Which of phrases given below each sentence should replace the phrase printed in bold type to make the grammatically correct? If the sentence is correct as it is, mark 'E' as the answer.
They have a scheme of rewarding the best of the performers every year.
Answer: E
No correction is required.
The best of the performers is correct: the superlative takes the definite article, and the group it selects from must be plural. Each alternative either drops the article or makes the group singular.
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What happens to all those travellers on the ship was not known.
Answer: D
It should read what happened to.
The clause is the subject of was not known, so it is a noun clause and the tense must match the past main verb. Happen to is the right preposition - happen of and happen in are not English in this sense.
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Making friends is more rewarding than to make enemies.
Answer: D
It should read making enemies.
The two things compared must have the same grammatical form. The first is a gerund, making friends, so the second must be a gerund too.
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The moment they saw me, they were delight
Answer: B
It should read were delighted.
Delight is a verb; the adjective describing how someone feels is the participle delighted. Delight cannot stand as a complement after were.
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He should not had done it.
Answer: C
It should read should not have.
Should is a modal and takes the bare infinitive, so have, not had. Should not have done expresses regret about a past action.
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No sooner do the bells ring than the curtain rose.
Answer: B
It should read did the bells ring.
No sooner ... than requires inversion, and the sentence is past, so did the bells ring. The subject bells is plural, which rules out the singular alternatives.
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The moment the manager came to know of the fraudulent action of his assistant, he order immediately dismissed him.
Answer: B
It should read ordered his immediate dismissal.
The original has two finite verbs, order and dismissed, with no conjunction between them. Turning the second into a noun - dismissal - leaves one verb, ordered, and immediate becomes the adjective modifying it.
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The meeting was attended to by all invitees.
Answer: B
It should read attended by all.
Attend in the sense of being present at takes a direct object and no preposition. Attend to means to deal with, which is not what invitees do to a meeting.
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If he has to spend five hours in the queue, it was really a wastage.
Answer: D
It should read is really a wastage.
The if-clause is present - if he has to spend - so the main clause must be present too. Really is the adverb modifying is, and it comes before the noun phrase.
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The world has seen small real attempt at population and resource planning.
Answer: B
It should read little.
Attempt here is uncountable - real attempt at planning - so it takes little, not few. Little means hardly any; a little would mean some, which reverses the sense.
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