Verbal Ability (Practice Test)
Adj/Adv/Aux/Tense/modals 2 (Moderate)
Questions
Directions: Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (5).
- Up to the time the last vote was recorded
- it was difficult
- to decide whether victory lay with the ruling party
- or the opposition
- No error
Directions: Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (5).
- Can I join you
- and contribute my mite
- for timely completion
- of the much delayed project?
- No error
Directions: Four parts of the sentence given below have been underlined. Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (5).
Procrastinators are people (1) who have (2) a chronic habit to keep (3) postponing (4) doing things. (5) No error
- (1)
- (2)
- (3)
- (4)
- (5)
Directions: Four parts of the sentence given below have been underlined. Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (5).
(1) Some hangars, buildings used to hold large aircraft, are (2) very tall that rain occasionally falls (3) from clouds that form (4) along the ceilings. (5) No error
- (1)
- (2)
- (3)
- (4)
- (5)
Directions: Four parts of the sentence given below have been underlined. Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (5).
(1) A smile can be observed, described, and reliably (2) identified; it can also be elicited and (3) be manipulated under (4) experimental conditions. (5) No error
- (1)
- (2)
- (3)
- (4)
- (5)
Directions: Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (5).
- He asked
- his boss
- to pardon him
- for what he said
- No error
Directions: Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (5).
- When his overall performance
- has been good
- he needs to work harder
- on the theoretical concepts
- No error
Directions: Four parts of the sentence given below have been underlined and numbered 1 to 4. Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (5).
Dinosaurs (1) are traditionally classified as cold-blooded reptiles, (2) but recent evidence based on their eating habits, posture, and skeletal structure (3) suggested some (4) may have been warm-blooded. (5) No error
- (1)
- (2)
- (3)
- (4)
- (5)
Directions: Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option.
Children do not normally understand the thinking processes of elders, nor _____________ those of the youngsters.
- do the elders
- do the elders understand
- the elders
- the elders understand
Directions: Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (5).
- When he
- had topped the merit list
- he had secured
- cent per cent marks
- No error
Directions: Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option.
Each embryo ________ to maximize its own success, regardless of the fate of its kin.
- will try
- does try
- always tries
- shall try
- did try
Directions: Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option.
The knee is ________ most other joints in the body because it cannot twist without injury.
- more likely to be damaged than
- more likely to damage
- more than likely to be damaged for
- likely to be damaged more than
- more than likely to be damaged than
Directions: A part of the sentence that has been underlined has an error. The part has been rewritten under answer options 1 to 5. Select the option that is the most coherent and precise representation of the underlined part.
Now HRD minister has come up with the proposal to make elementary education a fundamental right as if it is the panacea for all ill afflicting the education system.
- as if it is the panacea for all ill afflicting
- as if it were the panacea for all ill afflicting
- as if it were a panacea for all ill afflicting
- as if it were the panacea for all ills afflicting
- as if it were a panacea for all ills afflicting
Directions: A part of the sentence that has been underlined has an error. The part has been rewritten under answer options 1 to 5. Select the option that is the most coherent and precise representation of the underlined part.
The smooth passage of the Insurance Bill through the Lok Sabha is the best news which India has have in recent years.
- is the best news which India has have in recent years
- is the best news which India has had in recent years
- is the best news that India has had in recent years
- is the best news India has in recent years
- is the best news that India has in recent years
Directions: A part of the sentence that has been underlined has an error. The part has been rewritten under answer options 1 to 5. Select the option that is the most coherent and precise representation of the underlined part.
Instead of being inspired by great ideas, we have even lost what we have.
- we have even lost what we have
- we are even at a loss what we have
- we were at a loss what we were
- we have even lost what we had
- we lose what we have
Directions: A part of the sentence that has been underlined has an error. The part has been rewritten under answer options 1 to 5. Select the option that is the most coherent and precise representation of the underlined part.
I could wait hardly and would always ask if I could go to play cricket.
- I could wait hardly and would always ask
- I could wait hardly and always ask
- I could hardly wait and would always ask
- I hardly could wait and always would ask
- I could have hardly waited and would have always asked
Directions: A part of the sentence that has been underlined has an error. The part has been rewritten under answer options 1 to 5. Select the option that is the most coherent and precise representation of the underlined part.
If I have had more time, I would have equaled.
- If I have had more time
- If I would have more time
- If I had been granted with more time
- If I were having more time
- If I had had more time
Directions: A part of the sentence that has been underlined has an error. The part has been rewritten under answer options 1 to 5. Select the option that is the most coherent and precise representation of the underlined part.
Had he realized how near he was to qualifying, he would appear in the examination.
- he would appear in the examination
- he would have appeared in the examination
- he could appear in the examination
- he appeared in the examination
- he must have appeared in the examination
Directions: A part of the sentence that has been underlined has an error. The part has been rewritten under answer options 1 to 5. Select the option that is the most coherent and precise representation of the underlined part.
During the Miss Universe contest, it was a difficult moment for judges to decide whether Miss India or Miss Greece is the most beautiful.
- to decide whether Miss India or Miss Greece is the most beautiful
- to decide as to whether Miss India or Miss Greece is the most beautiful
- to decide whether Miss India or Miss Greece is more beautiful
- to decide whether Miss India or Miss Greece was more beautiful
- to decide whether Miss India or Miss Greece were beautiful
Directions: A part of the sentence that has been underlined has an error. The part has been rewritten under answer options 1 to 5. Select the option that is the most coherent and precise representation of the underlined part.
He hoped truth will prevail on jury and the innocent could be saved.
- truth will prevail on jury
- truth will be prevailed on jury
- truth would prevail on jury
- truth would be prevailed on jury
Directions: A part of the sentence that has been underlined has an error. The part has been rewritten under answer options 1 to 5. Select the option that is the most coherent and precise representation of the underlined part.
The spokesman said the party will take a stand when the issue actually comes up.
- the party will take a stand when the issue actually comes up
- the party would take a stand when the issue actually comes up
- the party would have taken a stand when the issue actually comes up
- the party would take a stand when the issue actually came up
- the party would take a stand when the issue comes up actually
Directions: A part of the sentence that has been underlined has an error. The part has been rewritten under answer options 1 to 5. Select the option that is the most coherent and precise representation of the underlined part.
The ruling elite drunk their wine from elaborately designed silver vessels.
- drunk their wine from
- had drunk their wine from
- were drunk with their wine from
- often drank their wine from
- often were drinking their wine from
Directions: Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option.
The international language known as Esperanto _______ to be simple and logical, with a flexible vocabulary and a grammar contained in sixteen basic rules.
- designed
- will be designed
- was designed
- had been designed
- none of these
Directions: Four parts of the sentence given below have been underlined. Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (5).
(1) This is the greatest misfortune (2) that has or (3) could ever fall (4) on our nation. (5) No error
- (1)
- (2)
- (3)
- (4)
- (5)
Directions: Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option.
Generally speaking, the harder a student studies, __________ marks he is likely to get.
- more the
- the more the
- more are the
- more