Following is a set of four sentences. Choose the sentence which is most appropriate – grammatically, semantically and logically.
Answer: A
It is the first option.
Discipline means a training that produces obedience - the definition needs its article and the noun training. The versions that make the word itself produce obedience confuse the term with what it names.
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In the following question, a part of the sentence has been underlined. Replace the underlined part with the most appropriate choice from the four options provided below. In case no improvement is required, choose the option marked ‘no improvement needed’.
Sudama was true with his friend Krishna
Answer: C
It should read to.
True to someone means loyal to them, which is what Sudama was to Krishna. True with is not English; true of introduces something that applies to a case.
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They are waiting for her since the afternoon.
Answer: C
It should read have been waiting.
Since the afternoon fixes a starting point, and an action continuing from a point in the past to now takes the present perfect continuous. The present continuous says nothing about when the waiting began.
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In the sentence below, a part is printed in bold. Choose the alternative that best replaces it. If no correction is needed, choose ‘No correction required’.
By the time we reached the theatre, the film already started.
Answer: D
Correct answer: had already started
When two past actions are described, the earlier takes the past perfect and the later takes the simple past. The film started before the arrival, so it must be had already started. The signal is the phrase by the time, which explicitly sets one action against another and almost always calls for the past perfect in the clause describing what was already complete. The adverb already points the same way, since it belongs naturally with the perfect tenses. Has already started is the present perfect and cannot be used with a stated past time; already starts is present tense altogether; and was already starting would describe an action still in progress, which contradicts already. The same sequence governs hardly had he arrived when, no sooner had she spoken than, and reported speech, where a simple past becomes past perfect after a past reporting verb.
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In the sentence given below a part is underlined and for that part options are given. Choose the most suitable option that can replace the underlined part.
I have been inconsiderate in the past but I will make up to you.
Answer: C
It should read make it up to you.
Make it up to someone is the idiom for compensating a person one has wronged. Make up for takes the thing being compensated, not the person.
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In the sentence given below a part is underlined. Choose the most suitable option that can replace the underlined part.
There is less need to prepare a presentation, as the clients will not be coming today.
Answer: A
It should read hardly any.
Less is a comparative and needs something to compare with; the sentence means there is almost none. Hardly any gives that sense, while very little would suggest a small amount is still required.
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There is less need to prepare a presentation, as the clients will not be coming today.
Answer: A
It should read hardly any.
Less is a comparative and needs something to compare with; the sentence means there is almost none. Hardly any gives that sense, while very little would suggest a small amount is still required.
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Following is a set of four sentences. Choose the sentence which is most appropriate – grammatically, semantically and logically.
Answer: A
It is the first option.
Greater and more troublesome keeps both comparatives in the same form and supplies than those faced by previous generations, so the comparison has a second term. The fourth version drops the more before troublesome, and the second and third leave the comparison incomplete or misplace the participle.
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The fragile sculpture is neither _____ nor _____.
Answer: B
It is sturdy ... strong.
Fragile means easily broken, so both blanks must name qualities a fragile thing lacks, and the pair must agree with each other. Light and heavy contradict each other, which neither ... nor cannot accommodate.
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I. Dr. John's fees as a general practitioner, are quite affordable.
II. Smith described his rival's accusations as baseless and malicious.
Answer: D
It is charges.
A doctor's fees are the charges made for a consultation. Prices belong to goods, attacks and recrimination to the second sentence's accusations, not to what a practitioner asks.
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