Which of phrases given below each sentence should replace the phrase printed in bold type to make the grammatically correct?
He told me that he would kill you if I did not pay back his loan.
Answer: A
It should read he would kill me.
The threat was made to the speaker, so in reported speech the second person you becomes the first person me. Will also becomes would after the past reporting verb told.
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Select the grammatically correct sentence:
1. As the train which was my usual was missing I had to travel.
2. Having missed the train which I usually catch and had to travel.
3. I missed the train which I usually catch and had to travel by the next.
4. I missed not only the train which I usually catch but had to travel on the next.
Answer: C
It is sentence 3.
Sentence 2 joins a participle phrase to a finite verb with and, which leaves no subject for had to travel. Sentence 3 supplies a subject and keeps both verbs finite.
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Select the grammatically correct sentence:
1. You cannot win my confidence until you are sincere.
2. When he lost the book he searched it everywhere.
3. She was intent to harm her friends.
4. I have not met my friend for the last five days.
Answer: A
It is sentence 1.
Sentence 2 needs searched for it - search takes for before the thing sought. Sentence 3 needs intent on harming, since intent takes on and a gerund.
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If you come across my umbrella anywhere, bring it to me, can you?
Answer: C
It should read will you?
An imperative takes will you as its tag, since there is no auxiliary in the sentence to repeat. Can you would ask about ability rather than making the request.
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I wish my train did not arrive so late; then I could have reached home before lunch.
Answer: C
It should read had not arrived.
I wish about something already past takes the past perfect. The second clause, could have reached, confirms that the train has already come and gone.
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Identify the incorrect sentence or sentences:
a. When Zach was born,he was perfect.
b. He weighted three kilos and was 53 centimeters long.
c. He had fine blond hair and murky blue infant eyes.
d. He did all things he was supposed at all the right times.
Answer: A
Only d is incorrect.
Sentences a to c are sound; d carries the fault. Note that weighted in b is the correct form only if something was added as a weight, but the sense there is weighed - the question treats it as acceptable and marks d alone.
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Select the grammatically correct sentence:
1. I went yesterday to the bank to collect the pass book.
2. I went to the bank to collect the pass book.
3. Yesterday to collect the pass book I went to the bank.
4. To collect the pass book yesterday I went to the bank.
Answer: A
It is sentence 1.
Adverbs of time normally follow the verb or close the sentence, and yesterday sits comfortably after went. Sentence 3 fronts two adverbials before the subject, which reads as clumsy rather than wrong.
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When his boss rebuked him, he decided to take revenge until he became ready to realise his guilt.
Answer: C
It should read until he became ready.
The main verb decided is past, so the time clause must be past too. Until is the right conjunction for the point at which the revenge would stop; as long as would make it conditional on his readiness continuing.
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Select the grammatically correct sentence:
1. By June next year Ajax will be twenty years working in the office.
2. Till June next year Ajax will work in the office for twenty years.
3. Till June next year Ajax will be working in the office for twenty years.
4. By June next year Ajax will have been working in the office for twenty years.
Answer: D
It is sentence 4.
A period of work completed by a future date takes the future perfect - will have worked. By marks the deadline; till marks a duration, which is not what a completed span requires.
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Select the grammatically correct sentence:
1. He went to the wholesale market and bought the cheap rations.
2. He went to the wholesale market and bought the rations cheap.
3. He went to the wholesale market and bought rations cheaply.
4. He went to the wholesale market and cheaply bought rations.
Answer: B
It is sentence 2.
Cheap here is an adverb meaning at a low price, and it follows the verb - bought the rations cheap. Placed before rations it would be an adjective describing the rations themselves as inferior.
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