Multiple choice

Directions: Find the statement where the given word hasn’t been used correctly.

DELIVER

  1. Indians are bound by the statutory requirement to deliver their income tax by 31st March every year.

  2. The courier man delivered the package this morning.

  3. Lennox delivered a punch that knocked Tyson out of the challenge.

  4. You will find it difficult to deliver on your commitment.

  5. August 15th was the day of our deliverance from the English yoke.
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Explanation

Option (1) depicts the incorrect usage of ‘deliver’. Income tax is not delivered but is filed or registered. ‘Delivered’ in (2) means to distribute; in option (3) it means to strike(a blow); and in option (4), it means to give forth, or express in words; make. In option (5) it means to set free or liberate.

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