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Question for Practice Questions Level 1: Modal, Auxiliary, Adjective & Adverb
Try yourself:Directions: Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (5).
Explanation
Error of modal. Replace `can` by should`. The speaker is not seeking permission or exploring the possibilities but politely expressing an expectation, mixed with desirability.
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Question for Practice Questions Level 1: Modal, Auxiliary, Adjective & Adverb
Try yourself:Directions: Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (5).
Explanation
If two events in the past are in sequence, the latter event will use simple past tense. Replace `had topped` by `topped` to succeed `had secured` in the past perfect.
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Question for Practice Questions Level 1: Modal, Auxiliary, Adjective & Adverb
Try yourself:Directions: Four parts of the sentence given below have been underlined and numbered 1 to 4. Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (5).
Dinosaurs (1) are traditionally classified as cold-blooded reptiles, (2) but recent evidence based on their eating habits, posture, and skeletal structure (3) suggested some (4) may have been warm-blooded. (5) No error
Explanation
Replace 'suggested' by 'suggests' to go with 'recent evidence'.
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Question for Practice Questions Level 1: Modal, Auxiliary, Adjective & Adverb
Try yourself:Directions: Four parts of the sentence given below have been underlined. Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (5).
(1) A smile can be observed, described, and reliably (2) identified; it can also be elicited and (3) be manipulated under (4) experimental conditions. (5) No error
Explanation
Delete the repetitive `be`. The correct usage is `be elicited and manipulated`.
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Question for Practice Questions Level 1: Modal, Auxiliary, Adjective & Adverb
Try yourself:Directions: Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option.
Each embryo ________ to maximize its own success, regardless of the fate of its kin.
Explanation
The best fit would have been `tries`. In the absence of that: `will try`.
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Question for Practice Questions Level 1: Modal, Auxiliary, Adjective & Adverb
Try yourself:Directions: A part of the sentence that has been underlined has an error. The part has been rewritten under answer options 1 to 5. Select the option that is the most coherent and precise representation of the underlined part.
The smooth passage of the Insurance Bill through the Lok Sabha is the best news which India has have in recent years.
Explanation
The sentence bears error of verb form (`have` in place of `had`) and use of incorrect conjunction (`which` in place of `that`). `Has` is always followed by third form of the verb and `had` is used here as a verb to mean possessed. `Which` is preceded by a comma and it represents a less important feature. The option corrects both the errors.
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Question for Practice Questions Level 1: Modal, Auxiliary, Adjective & Adverb
Try yourself:Directions: A part of the sentence that has been underlined has an error. The part has been rewritten under answer options 1 to 5. Select the option that is the most coherent and precise representation of the underlined part.
If I have had more time, I would have equaled.
Explanation
The past perfect form of have is had had (had + past participle form of have). With perfect conditional 'would have' past perfect tense will be used along with past participle form of verb in the conditional clause. So, option 5 is the correct answer.
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Question for Practice Questions Level 1: Modal, Auxiliary, Adjective & Adverb
Try yourself:Directions: A part of the sentence that has been underlined has an error. The part has been rewritten under answer options 1 to 5. Select the option that is the most coherent and precise representation of the underlined part.
Had he realized how near he was to qualifying, he would appear in the examination.
Explanation
Perfect conditional sentence beginning with `had` would take `would have` (not would) in another clause. This option rectifies the error.
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Question for Practice Questions Level 1: Modal, Auxiliary, Adjective & Adverb
Try yourself:Directions: A part of the sentence that has been underlined has an error. The part has been rewritten under answer options 1 to 5. Select the option that is the most coherent and precise representation of the underlined part.
The spokesman said the party will take a stand when the issue actually comes up.
Explanation
This option corrects the error in tense. The reporting verb is in past tense so reported speech is also changed in past tense.
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Question for Practice Questions Level 1: Modal, Auxiliary, Adjective & Adverb
Try yourself:Directions: The sentence given below has been divided into four parts. Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (5).
Explanation
While referring to specific time in the past, we should use simple past tense; in this case: 'came back'.
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Question for Practice Questions Level 1: Modal, Auxiliary, Adjective & Adverb
Try yourself:Directions: Four parts of the sentence given below have been underlined. Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (5).
Explanation
The visitors ‘had left’. When two events in the past are in sequence, the earlier event is put in the past perfect tense. The visitors had left before he returned to office.
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Question for Practice Questions Level 1: Modal, Auxiliary, Adjective & Adverb
Try yourself:Directions: Four parts of the sentence given below have been underlined. Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (5).
Turquoise, (1) which is found in microscopic crystals, is opaque with (2) a waxy luster, varying in (3) colours (4) from greenish grey to sky blue. (5) No error
Explanation
It varies in `colour`, not `colours`. Here `colour` is used as a characteristic.
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Question for Practice Questions Level 1: Modal, Auxiliary, Adjective & Adverb
Try yourself:Directions: Four parts of the sentence given below have been underlined. Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (5).
(1) While studying the chemistry of (2) human body, Dr. Rosalyn Yalow won a Nobel Prize for the research she (3) conducted on the (4) role of hormones. (5) No error
Explanation
In case of two successive actions in the past tense, the action that occurs earlier uses past perfect tense (remember the example: the patient had died before the doctor came).
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Question for Practice Questions Level 1: Modal, Auxiliary, Adjective & Adverb
Try yourself:Directions: The sentence below is underlined or has an underlined part. The underlined part may have an error of grammar or syntax. There are five options that seek to correct the error (including an option that simply repeats the sentence). Select the option that best replaces the underlined part.
Even before the villagers could be shifted to a safer place the river has overflown its bank.
Explanation
'Flown' is the past participle form of 'fly' while 'flowed' is the past participle form of 'flow'. The river does not fly; it flows. And when two past actions are in sequence, past perfect tense (had) should be used for the event that happens earlier. This option rectifies both the errors.
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Question for Practice Questions Level 1: Modal, Auxiliary, Adjective & Adverb
Try yourself:Directions: Four parts of the sentence given below have been underlined. Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (5).
The door (1) is locked (2) from inside, someone (3) must have been (4) inside the room. (5) No error
Explanation
'Must be' will be the correct use in place of 'must have been'. 'Must have been' refers to an action in the past.
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