literature, the music, the art.
Answer: A
It should read literature, music and art.
These are uncountable nouns used in a general sense, so they take no article. And a list of three needs and before the last item rather than a bare comma.
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Select the grammatically correct sentence:
1. The team is confident to win the match.
2. The team is confident of winning the match.
3. The team is confident of win the match.
4. The team is confident for winning the match.
Answer: B
It is sentence 2.
Confident takes of and a gerund - confident of winning. Confident to is not English, and of win puts a bare verb after a preposition.
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Identify the incorrect sentence or sentences:
a. I helped the polio vaccine for the children.
b. I would give a lump of sugar to each child.
c. The health assistant would squeeze a drop of the solution into each lump.
d. Then I checked if the children had all swallowed.
Answer: D
a and d are incorrect.
Sentence a says the speaker helped the vaccine, which is not what a person does to a vaccine - the verb wanted is administered or gave. The fault in d is of the same kind.
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Select the grammatically correct sentence:
1. The important lessons are following.
2. The important lessons are as following.
3. The important lessons are as follows.
4. The important lessons are as follow.
Answer: C
It is sentence 3.
As follows is a fixed phrase and never takes a plural, however plural the subject - the lessons are as follows. The verb agrees with an understood it, not with the lessons.
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Identify the incorrect sentence or sentences:
a. The country boasts about more than 400 airports.
b. But just 62 of them are in active use.
c Mumbai and Delhi airport alone account over 40% of the passenger traffic.
d. The facilities at the airports are woefully short.
Answer: B
a and c are incorrect.
Boast in this sense takes a direct object - boasts more than 400 airports - not boasts about, which means to brag. Sentence c omits the full stop after c, needs the plural airports and needs account for.
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The floor of the hall was covered by a carpet.
Answer: B
It should read covered with.
Covered with names the material lying on the surface. Covered by names the agent who did the covering, so covered by a carpet would make the carpet the one doing it.
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What are needed are not large houses but small cottages.
Answer: C
It should read is.
What needed is a singular relative pronoun standing for the thing that is needed, so the verb is singular: what is needed. The plural cottages later in the sentence does not change it.
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Select the grammatically correct sentence:
1. The teacher made it a point to explain him the situation.
2. The teacher made it a point to explain the situation him.
3. The teacher made it a point to explain him about the situation.
4. The teacher made it a point to explain the situation to him.
Answer: D
It is sentence 4.
Explain takes the thing explained as its direct object and the person with to - explain the situation to him. Unlike tell, it cannot take an indirect object without a preposition.
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Select the grammatically correct sentence:
1. If he wins the prize I would be very happy.
2. If he were to win the prize I'll be very happy.
3. If he was to win the prize I would be very happy.
4. If he were to win the prize I would be very happy.
Answer: D
It is sentence 4.
A conditional must keep its two halves in step: present with will, or past subjunctive with would. Sentences 1 to 3 each mix the two patterns.
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Select the grammatically correct sentence:
1. There will be a meeting in the long room at 4 o'clock of all the boys who play cricket and football.
2. There will be in the long room at 4 o'clock a meeting of all the boys who play cricket and football.
3. In the long room at 4 o'clock there will be a meeting of all the boys who play cricket and football.
4. There will be a meeting of all the boys who play cricket and football in the long room at 4 o'clock.
Answer: C
It is sentence 3.
The relative clause who play cricket and football describes the boys, so it must sit next to boys. Separating them by two adverbial phrases, as sentences 1 and 2 do, leaves the clause modifying the clock.
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