Multiple choice

(i) Get a professional to (A) appraise (B) apprise your business and if needed, do the needful. (ii) The sanitary conditions in the public toilets are (A) abhorrent (B) aberrant. (iii) The policemen wanted to know the (A) bear (B) bare facts from the shopkeepers. (iv) There was no sign to (A) denote (B) connote the speed limit on that road.

Directions: In the following question, there are four sentences. Each sentence has pairs of words marked as ‘A’ and ‘B’ that are italicised or highlighted. Select the most appropriate word to form grammatically and syntactically correct sentences. Then, from the options that follow, choose the correct one.

  1. AABA

  2. ABBA

  3. BABA

  4. AABB

  5. AAAA
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A Correct answer
Explanation

In sentence (i), the correct option is (A) appraise because it refers to assessing the quality of the business.  In sentence (ii), the correct option is (A) abhorrent because it refers to something truly disgusting or detestable. In sentence (iii), the correct option is (B) because bare here refers to simple, plain, unadorned facts. In sentence (iv), the correct option is (A) because denote refers to a sign or a symbol, to define exactly.

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