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Which of phrases given below each sentence should replace the phrase printed in bold type to make the grammatically correct? 

51.

Select the grammatically correct sentence:
1. This was the ideal book available in the market.
2. This was most ideal book available in the market.
3. This was a most ideal book available in the market.
4. This was the most ideal book available in the market.

Answer: A

It is sentence 1.

Ideal is an absolute adjective: a thing is ideal or it is not, and it cannot be more or most ideal. The same is true of unique, perfect and complete.

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52.

Select the grammatically correct sentence:
1. I am ready to say this at her face.
2. I am ready to say this on her face.
3. I am ready to say this in her face.
4. I am ready to say this to her face.

Answer: D

It is sentence 4.

To say something to someone's face is the idiom for saying it openly in their presence. At, on and in her face all describe direction or position rather than candour.

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53.

Select the grammatically correct sentence:
1. It is strange that you don't know swimming.
2. It is strange that you don't know how to swim.
3. It is strange that you don't know how to swimming.
4. It is strange that you don't know to swim.

Answer: B

It is sentence 2.

Know how to swim is the construction - know takes how to before a skill. Know swimming treats swimming as a subject of study rather than an ability.

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54.

Select the grammatically correct sentence:
1. She is not as wise as his brother.
2. She is not equally wise as his brother.
3. She is not as wise like his brother.
4. She is not so wise as his brother.

Answer: D

It is sentence 4.

A negative comparison of equality takes so ... as in careful usage - not so wise as. Equally ... as doubles the comparison, and as ... like mixes two constructions.

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55.

Knowing very little English, it was difficult to converse with the foreigner.

Answer: A

It should read I found it difficult to converse.

Knowing very little English must describe the person who knows little English, and in the original it attaches to it, which knows nothing. Supplying I as the subject makes the participle modify the right thing.

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56.

Select the grammatically correct sentence:
1. The principal appointed him as a peon in the college.
2. The principal appointed him a peon in the college.
3. As a peon the principal appointed him in the college.
4. The principal as a peon appointed him in the college.

Answer: B

It is sentence 2.

Appoint takes an object and a complement directly - appointed him a peon. Sentences 3 and 4 move the phrase so that it modifies the principal or the appointing rather than the man appointed.

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57.

Select the grammatically correct sentence:
1. You can meet my father only when he goes to prison.
2. You can meet my father only when he goes into prison.
3. You can meet my father only when he goes in prison.
4. You can meet my father only when he goes to the prison.

Answer: D

It is sentence 4.

Go to prison without the article means to be imprisoned; go to the prison means to visit the building. Since the sentence is about meeting someone there, the article is needed - the same distinction as go to school and go to the school.

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58.

Select the grammatically correct sentence:
1. On account of shortage of time both of them cannot finish their work.
2. On account of shortage of time none of them can finish their work.
3. On account of shortage of time neither of them can finish his work.
4. On account of shortage of time neither of them cannot finish his work.

Answer: C

It is sentence 3.

Neither refers to two and takes a singular verb and a singular possessive - neither of them can finish his work. Sentence 4 adds a second negative to neither, and sentence 2 uses none, which is for more than two.

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59.

Select the grammatically correct sentence:
1. It is a pleasure to see an alligator basking in the sunshine on a river bank as long as ninety feet.
2. It is a pleasure to see an alligator as long as ninety feet basking in the sunshine on a river bank.
3. It is a pleasure to see an alligator basking in the sunshine as long as ninety feet on a river bank.
4. It is a pleasure to see an alligator basking as long as ninety feet in the sunshine on a river bank.

Answer: B

It is sentence 2.

As long as ninety feet describes the alligator, so it must sit next to alligator. In sentence 1 it lands on the river bank, which then becomes ninety feet long - the classic misplaced modifier.

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