Which of phrases given below each sentence should replace the phrase to make the grammatically correct?
For many centuries in Indian History there was no city so famous like the city of Ujjain.
Answer: A
It should read as.
The construction is so ... as in a negative comparison - no city so famous as Ujjain. Like introduces a resemblance, not a degree, and cannot follow so.
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In the sentence below, a part is printed in bold. Choose the alternative that best replaces it. If no improvement is needed, choose ‘No correction required’.
The new policy will effect every employee in the organisation.
Answer: A
Correct answer: affect
Affect is the verb, meaning to influence or have an impact on. Effect is normally the noun, meaning the result. So a policy affects employees and has an effect on them. The mnemonic is that Affect is the Action and Effect is the End result. There is a complication worth knowing, since examiners use it: effect can also be a verb, meaning to bring about or accomplish - the committee effected a change in policy means it brought the change about, which is quite different from affected a change. And affect can be a noun in psychology, meaning observable emotion. But those senses are rare, and the ordinary division holds. The remaining options fail on construction as well as on meaning: affects cannot follow will, and effect on and have effect would need the article and a different sentence shape.
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He has received no other message than an urgent telegram asking him to rush his village immediately.
Answer: C
It should read asking him to rush to his village.
Rush in this sense is intransitive and needs to before a destination - rush to the village. Asking is right as it stands, since the telegram is doing the asking.
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Their earnings are such that they find it difficult to make both ends to meet.
Answer: D
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.
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Had you been told me about your problem, I would have helped you.
Answer: D
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.
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We don’t know how did the thief made an escape.
Answer: A
It should read how the thief made.
The clause after we don't know is a noun clause, not a question, so it takes statement word order with no auxiliary: how the thief made his escape. Did also cannot stand beside the past tense made.
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He is a singer of repute, but his yesterday’s performance was quite disappointing.
Answer: C
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.
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He never has and ever will take such strong measures.
Answer: A
It should read had taken nor will ever take.
He never has take is impossible: the first verb needs its own participle. With never in the first clause the second must be joined by nor, and each verb needs the form its auxiliary requires.
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If you are thinking about investing overseas, isn’t it makes sense to find an experienced guide?
Answer: A
Correct answer: doesn’t it make
This is a question tag, and a tag copies the tense and number of the main verb while reversing its polarity. The statement behind it is it makes sense - present simple, third person singular - so the negative tag is doesn’t it make, with the bare infinitive after the auxiliary.
Isn’t it makes is doubly wrong: it borrows the wrong auxiliary (be instead of do) and then leaves makes inflected after it.
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What does agonise me most is not this criticism, but the trivial reason behind it.
Answer: D
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.
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