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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The underlined part of the given sentence may be correct or incorrect. There are four alternatives marked (1), (2), (3) and (4) which represent various ways of improving the underlined part. Select the appropriate choice to improve the underlined part of the sentence.

At the end of the play about women's liberation, the leading lady cautioned the audience not to judge womanhood by the way she dresses.

  1. she dresses
  2. she dressed
  3. it dresses
  4. they dressed
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The underlined part of the given sentence may be correct or incorrect. There are four alternatives marked (1), (2), (3) and (4), which represent various ways of improving the underlined part. Select the appropriate choice to improve the underlined part of the sentence.

No sooner did he enter the room when the lights went out and everybody began to scream.

  1. when the lights went out
  2. than the lights went out
  3. and the lights went out
  4. then the lights went out
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The underlined part of the given sentence may be correct or incorrect. There are four alternatives marked (1), (2), (3) and (4), which represent various ways of improving the underlined part. Select the appropriate choice to improve the underlined part of the sentence.

The use of radar, as well as two-way radio paging, make it possible for state police to intercept most speeders.

  1. make it possible
  2. makes it possible
  3. allow the possibility
  4. makes possible
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The underlined part of the given sentence may be correct or incorrect. There are four alternatives marked (1), (2), (3) and (4), which represent various ways of improving the underlined part. Select the appropriate choice to improve the underlined part of the sentence.

For one enemy he has a hundred friends.

  1. With
  2. Besides
  3. In
  4. No Error
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The underlined part of the given sentence may be correct or incorrect. There are four alternatives marked (1), (2), (3) and (4), which represent various ways of improving the underlined part. Select the appropriate choice to improve the underlined part of the sentence.

I asked him that why he is so lazy.

  1. that why is he
  2. why he was
  3. why he is
  4. why is he
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The underlined part of the given sentence may be correct or incorrect. There are four alternatives marked (1), (2), (3) and (4), which represent various ways of improving the underlined part. Select the appropriate choice to improve the underlined part of the sentence.

I must study my books today as I have to give an examination tomorrow.

  1. since I have to give
  2. for I have to give
  3. as I have to take
  4. since I must give
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The underlined part of the given sentence may be correct or incorrect. There are four alternatives marked (1), (2), (3) and (4), which represent various ways of improving the underlined part. Select the appropriate choice to improve the underlined part of the sentence.

Do you remember to meet her at my house last year?

  1. remember of meeting her
  2. remember about meeting her
  3. remember having met her
  4. no improvement needed
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The underlined part of the given sentence may be correct or incorrect. There are four alternatives marked (1), (2), (3) and (4), which represent various ways of improving the underlined part. Select the appropriate choice to improve the underlined part of the sentence.

He was so rude that they were compelled for asking him to leave.

  1. ask him to leave
  2. to ask him to leave
  3. him to ask to leave
  4. No improvement needed
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part with an error.

  1. On taking pity
  2. on the rat
  3. the sage transformed it
  4. into a dog.
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part with an error.

  1. This story is about a boy
  2. who meets a baby tiger in the jungle
  3. and
  4. became its friend.
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part with an error.

  1. We heard him to say
  2. something disgraceful about his cousin
  3. who had left the house
  4. all of a sudden.
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part with an error.

  1. This type of product
  2. is not available in
  3. any of the shop
  4. in the market around my locality.
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part with an error.

  1. I have read very carefully
  2. the three first chapters of this book
  3. and I have just glanced through
  4. the rest of the novel.
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part with an error.

  1. The most of the early attempts
  2. to raise computer literacy in rural India
  3. have been funded by
  4. non-governmental organisations.
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part with an error.

  1. The challenge is therefore not only
  2. to make more available computers
  3. but also to make their use affordable
  4. and the programme self sustaining.
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: A sentence has been divided into four parts and numbered (1) to (4). Identify the part having an error and mark it as your answer.

  1. The bus flew off the road
  2. and fell into the valley
  3. because the driver
  4. was driving fastest.
Question 17 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part with an error.

  1. It is perhaps unfair to expect the Finance Ministry's report,
  2. the first quarter review mandated by the Fiscal responsibility
  3. and management Act, to forecast
  4. the shape of the economic recovery in 2003-2004.
Question 18 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part with an error.

  1. A majority of the educationists
  2. believes that
  3. too many examinations
  4. are counter-productive.
Question 19 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: In the following question, a sentence has been divided into four parts. One of these parts contains a mistake in grammar, idiom or syntax. Identify that part and mark it as the answer.

  1. What other steps can be taken
  2. to expedite the recovery of loans
  3. are being discussed by Bank Chairmen
  4. at their meeting in Bombay.
Question 20 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: A part of the following sentence is underlined. Choose the best option from the given choices that can replace the underlined portion.

As no one knows the truth as fully as him, no one but him can provide the testimony.

  1. as fully as him, no one but him
  2. as fully as he does, no one but him
  3. as fully as he does, not one but he
  4. as fully as he does, no one but he alone
Question 21 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part with an error.

  1. It was difficult
  2. to persuade Ramesh to agree
  3. to read the newspaper
  4. to the blind man.
Question 22 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: A sentence has been divided into four parts and numbered (1) to (4). Identify the part having an error and mark it as your answer.

  1. The Supreme Court has blessed the
  2. suspected initiatives of the suspect states
  3. to disqualify people with more than
  4. two children to create a class of lesser citizens.
Question 23 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part with an error.

  1. Never I have listened
  2. to such beautiful music
  3. as the piece I heard on the radio
  4. last night
Question 24 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part with an error.

  1. When he
  2. returned to the office
  3. the visitors left
  4. and the peon was sitting idle
Question 25 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: A sentence has been divided into four parts and numbered (1) to (4). From given four parts, identify the part with an error and mark it as your answer.

  1. Such far as
  2. the eye could reach
  3. nothing was to be seen except
  4. thousands of dead bodies.
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