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 and for that part options are given. Choose the most suitable option that can replace the underlined part.
He was not bothered about putting up with appearances because he was leaving the company soon.
Answer: C
The right choice is (c) because you keep up with appearances. This is an English phrase. For example: She kept up with appearances because she was desperate for recognition at the office.
Putting in an appearance is another English phrase Note that appearances cannot be met, pushed or pulled hence these three options are wrong.
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Following is a set of four sentences. Choose the sentence which is most appropriate – grammatically, semantically & logically.
Answer: B
It is Sorry to keep you. How long have you been waiting?
The waiting began earlier and is still going on, which the present perfect continuous expresses; the present continuous would ask only about this moment. The sentence also needs its question mark, which the other close contender lacks.
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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.
Inspite mother’s milk is vital to a child’s health, many FMCG companies wrongly advertise artificially prepared infant formulas as being the best for the child.
Answer: C
It should read though mother's milk.
The two halves of the sentence are in contrast, so a concessive conjunction is needed to introduce a clause. Inspite is not a word, and despite is a preposition, which cannot take the clause that follows.
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Although the puzzle seemed _____ at first, it was _____to complete.
Answer: B
It is complicated ... easy.
Although signals a contrast, so the two blanks must pull against each other. Confusing and hard, or difficult and lengthy, both point the same way and leave the although with nothing to do.
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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’.
He is knowing the answer to this question.
Answer: B
Correct answer: knows
Know is a stative verb, describing a state rather than an activity, and stative verbs are not used in continuous tenses. The simple present is required: he knows the answer. The group is worth learning, since the error is extremely common in Indian English: know, believe, understand, remember, forget, want, like, love, hate, prefer, own, belong, contain, consist, seem and need. A few verbs are stative in one sense and dynamic in another, and then the continuous becomes correct: I am thinking about it means considering, while I think it is true expresses an opinion; he is having lunch means eating, while he has a car means possessing. The test is whether the verb describes something you do or something that simply is.
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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’.
What is the time on your watch?
Answer: D
It should read by your watch.
By your watch means according to it - the watch is the authority consulted. On your watch would mean physically upon it.
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Inspite mother’s milk is vital to a child’s health, many FMCG companies wrongly advertise artificially prepared infant formulas as being the best for the child.
Answer: C
It should read though mother's milk.
The two halves of the sentence are in contrast, so a concessive conjunction is needed to introduce a clause. Inspite is not a word, and despite is a preposition, which cannot take the clause that follows.
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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’.
The two proposals differ with each other in several important respects.
Answer: B
Correct answer: from
Differ takes from when it means to be unlike: the two proposals differ from each other. It takes with only in the quite separate sense of to disagree, and then the object is a person: I differ with you on that point. Since the sentence is about how the proposals are unlike one another, from is required. The related adjective and noun keep the same preposition: different from and a difference from. British usage also allows different to, and American different than before a clause, but different from is the form Indian examinations expect. A group of verbs takes a fixed preposition that must be memorised rather than reasoned out: differ from, abstain from, refrain from, prevent from, deter from, derive from and suffer from.
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The thief, after interrogation, ______ his mistake.
Answer: A
It is accepted.
To accept is to acknowledge or receive. To except is to leave out or exclude - a quite different verb that merely sounds alike, as the noun exception does beside acceptance.
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