Which of phrases given below each sentence should replace the phrase printed in bold type to make the grammatically correct?
Even the minister accepted that the road was worst than any other road in the town.
Answer: C
It should read the road was worse than.
Comparing one road with the others needs the comparative worse, not the superlative worst. The tense stays past to match accepted, and more bad is not a form English uses.
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Select the grammatically correct sentence:
1. Everybody knows that Sachin is nothing else but a cheat.
2. Everybody knows that Sachin is nothing else than a cheat.
3. Everybody knows that Sachin is nothing else except a cheat.
4. Everybody knows that Sachin is nothing but for a cheat.
Answer: A
It is sentence 1.
Nothing else but is the fixed phrase meaning simply or merely. Nothing else than mixes it with none other than, and the remaining versions leave it incomplete.
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It is rather ironically that so much is being spent on the statue of one who dedicated his life to duty.
Answer: C
It should read is rather ironical.
The verb is needs an adjective as its complement, not an adverb. It is ironical that ... is the construction; ironically would need a verb to modify.
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The old man seemed instant deprived of the power of speech.
Answer: A
It should read seemed instantly deprived.
Deprived is a participle and needs an adverb to modify it, so instantly. Instant is an adjective and could only describe a noun.
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Select the grammatically correct sentence:
1. He did not report for work today. He must has gone to the party.
2. He did not report for work today. He must have gone to the party.
3. He did not report for work today. He must go to the party.
4. He did not report for work today. He must had gone to the party.
Answer: B
It is sentence 2.
Must is a modal and takes the bare infinitive, so must have gone. A deduction about a past event always takes must have plus the past participle.
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I wish my bus did not arrive so late; then I could have reached home before breakfast.
Answer: A
It should read had not arrived.
I wish about a past event takes the past perfect - I wish it had not arrived. The past simple after wish refers to a present state, which the second clause's could have reached rules out.
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Identify the incorrect sentence or sentences:
a. One subject you didn't dare discuss about in front of our manager was his height.
b. Or should I say,his lack of it.
c. One day he announced angrily, "someone just picked my pocket!".
d. A colleague blurted,"How could anyone stoop so low?"
Answer: C
a and d are incorrect.
Discuss is transitive and takes no preposition - dare discuss in front of, not discuss about. The fault in d is of the same order.
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Select the grammatically correct sentence:
1. Now I have cancelled my meeting though I was to go there.
2. Now I have cancelled my meeting though I have to go there.
3. Now I have cancelled my meeting though I am to go there.
4. Now I have cancelled my meeting though I was to have gone there.
Answer: D
It is sentence 4.
The cancellation is present perfect and the arrangement it cancels lies in the past, so the concessive clause needs a past form that matches. Sentences 1 to 3 leave the two halves in different times.
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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’.
Each of the rooms have its own attached bathroom.
Answer: D
Correct answer: has
Each is singular and governs the verb, so each of the rooms has its own attached bathroom. The plural rooms is the object of of and cannot be the subject. Deleting the phrase leaves each has its own bathroom, which settles it. The possessive its later in the sentence confirms the reading: a singular pronoun requires a singular verb, and the examiner has left that clue in place. Had the sentence read their own bathroom, the mismatch would have been visible from the other direction. The whole group of singular indefinites behaves this way: each, every, either, neither, one, everyone, anyone, somebody and nobody. Have is also a stative verb here, meaning to possess, so the continuous forms offered are wrong on a second count.
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Identify the incorrect sentence or sentences:
a. Can i get this sense of wonder into the film ?
b. So people looking it can feel it too.
c. That's the challenge of place like Easter Island.
d. To reach people who will never be able to go there
Answer: B
b and c are incorrect.
Sentence b needs looking at it - look is intransitive and takes at before its object. Sentence c needs an article: the challenge of a place like Easter Island.
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