BITSAT English Proficiency Test - 5 - JEE MCQ

The given sentence is in passive voice and it is present perfect tense. To convert it into active voice, 'have been altered' is changed to 'have altered' and the subject and object are interchanged.

The correctly spelt world is 'Camouflage'.
The correct spellings of the other words are,
Veterienarian → Veterinarian
Chechoslovakia → Czechoslovakia
Renaissence → Renaissance
Kaliedoscope → Kaleidoscope

Here,
Haematologist → Specialists in diseases related to blood and blood system
Nephrologist → Specialists in diseases related to kidney and urinary system
Cardiologist → Specialists in diseases related to hearts
Gynaecologist - Specialists in the treatment of women's diseases

In the conversion of direct to indirect speech and vice versa, tenses change. Since, the sentence is in simple present tense, it will change to simple past tense. In option 1, the second part of the sentence has not been converted correctly, Also, 'congratulated' is a complete verb, so it does not need to be accompanied with verbs like 'wished' or 'said'. So, options 2 and 3 are also incorrect. The correct conversion is given in option 4.
Hence, this is the correct answer.

'Supple' refers to a quality to bend and to move easily, while 'stiff' refers to rigidness. All the other options refer to the words having same meaning as of 'supple'.

Pronunciation is the way of speaking a word or language. 
Sometimes 'ch' is pronounced as the alphabet 'k'. Now, 'cho' is pronounced as 'Kwa' and 'ir' is pronounced as 'er'. So, the word 'Choir' is pronounced as 'kwa-er'. 
'Choir' is a noun, which means an organised group of singers.

Direct speech is a way by which we report the actual words of the speaker, and indirect speech is a way by which we report the substance of the speaker's words and not the actual words spoken by him/her. The verb which appears outside the inverted commas is called the 'reporting verb', and the part within the inverted commas or the speech which tells you what someone has said is called the 'reported speech'.
Here, while changing the imperative sentence from the direct speech to the indirect speech, the following changes are done as per the rules of the reported speech:

• The reporting verb 'said' is changed to 'advised' as the direct speech is an imperative sentence where the subject is giving advice.
• We have removed the inverted commas.
• The verb of the reported speech takes the infinitive form (i.e. to talk). Also, as it is a negative sentence, so, 'to' is preceded by 'not' (i.e. 'not to talk').

Option 1 : Jack said that Jill needed a pen.
 

The correct answer is "Jack said that Jill needed a pen."

Key Points

• In reported (or indirect) speech, we often shift tenses back.
• In this case, the direct speech is in the simple present tense "needs".
• When changing this into indirect speech, it becomes past simple tense, that is, "needs" becomes "needed".
• Additionally, we maintain the same subject ("Jack") and reporting verb ("said") as the original sentence.
• The pronoun "that" is used as a conjunction linking the reporting clause and the reported clause, maintaining the coherence and structure of the sentence.

Therefore, the correct answer is "Option 1"

Pronunciation is the way of speaking a word or language. 
The first part of the word, 'Green' is pronounced as 'gren' (the pronunciation of 'ee' is eliminated) and the second part is simply pronounced as the word 'itch' (which means an uncomfortable sensation). So, as a whole, it is pronounced as 'Gren-itch'. 
[Greenwich is the town of South East London]

The sentence is given in direct speech. Here the reporting verb 'said' is in the past tense, therefore the tense of the reported verb 'am going' is changed into the corresponding past form 'was going'. The first person 'I' in the direct speech is changed into the person of the speaker, that is 'he'. Also, 'now' in the direct speech is changed to the word expressing remoteness of time, 'then'.
Hence, in indirect speech the given sentence will be: Donald said that he was going to the gym then.