Integrated Grammar Solved Exercises: Connectors | Verbal for GMAT PDF Download

Q1: Read this telephone conversation between two friends and complete the passage given below.

Sunil : Where have you been? I've called you six times.
 Rajeev : I was cleaning my room.
 Sunil : You couldn't stop cleaning to answer your phone?
 Rajeev : I was cleaning my room so I could find the phone!

Sunil telephoned his friend Rajeev and inquired (a) _______adding that (b) ________. Rajeev replied that. (c) _______. An angry Sunil wanted to know if (d) ________ to which Rajeev replied that (e) _________.

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Sunil telephoned his friend Rajeev and inquired (a) _where he had been__adding that (b) _he called six times_. Rajeev replied that. (c) _he was cleaning his room_. An angry Sunil wanted to know if (d)_he couldn't stop cleaning_to which Rajeev replied that (e) _he was cleaning so he could find the phone_. 

Q2: Edit the Notice given below by choosing the appropriate options from the list given. Write the correct answer in the answer sheet against the correct blank number.

Options:-

(a)
(i) is launching a Cleanliness Drive to 
(ii) is launched a Cleanliness Drive for
(iii) was launching a Cleanliness Drive to
(iv) has launched a Cleanliness Drive for

(b)
(i) for a fortnight from 19th March 
(ii) within a fortnight on 19th March
(iii) in a fortnight from 19th March
(iv) for a fortnight on 19th March

(c)
(i) to clean the area and to start an awareness campaign
(ii) cleaning the area and starting an awareness campaign 
(iii) cleaning the area and to start an awareness campaign
(iv) to cleaning the area and for starting an awareness campaign

(d)
(i) who are wishing to participating in the drive
(ii) who wishes to participate in the drive
(iii) who wish to participate in the drive 
(iv) that wish to participated in the drive

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Q3: Rearrange the following words and phrases to form meaningful sentences as shown.

1. only if/that/Egyptians/could/were preserved/believed/the spirits of dead people/live on/their bodies/the ancient
Ans. The ancient Egyptians believed that the spirits of dead people could live on only if their bodies were preserved.

2. making them/preserved/dead bodies/so/they/by/into mummies/ the
Ans.  So, they preserved the dead bodies by making them into mummies.

3. dried-out bodies/wrapped/in linen bandages/were
Ans.  Dried-out bodies were wrapped in linen bandages. 

4. Egyptians/the ancient/securely/inside pyramids/the mummies/buried
Ans. The ancient Egyptians buried the mummies securely inside pyramids.

Q4. The following passage has not been edited. There is one error in each of the lines. Write the incorrect word and the correction in the space provided. Remember to underline the word that you have supplied as shown.

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Q5: Complete the passage by choosing the correct options from those given below.

With (a) ______________ traffic and poor facilities, pedestrians (b) ______________ to be the most vulnerable to fatal accidents (c) ______________ road users. Even though in the last six years the number of pedestrian subways in the city (d) ______________ almost doubled, most of them are neither well maintained (e) ______________ well designed. As a result pedestrians avoid (f) ______________ them. (g) ______________, the police say this should not be a reason (h)
______________ people to avoid subways.

Options:-
 (a) (i) increasing (ii) increase (iii) are increasing (iv) to increase
 (b) (i) seems (ii) are seeming (iii) seem (iv) seemed
 (c) (i) between (ii) amongst (iii) in between (iv) beside
 (d) (i) have (ii) has been (iii) have been (iv) has
 (e) (i) or not (ii) nor (iii) and (iv) none
 (f) (i) uses (ii) to use (iii) used (iv) using
 (g) (i) Nonetheless (ii) Therefore (iii) Hence (iv) Similarly
 (h) (i) for (ii) of (iii) about (iv) with

Answers-

(a)
(i) increasing ✓
(ii) increase
(iii) are increasing                
(iv) to increase

(b)
(i) seems
(ii) are seeming
(iii) seem ✓
(iv) seemed

(c)
(i) between
(ii) amongst ✓
(iii) in between
(iv) beside

(d)
(i) have
(ii) has been
(iii) have been                    
(iv) has ✓

(e)
(i) or not
(ii) nor ✓
(iii) and
(iv) none

(f)
(i) uses
(ii) to use
(iii) used
(iv) using ✓

(g)
(i) Nonetheless ✓
(ii) Therefore
(iii) Hence
(iv) Similarly

(h)
(i) for ✓
(ii) of
(iii) about
(iv) with

Q6: In the passage given below, one word has been omitted in each line. In your answer sheet write the missing word along with the word that comes before and the word that comes after it against the correct blank number. Ensure that the word that forms your answer is underlined.

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