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Directions: Choose the word/phrase which best replaces the italicised part in the sentence given below. If the sentence needs no change, mark (4) as your answer.

If you had arrived earlier, you would have found me in the bus.

  1. will find

  2. have found

  3. found

  4. No improvement needed

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The given sentence in itself is correct and needs no improvement. Hence, (4) is the correct answer.

Directions: Choose the word/phrase which best replaces the italicised part in the sentence given below. If the sentence needs no change, mark (4) as your answer.

The robber entered into the old man's room very quietly.

  1. entered in

  2. entered inside

  3. entered

  4. No improvement needed

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Some words like 'enter' (when used as verbs) do not take any preposition. Hence, (3) is the correct answer.

Directions: Choose the word/phrase which best replaces the italicised part in the sentence given below. If the sentence needs no change, mark (4) as your answer.

It is one and quarter hours since Harish went away.

  1. one and quarter

  2. one and quarter hour

  3. one hour and a quarter

  4. No improvement needed

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The original sentence is correct. So, (4) is the correct answer.

Directions: Choose the word/phrase which best replaces the italicised part in the sentence given below. If the sentence needs no change, mark (4) as your answer.

Unless he does not leave this house, I will not say anything.

  1. had left

  2. left

  3. leaves

  4. No improvement needed

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The given sentence bespeaks of a “redundancy” case as “unless” and “does not” have the same meaning. Only “unless” which is a conjunction should be used. Hence, (3) is the correct answer.

Directions: Choose the word/phrase which best replaces the italicised part in the sentence given below. If the sentence needs no change, mark (4) as your answer.

As the summer vacation approaches, the number of tourists are increasing by leaps and bound.

  1. has increased by leaps and bounds

  2. increases by leaps and bounds

  3. are increasing by leaps and bounds

  4. No improvement needed

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The tense in both the clauses should be the same. The subordinate clause is in the simple present tense, the main clause should also be in the same tense. Hence, (2) is the correct answer.

Directions: Choose the word/phrase which best replaces the italicised part in the sentence given below. If the sentence needs no change, mark (4) as your answer.

I could not help to laugh at the joke.

  1. laughing at

  2. laugh at

  3. to laughing at

  4. No improvement needed

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The main verb ‘help’ always takes a participle and not an infinitive and (1) is a participle. Hence, (1) is the correct answer.

Directions: Choose the word/phrase which best replaces the italicised part in the sentence given below. If the sentence needs no change, mark (4) as your answer.

My copy is as good or better than yours.

  1. as good as

  2. as good and better

  3. as good as or

  4. No improvement needed

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

In an affirmative sentence, the positive degree takes “as ___ as”. Since, there is a second comparative clause 'better than' we need to have the 'or' to join the two clauses.

Directions: Choose the word/phrase which best replaces the italicised part in the sentence given below. If the sentence needs no change, mark (4) as your answer.

While walking across the road a bus knocked him down.

  1. a bus knocked him

  2. he was by a bus knocked

  3. he was knocked down by a bus

  4. No improvement needed

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

There is an error of dangling modifier. It seems as if the bus is walking acros the road. We need to put the subject immediately after the modifying clause to correct the error. This is available only in option 3. Hence, (3) is the correct answer.

Directions: Choose the word/phrase which best replaces the italicised part in the sentence given below. If the sentence needs no change, mark (4) as your answer.

We had to stop for diesel because we had hardly much left.

  1. some

  2. more

  3. any

  4. No improvement needed

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

“Hardly” and “much” are the two opposite adverbs. “Hardly” is a negative word and “much” is a positive word as used in the given sentence. In the given sentence, there was no petrol left, so a stop had to be taken. Hence, (3) is the correct answer.

Directions: Choose the word/phrase which best replaces the italicised part in the sentence given below. If the sentence needs no change, mark (4) as your answer.

The cat has not been lying on the sofa all day.

  1. The cat had not been laying on the sofa all day.

  2. The cat has been not lying on the sofa the entire day.

  3. The cat has not been laying on the sofa all day.

  4. No improvement needed

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The sentence is correct and none of the options is right. Hence, (4) is the correct answer.

Directions: Choose the word/phrase which best replaces the italicised part in the sentence given below. If the sentence needs no change, mark (4) as your answer.

A large number of houses has come up around Kolkata.

  1. is coming up

  2. are coming up

  3. had come up

  4. No improvement needed

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

“The houses have not stopped coming up and are still in the process of being constructed, i.e. it is a continuous tense. Moreover, 'a large' is followed by a plural auxilary. Hence, (2) is the correct answer.

Directions: Choose the word/phrase which best replaces the italicised part in the sentence given below. If the sentence needs no change mark(4) as your answer.

The rules of chess require that one made only one move at a time.

  1. makes

  2. make

  3. will make

  4. No improvement needed

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

This is a general statement of present. In the case of present indefinite tense, we use only the first form of the verb. 'One' is followed by singular auxilary. Hence, (1) is the correct answer.

Directions: Choose the word/phrase which best replaces the italicised part in the sentence given below. If the sentence needs no change mark(4) as your answer.

To struggle for freedom is not as rewarding as achieving it.

  1. Struggle

  2. To struglling

  3. Struggling

  4. No improvement needed

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

“Achieving” is a gerund and a gerund has to follow a gerund. “To struggle” is one infinitive and the gerund form of “to struggle” is struggling”. Hence, (3) is the correct answer.

Directions: Choose the word/phrase which best replaces the italicised part in the sentence given below. If the sentence needs no change mark(4) as your answer.

The candidate will be interviewed between 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.

  1. between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m.

  2. between 11 a.m. from 12 a.m.

  3. between 11 a.m. for 12 a.m.

  4. No improvement needed

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

“Between” and “to” convey the same sense and so “and” has to be used. Hence, (1) is the correct answer.

Directions: Choose the word/phrase which best replaces the italicised part in the sentence given below. If the sentence needs no change mark(4) as your answer.

If I was you I would not sign the document.

  1. If I have been you

  2. If I were you

  3. Was I you

  4. No improvement needed

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

In such constructions 'if' is always followed by ‘were’ and not by ‘was’. Hence, (2) is the correct answer.

Directions: Choose the word/phrase which best replaces the italicised part in the sentence given below. If the sentence needs no change, mark(4) as your answer.

'Arms and the Man' have been written by George Bernard Shaw.

  1. are written

  2. are being written

  3. has been written

  4. No improvement needed

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

“Arms and the Man” is the name of a book which depicts of being regular. So, we use “has been written” as the book is singular. Hence, (3) is the correct answer.

Directions: Choose the word/phrase which best replaces the italicised part in the sentence given below. If the sentence needs no change, mark(4) as your answer.

Since we are living in Bombay, we are unwilling to move to another city.

  1. Since we have been living

  2. Being that we are living

  3. Since we were living

  4. No improvement needed

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Error of sentence formation. Case of present perfect continuous tense. 'We are willing' means they are still living in 'Mumbai'. For the actions of the past that continue till the time of speaking, we use present perfect continuous.

Directions: Choose the word/phrase which best replaces the italicised part in the sentence given below. If the sentence needs no change, mark(4) as your answer.

I prefer to ride than to walk.

  1. ride to walk

  2. riding than walking

  3. riding to walking

  4. No improvement needed

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Error of parallelism. Certain words such as ‘prefer’ take a gerund as an object and the gerund of “to ride and to walk” is “riding and walking”. Moreover, verb 'prefer' takes preposition 'to'. Hence, (3) is the correct answer.

Directions: Choose the word/phrase which best replaces the italicised part in the sentence given below. If the sentence needs no change, mark(4) as your answer.

He enjoys to tell stories to children.

  1. telling stories

  2. how to tell stories

  3. to narrate stories

  4. No improvement needed

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Certain verbs such as “enjoy” take a participle after them if they are followed by objects. Hence, “telling” is the participle of “to tell”.

Directions: Choose the word/phrase which best replaces the italicised part in the sentence given below. If the sentence needs no change, mark(4) as your answer.

By temperament the French are reserved, so they prefer to live in solitude.

  1. French people

  2. French

  3. some French

  4. No improvement needed

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

“The French” means the people of France. This sentence is correct. Hence, (4) is the correct answer.

Directions: Choose the word/phrase which best replaces the italicised part in the sentence given below. If the sentence needs no change mark (4) as your answer.

If the forwards would have run faster, they would have scored more goals.

  1. would have run more fast

  2. had run

  3. had run faster

  4. No improvement needed

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

If the subordinate clause is in the Future Perfect Tense, then the main clause has to be in the past perfect Tense. Hence, (3) is the correct answer.

Directions: Choose the word/phrase which best replaces the italicised part in the sentence given below. If the sentence needs no change mark (4) as your answer.

The person who they are refering to is a good friend.

  1. whom

  2. which

  3. that

  4. No improvement needed

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Error of subject-object identification. Here the subject is 'they' as it is 'they' who are doing something (i.e. referring). Now the person whom 'they' are referring to are objects. Objective form takes 'whom', and not 'who'.

Directions: Choose the word/phrase which best replaces the italicised part in the sentence given below. If the sentence needs no change mark (4) as your answer.

Is the coffee so cool for you to drink?

  1. too cool that you can drink

  2. cool enough for you to drink

  3. enough cool to drink

  4. No improvement needed

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The construction of the given sentence is wrong and the adverb “enough” should have been used in place if “so”.. Hence, (2) is the correct answer.

Directions: Choose the word/phrase which best replaces the italicised part in the sentence given below. If the sentence needs no change mark (4) as your answer.

The short essay should not exceed more than two hundred pages.

  1. exceed

  2. exceed than

  3. more exceed

  4. No improvement needed

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The words “exceed” and “more than” are not used together and only one of them is used. Since “more than” has been left out so (1) is the correct answer.

Directions: Choose the word/phrase which best replaces the italicised part in the sentence given below. If the sentence needs no change mark (4) as your answer.

Would you mind help me with these questions?

  1. helping

  2. to help

  3. of helping

  4. No improvement needed

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

In the given sentence 'help' has been depicted as the complement of the verb “mind” and as such only a participle form of “keep” can the used, Hence, (1) is the correct answer.

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