I could not put up in a hotel / because the boarding and lodging charges / were exorbitant / No errors.
According to the Bible / it is meek and humble / who shall inherit the earth / No error.
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Most of the members at the meeting felt / hat the group appointed for investigating the case / were not competent to do the job efficiently / No error.
In these days of inflation / a ten rupee's note will not buy you / even an ordinary meal. / No error.
DIRECTIONS: The following question contains an idiom and its usage in a sentence, followed by five possible meanings labelled A, B, C, D and E. Pick out the right meaning of the idiom in question and mark your answer accordingly.
Q.
A pipe dream.
His idea to make a movie was "a mere pipe dream".
DIRECTIONS: The following question contains an idiom and its usage in a sentence, followed by five possible meanings labelled A, B, C, D and E. Pick out the right meaning of the idiom in question and mark your answer accordingly.
Q.
Ride rough shod.
Do not "ride rough shod" over the poor.
The man told to her / that he had not brought his dog / out for a walk as he was afraid that it would rain / No error.
Direction: The sentences given in the question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.
A. Good writers use more verbs.
B. However, it is hard to write without verbs.
C. The reason is that if unnecessary words are reduced, the verb-percentage goes up as a mathematical necessity.
D. So “use verbs” is not really good advice; writers have to use verbs, and trying to add extra ones would not turn out well.
Direction: The sentences given in the question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.
A. During the 24-hour darkness of the austral autumn and winter, the South Pole Telescope operates nonstop under impeccable conditions for astronomy.
B. The atmosphere is thin (the pole is more than 9,300 feet above sea level, 9,000 of which are ice), stable (due to the absence of the heating and cooling effects of a rising and setting Sun) and the pole has some of the calmest winds on Earth, blowing almost always from the same direction.
C. “The South Pole has the harshest environment on Earth, but also the most benign,” says William Holzapfel, a University of California at Berkeley astrophysicist, the on-site lead researcher at the South Pole Telescope.
D. From an astronomer’s perspective, not until the Sun goes down and stays down—March through September— does the South Pole get “benign.”
Direction: The sentences given in the question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.
A.The oldest fossil grasses are just 70 million years old, although grass may have evolved a bit earlier than that.
B. There have been land plants for 465 million years, yet there were no flowers for over two-thirds of that time.
C. The equally-familiar grasses appeared even more recently.
D. Flowering plants only appeared in the middle of the dinosaur era.
Direction: The sentences given in the question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.
A. Patrilineal ownership of lands and the culture of dowry attached to it have turned daughters into bad debts.
B. The control of such castes on local politics aggravates masculine hubris.
C. The bigotry of our village culture and polity is intrinsically linked to a control of land and agriculture.
D. Land makes certain castes ‘kingly’ in rural communities.
Direction: The sentences given in the question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.
A. The Mandate of Heaven indicated divine approval of a king’s right to rule.
B. In other words, the Mandate of Heaven gave divine ruling authority to kings that lived a moral life, administered justice, and protected the welfare of his people.
C. Whereas Medieval Europeans legitimized their ruling authority by the divine right of kings, Confucian societies used a similar concept called the Mandate of Heaven.
D. However, it differed from the divine right of kings in that Heaven’s endorsement depends upon the virtuous conduct of the ruler.
Directions: A sentence is given below with three words highlighted in the underline. Select the option that gives the correct set of words. In case the sentence is correct, select ‘No replacement required’.
While it is acknowledged that Electric Vehicles contribute to improving urban air quality, the government policy should take into account the life-cycle impact of the product and be agnostic to the underlying technology.
Direction: In the given question, four words are printed in underline and are numbered 1, 2, 3 and 4. Of these, the positions of two of these words may be incorrect and need to be exchanged to make the sentence correct. Find the two words which need to be exchanged. In case the given sentence is correct, your answer is (E), i.e., 'No correction required'.
If you had a short-term goal, then you (1) provide a fixed-income (2) product, not a market- (3) linked product; to (4) need return predictability.
Direction: In the given question, four words are printed in underlined and are numbered 1, 2, 3 and 4. Of these, the positions of two of these words may be incorrect and need to be exchanged to make the sentence correct. Find the two words which need to be exchanged. In case the given sentence is correct, your answer is (E), i.e., 'No correction required'.
He continued to (1) away a scene even as I moved (2) create and got into my (3) arrived that had thankfully (4) auto by then.
Find the word most appropriate for Blank no. 17
The (11)____ citizen who has to get everyday jobs done by various municipal and government departments is (12)____ driven up a tree, first (13)____ them, second explaining to them what is (14)____ and lastly, getting the job done.
If this week I (15)____ some personal experience in this column, it is because I can document them. It is not to ask for any special (16)____ or voice personal (17)____ but to bring into public view the experience of hundreds, if not thousands of citizens everyday of the year and express the collective (18)____ of all of them. Because one’s usual experience is that when such complaints are (19)____ in such columns, the departments rush to (20)____
Find the word most appropriate for Blank no. 18
The (11)____ citizen who has to get everyday jobs done by various municipal and government departments is (12)____ driven up a tree, first (13)____ them, second explaining to them what is (14)____ and lastly, getting the job done.
If this week I (15)____ some personal experience in this column, it is because I can document them. It is not to ask for any special (16)____ or voice personal (17)____ but to bring into public view the experience of hundreds, if not thousands of citizens everyday of the year and express the collective (18)____ of all of them. Because one’s usual experience is that when such complaints are (19)____ in such columns, the departments rush to (20)____
Find the word most appropriate for Blank no. 19
The (11)____ citizen who has to get everyday jobs done by various municipal and government departments is (12)____ driven up a tree, first (13)____ them, second explaining to them what is (14)____ and lastly, getting the job done.
If this week I (15)____ some personal experience in this column, it is because I can document them. It is not to ask for any special (16)____ or voice personal (17)____ but to bring into public view the experience of hundreds, if not thousands of citizens everyday of the year and express the collective (18)____ of all of them. Because one’s usual experience is that when such complaints are (19)____ in such columns, the departments rush to (20)____
Read the sentence to find out whether there is any error in it or not. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The number of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is (5). Ignore errors of punctuation, if any.
My father / can carry me / on his shoulders / when I was a child.
Directions: In the question given below few sentences are given which are grammatically correct and meaningful. Connect them by the word given above the statements in the best possible way without changing the intended meaning. Choose your answer accordingly from the options to form a correct, coherent sentence.
Monica lives in New York. Her brother lives in California.
I. whereas
II. while
III. provided that
IV. therefore
Find the word most appropriate for Blank no. 20
The (11)____ citizen who has to get everyday jobs done by various municipal and government departments is (12)____ driven up a tree, first (13)____ them, second explaining to them what is (14)____ and lastly, getting the job done.
If this week I (15)____ some personal experience in this column, it is because I can document them. It is not to ask for any special (16)____ or voice personal (17)____ but to bring into public view the experience of hundreds, if not thousands of citizens everyday of the year and express the collective (18)____ of all of them. Because one’s usual experience is that when such complaints are (19)____ in such columns, the departments rush to (20)____
Find the word most appropriate for Blank no. 29
Our study about women’s place in Indian society is mainly based on urban, professional and educated Indian women. Deep in the rural heartland of the country, the rapidly changing world has not even touched the (29)____ of the life of a women. Most men of orthodox families take (30)____ in revealing that their (31)____ folk stay in ‘purdah’, a shield that (32)____ a woman of the joys of free nature. Still more alarming are the (33)____ of atrocities of women (34)____ incidents at Bantala, Singur and Birati are (35)____
Directions: Which of the phrases A, B, C and D given below each sentence should replace the phrase printed in bold and underline in the sentence to make it grammatically correct? If the sentence is correct as it is given and ‘No correction is required’, Mark E as the answer.
Airport police became suspicious of a passenger after one of the drug dogs somber sniffed his carry-on bag
Directions: Which of the phrases A, B, C and D given below each sentence should replace the phrase printed in bold and underline in the sentence to make it grammatically correct? If the sentence is correct as it is given and ‘No correction is required’, Mark E as the answer.
Medical treatment here is very expensive that they had to sell off their land to pay for it.
Directions: Which of the phrases A, B, C and D given below each sentence should replace the phrase printed in bold and underline in the sentence to make it grammatically correct? If the sentence is correct as it is given and ‘No correction is required’, Mark E as the answer.
These hand woven shawls are much in demand in many European countries.
Directions: Which of the phrases A, B, C and D given below each sentence should replace the phrase printed in bold and underline in the sentence to make it grammatically correct? If the sentence is correct as it is given and ‘No correction is required’, Mark E as the answer.
For decade company which make soap, lotions and perfumes have relied on a chemical called Bourgeonal.
Directions: Which of the phrases A, B, C and D given below each sentence should replace the phrase printed in bold and underline in the sentence to make it grammatically correct? If the sentence is correct as it is given and ‘No correction is required’, Mark E as the answer.
As far as I know them, they all are atheist and they observe fast during the Navratre.
If REUNION LIMITED is written as QAOMEIM KELESAC, how will SCHOOL be written?
If ROME BOMBAY is written as SUNI CUNCEZ, how will ASIA will be written?
If TEMPORARY is written as YRAROPMET, how will PERMANENT will be written?