The performance of our players was rather worst than I had expected.
Answer: B
It should read worse than I had expected.
Worse is the comparative and worst the superlative; a comparison between two things - the performance and the expectation - takes the comparative. Rather worst is impossible for the same reason.
Please log in or register to report this question.
Why did you not threw the bag away?
Answer: A
It should read did you not throw.
Did already carries the past tense, so the main verb stays in the base form. Threw is the past tense and thrown the past participle; neither can follow did.
Please log in or register to report this question.
Shapes of gods and goddess are worshipped by people.
Answer: A
It should read images.
What is worshipped is an image of a god - a representation made for that purpose. A shape is merely a form, and carries none of the sense of a made likeness.
Please log in or register to report this question.
He found the gold coin as he cleans the floor.
Answer: D
It should read while cleaning.
The two actions were simultaneous and share a subject, so the reduced clause while cleaning is the neat form. As he cleans puts a present tense beside the past found, which cannot stand.
Please log in or register to report this question.
We can not always convey ourselves in simple sentences.
Answer: C
It should read cannot always express.
One conveys a message but expresses oneself; convey ourselves is not idiomatic. Cannot is also written as one word in standard usage.
Please log in or register to report this question.
What does agonise me most is not this criticism, but the trivial reason behind it.
Answer: B
It should read agonises me most.
What is the subject of the clause, so the verb follows directly without the auxiliary does - the same reason one writes what happened, not what did happen, in a statement. Most then modifies the verb.
Please log in or register to report this question.
He is a singer of repute, but his yesterday's performance was quite disappointing.
Answer: B
No correction is required.
His yesterday's performance is acceptable - the possessive attaches to yesterday, and performance is singular, so was is right. Each alternative either drops the possessive or puts a plural verb with a singular noun.
Please log in or register to report this question.
Their earnings are such that they find it difficult to make both ends to meet.
Answer: C
It should read to make both ends meet.
Make both ends meet is a fixed idiom, and make here takes the bare infinitive: make the ends meet, not make them to meet. The image is of the two ends of a household account being brought together.
Please log in or register to report this question.
Had you been told me about your problem, I would have helped you.
Answer: C
It should read had you told.
Inverting had is the way to form a third conditional without if - had you told me is exactly if you had told me. Been cannot stand between had and told, and if you would have is never correct in the if-clause.
Please log in or register to report this question.
Anand has the guts to rise from the occasion and come out successfully.
Answer: C
It should read to rise to.
To rise to the occasion is the idiom - to meet a demand well. Rise from would mean to get up out of it, which is not the sense.
Please log in or register to report this question.
