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461.

In the question below, 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 d.) no improvement required.

Cancer claimed Kim Suozzi at age 23, but she chooses to preserve her brain with the dream that neuroscience may one day claim her mind.
 

Answer: A

It should read chose to have her brain preserved.

The sentence is about a past event, so the verb must be past: chose, not chooses. And she did not preserve the brain herself; she arranged for it to be done, which the causative have ... preserved expresses.

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462.

In the question below, 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 d.) no improvement required.

Poland’s new president, Andrzej Duda, has complained about “dictates” from the European Union to accept migrants flowing onto the Continent from the Middle East and Africa.
 

Answer: D

No improvement is required.

Dictates from the European Union to accept migrants is correct: complained about takes the noun, from names the source, and the infinitive states what was dictated.

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463.

 In the question below, 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 d.) no improvement required.

With the announcement of the election schedule for the Bihar Assembly polls, the Grand Old Party wants to put all the leading lights of the grand alliance on a common platform send hereto a message of unity.
 

Answer: B

It should read get all the leading lights of the grand alliance on a common platform.

To get people on a platform is the idiom for bringing them together in agreement. Put would suggest physical placing, and achieve cannot take people as its object.

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464.

 In the question below, 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 d.) no improvement required.

With the election of Jeremy Corbyn, a longtime socialist with commitment to reversing centrist policies, the Labour Party is in the hands of the hard left for the first time in decades.
 

Answer: A

It should read a longtime socialist committed to reversing centrist policies.

Committed to takes a gerund, and the participle attaches directly to socialist without needing a relative clause. With commitment to is heavier and adds nothing.

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465.

In the question below, 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 d.) no improvement required.

My experience in Hor came as a stark contrast to accounts I’d read of earlier first travel encounters with Lake Manasarovar.
 

Answer: B

It should read of earlier travellers' first encounters with Lake Manasarovar.

The encounters belong to several travellers, so the apostrophe follows the plural s. Encounter takes with before the thing met, and the word order must put earlier travellers next to what is theirs.

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466.

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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467.

 In the question below, 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 d.) no improvement required.

Her performance is steadily improving over the past few weeks.

Answer: A

It should read has been steadily.

Over the past few weeks reaches from a point in the past up to now, which the present perfect continuous expresses. The simple present cannot cover a stretch of past time.

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468.

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 teacher made the students to write the essay again.

Answer: A

Correct answer: write

After make in the active voice, the verb that follows takes the bare infinitive - no to. So made the students write. The verbs that behave this way form a small group: make, let, bid, see, hear, watch, feel and help, along with the modal auxiliaries. Hence let him go, I saw her leave, he helped me carry it. The curious exception is that make takes the full infinitive in the passive: the students were made to write the essay again. The to reappears when the sentence is turned round, which is why both forms are heard and why the two are confused. Writing fails because a gerund cannot follow make in this construction, and written would make the students the thing written rather than the writers.

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469.

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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470.

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’.

Having given up smoking, he had no utilize of a lighter.
 

Answer: B

It should read use for.

The sentence needs a noun after no, and the noun is use. Have no use for something is the idiom for not needing it; utilize is a verb, and utility means usefulness in the abstract.

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